Practice areas

Our corporate attorneys are problem solvers who bring progressive thinking to our wide range of corporate and institutional clients. Our clients encompass large, publicly traded corporations, middle market and emerging companies, closely held and family-owned businesses, financial institutions, and private equity and venture capital firms. We handle a full spectrum of transactional matters including, but not limited to:

• Acquisition and disposition of assets, operating units, and entire enterprises through complex transactions
• Reviewing and drafting a variety of agreements for day-to-day management of organizations, including employment agreements, asset purchase agreements, purchase orders, and service agreements
• Advising lenders and borrowers in a wide variety of sophisticated financing transactions
• Structuring new entities of all types including corporations, limited liability companies, and limited and general partnerships
• Ensuring compliance with laws and regulations relating to import and export, pension and benefits, and related tax consequences

We provide full legal support on all matters relating to the outset, operation and termination of labor relations on advisory level, as well as on representation before national and European courts, both on individual and collective level.

We provide legal services on issues of business mobility and company’s restructuring by, on issues of the legal framework governing labor relations, on labor issues arising from privatizations, transfers – mergers and divisions of enterprises, on economic and technical restructuring, on termination of business operation, as well as on regulation of labor relations according to business needs. We provide full legal support to foreign/multinational companies.

We are at the cutting edge of white collar and general crime defense cases, having been involved in many of the most significant cases over the past  years. Our experience in this field is second to none. Key areas include:

• Business and financial crime
• Investigations
• Police station representation and advice
• Criminal defense and police investigations
• International crime and extradition

Our criminal lawyers are highly sophisticated and supportive. We are particularly well known for our skill in providing strategic advice and for our ability to keep high profile cases out of the public eye.

We enjoy an excellent reputation as our work increasingly involves investigations in multiple jurisdictions and mutual legal assistance.  Such cases require a sophisticated understanding of foreign law and practice and its impact in Romania.

Our team includes experienced trial lawyers, who combine an excellent mastering of the intricacies of court procedures and tactics with in-depth understanding of the mentality of the local magistrates.

We advise re corporate taxation, employment taxation, tax audits, tax issues in relation to corporate restructuring, taxation of operations of airline companies, and reimbursement of VAT, taxation of gas exploration and production operations, tax issues regarding concession, participation, and joint operating agreements, customs tariffs, and taxation of cross-border electricity trading. We obtained Opinion Letters from the Ministry of Finance, and Customs Agency re tax, and customs tariffs issues respectively. We advised major accounting firms re various legal issues.

We advise re negotiations for long-term concessions, leases of land, sale-purchase agreements, development of logistical platforms, industrial parks, greenfield development of industrial facilities, lease of office and residential property, mortgages, a design build operate agreement, construction agreements, condominium agreements, title and zoning, and dispute resolution issues.

We advise borrowers and lenders, including international financial institutions, in relation to, bilateral and syndicated loans, revolving lines of credit, supplier credit facilities, corporate, asset finance, and project finance issues, guarantee assignments, security interests, export credit facility, aircraft and ship mortgages, collection of promissory notes, enforcement of security agreements, seizure of mortgaged collateral.

We perform the legal due diligence review of the target company, attend the negotiations, advise on tender requirements, regulatory approvals, structuring the transaction, and draft the transaction documents. We advise on related competition, taxation, employment, and real estate matters.

• Contentious law
• Civil law
• Public tenders