The Firm is often on the short list in call for tenders of EU and Eastern Europe Institutions in occasion of international projects targeting privatization of State-owned assets and properties, alignment of national legislations to EU directives, conduction of juridical-legal feasibility studies, and reform of the environmental and economical regulatory frameworks.

In 1995, Firm as legal advisor and coordinator of the two-year term PHARE project for the reform and development of the Albanian economic legislation.

The Firm supervised and co-ordinated a group of more than 50 professional international advisors specialized in the nine legal sectors reformed by the economic legislation (i.e.: Trade Law, International Law, European Union, Taxation, Commercial Law, Labor and Employment Law, Constitutional Law, Antitrust, Legislation on Financial Services, etc.).

In a different assignment, beginning in November 1997 Tonucci & Partners assisted a work-group set up by the XXI General Directorate (Customs) of the EU Commission to draft the Albanian Customs Code, subsequently adopted by the Albanian Parliament in 1999 together with the relative implementation norms.

At the same time, the Firm provided legal assistance also to the work-group set up by the General Directorate XXI (Customs) of EU Commission to draft the new Albanian Excises Law, subsequently enacted by the Parliament in 1999.

In 1997 Tonucci & Partners, on behalf of the German Organization GTZ, assisted OECD in the international program for drafting the Albanian Republic Constitution.

More recently, with regard to a project financed under the EU-EBRD PHARE Program and concerning the management of municipal environmental infrastructures (framework contract No. FC75/ECP-97-02-48/0), the Firm was commissioned by EBRD to provide Services covering incorporation of municipal utilities and involvement of private operators in public sector, development and management, municipal creditworthiness, municipal asset management, advice on financial arrangement, financial and economic analysis, legal analysis, procurement support, preparation of implementation arrangements, and environmental management.

In December 1998 Tonucci & Partners was awarded by the Albanian Ministry of Public Economy and Privatization a contract financed by the World Bank for providing legal advice to the Albanian Ministry of Public Economy and Privatization on the privatization process of the largest State-owned companies in the telecommunications sector (AMC and Albtelekom), in the Oil and Gas sector (Albpetrol - Armo), and in the mineral resources sector (Albkrom and Albaker).

The Firm recently assisted the Austrian group RZB - Raffeisen Zentral Bank in the acquisition of the Saving Bank of Albania, the first Albanian credit institute.

In Albania, Tonucci & Partners actively provides legal assistance in the infrastructure sector. The Firm is currently assisting the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in a project financing operation to fund the development of the new International Airport Terminal of Tirana by a German-American consortium. As for the Firm's role as advisor to the EBRD and International Finance Corporation (IFC), its involvement in the financial support operation for the Albanian company Fushe-Kruja Cement Factory Sh.p.k. (FKCF) - the biggest cement producer in Albany - part of the Lebanese group Seament is notable (the loan has been issued by a pool of investors - among which EBRD, IFC, and OPEC Fund for International Development).

In terms of financing, under the request of the IFC Tonucci & Partners conducted a technical-juridical feasibility study in Albany, Bosnia and Macedonia addressing the suitability of financial instruments such as leasing and factoring.

In Romania, Tonucci & Partners' office in Bucharest has developed an expertise in credit export in cooperation with SIMEST and SACE. The Firm provides assistance in financial operations such as "Buyer's Credit" in favor of public Romanian companies.

In addition, the Firm assists major Italian and international banks and financial brokerage companies from their start-up operations, with special regard to authorization and regulatory procedures set out in the Romanian banking directives, to all subsequent phases, providing constant assistance in maintaining relations with the Central Bank of Romania.

The Firm, appointed by local governments as legal foreign advisor for various PHARE projects, has also gained experience in other EU countries such as Poland, Hungary, and the Slovak Republic. In 1994 the Firm was appointed by the Hungarian government to assist national authorities in developing the normative and institutional framework regarding urban solid waste management; in 1998 the Polish Government requested Tonucci & Partners' assistance in aligning its national Multimedia and Information Technology legislation with the EU principles; in 1999 the Firm assisted the Slovak Republic's local authorities in aligning and conforming national legislation to the EU principles of the Energy sector. At the moment, the Firm is assisting local governments in Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia and Bosnia in the alignment project of their respective legislations regarding public tenders.

From 2002 to 2004, some lawyers of Tonucci & Partners were appointed by the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance as expert members on a project to develop EU-conforming regulations for the Czech Republic as it entered the European Union.

Besides the general corporate and commercial assistance provided to local and international entrepreneurs by the Firm's offices in Tirana and Bucharest, the Firm also advises a large number of businesses in other Eastern Europe countries and developing countries. In particular, the Firm has provided legal assistance and support in several joint-ventures between private Western corporations and Eastern Europe Countries or other emerging markets with reference to taxation, corporate and commercial issues.the EU Commission on the PHARE project and the Albanian Government appointed the Tonucci Law.