Frashëri Law Firm is one of the most prominent law firms in competition litigation, acting for claimants and defendants, both in the Albania Courts. We are established with a strong international dimension, well known in Albania and abroad for its practice in professional legal services in domestic cases, and as a Corporate Services Provider and SME. Its core focus is on rendering comprehensive services in litigation and dispute resolution, serving as a one-stop office for easy national or foreign company incorporation.
Legal Services
The firm has a successful track record in corporate, finance and capital markets law, as well as tax, business formation, real estate and litigation, including consulting and mediation.
The firm’s legal team offers services in several foreign languages and reflects the importance it places on personalized service, tailored to clients’ needs.
The Frashëri Law Firm is a Recommended Firm in Albania by Global Law Experts, which has awarded them the position of exclusive representation of Corporate and Commercial Litigation in Albania.
International Network & High Tech applying
The firm by 2020 is part of SFAI Global, an international network of legal professionals with more than 14,000 people in 115 countries, offering professional services in tax law, audit and accounting – to ISA and IAASB standards.
The firm is also the first and only law office in Albania to offer from 2020 services through Artificial Intelligence in the handling of client documentation. As the sole custodian of an AI platform for the legal profession by Luminance, its clients save 85% of the standard operational time, as well as 80% of the financial burden.
Our legal team for many years has supports and advises national and international investors, entrepreneurs, profit and non-profit organizations about their rights and obligations on how to doing business, open and manage a company in Albania. In addition to legal advice, after listening carefully to your idea or needs, our lawyer team will help you in real time and with the highest professional standards for:
Our goal is to ensure for everyone’s rights, in compliance with legal obligations, and assure & avoid future legal disputes.
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Our legal team will not leave legal instrument unturned in the search of a legal way to serve your needs.
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In the past years, Albania has increasingly become an administrative state. The government decision-making institutions and law-enforcement agencies an affect citizens’ lives daily. Our lawyers’ team is there to assist you in ensuring that our government officials respect your rights and procedural rules of justice, including opportunity to be heard, and receiving justified reasons of a negative decision against you. Our attorneys apart from our commitment to the public administration bodies are presented with professionalism, even before all Albanian Courts civil or administrative including First instance Courts of Republic, Court of Appeal, and High Court of Albania defending or represent our clients from a multitude of administrative other commissions, such as in the area of tax appeal, the civil service commission, the commission for protection of personal data, registration of real estate, building permits, legalization of informal buildings, social security etc.
Specialized in matters of Public and Administrative Law
Attorney at Law, Hon. Kastriot Frashëri for 30 years has his contribution to the improvement of the Albanian legislation and its approximation with the European Union legislation. In these circumstances our office Tirana Law Office - Frashëri Law Firm traditionally has broad knowledge on and extensive experience in the fields of constitutional and administrative law. We are well recognized as experts on matters of administrative law on all governmental levels (legislative, central executive and municipal) in almost all areas of public law.
In particular, we advise our clients on the entire range of regulatory issues in life sciences, health, immigrating law, in public economic law, in approval and infrastructure matters, in construction and planning law, family law, employment law, in public procurement procedures and related proceedings in court.
For many years we have advise government agencies, state enterprises, other public entities and NGO with functions in the public sector as well as private persons who exercise state power or public service. Also, our attorney Mr. Frashëri has held positions on many issues of public law, public interest and public space protection on TVs and has written many editorials in Albanian newspapers.
We offer a broad range of services covering all different variety of legal services such as legal opinions, drafting projects and bills, consulting on and leading proceedings before government agencies and courts in all public law matters.
Our clients will be benefit from individual, tailor-made solutions to their issues. We lead them to their goals efficiently while considering both the big panorama and related questions in other fields of practice.
