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ABOUT GHICA BOUTIQUE LAW FIRM

BUSINESS LAWYERS WHO SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE
With a unique concept recently introduced on the Romanian
market, Ghica Boutique Law Firm brings more than the
knowledge and skill you need to achieve your business and
legal goals: we come as a partner who understands you,
with the focus to engineer a creative strategy that takes you
exactly where you need to be.
When the legal matter is important for your business or for you personally, you will want an attorney who is highly credentialed
and thoroughly experienced in that area of the law.
THE MISSION
We are a boutique law rm that handles corporate,
commercial, banking, real estate and any other domain that
might need business restructuring solutions, located in
Bucharest, Romania and we take pride in the way we treat
our clients: at Ghica Boutique Law Firm, experienced
counselors are converting problems into smart solutions,
offering tailored legal services and dealing with care and
creativity your demands.
THE VISION
We aim to become a highly recognized boutique law rm,
for the quality of services we provide and the trust we
inspire. We will keep being permanently updated with
novelties in our areas of interest and will keep suggesting
proposals that put emphasis on innovation and creativity.
We respect exactly what the concept of boutique law rm
means: exclusive specialization on several related law
areas of business and services of high quality, conducted
by experienced lawyers. As a modern, aggressive,
forward-thinking rm, we are rmly seated in the 21st
century, offering our clients in Romania and cross boarder
convenient options.
WE ARE BUSINESS LAWYERS
Our lawyers have an extensive business experience and
offer tailored legal services with emphasis on corporate,
commercial, banking, real estate and other areas that
might need business restructuring solutions.
Our team is led by Cristina Ghica, business lawyer with
over 11 years experience in Romanian law practice, EU and
international law. Prior to founding the company, Cristina
Ghica moved along the various seniority levels with
Volksbank Romania, Anchor Group and Argo Capital
Management Property.
Regardless of your business goals, size or industry, we are
an effective partner who speaks your language. At Ghica
Boutique Law Firm, our diverse knowledge base and
practice experience allow us to serve the changing goals of
our clients.
Besides English, we speak Spanish.
Treat people as if they were what they should be and you help them
become what they are capable of becoming. GOETHE
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BUSINESS RESTRUCTURING
AREAS AND INDUSTRIES
Corporate Restructuring is the process of redesigning one
or more aspects of a company. The process of reorganizing
a company may be implemented due to a number of
different factors, such as positioning the company to be
more competitive, survive a currently adverse economic
climate, or poise the corporation to move in an entirely
new direction. Restructuring refers to multidimensional
process.
At Ghica Boutique Law Firm, we support our clients from
initial strategic planning of the process of business
restructuring, through the intermediary of due diligence
process, in all phases to post-closing integration of
restructuring.
BANKING AND FINANCE
Global nancial markets change fast. New products and
new regulations reshape the business environment almost
every day. Thankfully, this is the environment our lawyers
call home. With their expert knowledge, they can guide
global players into new territories and local players into
new nancial markets.
From commercial lending transactions, project nancing
and private equity to regulatory work, syndicated loans,
structuring and restructuring of secured or unsecured
facilities, guarantees, workout loans, IPOs (initial public
offers), takeovers, credit-linked notes and securitization
and de-listings, this is a team you can trust.
At Ghica Boutique Law Firm, right now, we are working
with some of the biggest banks and nancial institutions.
Our success depends on our lawyers' ability to understand
clients' business needs, especially when it comes to
Banking and Finance.
KEY AREAS OF COUNSEL AND SERVICE:
Portfolio and Assets Restructuring
Capital Restructuring;
Organization and Management
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CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL
Our experienced approach and commercial mindset ensure
the best possible result.
Ghica Boutique Law Firm corporate lawyers thrive on
offering local expertise with a global perspective.
With our knowledge of different legal systems, we ensure
that we understand your business in the context of the
legal, economic and cultural background of the country in
which you are investing, so that you feel at home abroad.
KEY AREAS OF COUNSEL AND SERVICE:
Establishment of companies
Soft landing programs to help companies break onto
Romanian market
Corporate Governance
Consultancy for any kind commercial activities
Drafting Commercial Contracts
Corporate & Business Restructuring
Corporate Disputes
KEY AREAS OF COUNSEL AND SERVICE:
Joint ventures, partnerships and equity investments
Real estate nance and capital investments
Commercial leasing and retail activities (drafting and
negotiation of lease agreements)
Construction agreements in accordance with FIDIC norms
Land development and planning
International development and cross border transactions
Condominiums
REAL ESTATE AND CONSTRUCTIONS
The experience of our Real Estate Practice spans over 10
years of delivering multidisciplinary legal solutions for
property investment, development and management, as
well as real estate nance. At Ghica Boutique Law Firm,
we seek to provide clients integrated legal services for all
phases of a project and most stages of business.
