Dispute Resolution
With over 15 years of experience, our Dispute Resolution department is well-versed in handling complex commercial cases, being also specialized in high-value administrative and fiscal disputes and VAT refunds.
Our litigation team is custom-designed to address our clients specific needs efficiently, and for that purpose we have assembled the right blend of attorneys for each particular case.
We take great pride in the fact that we treat with high attention and evaluate every aspect of the matter we are presented with and assign the right combination of experience and expertise required to win the case and that is reflected in the way we conduct the investigation, the way we assess the details of each case, the way we document the case and collaborate with experts to ensure our success.
We assisted and advised companies (both local and international) and individuals in cases covering commercial, civil, intellectual property, labor, administrative and fiscal disputes, matters pertaining to commercial agreements, insurance, construction and real estate, competition, antitrust and unfair competition and public acquisitions. We represented Clients spanning from amicable dispute settlements to all levels of courts, from the lower court to the Supreme Court.
Acting on behalf of a variety of Clients, our main objective is to measurably minimize the litigation risks for our Clients. However disputes cannot sometimes be avoided, and then is where litigation is rather more advisable in order to secure a strategic advantage, and that is exactly where we are excelling.
Our trial experience and oral advocacy capabilities recommend us, possessing both practical and commercial awareness, which in turn allow Clients to entrust us with sensitive or complex business disputes, that we can handle successfully due to our team of specialized lawyers, that bring forward a professional, flexible and cost-effective approach.
Our Services
- Corporate Disputes
- Commercial and Civil Disputes
- → Court claim
- → Action for liability
- → Termination of agreement
- → Eviction process
- → Action for the recovery of possession
- → Action for breach of contract
- → Usucaption in Romania
- → Revocatory action in Romania
- → Action for damages in Romania
- → Nullity action in Romania
- Oblique Legal Action (Indirect Legal Action)
- Usucapion Action (Acquisitive Possession)
- Temporary restraining order and Interim injunction
- → Action for the annulment of a contract
- → Demand for payment in Romania
- → Debt Recovery
- → Writ of payment in Romania
- → Low-value claim in Romania
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Pre-action protocol sau Pre-litigation procedure
- Enforcement procedure of a writ of execution
- Debt recovery in insolvency procedure
- Alternative Disputes Resolutions
- Administrative Disputes
- Fiscal Disputes
- Appeal against an administrative act
- Writ of mandamus
- Claim for moral and material damages
- Judicial review of government ordiances
- → Appeal against a tax decision or tax assessment
- → Appeal against VAT refund decision
- → Appeal against tax enforcement actions
- Real Estate Disputes
- Professional Liability Litigation
- Actions for tort liability/ Tort actions
- Action for late payment damages
- Action for compensatory damages
- Malpractice action
- Labor law & Employment Disputes
- Harassment claim
- Appeal a dismissal decision
- Appeal a disciplinary or grievance
- Appeal against the unilateral modification of the employment contract
- Appeal against suspension of employment contract
- Claim for unpaid wages
- Claim for non-compete compensation
- Claim for damages by employer against employee
- Claim for damages due to illegal strike
- Action to terminate/cease the strike as illegal
- Intellectual Property Disputes
- → Action for trademark cancellation
- Patent Revocation and Patent Cancellation
- Response to provisional refusals of trademark registration
- Opposition to trademark registration
- Action for trade mark infringement
- Competition Disputes
- Antitrust investigations and appeal against antitrust sanctions
- Enforcement
- → Challenging a promissory note in Romania
- → Appeal an enforcement notice in Romania
- → Appeal against a bank loan in Romania
- → Appeal against the auction procedure in Romania
- → Appeal against the enforcement title in Romania
- → Recognition and enforcement of foreign court judgements
- Appeal against enforcement actions/ Challenge to eforcement actions
- Appeal against the distribution report/ Challenge to distribution report
- Appeal against the goods valuation report/ Challenge to valuation report
- Appeal against a check/ Challenge to certificate of debt
- Appeal against a credit contract/ Challenge to credit agreement
- Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments
- Family law Disputes
- → Divorce civil suit in Romania
- → Partition action in Romania
- Action for judicial separation of property
- Divorce for cause
- Divorce due to separation
- Divorce due to health reasons
- Action for spousal support
- Actions concerning parentage
- Action to establish paternity
- Action for determination of parental responsibility and child custody
- Action for establishing child support obligations
- Action to modify child support
- Inheritance disputes
International Recognition
Legal 500 2024

Tier 3 Restructuring and Insolvency
“The entire team from Pavel, Margarit si Asociatii is excellently well prepared, both from the point of view of the relevant legislation and from the point of view of the ability to know and understand the characteristic aspects of each individual case.”
