D&B David si Baias SCA

Adina Oprea is a Bachelor of Law from the Titu Maiorescu University and she has been a member of the Bucharest Bar since 2014. She also holds a Master diploma in Business Law from the same university and a certificate of attendance of a training regarding the “Basics of Entrepreneurship”, delivered by The Institute of Entrepreneurship, University of Applied Sciences Frankfurt at Titu Maiorescu University.　 Adina has been part of the Corporate M&A team of D&B David şi Baias since January 2014.Adina has been involved in various buy-side/sell side projects, due diligence projects, as well as business restructuring and reorganisatious ( e.g., mergers, spin offs, transfer of business). 

Alexandra Iacob graduated the Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest and has been a member of the Bucharest Bar Association since January 2012. Alexandra joined the D&B litigation team in September 2018, her core competencies being civil and commercial litigation and tax law.

Alice Spridon is a graduate of the Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest and has been a member of the Bucharest Bar since June 2013. Alice joined the D&B Corporate M&A team in July 2017.

Ana-Maria Iordache is a graduate of the Faculty of Law, “A.I.Cuza” University of Iasi, and holds a Master’s degree in European Law from the same university. She also attended the European Law courses of the Faculty of Law at the Modena e Reggio University Emilia, Italy. Ana-Maria has over 10 years of experience in tax and administrative litigation, successfully representing numerous clients both before Romanian authorities and courts, and in proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union. Ana-Maria has gained extensive expertise in many complex cases in which she provided legal services to a large number of clients, national and international companies, in various industries such as oil and gas, construction, automotive, pharma, telecommunications, and retail. Her scope of practice includes a wide range of litigations in the areas of tax law, administrative law, competition law, personal data protection, as well as disputes arising from enforcement proceedings. In one of the cases of reference in which Ana-Maria was involved, she successfully represented before national courts of law one of the most important players in Romania on the energy market in a series of tax disputes, which resulted in several enforcement decisions and forced execution decisions having been cancelled, with procedures taking place over four years of litigation. Ana-Maria also represented the most important companies in the pharmaceutical, oil and gas, and telecom sector in competition litigation cases with the cancellation or significant reduction of fines imposed by the competition authority. She also represented four important clients during complex proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union in complex tax files. Ana-Maria is a constant lecturer at many tax conferences and an important contributor to discussions on legislative changes in the field of tax and environmental regulation, being recommended as an expert in these areas by the prestigious legal publication Legal 500.

Anda Rojanschi leads the Corporate M&A team of D&B David şi Baias SCA. She is a Bachelor of Law from the University of Bucharest, with legal qualifications obtained in Luxembourg and France. Anda was admitted to the Bucharest Bar in 1996. She specialises in corporate law, as well as Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructuring. Anda Rojanschi is experienced in the negotiation and structuring of complex corporate and real estate deals, coordinating legal due diligence work on the activity making the object of the transaction (in various fields such as, real estate, retail and distribution of consumer goods, industrial products, energy), advising and assisting clients during negotiations and on all transactions-related matters, up to a successful closing. Over the last year, Anda has assisted clients both on the sell-side and on the buy-side, with transactions concluded in industries such as real-estate, retail, consumer goods’ production, industrial products and IT. Anda  is a recognized specialist in corporate law, as well as Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructuring, ranked in Chambers and Partners, IFLR 1000, Best Lawyers,Legal 500. She has coordinated numerous restructuring projects (including mergers and spin-offs, as well as post-acquisition integration processes), establishment of joint-ventures and companies, structuring partnerships and drafting management contracts. Anda has also provided legal advice to multinational and local clients in relation to both corporate law and employment law matters (being experienced in individual and collective lay-offs and in negotiating with unions and employees representatives) and regarding environmental law regulations.

Andreea Stoica is a Bachelor of Law from the Bucharest University and she has been a member of the Bucharest Bar since 2015. She also holds a Master diploma in Business Law from Titu Maiorescu University. Andreea has been part of the Litigation team of D&B David și Baias since November 2015. Andreea has been involved in various tax and administrative related litigation, dealing with a whole range of tax and administrative issues and having represented the clients both before the Romanian authorities and the Romanian courts of law. Her extensive practice covers mainly tax litigation and advice regarding income tax, VAT, royalties, social contributions and local taxes.

