DISPUTE RESOLUTION

We advise on corporate and commercial litigation and arbitration in areas including debt recovery, insolvency, tax, employment, intellectual property, and media. Our team includes experienced trial lawyers, who combine an excellent mastering of the intricacies of court procedures and tactics with in-depth understanding of the mentality of the local magistrates.

The firm is experienced in mediation and also offers advice on alternative dispute resolution solutions.

We advised:

• Glencore Grain re recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards, claims against defaulting grain suppliers;

• The Coca-Cola Company re several trademark infringement and unfair competition cases;

• Canam Steel Romania re winning two arbitration cases re construction disputes; 

• Actavis Group re successful patent litigation cases; 

• Nidera Handelscompagnie re unlawful seizure of a wheat cargo; 

• Estee Lauder Romania as creditor re debt collection, bankruptcy of the debtor;

• Amromco Energy re litigation with a transportation company, disputes with owners of land used for production of natural gas, legal action against the Ministry of Economy and Commerce, the Agency for Mineral Resources, and the National Natural Gas Regulatory Authority regarding state aid, price control regulations;

• Wizz Air, a leading European low cost airline, re employment, and passengers disputes;

• Velco Chemicals re a commercial arbitration case;

• Velco Enterprises re a commercial case;

• Cargas Petroleum re a real estate case, and several commercial cases;

• Canadian Embassy re a labor dispute;

• Soros Foundation re a construction dispute;

• Worldspan Romania re commercial and tax cases;

• Procter & Gamble Marketing Romania re commercial, and civil cases;

• Coca-Cola HBC Romania re successful defense against claims for patent and design infringement;

• Precision Castparts Corporation re complex commercial litigation;

• Medochemie Romania as creditor re debt collection, bankruptcy of the debtor;

• Guccio Gucci in several trademark infringement cases, seizure of counterfeited products, and prosecution of the related legal cases;

• Golden Neo-Life Diamite International as plaintiff regarding a criminal complaint;

• Bell Helicopter Textron re successful prosecution of a claim filed against Columna Bank in bankruptcy proceedings;

• Morando Italy re petition in bankruptcy against local debtor;

• Bantex Denmark re defense against a fraudulent claim, successful prosecution of a claim against a distributor;

• Casio Computer re seizure and destruction of counterfeited products, and prosecution of the related legal case;

• Philips International re seizure and destruction of counterfeited products, and prosecution of the related legal cases;

• Worldspan Romania Services re two tax litigation cases.