“The firm is highly appreciated in the field of Restructuring and Insolvency in Romania. The lawyers do an extraordinary job in handling complex cases and are extremely good advisors. The best lawyers in Romania always achieve the best result for their clients and know how to stand out.”
“I deeply admire the lawyers’ knowledge and their ability to come up with solutions. I can confidently say that they are the best when it comes to issues in Restructuring and Insolvency in Romania.”
Source Legal500 2024, Restructuring and insolvency
Tier 4 Real Estate and Construction
Testimonials addressed to Pavel, Mărgărit and Associates Romanian Law Firm as top tier law firms in Romania, underline the remarkable qualities of the team and the excellent level of services offered in Real Estate and Construction in Romania. The team is appreciated for its coordination and for its proactivity and attention to clients. Recommendations to the law firm are constant, highlighting the competence and professionalism of the lawyers in handling complex issues in this field. Thus, Pavel, Mărgărit and Associates are recognized as best law firms in Romania and as the ideal partners for clients seeking high-quality solutions in Real Estate and Construction in Romania.
The international recognition from Legal 500 as one of the best law firms in Romania and top tier law firms in Romania is the guarantee for the team of Romanian lawyers that they will achieve excellence and serve clients at the highest level of legal knowledge.
Source Legal500 2024, Real Estate and Construction
International Financial Law Review IFLR1000 2022

In the 2022 IFLR 1000 Edition, for Banking and Finance practice area, client testimonials describe Pavel, Margarit & Associates Romanian Law Firm as follows:
- “I liked the progressive attitude and spirit, the team has a proactive approach to solving the client’s problems.”
- “Knowledgeable, attention to detail, proactive, problem-solvers, excellent service.”
- “We knew that we could rely on Mr. Radu Pavel and his team of specialised lawyers at any time, understanding the needs and challenges of the industry. “
In the Insolvency practice area, the clients testimonials include inter alia:
- “They deliver a full range of services and helped us identify and manage legal risk.”
For the M&A practice area, the assessment from IFLR 1000 guide includes:
- “Excellent service, attention to detail, proactive, knowledgeable.”
- “I can use three words to describe them: dedication, credibility and perseverance.”
- “Promptness, professionalism, attention to detail and the needs of my company.”
On project development, Infrastructure and Transport domain, the clients testimonials include:
- “Very well attuned to local issues that we were facing. Very engaged with the team that travelled to Romania and worked many hours daily with that team. Gave sound advice in attempting to move the project forward.”
- “Fast reaction – good communication.”
Source IFLR 1000 2022
GLOBAL LAW EXPERTS DISPUTE RESOLUTION;
RECOMMENDED ATTORNEY (2017-2019)

Pavel, Margarit and Associates is the only Romanian law firm recommended by Global Law Experts in UK, London for the Dispute resolution area of practice.
Global Law Experts (GLE) is the premier guide to leading attorneys throughout the world and the only organization to recommend just one law firm in each key practice area and country.
The Practice Area Guides issued by Global Law Experts bring the expert guidance directly from those lawyers within that chosen specialism, which ensures that the clients will be receiving support from a lawyer who has showcased his or her expertise.
Attorney at law, PHDc, Managing Partner of the Law Firm Radu Catalin Pavel is the only attorney recommended for Romania on Dispute Resolution area of practice by the famous directory Global Law Experts from London, United Kingdom.
Selected Credentials
- Assisted and successfully represented a leading operational mining exploration and development company in Romania, in a commercial dispute involving a real estate mortgage enforcement file, valued at EUR 3 MIL.
- Assisted and represented the shareholder of a leading Romanian retail group of companies owning children products stores and a pharmaceutical chain, in an appeal against the enforcement measures initiated by a bank against the shareholder, acting as guarantor of the loan taken by the group of companies amounting to over EUR 3 MIL.
- Assisted and successfully represented, the shareholders and directors of a major metallurgical products factory as plaintiffs, in an appeal against the enforcement measures started by a loan servicing company, as assignee of a receivable of EUR 2.5 MIL taken over by the bank, that started the enforcement measures against the assets of the plaintiffs in an attempt to take control over goods.
