STALFORT Legal. Tax. Audit.

STALFORT Legal. Tax. Audit. has been supporting corporate clients from around the world in acquiring, establishing and managing businesses in Romania since 1997.

In the meantime, the firm has consistently grown organically. Today, more than 30 people (lawyers, tax advisors, auditors, etc.) are active in three offices located in Bucharest, Bistrita and Sibiu.

As a full-service provider, STALFORT Legal. Tax. Audit. offers a wide range of legal advice, tax and audit services, all ready to guide its clients through challenges such as market entries, corporate and M&A, real estate and construction, energy, employment, dispute resolution, and many more. 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 together exclusively for the company for more than ten years.

STALFORT Legal. Tax. Audit 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.

However, during recent years, the firm also became an essential resource to companies seeking support in challenging projects. It is particularly experienced in M&A, restructuring measures such as spin-offs or mergers – whether national or cross-border, as well as complex projects related to real estate, construction, (renewable) energy, employment and litigation.

Areas of practice
Corporate: company incorporation; 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 and other agreements; general terms and conditions; consumer protection; and issues related to the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).

Real estate: sale and purchase of real estate; real estate leasing; due diligence; agriculture and forestry; project development; 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; power plant construction, waste water treatment projects, building permit and town planning legislation; and litigation.

Employment: individual labour law (drafting, amending 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); collective redundancy, measures in case of workload fluctuations; and litigation.

Energy: setting-up wind, photovoltaic, bio-gas and CHP plants from greenfield to operation; due diligence on land, permits and SPVs; sale & purchase of SPVs, securing land for power plants; EPC / O&M agreements; and power supply, power purchase and grid connection agreements; regulatory topics, with a particular focus on renewable energy

Litigation: representation in front of the Romanian and international 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 GDPR/ data protection.

Public procurement: public tenders; support during 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.