Different legal environments. One approach. One practice.
Strătulă & Asociații is a founding member of East Legal Team – European Economic Interest Grouping (ELT) – an alliance of independent law firms from the Central and Eastern European region with the main purpose of providing their clients a wealth of advantages arising from our interdisciplinary professional cooperation, as well as from their ability to provide unified services at regional level.
The East Legal Team was established in March 2008 by founding members Strătulă & Asociații and Balazs & Hollo Law Firm, is subject to the provisions of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2137/85 of 25 July 1985 on the European Economic Interest Grouping. From 2008 until 2014 ELT was seated in Budapest, Hungary and from 2014 ELT has its seat in Bucharest, Romania.
ELT covers an area of the following Central and Eastern European countries: Albania, Byelorussia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldavia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine.
Currently, apart from Romania and Hungary, ELT also includes member law firms from Poland, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Slovenia, as well as observers from Austria and Turkey.
All current ELT members are business law firms with a remarkable reputation in their countries of origin, sharing not only sound ethical values and principles but also a rich, business oriented legal practice as their main business card.
ELT aims to provide at an international level the same top quality and integrated legal services each of the members offers in its home jurisdiction, both to international clients who seek to enter the region, as well to those who want to expand their already existent business to more than one country in this area.
On a business market under continuous expansion and intensification, mainly due to the accession to the European Union of the countries in the region, ELT aims to reconcile the paradox most investors face when, although they act in highly similar business fields, they are at the same time subject to considerably differentiated legal systems.
Thanks to the cohesion and unified practice among the ELT members, our Clients are kept safe from the many encumbrances usually faced when entering a new market, thus being able to better and more profitably pursue their business pursuits.