CR Partners in cooperation with Karanovic & Partners

CR PARTNERS is an independent law firm in Albania, assisting domestic and international companies, international finance institutions, and non-profit organisations, among others. The firm's main strength is its qualified and experienced team of lawyers of leading professionals in their areas of expertise, who have been diligently assisting clients on Albanian law matters since 1996.

An advancement and widening in professional scope and range took place in 2021 when Karanovic & Partners established full cooperation with CR PARTNERS in Albania, further offering comprehensive and seamless legal services to meet the various needs of clients, no matter how complex they are. Since then, the law firm is known as CR Partners in cooperation with Karanovic & Partners, operating under the “one team” principle and with excellence, reliability, fast turnaround and commercial awareness at the core of its work ethic.

The firm’s team is composed of highly motivated lawyers who are locally and internationally educated, speaking English, French and Italian, and who possess the necessary skills and expertise to answer the growing needs of clients for sophisticated advice to complex legal matters within prompt turnaround times.

Partners and senior members of the firm have benefited working in complex sophisticated finance, M&A, PPP transactions for Fortune 500 companies, often alongside magic-circle firms and lawyers, which combined with a thorough knowledge and understanding of the local legal, business, and political environment, puts the firm in a position to provide unique and comprehensive advice to all clients, domestic and foreign, running a business or having a commercial interest in Albania.

The firm has an excellent reputation on the market and works with leading companies in major industries such as energy, telecommunications, banking, pharmaceuticals and consumer goods.

The team regularly covers drafting and reviewing of commercial agreements, competition work, concession projects, share and assets acquisitions, corporate governance, corporate due diligences, dissolutions and liquidations, cross- border mergers and acquisitions, mergers control, formation and governance of joint venture, equity finance etc.

CR Partners in cooperation with Karanovic & Partners is best known for:

• • Commercial transactions and acquisitions
  • Advisory services in concession projects (both private-side and government advisory side)
  • Energy and HPPs
  • Merger control.