Andrei Iancu joined the litigation department of D&B in November 2015. His expertise includes tax law, civil and commercial litigation, as well as insolvency / bankruptcy procedures. As a part of the D&B tax litigation team, Andrei has been involved in a wide variety of tax matters, concerning VAT, excise tax, corporate income tax, local taxes, as well as non-resident taxation and the avoidance of double taxation, assisting and representing both national and international companies active in industries such as oil & gas, food & beverage, production and sale of renewable energy, construction, agriculture and transport of goods. Before joining D&B, Andrei was part of the litigation and arbitration department of another local law firm, gathering experience in civil, administrative and commercial disputes. Andrei was an external collaborator of tax law at the Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest. He is also a permanent collaborator of Tax Magazine, a publication exclusively dedicated to tax matters and he is the co-author of the ”Tax Procedure Code with Comments”, 2016 Edition, edited by Solomon Publishing, Bucharest, ”Textbook on Fiscal Law”, 2017 Edition, Solomon Publishing, "Civil Law Multiple Choice Tests", 2019 edition Solomon Publishing, " Enforcement of Decisions in Administrative Litigation", 2020 Edition, Solomon Publishing.

Cristina Păduraru is a graduate of the Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest and has been a member of the Bucharest Bar since January 2012. Cristina joined the Corporate M&A team of D&B David si Baias in September 2012. Cristina's practice covers specific M&A work. She is actively involved in all stages of a M&A transaction, being involved in both sell side and a buy-side projects, starting from the preliminary discussions until the implementation thereof. Cristina has an extensive experience also in restructuring projects, Romanian and international projects, including mergers and spin-offs. Cristina has assisted clients active in several industries, thus gaining specialised knowledge in sectors such as food industry, IT, media etc.

Dan Dascălu holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from the University of Bucharest, having postgraduate legal qualifications obtained in the Netherlands (The Hague) and in Romania. Dan was also awarded a PhD in Law (Law School, Bucharest University) with a thesis graded summa cum laudae. He has been a member of the Bucharest Bar since 1997. Dan Dascălu heads the litigation team of D&B David și Baias, having particular expertise in tax law, administrative law and labour law, and being constantly acknowledged in various sections of international profile publications. Dan is also CEE Leader of thr PwC Tax Controversy and Dispute Resolution Network. His litigation practice includes legal assistance before administrative authorities, and representation before courts and arbitral tribunals in areas such as tax law, competition law, civil law, labour law. Dan has also assisted clients with infringement proceedings before the European Commission, and in two proceedings regarding questions raised by national courts before the Court of Justice of the European Union for a preliminary ruling, namely the Rafinăria Steaua Română Case (C-424/2012) and the BCR Leasing Case (C-438/12).  Dan was involved, on behalf of the American Chamber of Commerce, in the consultations organized by the Romanian Government with the business communities on the adoption of the Tax procedure code in 2003, being active over time as Coordinator of the Tax working group involved, on behalf of various business organizations (the Coalition for the Development of Romania, the American Chamber of Commerce, etc.), in the consultations held for major amendments of the law, including in the adoption of the New tax procedure in 2015, and, in further amendments made thereto.  As from 2012 and 2013, Dan Dascălu has been teaching “Tax procedure and tax disputes” within the Postgraduate tax courses of the Law School, Bucharest University, and of the Faculty of Finance, Insurance, Banking and Stock Exchange, Bucharest University of Economic Studies. During 1997-2006, Dan Dascălu was an assistant professor of administrative law, civil judicial procedure and commercial law. Dan has also published several books as author (“Tax disputes treaty” and “Extraterritorial recovery of tax receivables”) or co-author (“Theoretical and practical explanations of the Tax Procedure Code”), and several articles in various law journals. Since 2003 Dan has been involved in the process of enactment of the Tax Procedure Code, as well as of its various subsequent amendments. Similarly, he is the coordinator of the Tax Procedure Task Force delegated by Coalitia pentru Dezvoltarea Romaniei to discuss with the Romanian Government the project of the new Tax Procedure Code (which entered into force in 2016) and the changes to be brought to this Code.

