Elżbieta Wiśniewska

Experience in quenching management disputes

Elżbieta has been working at Arka Przymierza since February 2019. She specializes in situations where communication between partners has completely died out. In the last 11 months, she has closed 34 out-of-court settlements. Each of them concerned companies employing from 8 to 45 people. Her work begins where lawyers give up and suggest going to court.

She conducts precise information flow audits in company management boards. She checks why decisions about investments above 15,000 PLN get stuck in a deadlock for weeks. In December 2023, she detected an error in document circulation in a manufacturing company from Marki near Warsaw. This one error cost the board 4,200 PLN in monthly losses for almost the entire tax year.

Approach based on hard data

During meetings with clients, Elżbieta sticks to facts and hard data. We talk specifically about numbers. She doesn't waste time on unnecessary niceties if the business loses financial liquidity due to quarrels in the office. She can work out an agreement in 3 hours that previously took the parties 7 weeks of aggressive email fights and blocking transfers to suppliers.

• Repairing relations in civil and registered partnerships
• Moderating disputes over profit distribution in holdings
• Implementing crisis communication procedures
• Analysis of conflict risk in family businesses

We save transactions on the edge. Elżbieta often enters a project on Friday afternoon to prepare the ground for signing an important contract by Monday morning. In April 2024, she saved the merger of two local construction wholesalers. The conflict mainly concerned the division of competencies of 4 key managers, which could have nullified a transaction worth several hundred thousand PLN.

Discretion and concrete results

Discretion is our standard, not a promise. Elżbieta works without unnecessary media publicity. She stores all working documents in a safe with an increased security standard, and notes from mediation sessions are destroyed immediately after the final settlement is approved. We do not publish names of clients on the internet because we respect the peace and reputation of Polish business.

We close disputes, we open businesses. Elżbieta believes that every conflict is just a poorly calculated opportunity cost. She has already helped 114 entrepreneurs get out of a deadlock without involving judges and bailiffs. Usually, the first analysis of the situation takes her 4 hours, and she delivers a real recovery plan to the board within 2 business days of the first meeting.