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Attorney at Law Kastriot Frashëri and his office "Tirana Law Office-Frasheri Law Firm" is recognized as having one of the most skilled teams of finding and resolutions issues of employment in Tirana,
In addition to the highest levels of professional knowledge and expertise on the law, we provide in real time and practical labor law advice tailored to the needs of our clients, including social security matters. This experience has resulted in long-term relationships with our clients, many of whom are individuals, or big companies.
Our service includes:
• Drafting specific employment agreements • Comprehensive legal advice to employers on specific and general employment conditions, information and consultation regulations, permits for foreign employees, contracts for expatriates, dismissal from work immediately or lay-offs due to restructuring • Representing employers and/or employees in negotiation or litigation proceedings in courts. • Collective bargaining or individual issues including labor law disputes with trade unions • Collective bargaining • Individual employment agreements Collective Contracts of Work on bargaining issues including labor law disputes with trade unions and assistance in corporate restructurings including occupational pension funds.
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Separation is unfortunately sometimes the only possible solution. However, separating or divorcing in the most amicable way possible is our goal and your next best option. Our team will help you to traveling together through the separation procedures, negotiations and settlements as peacefully and beneficially for you and your children.
For more reasons, our team will help you with any issues related to successions and wills whether you plan the inevitable future in advance or seek to establish your rights as heir of the family. Our service includes:
Family Law and Property Law
Our long experience provides any client a full range of services to individuals, families and new or established entrepreneurs. Our staff advises the private client on all aspects of family law, residential property and estate disputes.
Divorce procedure
Our attorneys are also recognized as a leading team in the aforementioned areas of family law. Our attorneys bring a sophisticated, pragmatic and personal approach to all issue’s family concerning relationships and wealth protection. The questions arising in connection with the dissolution of family relationships can be very problematic. Our work as counsellor or attorney at law commonly involves very substantial assets, national or international issues and trust, tax and pension considerations. Our comprehensive services also extend to advising our clients on wealth protection issues, including prenuptial and marital agreements, and include social security aspects. We advise and represent our clients before all courts in international and Albania family law proceedings as well as in divorce and child custody proceeding.
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Our advice about to Protection of Intellectual Property Right, Copyright, Brand, Patents, Trademark and Inventions
Intellectual property and technology transfer
Apart creating, registration and maintaining brands and their developing, our office will be always ready on the protecting innovative products and solutions are key to the value of a business. We view the protection and management of intellectual property as a strategic matter that is integral to a company’s operation.
Our intellectual property staff advises all clients on the protection, enforcement and exploitation of all types of Intellectual property (IP) rights as known: (patents, copyright, trademarks, designs, database rights, know-how, trade secrets and protection from slavish copying and other violation of rights under the law on unfair competition).
We advise our clients on the development of a business' intellectual property strategy and all aspects of its implementation, from start up registration and protection through exploitation, enforcement and anti-counterfeiting from third parties. Under the conditions of an informal economy and the lack of the rule of law, consumer protection from forged patents and trademarks not only undermines the image of the company, but also the life of the consumer obliging us to find the fastest legal solutions to protect the interests of each subject. We working closely with our colleagues of tax and competition enable us to find practical solutions to the complex intellectual property issues involved. We also regularly advise our clients on the Intellectual Property aspects through giving the recommendations to show due diligence in connection with acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures and litigate to enforce intellectual property rights and defend infringement claims, using alternative dispute resolution such as mediation where appropriate.
Information Technology and Outsourcing
Our team is well versed in assisting any client in purchasing, developing, protecting, licensing, embracing new technology and defending technology assets. We are also known for supporting high tech companies in establishing their rights and entry market of their innovations (including e-commerce and online auctions or sale) and drafting outsourcing and software development agreements, as well as for advising high tech companies on M&A, public offerings and joint ventures and for carrying out due diligence investigations.
Commercial Contracts and Distribution Solutions
Tirana Law Office - Frashëri Law Firm offers legal services with regard to the entire range of development, manufacturing, procurement, marketing, distribution authorized and protection of our clients’ products and services. Our expertise covers Albania, European and international business relationships. We advise our clients in relation to various non-regulated business areas as well as on regulated industries, e.g. life sciences, telecommunication, energy, transport, and financial services.
