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Boga & Associates maintains a top-tier ranking in The Legal 500 (Legalease) 2023 (EMEA edition) cementing its position as the leading law firm in Albania | Tier1
Senior partner, Genc Boga is again named Leading Individual as a highly influential lawyer. Congratulations to Sokol Elmazaj, Renata Leka, Alketa Uruci, Gerhard Velaj, Delvina Nallbani who were each individually recognized for their work.
These rankings acknowledge the firm’s practices and individual lawyers’ contributions to the legal industry based on their high-profile work and interviews with clients, lawyers and corporate counsel.
We are grateful to our clients, whose contribution to the research is highly appreciated.
*For 33 years, The Legal 500 (Legalease) has been analysing the capabilities of law firms across the world, with a comprehensive research programme revised and updated every year to bring the most up-to-date vision of the global legal market. The Legal 500 assesses the strengths of law firms in over 150 jurisdictions.
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Premier Rankings for Boga & Associates in Chambers Europe 2023
Boga & Associates continues to receive exceptional rankings as a premier law firm in the latest edition of Chambers Europe, and it’s the only law firm Top Ranked in all practice areas for Albania.
Boga & Associates’ lawyers are listed among the best in Europe:
Genc Boga | Eminent Practitioner | Corporate / Commercial
Renata Leka | Band 1 | IP
Alketa Uruci | Band 1 | Corporate / Commercial
Gerhard Velaj | Band 1 | Dispute Resolution
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Boga & Associates is listed among the leading law firms in the 2022 edition of Benchmark Litigation Europe!
“Boga & Associates is a leading law firm in Albania. The firm is recognised for its work in litigation and has a strong focus on banking, civil and tax litigation. Key partners in the team include senior partner Genc Boga, Gerhard Velaj, Renata Leka and Alketa Uruci.” Benchmark Litigation Europe 2022
Senior partner Genc Boga and partners Gerhard Velaj and Renata Leka are named Litigation Stars.
*Benchmark Litigation Europe covers the litigation and disputes market in Europe and presents the latest list of selected law firms that are leading in the European market.
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IFLR1000 recognizes 3 Boga & Associates lawyers as Women Leaders!
Congratulations to our partners Renata Leka and Alketa Uruci (Tirana office) and to our local legal partner Delvina Nallbani (Prishtina office) who have been named Women Leaders for 2022!
Delvina is the only lawyer in Kosovo to be recognized in this elite category.
“IFLR1000 Women Leaders is an elite ranking category reserved for the most prominent women lawyers across the world working in the areas of law IFLR1000 researches,” IFLR reported. “This is an exclusive group of lawyers with outstanding reputations within their markets who have expertise and experience of working on complex deals.”
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Boga & Associates is pleased to announce the promotion of Delvina Nallbani as Local Legal Partner in Kosovo.
This promotion comes as a recognition of Delvina’s contribution to Boga & Associates for more than 10 years and it represents our commitment to deliberate, strategic growth that supports exceptional service for our clients in Kosovo.
Founded in 1993, Boga & Associates started operating in Kosovo in the year 1999 and established the local firm in Kosovo’s capital, Pristina in 2007. Major clients of Kosovo office include: EBRD (the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development), World Bank, IFC (International Finance Corporation), CEFTA (Central European Free Trade Agreement), Limak Kosovo International Airport JSC., KEDS (Kosovo Company for Supply of Energy), TEB (BNP Paribas Joint Venture), Google, JTI, Sanofi Aventis Groupe S.A., Pfizer HCP Corporation, Austrian Airlines, Procter & Gamble, Mars Overseas Holdings Inc., Unifree Kosovo, etc.
Speaking on this promotion, Mr. Genc Boga the Managing Partner of Boga & Associates commented: “We are confident that our newly elected local legal partner will live the firm’s culture and values and continue to provide legal certainty to our clients. This promotion acknowledges hard work and service to our clients, and it indicates our strategy of nurturing the careers of our people. I congratulate Delvina and wish her every success as she continues her career with us. Most importantly, our firm’s continued focus on diversity and inclusion is showing positive results, with female lawyers accounting for more than 65% of our professional staff.”
Delvina’s practice mainly focuses on corporate, commercial and banking law. She advises foreign investors on a number of landmark transactions including mergers & acquisitions and privatizations. Delvina is described as a “rising star” lawyer by The Legal 500 2022 edition and as a “highly regarded” lawyer by IFLR1000 2022 edition.
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Boga & Associates continues to achieve top-recognition in The Legal 500 (Legalease) EMEA 2022| Tier1.
