Commercial arbitration

A verdict without years of waiting in court

Disputes over money can block a company for years. In Lublin, one often waits 9 months for the first hearing in a commercial court. We operate differently. At Lublin Union Arbitrage, we close most cases in a time from 38 to 54 days. These are not loose talks, but specific proceedings that end in a verdict. Such a document has the same weight as one from a state court. After being granted an enforcement clause by a common court, which is a formality, the document goes straight to the bailiff. Clear rules of the game are most important to us.

We focus on hard data. We do not analyze emotions or who likes whom more. Only the provisions in contracts and transfers count. If a contractor has not paid, e.g., 23,400 PLN for goods, we check transport documents and collection confirmations. Our team, which employs 4 arbitrators, knows the realities of trade between Poland and the east of Europe. Since 2017, we have conducted 124 such proceedings. Most of them concerned the transport and construction industries. Court is the last resort, which is why arbitration is such an effective tool.

Discretion is our standard. Hearings in common courts are public. Anyone can walk in off the street and listen to your financial problems or trade secrets. With us, everything happens behind closed doors in the office at Krakowskie Przedmieście 22. No one from the competition or local media will find out about the conflict. This allows you to save face, even if companies want to continue trading with each other after the dispute. (By the way, about 31% of our clients decide on further cooperation after the end of arbitration because the process does not destroy relations as much as aggressive fighting in court).

In what cases do we help most often?

• Outstanding invoices above 6,500 PLN where the debtor has stopped answering calls.
• Contractual penalties for delays in machine deliveries that have blocked your production.
• Errors in the performance of assembly services confirmed by a protocol from the last 6 months.
• Disputes over the refund of security deposits after the termination of warehouse or commercial space leases.

Costs are known from the very beginning. We do not have fees for every written page of a letter or an additional hour of session. We use a simple price list depending on the amount the dispute is about. For cases with a value up to 50,000 PLN, the arbitration fee is a fixed 4,300 PLN with us. This allows the company to accurately plan the budget for a lawyer and assess whether fighting for these funds makes economic sense. We solve the problem, we do not look for the guilty by force. We prepare the first preliminary analysis of the chances of recovering money within 4 business days of delivering us scans of contracts.