Our legal services comprise in particular the drafting, negotiation, implementation and enforcement of agreements, negotiations and proceedings with governmental authorities, and the rendering of expert opinions for business and official institutions.
Our service includes:
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Tirana Law Office - Frashëri Law Firm provides expertise in connection with construction, real estate and industrial facilities. Our attorneys have worked for contractors or owners/developers or have been seconded to Albanian authority of territorial planning (KKT) or in the respective municipalities and in the local government planning authorities in the respective municipalities or construction companies. Our long experience on the government on state and local levels enables us to bring valuable work to the structuring and developing of your major projects.
We assist company’s' or their contractors in managing their legal risk due to late delivery, defects and cost overruns. Our legal advice to risk management service and guidance includes establishing procedures for dealing with potential risk areas, drafting template documentation and training the client’s contracting team. Our team assists you throughout all the stages of your project, from structuring, bidding, drafting contracts and managing defaults (e.g. delays, cost overruns, remedies) to dispute avoidance or resolution.
We cover the entire range of the law on planning and zoning, advising government agencies as well as private real estate owners. We work in an advisory capacity and preemptively, but also represent our clients in administrative and appeal proceedings (e.g. in order to obtain building permits). We offer a full range of legal services for clients in both the private and public sectors. We coordinate our specialists’ input on development, tax, finance, investment structures (such as leasing) and property litigation.
Our office advise claimants and respondents in all aspects of contentious construction matters and, where appropriate and in the interest of the client, provide guidance and support in order to reach a settlement without recourse to litigation.
Tirana Law Office - Frashëri Law Firm provides expertise in Bankruptcy law and procedure in court in Albania
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Our attorneys also practice in penal, criminal, and disciplinary law in Albania representing clients nationally. The right to an attorney is a Constitutional right and we ensure that everyone charged with a crime, such as assault, theft, fraud, narcotic and drug offences, driving under the influence, firearms, or white-collar crimes, receives legal services. Our team is competent in criminal legal knowledge and procedure, in addition to engaging efficient negotiation skills considering that in Albanian practice all cases end up in trial.
Managing Partner
The Right Honourable Kastriot Frashëri
The Right Honourable Kastriot Frashëri is an experienced commercial, corporate, governance and regulatory lawyer, as well as a Recommended Attorney by Global Law Experts in the UK. He is the Founder and CEO of the firm, and leads its established and growing practice with an international network providing a full range of legal services to corporations, financial institutions and high-net-worth individuals in such industries as insurance, finance, luxury assets, energy and technology. He studied law in University of Tirana (2004); in “Applied Corporate and Business Law”; Technical Review of Employment Contracts by Metropolitan School of Business and Management, London, UK (2020); in “International Law”; “Economics and International Business”; “Finance and Accounting” by International Business Management Institute, Germany (2021); in “Business Law” by London School of Business Administration, UK (2023).
Meanwhile, the Rt Honourable Lawyer Kastriot Frashëri has been a member of the British-Albanian Lawyers Association, London, UK for several years, and cooperates with numerous well-known international firms in the EU, the UK, the UAE, the US and other regions around the world. Awards
The Rt Hon Lawyer Kastriot Frashëri is a successful lawyer who has massively won all the cases he has represented. For these achievements he and Frashëri Law Firm have been honored with several international awards as Global Law Experts; Leaders in Law & Award Winner on Corporate and Commercial Law Firm of the Year -2023 by The Network Lawyer, London, UK. Regular cooperation with private and public entities, as well as numerous recommendations, are proof of the trust she has gained over the years.
The Rt. Hon Kastriot Frashëri has also been invited as a lecturer and has participated in short study programs on specific issues from Trinity College, Oxford University; Kings College, London, UK; University of Toronto, Canada; University of Calgary, Canada; University of Leipzig, Germany and other international institutions.
