We Are Here - For You!
From the very beginning, our uncompromisingly pursued guideline was to employ only highly qualified professionals in the areas of law, taxes and audit, who speak perfectly German and English. It proved to be particularly successful to employ professionals trained in Germany but also with excellent knowledge of the Romanian language. The cooperation of these professionals with Romanian lawyers, tax consultants and auditors permits us to comply with the highest technical and linguistic quality standards. This paid off. Today, Stalfort operates offices in the capital city Bucharest and in Sibiu and Bistrita, having employed best professionals and being well equipped, thus our clients can always find a competent partner. Stalfort runs not only in Bucharest, and the important economic region of Transylvania (Sibiu and Bistrita), but throughout Romania, a well-established network of correspondent relationships with competent lawyers, notaries, translators, banks and other service providers as well as government employees.
We All Speak The Same Language
Everyone of our professionals speaks Romanian and English, of course. Consequently, so called "triangle translations" in negotiations or pleadings are therefore excluded by the structure at Stalfort. The official language used by our office is in fact German. Not only our professionals, but also our friendly office managers are proficient in German and Romanian. One thing you will not get in our offices is incomprehensible terminology. Our clients have the right to be offered a clear and accessible piece of information and advice, even when it comes to Romanian legal concepts, having no exact German equivalent.
Fair Costs, Transparency And Personal Advisers
If you have already worked with international law firms, you are familiar with the problem: your attempt to reach your (ever changing) competent lawyer, leads every time by the telephone exchange via various secretarial employees to an employee from the back office, who will not remember you nor your case. When receiving the invoice as well as a highly confusing list of services ? you cannot help the feeling that most of the charged work time was spend on looking for your file, this of course for hourly rates that easily can exceed 300,- EUR. This is how it comes for you to pay the price for too large a staff, a generously-equipped office in a privileged area of the city, a bloated bureaucracy, expensive marketing campaigns, etc. We work with much lower overhead costs than international law firms and can therefore offer fair hourly rates and correct settlement to the benefit of our clients. We can also prevent you from having to deal with changing partners in your law firm, as you often could experience in big law firms. Our credo is this: Comprehensive, but always personal services with a "case manager" as a direct contact. This person plans, in coordination with the client, all the individual steps and coordinates the involvement of other project participants. This structure allows an effective information flow and quick decision making processes.
Close To The Markets, Efficiency And Continuity
Due to our extensive consulting experience in Romania (since 1997), we have an excellent knowledge of the industries and markets in which our clients operate. This is why we are very familiar with the individual circumstances and are able to provide advice foresightedly and innovatively. Given the particular fact that on one hand we are so close to the industries, and on the other hand we have an outstanding interdisciplinary integration, our professionals offer support for our clients beyond legal issues and act as important partners. During consultancy, we also care a lot for continuity in our relationship with the client. This will ensure that we are familiar with all the peculiarities of the business operations of our clients, and therefore are able to offer customized solutions. Furthermore, it is to the advantage of our clients that we include not only the economic aspects of our advice, but we also put great emphasis on entrepreneurial thinking and action regarding our own work. Our company has a dedicated management, efficient cost management and the most modern means of communication. This is how we made sure that we are not forced to pass on the high costs for an expensive administrative apparatus to our clients.
Knowledge, Competency And Relevance
As a full service law firm, we have a team of more than 30 professionals in the offices in Bucharest, Sibiu, Bistrita and Berlin, covering all areas of business and tax legislation. Our employees have both excellent legal expertise, as well as a broad variety of complementary skills, developed both domestically and abroad. In order to ensure continuity of the high quality of our advice, not only that we claim such qualities from every new professional to be admitted in our company, but we also maintain a thorough knowledge management system within our law firm, by which our employees are permanently informed on the constant changes of Romanian legislation. Also, our clients and business partners are kept informed upon relevant changes in laws through a monthly newsletter that is brought to them by our office.