ABOUT FIRM

LFS ADVISORY Firm is considered to be the Leading  law office in Albania in the field of Company Law, Tax Law, Infrastructure and Intellectual Property Law.

CORPORATE AND BUSINESS LAW ALBANIA
– Business Registration
– Company Formation Albania
– Company Acquisition Albania
– Merger & Acquisition- Joint Ventures
– Limited Liability Companies Albania
– Shareholder Agreements Albania
– Privatization Albania
– Business Taxation
– Company Acquisition
– Business Restructuring
– Corporate Restructuring (Merger, Spin-off, Transformation)
– Advice regarding directors ‘and officers ‘liability, in particular liability of management board and supervisory board members
– Stock Corporation Law
– General Legal Advice
– Legal Services for New Companies in Albania
– Legal support of day-to-day business activity

NGO Registration in Albania
– Register a Non Governmental Organization in Albania
– Register a NGO Branch in Albania
– Register a Foreign NGO in Albania

REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION
– Real Estate Contracts in Albania
– Real Estate Lease
– Trusteeship and Escrow
– Due Diligence
– Construction law and construction permits
– Acquisition of Real Estate
– Portfolio transactions (national and international)
– Construction contracts
– Contracts with architects, general planners, general contractors and contractors
– Construction law
– Project development
– Real estate and construction related litigation

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION
– Distribution and Supply Agreements
– Sole Distributorship in Albania
– Franchise Contract in Albania
– Trade Agency
– Selective Distribution Systems

COMPETITION LAW IN ALBANIA
– Antitrust
– Merger Control
– Unfair Competition in Albania

LITIGATION IN ALBANIA
– Litigation
– Arbitration (national and international)
– Arbitrator in national and international arbitrations
– Insolvency law in Albania

INSURANCE LAW
– Insurance Companies
– Insurance Supervision

EMPLOYMENT LAW
– Legal Position of Executives
– Employment and management contracts
– Employment Contracts
– Advice in employment law matters, in particular on the employer’s side
– Employment litigation in Albania

BANKRUPTCY LAW
– Bankruptcy and Composition Proceedings
– Business Reorganisation
– Debt Restructuring
– Creditor and Debtor Representation
– Bankruptcy Litigation

Intellectual Property / IT Albania
– Trade Marks in Albania
– Patents  in Albania
– Unfair competition  in Albania
– Intellectual property / copyright law  in Albania
– License and Know-How Agreements
– Domain law
– E-commerce
– Software contracts  in Albania

FOUNDATION LAW
– Private Foundations   in Albania
– Charitable Foundations  in Albania

PUBLIC LAW
– Environmental law, environmental impact assessment (UVP), decontamination
– Water protection law
– Telecommunications law
– Public procurement law
– Energy law
– Privatizations
– Public private partnerships
– Data protection law
– Law of associations
– Constitutional and administrative law

CIVIL LAW AND (INTERNATIONAL) CONTRACT LAW
– Insurance contracts and insurance claims
– Sales agents
– Transportation law
– Product liability

AVIATION AND AEROSPACE (Albania)
– Aircraft ownership and financing in Albania
– Aircraft and airline operations in Albania
– Airline ownership and finance in Albania
– Insured liability in Albania
– Commercial contracts with airlines and suppliers to airports in Albania
– Construction matters including airport expansions and redevelopment. in Albania
– Corporate advice on financing acquisitions and disposals in Albania
– Major airport projects, whether conventionally procured or using a PPP structure in Albania
– Planning permissions in Albania
– Real estate matters such as airport lettings and leases and hangar rent reviews in Albania.
– Regulatory advice on issues such as slots, competition, environmental, handling, and airport terms and charges in Albania.

Due Diligence
LFS ADVISORY Ltd provides due diligence of an asset or target business. Not only envisaging the risks, we generate solutions for risk mitigation.

Corporate Matters
In our corporate practice, we advise and provide transactional assistance and management in all areas of corporate legal area. Our experience comprises of advisory and transnational work in the following core areas: business structuring, finance structuring, capital formation and shareholders arrangement, mergers, acquisitions, business transactions and agreements. We help clients to establish business structures, such as joint ventures, start-up ventures for taxable and tax-exempt investors, offshore funds to achieve tax efficiency.

Tax Structuring and Optimization
We advise clients in the following matter pertaining to tax planning: debt structuring, debt/equity allocations, start-ups, investments, private equity. We employ taxable and tax-exempt vehicles, which are effectively managed by our agents.

Real Estate
Our real estate team is advising clients with real estate property in Albania to resolve business issues relating to: property acquisition, residential and commercial real estate, zoning law, real estate disputes, lease contracts, enforcement or protection of real estate security, protection of good property standing etc.

Debt Collection and Security Enforcement
Our clients seek advice and legal actions support in the following areas: creditworthiness due diligence, soft collection and hard collection. While being deeply involved in arbitration process in Albania and working in close cooperation with law enforcement offices, we are successful at returning a substantial stack of those debts which were initially considered non-recoverable.