- Assisted and represented a leading operational mining exploration and development company in Romania, in a complex fiscal and administrative claim which was raised in a EUR 2.5 MIL tax dispute regarding the reimbursement of VAT resulting from several exports of ore concentrates.
- Assisted an AIM-listed mining company, the only active operating investor in the mining industry in Romania, in a complex EUR 2 MIL cross-border shareholder litigation against a British Virgin Islands company and the Romanian Trade Registry. The shareholder was successfully excluded from the company.
- Assisted a global public listed retail investing and trading platform in a defamation and reputation management dispute. We advised our Client against a gambler who altered the its reputation in the online environment.
- Assisted and successfully represented a leading operational mining exploration and development company in Romania, in a fiscal dispute in value of EUR 1.5 MIL against the Ministry of Public Finances National Agency for Tax Fiscal Administration, involving the abusive enforcement of a Precautionary Measures Decision.
- Assisted and represented a major company in the domain of ore extraction, part of a well-known group with a high reputation on the international market, in a complex fiscal and administrative claim against the National Agency for Fiscal Administration, for denying the VAT reimbursement request filed by the company. Our services included assistance during administrative pre-litigious proceedings, as well as successfully represented the client before the Administrative Court of Appeal, as well as at the High Court of Cassation and Justice.
- Assisted an important Romanian bank listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, on behalf of its subsidiary with drafting a memorandum on the subsidiary`s litigations.
- Assisted and represented, a leading Romanian retail group of companies owning children products stores and a pharmaceutical chain, in an eviction claim from a commercial space, initiated by the owner of one of the largest commercial spaces in Romania.
- Assisted a major investor in the domain of ore extraction, in a commercial dispute against a services supplier for damages based on legal tort liability for misinforming public authorities.
- Assisted and successfully represented the former director of a large telecom company, in an administrative and financial dispute in value of EUR 1 MILL against the National Agency for Fiscal Administration, involving a request for personal liability and a request for damages by NAFA for the losses of the company of which he is acted as a director.
- Assisted and represented a major Romanian real estate company, in a file regarding a litigation claim. Our Client wanted to recover from the owner the investment made with the renovation of the building rented that he was prior evicted from. We succeeded implementing a suitable strategy in the appeal phase in order to recover our clients investments.
- Assisted and successfully represented a major Romanian metallurgical factory before the court in order to recover debts originating in a sale-purchase agreement which was cancelled by the Court.
- Assisted and represented a Romanian real estate developer in a dispute resolution case against Bucharest Fiscal Authorities in front of the Appeal Court of Bucharest for the cancellation of a Fiscal Decision prior to the fiscal inspection that the client underwent after which he requested the VAT refund. We demonstrated that the client was entitled to ask the VAT refund and cancel the fiscal decision issued by the Fiscal Authorities, managing to obtain the cancellation of the fiscal decision through which the client was obliged to pay supplementary VAT in amount of EUR 1 MIL and established through an expertise the real value that the client was entitled to be refunded by the State Authorities.
- Assisted and represented a major Romanian iron and steel manufacturer, in a case having as object cancellation of the abusive enforcement procedures started by a leasing company and recoup the vehicles abusively taken back by the leasing company.
- Assisted and represented a major real estate developer in Bucharest in a claim filed by another Romanian real estate developer, having as object termination of several sale-purchase and rent agreements. We successfully obtained a court investigation for evidence and inventory for all the real estate spaces object of the claims and succeeded to reject the ungrounded claims of over EUR 2 MIL against the client.
- Assisted and represented a former director of a major privatized steel and iron manufacturer in Romania, in a court file having as object pecuniary claims in value of over EUR 3MIL. The pecuniary claims were requested by the plaintiff with regard to the activity and contracts signed by the Committee of Directors. We demonstrated that our client was not involved in any fraudulent activity during the director mandate and member of the Committee of Directors, managing to successfully reject the claims.
- Assisted and represented an American citizen in all courts of law, until the higher degree one, in different file cases having as object property action (revendication) for the recovery of a building situated in the center of Bucharest, valued at over EUR 1MIL, that was used by the Romanian State. We demonstrated the legality of the property documents held by our client, which successfully leaded to wining the case.
- Assisted and represented a major mining company in Romania in several litigation files against another Romanian mining company, having as object claims and mortgage in value of more than EUR 3MIL. Our role was to protect the client interest against abusive claims.