Managing Associate Daniel is a member of the Bucharest Bar Association for more than 15 years. Daniel joined D&B David și Baias in November 2017. Being involved in and coordinating a great variety of projects concerning civil and commercial law matters, Daniel has developed an in-depth knowledge of client needs and business interests thus being able to provide specialized legal advice on both sensitive and complex matters. Daniel coordinates the Data privacy practice. His work in this field includes evaluation of current status against data privacy requirements, including GDPR and provision of specific recommendations, drafting of internal procedures and documents to ensure adequate compliance with such regulations. He also provides specific advice on data protection related matters.

Georgiana Balan is a Managing Associate in the Corporate M&A team and Head of Real Estate practice of D&B David si Baias. Georgiana is a highly experienced professional, having more than 14 years of experience. She currently coordinates the real estate practice of the firm. Georgiana is also specialised in corporate, commercial and contract law. Georgina coordinated a wide variety of transactions, acquisitions, joint ventures and restructuring projects, as well as complex development and construction projects. She has coordinated the team to successfully assisting the clients with the acquisition and sale of real estate properties, especially in the industrial, logistic, agricultural and office field. She also coordinated a large number of buy-side and sell-side due diligence processes.Georgiana is an expert in construction and urbanism law. She assisted clients with drafting and negotiating of numerous construction agreements of high complexity and value. She has continuously supported clients during the construction phase, offering them prompt legal solutions to intricate construction matters. Georgiana also gained an extensive expertise in transaction structuring being involved in various acquisitions of distressed assets and in other insolvency related transactions.Georgiana has a legal and economic background, having graduated both the Faculty of Law – University of Bucharest and the Academy of Economic Studies. She also holds a master’s degree in Business Law and a postgraduate degree in Private Law.

Laurentiu Pachiu is a Partner of D&B David si Baias, coordinating a team of lawyers with particular focus on energy and defense matters. Laurentiu has been a member of the Bucharest Bar since 1993. After starting his career as an assistant Law Professor with the Law School of the Bucharest University, he served for several years in Romania’s diplomatic service and eventually became the founding member and managing partner of a law firm which he served for twenty years. Mr. Pachiu holds an LLM degree in Energy form the University of Derby and is a graduate of training curses of the Diplomatic Academy of the German Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is an active member of leading Romanian think tanks in the field of energy, security and defense. Laurentiu Pachiu is the author of many articles in various legal domains, as well as on issues related to energy security. He is also a regular lecturer at leading venues and conferences in the energy and national security sectors. Throughout his career he advised multinational corporations in various practice areas and industries, mostly in M&A, PPP, greenfield investments, project financing, real estate, regulatory and government affairs. For the past twelve years, Laurentiu was intensively involved in advising major and supermajor oil and gas companies on their onshore and offshore upstream investments in Romania. Mr. Pachiu is also heavily involved in advising multinational defense contractors in various industrial cooperation and procurement projects, government affairs and litigation in the Romanian defense sector. In recent years he assisted clients in the development and procurement of armoured personnel carriers, military trucks, missile platform vehicles, assault rifles, navy Corvettes, military shipyards, ammunition and helicopters.

With over 12 years of experience in the competition law and state aid field, Lucian is a Senior Lawyer within D&B David si Baias's Competition and Regulatory Team. Before becoming a lawyer, Lucian activated for almost 7 years as a competition inspector within important departments of the Romanian Competition Council such as Research, Industry and Energy and Cartels. He participated in many dawn raids conducted by the Competition Council and investigation regarding vertical anticompetitive agreements or cartel type agreements, as well as in the assessment of economic concentrations.Lucian was a National Expert within the exchange programme between Romanian Competition Council and European Commission ( DG Competition - Unit B1 Antitrust - Energy and Environment and attended many specialisation programmes in competition law like the Intensive Course on Competition Economics: Abuse of Dominance, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics ( March 2011 ) and Conducting Dawn Raids in Practice - Investigative Methods and Forensic  Analysis in Antitrust - U.S. Department of Justice and Federal  Bureau of Investigation ( November, 2013, Bucharest ).As a competition case handler, Lucian was a member of some European Competition Network Working Groups and participated to the internal consultations and drafting proceedings of some EU regulations and guidelines: "Horizontal Agreements" ( 2009-2011 ), Vertical Agreements ( 2009-2011 ), "Technology Transfer Agreements" ( 2012 ) and "De Minimis Agreements" ( 2013 ).As a lawyer, Lucian has been involved in complex projects such as assisting important clients during competition investigation conducted by the Romanian Competition Council and the European Commission and state aid projects. Lucian is familiar with industries like oil and gas, electricity, industrial goods, retail and basic agricultural products.

