STALFORT Legal. Tax. Audit.

The firm: STALFORT Legal. Tax. Audit. has been supporting foreign clients acquiring, establishing or managing Romanian businesses. Since then, it has consistently grown organically.

Today, more than 30 people (attorneys at law, tax advisors auditors, etc) are active in three offices throughout the country, located in Bucharest, Bistrita and Sibiu, all ready to guide clients through challenges such as market entries, corporate and M&A, real estate and construction, employment, dispute resolution, and many more.

As a full service provider, STALFORT Legal. Tax. Audit. offers a wide range of specialised legal advice, tax and audit services to clients from around the world, comprising small and medium-sized companies as well as global players. It is particularly, but not exclusively, specialised on German and German-speaking clients.

The core team includes experienced German, Austrian and Romanian professionals, who have been working exclusively for the company for more than ten years.

The firm aims at maintaining long-lasting partnerships with its clients. It has been advising the major part of them beginning with their market entry – mostly via greenfield – investment, M&A or joint ventures. During recent years, the firm has become an essential resource to companies requiring restructuring measures such as spin-offs or mergers – whether national or cross-border.

Areas of practice
Corporate: incorporation of companies; obtaining public law authorisations and permits; general corporate matters; participations; joint ventures; restructurings; and the dissolution and liquidation of companies.

M&A: mergers; spin-offs; sale and purchase of companies (asset and share deals); and due diligence.

Commercial: purchase, supply, leasing, service agreements and other contracts; general terms and conditions; consumer protection law; and issues related to the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).

Real estate: agriculture and forestry; project development; real estate leasing; real estate funds; facility management; concessions; industrial tenancy/lease agreements; public-private partnerships; and dispute settlement.

Construction: construction contracts; general contractor agreements; construction supervision legislation; consortium/joint venture agreements; FIDIC contracts; EPC for energy production facilities; building permit and town planning legislation; and litigation.

Employment: individual labour law (drafting and terminating employment and management agreements, employee inventions etc); collective labour law (collective bargaining agreements, unions, employee representatives, company and work regulations, employee participation in SE/SCE/European Work Council); measures in case of workload fluctuations (collective redundancies and others); and litigation.

Litigation: representation in front of the Romanian courts in all fields of business law; preparing and conducting arbitration proceedings.

Compliance: setting up and implementing internal control systems for the prevention and early recognition of law violations, especially in sensitive fields such as competition, criminal, labour, data protection and corporate legislation.

IT: software and licensing agreements; e-commerce (B2B, B2C); and data protection.

Public procurement: public tenders; support during the proceedings in front of the contracting authorities; and litigation (CNSC, courts of law).

Competition: legal advice related to marketing strategies; measures against anti-competitive counterfeits; litigation; and strategies for preventing litigation.

Antitrust: advice for contract drafting; notification of economic concentrations; representation in front of the Competition Council; and litigation concerning applied fines.

Industrial property protection: trade mark rights; protection for utility models; copyright law; domain protection; and competition law.