Our clients base comprises a broad range of property
developers, lenders, investment managers, opportunity
funds, Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and private
owners. Ghica Boutique Law Firm advises clients on a
variety of matters involving diverse forms of land mark
commercial parks, retail malls, residential complexes,
ofce buildings and hotels.
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
LABOR LAW
Our professionals specialize in the planning and execution
of mergers and spin-offs, both between companies
belonging to the same group and between independent
companies. At Ghica Boutique Law Firm, we also offer
global coverage to our clients in the various legal aspects
related to companies' purchases, such legal due-diligence,
in order to assess key issues regarding the target
(corporate issues, real estate, commercial contracts, tax,
employment, regulatory, competition).
Ghica Boutique Law Firm intervenes in the entire process in
a comprehensive manner, participating in the location of
opportunities, the negotiation stage, designing the legal
structure of the operation, shareholders' agreements, due
diligence processes and the drawing up of the legal
documents required to close the deals
Restructuring acquired rights, collective redundancies
(labor related matters to corporate restructuring such as
sales of business and outsourcing, redundancies and
reductions in work force, drafting and implementation of
collective redundancies)
HR due diligence (on all employment aspects within the
companies, labor contracts and related formalities,
companies internal rules and regulations, controls
performed by the labor authorities, labor conicts)
Litigations and dispute resolutions
Our scope is to work with clients and to provide responses
to the constantly evolving legislative and case law climate
in Romania and EU.
KEY AREAS OF COUNSEL AND SERVICE:
Individual Employment relations (executing, amending,
suspending and terminating labor contracts)
Collective labor relations (drafting and negotiating the
collective labor agreement)
AREAS AND INDUSTRIES
INDUSTRIAL AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Ghica Boutique Law Firm provides advice in industrial property and intellectual property matters and disputes. Our team has
broad experience in the negotiation and drafting of agreements for the exploitation and assignment of patents, trademarks and
intellectual property rights and we also advise and defend our clients in the event of an infringement of industrial and intellec-
tual property rights.
Our specialty covers all legal issues related to acquisition of trademarks, as part of a share or business acquisition, upon the
insolvency of a company or as a discrete matter, e-commerce, the drafting of contractual content, brand co-existence agree-
ments, legal notices and advice in electronic advertising matters, electronic contracts, payment by remote means and
e-signatures, domain name disputes and breach of condence and trade secret cases involving technical know-how or
commercial research. We also represent clients in litigation les in front of the Romanian State for Inventions and Trademarks
(OSIM), in front of The Ofce of Harmonization for the Internal Market (OHIM) and in front of Word Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO), amongst others.
MEDIA AND ADVERTISING
Ghica Boutique Law Firm provides advice in media and marketing industry, such as contracts concluded with advertising
tenants for indoor and outdoor activities in connection with the shopping malls, residential complexes, ofce buildings and
cinema; various contracts related to the marketing activities: publicity, regulations, events, promotion, campaigns, media (TV,
radio and online).
LITIGATION AND ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Ghica Boutique Law Firm is experienced in the resolution of signicant complex disputes, both before the ordinary jurisdiction
and in arbitration proceedings, such as commercial, civil, corporate, insolvency and property-related litigation.
We advise our clients in their commercial transactions in order to avoid and prevent future conicts and endow them with the
best possible position. Furthermore, as soon as the conict arises, we work to avoid a lawsuit by articulating practical and
creative solutions, once we have exhausted all out-of-court alternatives.
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I DONT WANT LAWYERS TO TELL ME WHAT I CANNOT DO,
I HIRE THEM TO TELL ME HOW TO DO WHAT I WANT TO DO
J.P. Morgan
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AT A GLANCE
WHY GHICA BOUTIQUE LAW FIRM?
We are choosing to focus the work of the entire rm on a few areas of the law, while we speak clearly and offer smart
solutions.
Boutique law rms, where all the attorneys specialize in a
few niche areas of practice, may be the future of the legal
profession. While most midsize and large law rms have
structured themselves to offer a broad range of services,
boutique law practices acquire more experience in a
designated area.
OUR BENEFITS, IN A NUTSHELL:
Experienced counselors
Trusted Advisors
Narrowly focused in several practice areasandindustries
Led by highly experienced senior partners
Tailored legal services
Phone | Fax : +4 021 266 53 40
E-mail: [email protected]
www.ghica.biz