Gjika & Associates

The Firm offers a full range of specialized corporate legal services for all types of corporate entity: public companies and multi-nationals, SMEs and start-ups. We act as general counsel for businesses, representing them in all aspects of corporate life, from establishment and daily operation throughout their corporate development. We are active in advising in the context of domestic and cross-border corporate transactions and joint ventures, as well as proactively consulting businesses on their relationships with domestic and international customers, suppliers, agents and distributors. 

In addition to advising on general company law, we regularly provide expert advice to businesses on structuring and completing domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and equity investments as well as in notifying such transactions to the relevant regulatory agencies for administrative clearance. 

Consumers are afforded significant rights when dealing with business entities and we have substantial experience in advising our clients on all aspects of consumer law issues affecting their businesses. We provide a full range of support to our clients, including: reviewing pre-contractual information, (including information contained on websites), to ensure the same is compliant with consumer law, advising on potential liabilities to consumers and the various statutory rights, advising on returns policies offered to consumers, advising on data protection and data privacy issues involving consumers, conducting due diligence in corporate acquisitions on compliance with consumer law.

Companies must regularly face social regulations increasingly complex and sometimes even unintelligible. Nevertheless, employment and social contribution issues accompany companies in each stage of their lives as well as each one of their steps. Its impact can thus by no means be neglected.

Our team advises on all employment and social contribution aspect including: recruitment, selection, promotion, wage negotiation and optimization, processing of personal data of workers, wage policy, flexibility of the working time, workers' health and safety, control and supervision of workers and the development of new technologies, protection of private life, protection of the interests of companies against unfair competition or violation of brands and secrets, dismissal, optimization in the framework of the termination of employment.

The areas where we are active include patents, trade marks, domain names, copyright, design rights, database rights, data protection and confidential information. We advise clients on identifying, registering and protecting their intellectual property rights, particularly when acquiring or licensing such rights, nationally or worldwide.

The range of services provided by our IP team includes: representation of clients before jurisdictional and administrative institutions or in alternative dispute resolution proceedings (negotiation, mediation, arbitration, etc.), legal advice concerning IP/ trade practices matters; protection of IP rights; drafting of contracts; legal audit; litigation and counterfeiting pursuing.

Our IP attorneys are patent and trademark agents registered with Albanian Patent and Trademark Office, as well as European patent agent registered with European Patent Office.

The Firm provides specialist advice and support on a wide range of real estate transactions to major domestic and international businesses, developers.

Our services include advising on all aspects of real estate investment including structuring, financing, acquisitions, lease negotiations and other landlord and tenant matters, comprehensive tax structuring advice, giving comprehensive advice in relation to dispute avoidance and dispute resolution matters, environmental liability issues in relation to real estate acquisitions, development and corporate transactions.

The Firm’s primary aim is to help clients, mainly leading multinationals and financial institutions, to avoid litigation wherever possible. When litigation is unavoidable, our Firm focuses on the commercial objectives of clients, while assessing legal, commercial and reputation risk. The team analyses the negotiating weaknesses of opponents and devises optimum procedural tactics or creative settlement approach.

The Firm covers a complete range of litigation at all levels of civil and administrative judicial review, as well as before arbitration courts and tribunals.