STOICA & ASOCIAȚII is well-known for its comprehensive experience in clawback tax matters, acquired in various cases requiring an interdisciplinary approach. The lawyers from STOICA & ASOCIAȚII provided legal assistance to clients – multinational companies and national manufacturers – with regard to the suspension of the notifications issued by the National Health Insurance House, as a result of strong illegality indications.

STOICA & ASOCIAȚII achieved for its clients the cancellation of all notifications issued by the National Health Insurance House for the period 2010 -2015.

STOICA & ASOCIAȚII provided legal assistance and representation to national and international pharmaceutical companies, in relation to an extensive range of contentious and non-contentious cases:

• 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 in connection with the protection of intellectual property rights and development of strategic management of intellectual property right portfolios;
• preparing long-term strategies with regard to intellectual property litigations and in case of crimes specific to this area of law.

STOICA & ASOCIAȚII provides assistance in all pharma regulatory matters, in particular in liaising with the competent authorities in this field: the National Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices, the Ministry of Health, the National Health Insurance House. As regards the production of medicines, STOICA & ASOCIAȚII provides legal assistance in matters relating to price authorisation, subsidies, labelling and packaging.

Pharma industry is in the focus of competition authorities investigating anti-competitive practices: horizontal and vertical anti-competitive agreements, cartels, abuses of dominant position, economic concentration operations.

The lawyers from STOICA & ASOCIAȚII assist and represent clients in the pharmaceutical industry before the competent competition authorities, but also before courts of law, conduct competition audits and corporate compliance programs for mergers and acquisition projects, joint-ventures, distribution structures, commercial agreements, pricing policies raising competition law issues.