Law Firm Adela Diaconescu - Practice

BANKING AND COMMERCIAL
CORPORATE
CUSTOMS AND TAXATION
COMMERCIAL LITIGATION AND ARBITRATION
SHIPPING AND TRADE
FAMILY LAW
ASSOCIATIONS AND FOUNDATIONS
CRIMINAL LAW

BANKING AND COMMERCIAL
Our comprehensive range of services includes:
• Banking: advising banks and borrowers in connection with corporate lending;
• Commercial contracts: negotiation, drafting and advice on a wide variety of commercial contracts, both domestic and international, including manufacturing, sales, agency, distribution, services and supply agreements and consumer compliance issues;
• Employment: individual and collective bargaining agreements, legal solutions in view of collective lay-outs, assistance during the day-to-day employment issues, mediation of labour disputes, litigation on employment field;
• Property: business and residential leases, development, commercial and residential sale and purchase.
• Private Client: estate and tax planning, wills and probate.
• Privatization: Legal analysis and assessments and preparation of privatization offers, assistance during tender procedures including drafting legal opinions upon the risks involved, specific due-diligence activities, drafting and negotiating the privatization contracts, close monitoring within the post-privatization period.
• Competition: regulatory advice in relation to competition law, in line with EU Accession requirements, assistance to clients during investigations made by the Competition Council with respect to concerted practices, abuse of dominant position and unfair competition issues, legal recommendation for State aid authorization procedures, representation in front of the Competition Council during competition litigation

CORPORATE
Our counseling include matters pertaining to:
• Companies: Legal address and registered office, bank account opening and management, mail address and mail/fax forwarding, corporate documents, share structures, shareholder and director resolutions as well as dissolution agreements, a full range of corporate governance advisory activities, legal solutions in view of corporate vehicles, assistance during the day-to-day business operations and management, general corporate and commercial advice;
• Corporate Finance: mergers, sales and acquisitions, transactions on the Romanian capital markets, private placements and public offerings, guidance for listing or delisting projects for companies on the Romanian stock exchanges;
• Insolvency: Corporate Liquidation or Reconstruction, creditors representation in the creditors’ committees, litigious aspects of insolvency, acting in insolvency matters and administrations.

CUSTOMS AND TAXATION
Our advice covers matters such as:
• Customs law and classification of taxes and duties.
• VAT, excise duties, profit and revenue taxation involving Romanian or foreign entities.
• Foreign investment incentives and relevant mechanisms.
• Representation in front of Romanian fiscal authorities and assistance during disputes involving such authorities.

COMMERCIAL LITIGATION AND ARBITRATION
We work with our clients to resolve disputes efficiently and effectively.
We cover all major areas of litigation and dispute resolution upholding client’s interests:
• In front of any Romanian legal system courts, ranging from civil, commercial to administrative, tax, customs and employment jurisdictions, as well as the Competition Council;
• In relation to commercial and corporate disputes, debt recovery procedures, both in the pre-litigation phase and in the court and enforcement proceedings, wide range of civil claims, intellectual property disputes, administrative law disputes;
• Fiscal and customs disputes arising from the erroneous enforcement of legal regulations regarding VAT, profit tax, income tax, Double Taxation Treaties, custom duties, fiscal and customs incentives;
• Reorganization and bankruptcy proceedings;
• Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments;
• In wide variety of conciliation and arbitration proceedings before Romanian and foreign arbitral forums.

SHIPPING AND TRADE
We specialize in all aspects of shipping and international trade, providing a full range of legal services in Romania, to the international shipping community. Our core areas of strength include:
• Admiralty: Collisions, salvage, towage, groundings, general and particular average, fires and explosions, pollution, wreck removal and all other types of marine losses and casualties.
• Cargo: Cargo claims arising out of marine casualties, contamination claims, claims for indemnities in respect of salvage and general average contributions.
• Shipping and Transportation Contracts.
• Shipbuilding & Repair: We offer assistance and advice on drafting shipbuilding and repair contracts and disputes arising there under.
• Disputes before the Courts and in Arbitration, including ship arrests and detentions.

FAMILY LAW
• drawing up, assistance and representation (should the case arise) in divorces, minor children custody settlement, support pensions, goods sharing etc.

ASSOCIATIONS AND FOUNDATIONS
• consulting, assistance and representation for the incorporation of a non-profit organization in Romania;
• documents of these organizations;
• permanent consulting related to the legal activity of the organizations.

CRIMINAL LAW
• consulting, assistance and representation in the criminal proceedings stage and before courts of law for law violations stipulated by the criminal code and by special laws (economic law violations, violations stipulated by the Fiscal Code etc.);
• criminal complaints drawing up.

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