Zamfirescu Racoti Vasile & Partners advises businesses, financial institutions, governmental entities and private clients on a large spectrum of matters, providing the guidance they need to compete and grow in today’s business environment and to manage and successfully overcome any potential or existing disputes.
The firm is specialized in business law in the broadest sense, covering major commercial and industrial activities in Romania and connected markets. High quality and effective services in both consultancy and litigation areas are integrated through the knowledge and expertise of our cross-practice industry teams. At the same time, we are fully devoted to private clients who entrust us with a multitude of problems which need specialized legal assistance.
Our clients have always asked for advice and support on business and legal matters involving a wide range of issues and a multidisciplinary approach. Zamfirescu Racoti Vasile & Partners’ philosophy is to avoid a rigid, departmental approach in these cases. Instead, we choose small teams of lawyers from different practice groups in order to address the specific requirements of their projects.
Through determination, loyalty, fairness and transparency, we create a partnership relation with our clients, working for a common benefit. Their success has been our own success and will remain the priority. In this way we have built trusted relationships with an array of clientele, from international corporations and local companies from various industry sectors as well as large commercial and investment banks to private clients.
Dispute Resolution is a key practice of our law firm, accounting for more than half of our work.
With an undisputed position of leadership on the Romanian market, we offer complete legal assistance and representation services with respect to domestic litigation and domestic and international arbitration. Our prestigious litigators and arbitrators have tried and tested experience, thus keeping us at the very top of our profession. We work in integrated multidisciplinary teams and are always well informed about all aspects of our clients’ business and day-to-day problems generating disputes.
We have a strong record of achieving successful outcomes for our clients and the resources to handle dispute resolution cases of all types: a complete dispute resolution service, a team of experienced litigators and arbitrators, the ability to analyze the substantive dispute, tactical approach, and broad commercial and civil experience.
Our top-tier litigation practice always provides focused and valuable service and has an outstanding national and international reputation. We act for a broad spectrum of clients, particularly in the corporate and financial sectors, but also for government and state-owned entities and private clients. Both companies and private clients choose us to manage their disputes because we consistently deliver flawless and outstanding results.
Our arbitration team manages the biggest portfolio of domestic and international arbitration cases, conducted under the auspices of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the London Court of International Arbitration, the Vienna International Arbitration Centre, the Milan Chamber of Arbitration, the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, the Court of International Commercial Arbitration (Bucharest), and under the UNCITRAL arbitration rules.
The Family Law practice offers legal services in all areas of family law. We have years of experience providing first class advice in matters concerning international child abduction, divorce and separation, children issues (exercise of parental responsibility, custody and visiting rights or payment of child maintenance), property and money matters, property settlements, and offences against the family and children (especially child abandonment).
We believe that court should always be considered the last resort. That is why we explore whether counselling or mediation may be a better way forward for our client. Sometimes however, court cannot be avoided and may prove to be the only real option. When that is so, we guide and support our client through the whole process.
Our lawyers understand that issues surrounding a family breakdown can be emotionally complex. This is why we add empathy and balance to the litigation expertise of more than one decade of our lawyers. When there are children to consider the hardship can be compounded as we seek to look to the needs of our clients and resolve the children’s living arrangements. We help make sense of how a settlement can be reached by offering compassionate support as well as being legal advisors, but always having the children’s best interest in mind.
Zamfirescu Racoți Vasile & Partners’ extensive experience in the corporate law field has been gained both on a day-by-day basis and within large and relevant specific projects, in various industries, by constantly advising major domestic and international corporations and their constituencies (executive officers, boards, committees etc.).
As a part of the day-by-day corporate assistance, our specialists provide overall legal services with respect to corporate governance matters, including legal assistance during the incorporation process, drafting of corporate documents, such as articles of incorporation, addenda thereto and resolutions of the relevant management bodies, assisting the company’s shareholders and management during the relevant corporate meetings, drafting the company’s internal policies and implementing the corporate strategies.
Our Employment practice has been a significant specialized area within our firm for more than 12 years. We have built an experienced and knowledgeable team that provides clients with coordinated and locally specific advice on the rules and regulations governing employment, labor, immigration, pensions and benefits.
We provide responses to the constantly evolving legislative and case law climate of Romania and EU. We handle the full range of employment and labor law matters for our clients, ensuring that they make informed decisions with respect to their employment and other employment related practices and policies. We devise case strategies and represent clients before the courts of relevant jurisdiction.
Managing and protecting intellectual property has become increasingly complex for companies. We seek to manage and mitigate risk and to maximize the return from intellectual property assets for the benefit of our clients. We advise on all aspects of the creation, exploitation, protection and enforcement of IP rights and handle cases involving all types of IP claims, including in combination with related claims of antitrust, contract disputes, unfair business practices and other causes of action.
Insurance Law is a practice that has seen continuous growth in the past years.
Our dedicated team has experience in representing both top insurance companies in Romania and individual policyholders and business owners in multimillion-euro claims deriving from all kind of insurance policies (compulsory insurance against civil liability for the damage caused by vehicles, malpractice policies, directors and officers liability policies, property insurance, performance bond securities etc.). The team also advises on drawing up policy conditions, coverage and provides assistance during pre-trial negotiations and mediation meetings to reach amicable settlements.
Real estate deals are becoming ever more complex. Increasingly they are cross border, highly structured and involve sophisticated financing arrangements. Zamfirescu Racoți Vasile & Partners assists institutional and private investors, multinationals, banks and developers with all of their real estate needs, from buying, selling and leasing property to financing and constructing major projects.
