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We are proud to announce that our trainee attorney at law Paula Staszak-Urbańska has successfully completed her Polish bar exam and will soon join the ranks of professionals entered on the list of attorneys at law in Poland.  Our sincere congratulations!

The Polish bar exam concludes the formal stage of legal education and is one of the most important moments in a lawyer's professional career. We are therefore all the more pleased that Paula has been working with us continuously since 2019. She focuses her professional interests on broadly defined business law and labour law. In this area, she not only advises clients, but also publishes and conducts training courses.

Our sincere congratulations wish her further success and professional development!

On 23 May 2024, we joined the VII. edition of the Tour de Wind 2024 bike rally. We have been supporting the ideas of this event since 2016, i.e. since the first edition. In addition, for the first time ever, the weather was not entirely in our favour and we rode for the wind in torrential rain while in the evening the souvenir statuette from the 2017 Tour de Wind, donated by us, was auctioned during a charity auction for the West Pomeranian Hospice for Children and Adults.

Tour de Wind is a cyclical event organised by the Windhunter Academy, which uniquely brings together a community of renewable energy enthusiasts, two-wheeled riding, but above all inspires action for the environment and for others. These are values that we value highly at VON ZANTHIER & DACHOWSKI.

In this year's edition, our team was represented by Karolina Barałkiewicz-Sokal and Małgorzata Stępień, who cycled 60 km along the coastal route with the aim of promoting wind energy.

From the very beginning, the Tour de Wind has been accompanied by a campaign to help the West Pomeranian Hospice for Children and Adults, which, in addition to the sick, also supports healthy siblings of sick children. That is why, during the evening gala, the participants not only shared their impressions, but by taking part in numerous auctions they were able to make a financial contribution to the hospice. This year, one of the items auctioned was a commemorative statuette from the 2017 Tour de Wind, donated by us.

We are delighted to have been part of this initiative and warmly encourage you to support similar campaigns!

The potential of geothermal energy can bring many benefits for consumers and the environment. At our law firm, we have known this for a long time and support client companies that produce this renewable energy source. With Arctic Green Energy and others we have very well known companies in this field. That's why we couldn't miss the Global Geothermal Impact Summit 2024, which focused on the financing of geothermal energy and took place on 23 and 24 April in The Hague.

During the event, Henning von Zanthier gave a presentation on "Berlin as front runner on geothermal transformation at a big scale?" as part of the "Climate Neutral Cities" panel. The conference participants also had the opportunity to visit the Haagse Aardwarmte Leyweg (HAL). This is a unique Dutch geothermal project next to the HAGA hospital, where two boreholes extract hot water from the ground at a depth of more than 2,000 metres and provide heat for consumers. 

The conference was organised by the International Geothermal Association.

2023 is drawing to a close. We hope that you and your loved ones can find peace in the festive season ahead, enjoy the time and recharge your batteries for 2024. We wish you and your staff a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
As well as last year instead of Christmas cards for partners and clients, we donated for a good cause: This year our Berlin office donates 1000 € to the Freya von Moltke Foundation for the New Kreisau (www.fvms.de), - which supports the work of the German-Polish youth meeting place in the Polish village of Krzyżowa.

A medical certificate affirming the ability to work in the occupied position is a mandatory component of employee documentation. Employers should ensure that employees' medical certificates remain up-to-date, covering both working conditions and any changes in employees' health status. The issues of appealing against so-called conditional medical certificates, directing employees for preventive examinations, and the consequences of refusing to undergo such examinations are discussed by Trainee attorney-at-law (PL) Maria Aleksiejak in her latest article.

On the 23^rd of November 2023, we are organizing an online conference titled:
"Mobbing, Discrimination, and Work-Life Balance - 3 Challenges for Organizations in Practice"

Participation in the conference is free of charge.

For the third time, we have prepared an event dedicated to the issues of mobbing and discrimination, including prevention and risk minimization from an employer's perspective. This year, we have expanded the conference's theme to include work-life balance, which proves to be a significant challenge for employers in practice.