Founding & Managing Partner, Genc Boga is again named Leading Individual as a highly influential lawyer in Albania. Partners Sokol Elmazaj, Renata Leka, Alketa Uruci, Gerhard Velaj, Delvina Nallbani were each individually recognized for their work.
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Boga & Associates is pleased to announce new promotions: Andi Pacani, promoted to Partner | Delvina Nallbani promoted to Country Legal Manager and Fitore Mekaj promoted to Senior Manager.
These promotions reflect the quality, breadth, and depth of our diverse practice and our commitment to nurturing and growing our talent course.
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Boga & Associates’ new office at “Sylejman Vokshi” str., Pristina, is designed to reflect and enhance our firm’s culture of hard work and synergy.
With natural light-filled spaces, the new offices showcase our investment in the well-being and satisfaction of our people.
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Boga & Associates is ranked in Band 1 in the corporate and commercial areas, in Chambers Global 2022 edition. Congrats to the lawyers listed among the best in the world!
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Managing Partner Genc Boga, co-chair of the Anti-Corruption Business Coalition, spoke about concrete proposed mechanisms on the fight against corruption, during a high-level meeting with representatives from different chambers of commerce in Albania, the National Coordinator against Corruption, the Minister of State for the Protection of Entrepreneurship, the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Albania and representatives from OSCE and EBRD.
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Partner Sokol Elmazaj, spoke to a wide audience of MSc law students, Faculty of Law, University of Tirana, in an intensive session on real-world experiences from arbitration, procedures and the new draft law.
Invited by Prof. Ass. Dr. Luljeta Ikonomi and the International Chamber of Commerce in Albania on January 16, 2020, Boga & Associates was delighted to participate as part of our commitment to developing arbitration in Albania and introducing the next generation of future lawyers to the industry.
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Partner Sokol Elmazaj was part of the third round table, organized by the International Chamber of Commerce in Albania with arbitration practitioners, on December 18, 2019.
Main discussions focused on the advancement of alternative dispute resolution in Albania. Participants unanimously approved the creation of the ICC Albania Arbitration Commission.
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November 15, 2019 | Speaking at the conference held on the 15th anniversary of the Albanian Competition Authority “Developing Sound Cooperation for Free and Effective Competition”, Managing Partner Genc Boga emphasized the highpoints of a long experience and cooperation with the Albanian Competition Authority.
“We invest in our credibility with competition regulators, developing a reputation for straightforwardness and honesty, combined with an unflinching representation of our clients’ best interests” he said.
Boga & Associates’ team provides an expansive range of services and regularly represents clients on merger control, concentrations, abuse of dominance, market investigations, and competitive tendering.
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Boga & Associates is partner of the “Week of Integrity” an initiative of ICC Netherlands. Week of Integrity is a national awareness-raising campaign on the importance of business integrity, which the International Chamber of Commerce in Albania aims to embrace and adopt in Albania.
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Boga & Associates is pleased to support the Information and Data Protection Commissioner (IDP) on the 41st International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners (ICDPPC). Hosted for the first time in Albania, this world-class event will gather more than 600 privacy regulators, professionals and experts during 21|24 October in Tirana.
The 41st International Conference will focus on how best to make our laws speak to one another, and how to maximize potential in people’s connected lives while maintaining high standards of Data Protection and privacy.
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Partner Renata Leka, and Senior Manager Delvina Nallbani participated in the Google CEE Legal BootCamp 2019, which took place on the 24th and 25th of September 2019 at Google’s Warsaw office. The meeting gathered all members of the Google CEE Legal Hub – highly reputable law firms and lawyers with exclusive expertise in the ICT, Data Protection and innovations, among which Boga & Associates Albania and Kosovo.
Google CEE Legal Hub covers 19 jurisdictions and combines the efforts of Google’s in-house legal team and the external legal advisers to whom Google entrusts to deal on a day-to-day basis with the legal and regulatory challenges for its innovative business and technology projects for Central and Eastern Europe.
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Partner Alketa Uruci discussed the current legal framework affecting the development and implementation of PV Projects in Albania during the 3rd Edition of Energy Expo & Forum, held in Tirana on October 4, 2019.
