Our professionals in the Commercial Law Team provide a comprehensive range of legal services to domestic and international companies on a wide variety of matters including venture capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs and transformation of companies as well as preparing of legal due diligences, drafting of commercial agreements, terms and conditions for the supply of goods and services, joint ventures, agency, distribution and cooperation agreements. The Team also advises extensively both domestic and international enterprises on corporate structure and regulation, including company incorporation, shareholders agreements, minority shareholders’ rights, directors’ duties and liabilities, restructuring of financially distressed companies.

The legal services offered by the Intellectual Property Law Team cover a wide range of activities in the areas of brand and trademark, software, copyright and database, domain names, patent, unfair competition and intellectual property transactions including all related litigation and opposition of trademark registration, licensing and counselling in brand and secret protection, customs and unfair imports issues and privacy and publicity. Our trademark attorneys have extensive experience in trademark litigation at national level. We also act in all areas of unfair competition law, which relates to unfair and misleading advertisements including comparative advertising.

The firm’s ongoing activity in the field includes legal advice to lenders and borrowers on a full scale of financing matters, such as syndicated loans, project and asset finance, and new financing products like leasing and factoring. The Team also counsels banks, financial institutions and investment companies in connection with their activities. The firm’s clients are mainly banks, multinational organizations, international corporations and financial institutions.

The Competition Law Team offers comprehensive advice on all issues of competition law relating to mergers and acquisition, agreements having an effect to the competition in a relevant market, joint ventures and dominant undertakings. The Team advises various international and local clients on antitrust and anti-dumping issues, assisting them to identify and comply with the respective legal and regulatory framework affecting their activity. Furthermore, the Team assists the international institutions, Government and legislative bodies on drafting legislation, as well as recommendations regarding amendments to the existing law.

Our Team regularly assists national and international companies operating in the energy and utilities sector whether as suppliers, purchasers, traders, lenders or owners of transmission and distribution networks.

Our clients include oil and gas, utility companies, gas and electricity transmission and distribution companies, power generators and suppliers, water companies, contractors and major energy consumers. Our work includes advice on the legal aspects of the complete supply chain (upstream and downstream) of crude and refined products, gas, power generation, transmission and distribution, and water treatment and distribution.

The professionals of the Construction Law Team bring in all their experience and skills to assist clients with comprehensive legal advice during all the stages of planning, contract negotiation, design construction, and, if necessary, arbitration or litigation. The clients are mostly construction firms, as well as public authorities, subcontractors, major equipment suppliers, and the construction materials industry.

The Employment Law Team advises on all areas of employment law, including hiring and dismissal of employees, severance payments, employment contracts, court claims for unfair dismissal, confidentiality agreements, employee and union consultation, negotiations and collective dismissals. The Team also deals with social and health insurance matters related to employment.

Our expertise in electronic communications is focused predominantly on new entrant operators, acting for mobile and fixed operators (including rural operators and internet services providers), infrastructure builders and resellers. We have unparalleled experience in managing telecommunications projects, including licensing and regulatory issues, network build, diverse contractual matters and advices on the compliance with the electronic communications legislation.

In the practice of Entertainment Law, the Team assists and advises clients in the start-up and development of entertainment related ventures, as well as in negotiating contractual and financial agreements.

The Environmental Law Team provides advice on projects in light of the Albanian environmental legislation. The Team assists mostly businesses which activity affects the environment, such as power plants, manufacturers, landowners and real estate developers in achieving environmental compliance. It also undertakes negotiations with public authorities, deals with issues of allocation of liability in cases of environmental legislation breaches, and finally, it effectively handles relevant disputes with public authorities or other involved parties.

The Team is involved in resolving disputes through litigation, arbitration and alternative dispute solution. The litigation strategy is based on an early case assessment and a clear risk and commercial analysis of the case in order for strategies to be found quickly for approaching problems effectively. The Team offers services in nearly all forms of trial and appellate civil litigation and has gained extensive experience in the litigation of virtually every type of case involving multiple claims and parties in courts. Our professionals handle a full range of commercial, financial, industrial, environmental, tort and real estate litigation. The firm has also gained a record as arbitrator in international arbitrations.

The Procurement Law Team provides comprehensive legal services covering all aspects of public procurement such as regular advice and representation of contractors in connection with proposal drafting, bid documentation preparation and tendering procedures, procurement disputes, administrative contracts and compliance matters and disputes resolutions.

In addition, the Procurement Law Team offers full advice from the initial structuring of the privatization deal, the conducting of negotiations with creditors, governmental agencies and investors, to presenting clients throughout the privatization process, including the drafting and execution of relevant documentation. The firm’s clients are mainly international corporations, financial institutions and banks.

The Real Estate Team delivers services to a wide range of domestic and international clients, including property owners, investors, developers, lenders, insurance companies, governmental and non-governmental agencies and public authorities across a variety of sectors: infrastructure projects, industrial properties, expropriation. Its members have sound experience in construction and/or permanent lending transactions, in different aspects of commercial real estate development, in ownership and management arrangements for real estate property and insurance claims including building, contents and business interruption claims.