Litigation Fields

With are currently highly active in Romania, considering that we have accumulated highly-specialized expertise and demonstrated practical commercial awareness that uniquely positions us as leading legal advisors to be entrusted with the most sensitive business disputes. We are often dealing with contentious matters in various areas of practice, so that our litigation team reflects the strengths and diversity of the firm’s considerable resources.


Comprising a full list of practitioners, we are particularly equipped to handle complex multi-party or long-standing disputes. We have the resources, coupled with the flexibility, experience and the practical know how to deliver cost-effective results in every case we ar involved.


We can undertake any civil, commercial, labor, administrative, intellectual property, and fiscal disputes. We consistently propose creative, practical solutions to our clients when conflicts arise, along with sustainable strategies to reduce future potential risks – in fact, many of the court cases in which members of our team represented clients have developed into precedents that shaped and strengthened the current domestic case law.


We currently focus our practice and industry-specific knowledge and business insights to enable us to handle even the most complicated issues in:

Administrative Law

Provinding legal assessment of compliance with administrative law requirements by various documents;

Assessment of default of relevant bodies in their conduct towards the client: refusal to issue permits, authorizations, approvals, etc., delay in issuance, lack of answer;

Drafting and submitting judicial documents, assisting and representing clients in all procedural phases, including the preliminary challenge to the relevant administrative body (the administrative recourse).

Corporate Disputes

Assessment of various corporate decisions and/or conduct of corporate bodies or representatives compliance as well as identifying the best courses of action;

Assistance in amicable settlement of disputes;

Assisting and representing clients in all procedural phases related to corporate dispute judicial settlement, including shareholders and securities litigation, cancellation of corporate resolutions, opposition to corporate resolution by corporate creditors and interested third parties;

Application for cancellation of registrations made with the trade registry, protection of minority shareholders’ rights, etc.

Commercial and Civil Litigation

Assisting and representing clients in all procedural phases, including required preliminary conciliation, in all areas of commercial interest, in matters ranging from commercial agreements, insurance agreements, lender liability and banking-related issues, acquisition-related issues, energy, construction industry liability, shipping (sale-purchase agreements, mortgages, liens, etc.), product liability, privatization procedures and privatization agreements, construction and real estate.

Competition

Assisting and representing clients in various matters related to competition issues raised before or by the Competition Council and in subsequent judicial proceedings.

Employment

Assisting employers in rights or interests disputes, including employment discrimination, wrongful discharge, labor-management disputes;

Assisting employees in their disputes with large employers, in all misunderstandings regarding labor disputes arising from their labor agreements.

Insurance Coverage

Evaluating client’s insurance program and its evolution in time as well as the underlying claims for which coverage may be sought and recommending a course of action;

Assisting a client or acting for a client in conciliation proceedings with a view to obtaining a reasonable solution;

Preparing and filing claims for insurance coverage

Intellectual Property

Assisting and representing clients on a full-range of contentious matters related to IP rights protection and the regulatory authorities and judicial courts.

Real Estate Litigation

Extended experience in dispute resolution, as well as managing complex trials involving disputes concerning the ownership right over real property, including recovery of property abusively seized by the former communist regime. 

Taxation / Administrative Contentious

Handling tax-based litigation at all levels and with regard to a full range of taxes, duties and contributions of any kind to the State budgets.

We are well versed in pleading before the Romanian courts, from trial courts to the High Court of Cassation and Justice and the Constitutional Court of Romania, as well as before the domestic and international arbitration and constitutional courts.


We are fully aware that not all the time trial is in the best interest of our clients. Therefore, we are always commited to developing the appropriate strategy for each case, including the major aim to try the ammicable settlement of the disputes, in order to be in the advantage of our client. In case and only when settlement is not our client’s best course of action, we provide the most efficient litigation model, in terms of costs and timing, in order to match our client’s specific interest. Based on this experience, we usually establish a litigation strategy from the outset of each matter, seek to develop creative solutions, and advise on the best course of action with a view to assisting clients in achieving their business goals.