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BARTOSZ NADRA

Attorney-at-law with nearly 20 years of experience, founder and Managing Partner at Nadra Legal. Specialist in preventing and combating financial fraud in the B2B sector.

Attorney-at-Law | Managing Partner

Attorney-at-law with nearly 20 years of legal experience, specialising in the B2B financial sector—loans, factoring, leasing, financial fraud, debt recovery and compliance.
Co-founder of JNS LEGAL, one of the 30 largest law firms in Poland. For nearly 10 years, he managed JNS LEGAL’s financial sector practice, serving banks, factoring companies, leasing companies and lenders.
Specialist in preventing and combating financial fraud and a trainer in this field. He has trained approximately 15 large companies, many of them market leaders in Poland’s B2B finance sector.
Develops his own original legal frameworks for fraud prevention.
Author of more than 50 industry publications.
Has extensive experience in debt recovery and in detecting, defining and prosecuting financial fraud, including the recovery of receivables arising from numerous fraud cases.
Speaker, panellist and participant at industry conferences, particularly in the financial sector.

[ Selected Projects ]

DEBT RECOVERY

Successful recovery of receivables amounting to approximately PLN 4,000,000 in court proceedings involving a bankruptcy trustee;
Recovery of receivables owed by a subsidiary of a listed parent company by exercising shareholder rights as a form of lawful corporate pressure;
Successful actio Pauliana claim against the guarantor’s cohabiting partner, followed by successful enforcement against real estate worth PLN 1,500,000;
Successful enforcement of receivables owed by a third-party debtor concealed by a borrower operating in the medical sector, with a value exceeding PLN 1,000,000;
Bringing a claim against a third-party debtor and recovering, on its behalf and for the benefit of the client, more than PLN 300,000 paid to the enforcement officer;
Recovery of PLN 1,000,000 from a debtor pursued by nine entities from the financial sector;
Registration of a compulsory mortgage five days before an entrepreneur was declared bankrupt, which was not challenged by the bankruptcy trustee;
Repeated successful reversals of the effects of opening restructuring proceedings;
Revocation of an arrangement concluded in restructuring proceedings on the grounds that it was detrimental to a creditor;
Recovery of debt from the bank account of a debtor undergoing restructuring on the first day after its protection from enforcement was lifted;
Registration of a compulsory mortgage over property jointly owned by spouses despite the absence of explicit consent;
Obtaining two payment orders based on invalid promissory notes;
Obtaining several payment orders in order-for-payment proceedings against management board members liable for the obligations of limited liability companies acting as borrowers.

LOANS

Launching a new lending company, providing training, organising compliance and procedures, and reducing the fraud rate from approximately 10% to approximately 2%;
Legal audit of loan documentation for a company that had been operating for several years;
Negotiating a settlement under a four-party agreement with one of Poland’s largest retail chains, acting as the debtor of an attached receivable owed to the borrower;
Amicable resolution of a dispute concerning the effectiveness of an assignment intended to circumvent the lender, involving a leading global automotive group;
Fraud prevention, including the development of original anti-fraud provisions and solutions for legal documentation;
Filing a subsidiary indictment that resulted in a settlement with the accused members of the borrower’s management board.

FACTORING

Legal audit of factoring documentation for a company that had been operating for several years;
Negotiating a settlement under a four-party agreement with one of Poland’s largest retail chains acting as the factoring debtor;
Successfully pursuing an unusual damages claim against the president of the factoring debtor’s management board for causing loss by recklessly confirming receipt of goods that had never been delivered (proceedings against the debtor for the return of an advance paid to the factor’s client);
Uncovering fraud committed by a supplier to one of Poland’s largest retail chains in the alcoholic beverages sector, acting in collusion with an employee of the chain, resulting in a four-party settlement;
Recovering receivables exceeding PLN 2 million from a company formerly owned by one of Poland’s wealthiest individuals, shortly before its bankruptcy;
Uncovering fraud at a printing company employing nearly 200 people, obtaining the only final conviction in proceedings separated into an individual case despite most related cases being suspended following the perpetrator’s flight abroad, and winning civil damages proceedings for a false certification made by the factoring debtor’s president;
Recovering receivables from an entrepreneur in a sector supporting power-generation units by securing a compulsory mortgage shortly before the business was transferred to a newly established company in an attempt to move assets beyond the reach of numerous creditors;
Recovering receivables from a factoring debtor who had disposed of and encumbered three properties, by securing claims under actio Pauliana proceedings against subsequent purchasers of the properties;
Securing convictions and recovering receivables from factoring debtors in one of Poland’s largest fraud cases in the bicycle industry;
Recovering funds from a group listed on a regulated market through debt-recovery measures involving the exercise of shareholder rights in the listed company;
Securing a final criminal conviction for factoring fraud against a relative of a legendary figure in Polish factoring fraud—the heir of the perpetrator of the most notorious fraud in the history of Polish factoring;
Securing a criminal conviction for an offence committed to the detriment of a creditor—a factoring company—in connection with the debtor granting irrecoverable loans to members of the debtor company’s management board;
Providing several years of support to law-enforcement authorities in preparing and filing an indictment in a major carousel factoring fraud case in the stretch-film sector.

LEASING

Securing the filing of an indictment in a case involving the sale and leaseback of a foundry production line based on a fictitious valuation of the leased asset;
Uncovering fraud at a printing company employing nearly 200 people, obtaining the only final conviction in proceedings separated into an individual case despite most related cases being suspended following the perpetrator’s flight abroad, and winning civil damages proceedings for a false certification made by the debtor’s president;
Recovering receivables from an entrepreneur in a sector supporting power-generation units by securing a compulsory mortgage shortly before the business was transferred to a newly established company in an attempt to move assets beyond the reach of numerous creditors;
Securing a partial conviction and recovering half of the receivable in a leasing fraud case in the food industry;
Recovering a receivable relating to compensation paid by an insurer for a leased asset destroyed by fire;
Detecting and locating altered identification plates on leased assets and uncovering fraud involving equipment whose market value and specifications were lower than declared, followed by the repossession and settlement of the leased assets;
Securing the conviction of a management board member of a leased-asset supplier who transferred assets as part of an organised group involved in fraudulently obtaining financing from leasing companies;
Participating in the investigation and physical recovery of leased assets in Poland’s largest leasing fraud case in the food industry.