Podział spółki przez wyodrębnienie

Abstract

This study concerns the introduction of a new type of division into the domestic legal order – the so-called division by separation, as part of the wider problem of cross-border mobility of companies, regulated in Directive 2017/1132 as amended by Directive 2019/2121. The current legal regulation of the Code of Commercial Companies does not know the structure of division by separation, which is used to build corporate vertical relations. All division modes known to Polish commercial law are horizontal divisions. Meanwhile, as a result of the implementation of the directive in the cross-border dimension, it will be possible to make a cross-border division by separation also with the participation of Polish companies (i.e. companies subject to the Polish Commercial Companies Code). Failure to supplement the provisions of the Commercial Companies Code with the division by separation available to interested companies – under national procedures, without a cross-border element – would lead to the phenomenon of reverse discrimination. Reverse discrimination is a legal phenomenon that is unfavorable both economically and socially. Due to the principle of numerus clausus of transformation procedures and due to their regulation mostly by mandatory norms (iuris cogentis), it would not be possible to apply such a procedure without an explicit normative basis. Division by separation may become an interesting instrument for building vertical holding structures (and, in effect, even multi-stage), an alternative to a simple contribution in kind to a daughter company. Therefore, the study presents in detail the essence of the division by separation.