Speakers - Karolina Barałkiewicz-Sokal, Paula Staszak-Urbańska, and Jan Muszyński, along with dr Henryka Bochniarz, Katarzyna Łażewska-Hrycko, Anna Makowska, Judge Tomasz Kałużny, Maciej Panek, Dominika Sadowska, Robert Lisiecki, Nadia Kurtieva, and Michał Pajdak, will examine mobbing and discrimination from various perspectives, including legal and judicial, psychological, and from the perspective of employers.

The conference is endorsed by the Lewiatan Confederation, the Polish-German Economic Circle in Poznań (DWK), the Greater Poland Employers' Association, Panek CarSharing, the National Anti-Mobbing Association, the divercity+ company, the ePsychologists.pl portal, and the Women in Law Foundation.

The conference is primarily aimed at representatives of employers, including CEOs, HR department managers, business owners, board members, individuals responsible for compliance, and broadly defined managerial staff.

The detailed event program and organizational information are available on the dedicated conference website

Participation in the conference is free of charge, but due to limited seats, registration is mandatory. 

We warmly invite you to join us!

Attorney at law in Poland Karolina Barałkiewicz-Sokal will participate in the international trade fair Wind Energy Hamburg 2022, which will take place from 27-30 September. The event is organised by Wind Energy. 

The Wind Energy Fair is one of the largest and most prestigious events dedicated to the wind energy sector, bringing together investors, practitioners and experts related to the wind industry.

A detailed programme of the event is available at www.windenergyhamburg.com/en/.

On the Tax and Law Telegram blog, trainee attorney-at-law Paulina Czaja summarises the most important upcoming changes in employment law in 2022. We encourage you to read the article "Changes in labour law in 2022".

While it is still too early to review and possibly update or introduce new solutions in workplaces, it is worth keeping an eye on it and in the near future map out the areas that need to be regulated, including but not limited to:

• rules on parental leave;

• the rules for determining maternity benefits;

• new care leave;

• justification for the termination of fixed-term employment contracts;

• new definitions and regulation of home office;

• preventive checks on the sobriety of employees.

Should You have any questions on the matter, we encourage You to contact the attorney-at-law Karolina Barałkiewicz-Sokal and the trainee attorneys-at-law Paula Staszak and Paulina Czaja, who advise the Firm's clients on issues relating to labour law.

We are pleased to inform you that as of March 9^th, 2022 the address of our law firm will change.

The new address is:

VON ZANTHIER Rechtsanwälte
Lietzenburger Straße 54, 4th floor
10719 Berlin 

We will remain in the West-City of Berlin: The new office premises are approx. 300 m away from the previous office, so that your journey by public transport will hardly change.

By car you can park in the parking garage at the corner of Meinekestraße and Lietzenburgerstraße, which is located directly next to our office building.

Our phone numbers and e-mail addresses remain unchanged.

Please note that we will not be available by phone on March 7, 2022 due to relocation to new office.

We ask for your understanding.

Attached you will find a map indicating the new location of our office and parking lots in the area.

We look forward to further cooperation with you, also from our new premises.

Yours sincerely

Your team VON ZANTHIER Rechtsanwälte

The year 2022 we celebrate 30 years since Henning von Zanthier founded the law firm in Berlin. During this time we have developed a Polish-German structure, appreciated by clients and experts, specialising in legal and tax matters in Poland and Germany.

On the German side, the structure was based on the VON ZANTHIER & SCHULZ Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mbB in Berlin, which combined the cooperation of German lawyers, tax advisers and auditors. We are proud of what we have achieved and look back on many years of successful partnership work.

In 2022 our structure is being transformed.

The law firm VON ZANTHIER & SCHULZ in Berlin has been dissolved on 31 December 2021. From 1 January 2022 the legal department, led by Henning von Zanthier, operates under the name VON ZANTHIER Rechtsanwälte.

Rüdiger Schulz leads the tax and audit department in Berlin under the name IStB Schulz.

We are pleased to announce that from 1 January 2022 VON ZANTHIER Rechtsanwälte in Berlin & VON ZANTHIER & DACHOWSKI Kancelaria Prawnicza sp.k. in Poznań operate jointly under the brand VON ZANTHIER & DACHOWSKI to further emphasize our Polish-German cooperation.