Boga & Associates

Boga & Associates, established in 1993, has emerged as one of the premier law firms in Albania and Kosovo, earning a reputation for providing the highest quality of legal, tax and accounting services to its clients. Until May 2007, the firm was a member firm of KPMG International and the senior partner/managing partner, Mr Genc Boga was also managing partner of KPMG Albania.

Our firm’s particularity is linked to the multidisciplinary services it provides to its clients. Apart from the wide consolidated legal practice, the firm also offers significant expertise in tax and accounting services with a keen sensitivity to the rapid changes in the Albanian and Kosovo business environment.

The firm maintains its commitment to quality through the skills and determination of a team of attorneys and other professionals with a wide range of skills and experience.

With its diverse capabilities and experience, Boga & Associates acts for leading businesses in most major industries, including banks, financial institutions, companies working in energy, insurance, construction, and utilities, entertainment and media, mining, oil and gas, technology, telecommunications, tourism, transport, infrastructure, consumer goods and international institutions (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank (contributing to “Doing Business”). The firm also enjoys an outstanding litigation practice, representing clients before all levels of the Albanian judicial system.

The firm offers its clients every legal, tax and accounting service they may need to do business in Albania and Kosovo. Over the years, the firm has advised on privatization transactions, concessions, real estate transactions, setting up businesses, credit facilities and customs and tax issues, all with a keen sensitivity to developments in the Albanian and Kosovo business environment.

Contributor to international publications: Boga & Associates acts as the World Bank’s local partner on its annual publication, Doing Business, collaborating to paint a picture of the Albanian regulatory environment.

The firm is a contributor for Albania to International Law Office, a global source of analysis and information regarding current legal developments for lawyers worldwide, and the correspondent for Albania for the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD), providing authoritative expertise on cross-border taxation matters.

Boga & Associates also contributes to the International Comparative Legal Guide, Getting the Deal Through in respect of several areas of practice, and to World Trademark Review magazine and World Trademark Review Legal Updates.

Areas of practice: Boga & Associates provides legal services in the areas of general business law, corporate and commercial law to assist business entities and individuals in meeting their business goals.

Boga & Associates represents business clients in a wide variety of matters, including: banking and project finance, advice on venture capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs and restructurings of companies, legal due diligence, drafting commercial agreements, including terms and conditions for the supply of goods and services, and those related to joint ventures, agency, distribution and cooperation, corporate structures and regulation, including company incorporation, shareholders agreements, minority shareholders’ rights and directors’ duties and liabilities.

Boga & Associates advises lenders and borrowers on a full range of financing matters, including syndicated loans, project and asset finance, and new financing products like factoring.