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No. 1 rankings for Boga & Associates cementing its place as the leading advisor in Albania with its practices ranked Number One across several major international legal directories including:
Corporate/Commercial: Chambers Global 2019; Corporate/Commercial: Chambers Europe 2019; Intellectual Property: Chambers Europe 2019; Dispute Resolution: Chambers Europe 2019; Projects: Chambers Europe 2019; Legal market overview: The Legal 500 2019, Financial/Corporate: IFLR1000 2019; Project Development: IFLR1000 2019; Dispute Resolution: Benchmark Litigation 2019; Trademarks: World Trademark Review 2019
These results are a testament to all of the hard work put in by the whole teams at Boga & Associates.
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Boga & Associates is the only law firm in Albania to be ranked in the 2020 edition of Benchmark Litigation Europe. The firm boasts industry-leading practices on both the litigation and corporate sides. Three of our attorneys are named as Dispute Resolution Stars.
*Benchmark Litigation covers the litigation and disputes market in Europe. Rankings are based on interviews with private practice lawyers and in-house counsel.
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Boga & Associates is once again recognized as a Top Tier Law Firm by the 2020 edition of IFLR1000. “One of the strongest firms in the country…” Boga & Associates is ranked in Tier 1 in the Financial & Corporate and Project Development categories in Albania.
In Kosovo, Boga & Associates is recognized as a leading legal practice in Financial and Corporate, and recommended “…one of the top firms in Kosovo”.
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Partner Sokol Elmazaj attended a round table discussion with experts in the field of arbitration, organized by the International Chamber of Commerce in Albania, on June 11, 2019
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Established by Boga & Associates on its 25th anniversary, Bogalaw journal is a new online platform that publishes articles by students, young professionals and practitioners, providing opportunities for them to enhance professional legal skills and not only, and to contribute through their research work and writing.
Bogalaw journal covers a variety of national and international issues and topics, seeking to publish innovative, original scholarship that makes a significant contribution to the fields of law, economics, taxation and accounting.
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Law is critical in achieving the SDGs. The development of effective legal systems is integral to the growth of developing economies.
Boga & Associates was part of the round table on the engagement of private sector in achieving the SDGs, an event organized by the International Chamber of Commerce in Albania in cooperation with the Embassy of the Netherlands in Albania and the UN Resident Coordinator, on May 13, 2019.
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Boga & Associates supports AIESEC Albania in its first ever joint event of Pitch Bootcamp and Youth Speak Forum which was held on May 11 in Tirana.
We are delighted to have impacted 70 more Albanian youth on their journey of self-development and career acceleration. Similar partnerships with youth driven leadership development organizations are valuable for young people. The partnership between Boga & Associates and AIESEC Albania is one such example of a highly beneficial program.
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Partner, Gerhard Velaj attended EBRD 2019 Annual Meeting & Business Forum in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, May 8-9, 2019. The event focused on ways to connect economies for strong growth and impact, both in the Western Balkans and beyond.
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Partner Sokol Elmazaj, spoke at the “Anti-Corruption” workshop organized by the International Chamber of Commerce in Albania with the support of the Embassy of the Netherlands in Albania, on April 26, 2019.
He presented the anti-corruption legal framework covering legal notions, international instruments, private actors involved in the fight against bribery, and anti-corruption legislation in Albania.
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Boga & Associates is ranked No. 1 at Chambers Global 2019
Boga & Associates’ corporate/commercial practice has retained its top position within legal directory Chambers Global. The practice is fully integrated, providing high-standard service through firm’s 25 years of industry expertise.
Founding & Managing Partner, Genc Boga is again named eminent practitioner as a highly influential lawyer in Albania.
Chamber and Partners identifies and ranks the most outstanding law firms and lawyers in over 180 jurisdictions throughout the world.
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Partner Sokol Elmazaj was one of the speakers at the “International Arbitration” workshop, organized by the International Chamber of Commerce in Albania on February 28, 2019. The event focused on the fundamentals of international arbitration and its importance as the main dispute settlement mechanism for businesses.
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Boga & Associates is again top ranked in the 2019 edition of World Trademark Review 1000. Partner Renata Leka is named among The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals.
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Boga & Associates‘ litigation & dispute resolution practice, and partner Gerhard Velaj are highly recognized in Benchmark Litigation Europe 2019, the guide to Europe’s leading litigation law firms and lawyers.
Alongside firm ranking, the guide recognizes the work of outstanding individuals. Highly regarded by his peers, partner Gerhard Velaj is recommended as Dispute Resolution Star, possessing a strong case record and positive client feedback.
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Boga & Associates deep commitment to providing programs that support good health and overall well-being is part of the firm’s culture. On October 26, 2018, Boga & Associates organized the opening event of its in-house gym.
The initiative supports a number of goals from staying fit, to strengthening teamwork and balancing work & life.
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