STOICA & ASOCIAȚII provides legal assistance and representation to national and international companies operating in the food & beverage industry, in connection with a large array of contentious and non-contentious issues:

• drafting and amending of various types of intellectual property related agreements: licensing or assignment arrangements;
• representation during administrative/contentious proceedings before OSIM (Romania’s State Office for Inventions and Trademarks) and the competent courts in cases concerning the registration and protection of intellectual property rights: oppositions, infringements, cancellation or annulment/revocation claims, claims for the suspension of the commercial exploitation of a potentially infringing product, etc.;
• assistance relating to the protection of intellectual property rights and strategic management of intellectual property right portfolios;
• preparing long-term strategies in relation to intellectual property litigations and in case of crimes specific to this area of law.

STOICA & ASOCIAȚII provides legal assistance to companies with regard to market access, but also tax matters, in particular customs duties and the creation of a protection mechanism for the purpose of protecting intellectual property rights against various breaches by unfair competitors.

STOICA & ASOCIAȚII provides assistance and representation to companies before competent authorities and courts of law, in unfair competition litigations.

STOICA & ASOCIAȚII provides to clients legal assistance in all regulatory matters, particularly in liaising with the competent authorities: the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the National Authority for Sanitary, Veterinary and Food Safety and other authorities in the food safety field. As regards food manufacturing, STOICA & ASOCIAȚII provides legal assistance in matters such as labeling and packaging, sanitary and veterinary clearance for intra-community export/trade in compliance with the relevant regulations.

STOICA & ASOCIAȚII provides legal assistance and representation before the competent competition authorities investigating anti-competitive practices. In addition, the lawyers specialized in competition law from STOICA & ASOCIAȚII conduct competition audits and corporate compliance programs for mergers and acquisition projects, joint-ventures, distribution structures, commercial agreements, pricing policies raising competition law issues.