- Advised, assisted and represented a leading Romanian real estate developer that developed a luxury residential project in the Carpathian Mountains in Romania, in several dispute resolution cases having as object the resolution of the presale agreements, amounting to over EUR 1 MIL. Our role was to identify the non-fulfillment of the obligations of the Promissory Buyers, in order to reject the claims retroactively.
- Assisted and represented one of the international leading Italian construction companies, in his capacity as General Contractor in a dispute resolution case arising from a Drilling Execution of Works Agreement, having as object the works for the construction of road infrastructure closed with the Beneficiary, a Romanian branch of a Spanish construction, infrastructure and services company. We drafted a transaction that was signed by the two parties, through which was settled the dispute, the client successfully obtaining the debt from the debtor.
Press Coverage
Top Legal Expertise in Dispute Resolution
Our Dispute Resolution Department provides legal assistance and representation in Romania to our firm’s clients in both law courts in Romania and international arbitration courts. The latter represent an alternative jurisdiction to law courts in Romania and are particularly vested with the resolution of commercial disputes in Romania. Considering that both situations initially involve action in court in Romania, a litigation lawyer in Romania or a civil lawyer in Romania can provide the necessary guidance to resolve disputes between parties, whether they are civil disputes, tax litigation, employment disputes, real estate litigation or commercial disputes in Romania.
With a focus on strategic and effective solutions, a specialized litigator in Romania from our team can handle cases across a wide range of industries, ensuring that each legal challenge is met with a tailored approach. Our lawsuit lawyers’ services cover all stages of litigation, from the initial evaluation of the case, legal research, and preparation of pleadings, to negotiation, settlement discussions, and representation in trial or appeal.
Our team providing lawyer services in Romania efficiently addresses the specific needs of our clients, and to achieve this goal, The Romanian Law Firm Pavel Margarit and Associates have assembled professional probate lawyer and solicitors in Romania who have the expertise required to resolve disputes in each area of practice in Romania. Thus, our team consists of civil rights attorneys and lawyers in Romania, lawsuit lawyers in Romania, tax lawyers in Romania, labor lawyers in Romania, real estate lawyers in Romania, commercial lawyers in Romania, family lawyer in Romania, lemon law attorney in Romania and defense attorney in Romania.
We are committed to providing our clients with high-quality legal solutions and legal assistance and representation in Romania tailored to their needs and objectives. Our civil rights attorneys and lawyers in Romania approach each case entrusted to us with professionalism and dedication, assigning it the appropriate combination of experience and expertise required for its successful resolution. Furthermore, we strive to deliver legal assistance and representation in Romania that matches the trust placed in us by our clients. Throughout the years, our litigation lawyers in Romania have provided assistance and counsel to individuals and legal entities, locally and internationally, in cases covering all practice areas.
Our team of civil rights attorney and lawyers in Romania, lawsuit lawyers in Romania, tax lawyers in Romania, labor lawyers in Romania, real estate lawyers in Romania, commercial lawyers in Romania, family lawyer in Romania, lemon law attorney in Romania and defense attorney in Romania provide comprehensive legal representation and counsel no matter the complexity of the case..
Our goal is to minimize the risk of litigation for our clients by providing legal assistance and representation in Romania to the highest standards and with professionalism. Our approach to manage litigation in Romania is complex, as our litigation lawyers in Romania dedicate special attention to every detail, collaborate with experts to ensure remarkable outcomes and base claims on thoroughly documented aspects.
Litigation can be a complex and time-consuming process, but with thorough preparation and a proactive strategy, a civil lawyer in Romania from our team can work to minimize risks and achieve the most favorable outcome for our clients.
As probate lawyers and solicitors in Romania, we are dedicated to providing clear, reliable legal guidance and strong representation to help the clients navigate the challenges of litigation.
As litigators in Romania, we are honored by the positive reviews we have received following the favorable resolution of action in court in Romania from those who seek lawyer services in Romania of our litigation lawyers in Romania and we are delighted to know that our expertise in commercial litigation in Romania, civil litigation in Romania, tax litigation in Romania, real estate litigation in Romania or labor disputes in Romania is appreciated.
In this context, a Bucharest lawyer specialized in international arbitration and litigation is always prepared to offer the best solutions for our clients, tailored to their needs and objectives.






















