Legal Centre of Excellence (Legal CoE) Gdańsk, Poland

• Verification of the appropriateness of the financial products distributed on defined market or customers (including on-going sale processes and   as well as “old portfolios”)
• Identification of the regulatory and reputational threats connected to the product adequacy (e.g. misselling practices, EBA Guidelines)
• On-going control of the vendor’s activities with respect to their compliance with the internal regulations of the financial institution regarding selling process, claims handling and other internal policies

• Review of the existing third-party contracts with respect to certain legal criteria (e.g. liability regimes, change of control, sub-contracting, assignment)
• Contracts creation, drafting, control over contract conclusion and critical provisions
• Identification / extraposition of contractual clauses and creation of repository of clauses
• Contract monitoring required to address their compliance with (e.g. newly adopted) specific laws, regulations, guidances, self-regulatory standards

Personal Data Protection (GDPR implementation)

• Review of the agreements for entrusting of processing of personal data
• Assistance in data protection impact assessment of new projects
• Data protection breaches notifications / transferring agreements review

• Drafting /executing and filling annual compliance documentation
• Drafting / management of documents of companies’ management and supervisory  bodies (resolutions, protocols)
• Contracts creation, drafting, control over contract conclusion and critical provisions
• Abstraction of legal provisions from the agreements and templates creation
• Drafting notifications to business partners (e.g. after merger, carve-out)

• Adding in-depth legal and regulatory compliance check-ups
• Verification of regulatory and applicable laws relevant for vendor due diligence – legal and regulatory compliance program
• Legal documentation and reporting facilities management (including documents / policies drafting)

• Review / completion of master agreements (e.g. ISDA, CSA, DRV) and derivatives single orders
• Review of the transactions compliance with the institution’s internal standards / policies
• Standardization of credit / investment documentation (bonds, shares, general terms and conditions)
• Discovery of certain contractual clauses (e.g. liability thresholds) and creation of library of clauses
• Review of documents’ compliance with internal / external standards