practices
Practice areas
Niculeasa Law Firm specializes in tax, regulatory and related commercial matters, our experience covering a broad spectrum of legal issues. We understand that Clients’ business and activities have become increasingly complex and regulated and our goal is to offer straighforward legal solutions to their needs. The team’s background in tax, regulatory and related commercial law, blended with our dynamism, business oriented and open-minded approach are key ellements for adding value and responding best to our Clients’ requirements.
Litigation
Niculeasa Law Firm has one of the leading Dispute Resolution practices on the local legal market. Our team has the expertise to assist in any dispute and are prepared to quickly mobilize when it comes to solving complex cases by providing customized and immediate assistance or legal advice.
Our accomplished litigation practice comprises a variety of Clients from miscellaneous industries, (such as energy, automotive, logistics, transport, pharma, IT & telecom), who have sought our assistance in providing the most effective strategies and representation before the competent courts or authorities.
Tax Law
Our services extend significantly in the tax law practice and our lawyers are renowed for precise, commercially informed advice on all areas of direct and indirect taxation including income tax, transfer pricing, VAT regulations, stamp duty, customs and excise.
We are consistently involved in representing Clients in complex court files related to the suspension of enforcement proceedings, the challenging of inspection minutes and tax decision issued by the tax authorities, etc.
The added value of our services comes from our experience in tax litigation, a perspective which allows us to successfully represent your interest in all types of tax issues.
Regulatory
Niculeasa Law Firm has a proven track record of providing assistance and representation in all aspects connected to regulatory matters, which are becoming increasingly complex for certain industries or areas of activity and which require that regulatory investigations are handled appropriately.
Our lawyers are best known for their ability to manage the risks posed by such investigations, advising Clients across all sectors by drafting propositions of regulations, analysing the possible impact upon their activity, drafting agreements that comply with the existing regulations and evaluating the risk of ensuing litigation.
We engage in activities broader than providing consultancy, assistance and representation in regulatory aspects. Thus, we are continuously preoccupied with improving and streamlining the relationship between Clients and authorities. We focus on every significant detail related to protecting the Clients’ interests in their relation with the authorities.
Relevant track record
Litigation
- Arbitration proceedings, both national and international – we represent clients in arbitration and in state court proceedings related to the annulment or enforcement of national or foreign arbitral awards. Our French law experience is a key element that helps us give the best advice based on the latest arbitral case-law.
- Arbitration proceedings, both national and international – we represent clients in arbitration and in state court proceedings related to the annulment or enforcement of national or foreign arbitral awards. Our French law experience is a key element that helps us give the best advice based on the latest arbitral case-law.
- IP – We have assisted clients in various IP related cases, with respect to copyright levies due to collective societies, to annulment of European registered trademarks (including the representation of the client in front of the ECJ), or the enforcement of national registered trademarks.
- Unfair competition – we have successfully challenged companies and individuals acting unfairly against our clients’ interests, and thus protecting their industrial know-how.
- Corporate and M&A – we have dealt with general corporate matters related to the functioning of their companies and we assisted clients with respect to the corporate restructuring of their business.
- Real Estate- We have assisted clients on real estate matters related to the ownership title, lease agreements, sale purchase agreements etc.
- Debt recovery/ fraud arrangements – our enforcement related experience helped us efficiently assist our clients in debt recovery procedures, including insolvency and winding-up procedures as well as in initiating proceedings for unveiling fraud schemes.
Tax Law
- VAT related issues – We have successfully dealt with aspects related to intra-community operations, justification documents, carousel schemes, re-evaluation of immovable property, taxation of natural persons, taxable and non-taxable economic operations, representing and advising medium and large tax payers both during and following tax inspections in challenges of the inspections’ results.
- Profit tax and transfer pricing – We have efficiently assisted Clients on aspects related to the deductible character of expenses and to transfer pricing issues, supporting the transfer pricing documentation presented during inspections.
- Local taxes – Our team has represented Clients in aspects related to immovable property tax and other related local taxes, successfully obtaining the correct qualification of assets.
- Excise tax and customs – We have successfully assisted Clients active in the beer sector and automotive related to customs issues and the applicable regime for excise tax or for customs issues.
- Joint liability for tax duties – we have acted for different clients in procedures for joint liability initiated by the tax authorities.
Regulatory
- Energy – Our lawyers have assisted and represented a major oil and gas company in the files initiated against the National Authority for Energy Regulation related to the calculation of the gas quota. Also, we have assisted former governmental officials with the energy aspects of the criminal investigations pending against them,
- Labour law – Besides the coordination, assistance and representation in special collective labour related cases for major oil and gas company, we have assisted and represented employers and management employees in relation with sensitive dismissal procedures, implementation of TUPE legislation or exist packages negotiations.
- Competition – We have assisted Clients in relation to the procedure and the investigations of the Competition Council, initializing challenges against the Competition Council decisions.
- Public procurement and European funds – We have assisted Clients with respect to issues related to the procurement documentation, conformity of the offer, steps of the procurement procedure and to the issues related to the implementation of their European funds agreements.