Schoenherr si Asociatii SCA

banking & finance

partner

Matei Florea is a partner at Schoenherr and the head of the firm's banking & finance practice group in CEE/SEE. He has been the main driver behind the development of Schoenherr's banking & finance practice in Romania as well as the development of specific NPL-related products CEE-wide. He focuses mainly on deleveraging transactions, debt restructuring projects, financial sector M&A deals, financing, as well as financial services regulatory. He has advised on major bank M&A deals and record-setting loan portfolio transactions in the Romanian market and in the CEE region. In addition, he advises on bank and direct lending projects, including real estate and project finance, acquisition finance, corporate lending and municipal financing. His financial services regulatory work includes obtaining the regulatory approval for bank M&A deals, as well as assisting on complex consumer-related disputes, currency conversation programmes, GDPR implementation, etc. Matei also runs the firm's projects, concessions/PPP, public procurement practice group in Bucharest.

Bucharest Bar (2003)

University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law, Bucharest/Romania (LL.B. 2002)