Our professionals in the Business 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 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 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, concerted practices, joint ventures and dominant undertakings. The Team also represents clients before the competent Albanian authorities. The Competition Law Team advises various international and local clients on antitrust and anti-dumping issues, assisting them to comply with the respective legal and regulatory framework. Furthermore, the Team provides advice to international institutions, Government and legislative bodies on drafting legislation, as well as recommendations regarding amendment to the existing law.

The Attorneys in 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. Their 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, collective dismissals and shareholders disputes in closely held corporations. The Team also deals with social and health insurance matters related to employment.

Our expertise in telecommunications 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, protection of intellectual property rights, investments, mergers and acquisitions, financing and litigation.

The Entertainment Law 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 and Land Use Law Team services businesses, financial institutions, property owners and developers, construction contractors, engineers, and public authorities. More specifically, it provides advice on projects in light of the Albanian and European environmental legislation, including permit issues. The Team assists mostly industries, 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.

Our team regularly assists national and international companies involved in the energy market, power 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 in the sector involves advising on the legal aspects of the complete supply chain (upstream and downstream) of crude and refined products, gas, power generation, gas and power transmission and distribution, and water treatment and distribution. Members of our team also have backgrounds in regulatory, contractual and transactional disciplines, procurement, competition, trade, engineering and construction projects, project finance, trade finance and securitization, property and planning and dispute resolution.

The legal services offered by the Intellectual Property Law Team cover a wide range of activities in the areas of brand and trademark, copyright and database, domain names, patent, unfair competition and intellectual property transactions including all related litigation and opposition of trademark registration, licensing and counseling in brand and secret protection, customs and unfair imports issues and privacy and publicity.

Our trade mark lawyers have wide experience of trade mark litigation in national level. We regularly advise global players of a wide range of industries including television and entertainment, the media, publishing, computer and video games and software and in other industries on copyright and database issues.

We also act in all areas of unfair competition law, which relates to unfair and misleading advertisements including comparative advertising.

The Litigation 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 Litigation 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, administrative agencies and boards. 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. They have also played an active role in the drafting of the national procurement law presently in force. In addition, the Procurement Law Team offers full advice from the initial structuring of the privatization deal, the conducting of negotiations with creditors, unions, 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.

The Tax Team offers strategic tax advice and provides effective strategies to tax problems. The tax services include the development of tax efficient structures for project finance, corporations, new financial instruments and real estate transactions. The Team also provides ongoing advisory services to corporations on the impact of fiscal changes and represents clients in tax litigation cases before all levels of the Albanian courts. The tax advisers also actively participate in the counseling and drafting of the fiscal legislation. The Team has a wide experience in the areas of corporate, partnership, trust, public finance and individual taxation at all levels.

Tax audit services are carried out by a group of tax specialists with the depth knowledge of fiscal legislation. The services are aimed at giving the clients reasonable assurance on the accuracy of the transactions performed under the tax point of view and taking the precautionary measures against tax violation and avoidance of serious consequences.

Our professionals provide comprehensive tax compliance to support the clients’ worldwide businesses and their assignees around the world. We help the clients in the review, preparation and submission of the tax returns for businesses and individuals.

Bookkeeping services
We offer to the clients who begin the activity in Albania and those who need a specialized company to maintain their books, bookkeeping services which consist in daily bookkeeping, preparation of the financial statements in accordance with Albanian accounting standards, preparation of the financial statements and other financial reports required by the shareholders, through professional advices regarding the structure, presentation and disclosure of these financial statements.

Our accounting team offers assistance in the assessment of compliance with the Albanian accounting regulation, assistance to the clients with the accounting issues, which affect their daily activity, advising in the issues related to the compilation of the financial statements for statutory purposes or for the shareholders maintaining a high-quality financial reporting structure. Our team helps the clients with meeting new accounting standards, implement the financial and accounting management systems, reduce inconsistencies between internal and external financial reports etc.