Mihaela Papandreia is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest and holds a Master Degree in Judicial Career from the same University. She has been member of the Bucharest Bar since January 2009. Mihaela joined the Corporate M&A team of D&B David si Baias in December 2018. Mihaela’s areas of expertise cover corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, renewable energy, data protection and public procurement.

Mihaela Cristina Ragea is a graduate of the Faculty of Law, Alexandru Ioan Cuza�� University – Iaşi and she holds a Master Degree in Criminal Law from the same University. Mihaela has been a member of the Bucharest Bar Association since November 2013. During her career, she was part of litigation projects, representing clients mainly in areas such as civil and commercial, administrative and fiscal litigation and insolvency procedure. Mihaela joined the D&B litigation team in May 2021, her core competences being tax and administrative law litigation.

Mihail is specialized in tax, administrative and intellectual property litigation fields. He is developing a high profile in tax litigation area and has special expertise in tax planning, negotiating with the relevant tax authorities and representing clients before the tax authorities and the courts of law on various tax related matters. Mihail successfully represented leading multinational companies in front of the Romanian courts in tax recovery cases against the Romanian state, interest claims and other tax, intellectual property and civil law disputes. His particular areas of expertise include income tax, refund of export VAT, withholding tax, calculation and payment of excise duties matters.

Ovidiu Bold is a Partner with D&B David si Baias and joined the Financial Services team in October 2008. His areas of expertise are banking, payment services, insurance and corporate governance, with solid credentials in the M&A field of financial services entities. Ovidiu is highly regarded as a financial services lawyer, having 14 years experience and being involved in various ground-breaking projects, such as the first authorization process of an e-money institution into a non-banking financial institution, authorizing one of the first crowdfunding services providers in Romania, negotiating the entry on the Romanian market of an EU-based bank in cooperation with a major telecom services provider. Ovidiu also assisted several clients in obtaining and negotiating financing and refinancing facilities. He was involved in a series of transactions in the FS sector, assisting his clients in the acquisition of local banks, insurance companies and financial leasing companies, as well as in several mergers in the banking and insurance sectors. Ovidiu graduated from the Law School within the Bucharest University in 2007 and completed a LLM in ”Judiciary career” in 2008. He held a course with the Romanian Banking Institute (on datio in solutum case law) and was a public speaker at several events organized by the Bucharest Stock Exchange, National Bank of Romania, as well as conferences and webinars held by D&B David si Baias and PwC Romania, in cooperation with media outlets.

Romana Petre is a bachelor of Law from the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, member of the Cluj Bar since 2013 and of the Bucharest Bar since 2015.Romana joined the Corporate M&A team of D&B David si Baias in May 2015. Before joining D&B David si Baias, Romana was a trainee lawyer with a Romanian law firm, where she gained experience in civil and commercial law and she carried out an internship at the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg. Romana is part of a team of lawyers specialised in complex corporate law projects. Her expertise consists of commercial and corporate law projects and includes legal structuring of national and international groups of companies, domestic and cross-border mergers, spin-offs, complex transactions structured as share deal or asset deal performed in a variety of industries such as the food industry, building materials, banking, TV industry, healthcare industry and others.

Sonia Voinescu is a Bachelor of Law of the Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca and has also benefitted from a scholarship at the University of Vienna. Sonia also holds a Master diploma in Business Law granted by the University of Bucharest and has been a member of the Bucharest Bar since 2013. Sonia joined D&B David si Baias in October 2016, being part of the Competition team. Before joining D&B David si Baias, Sonia worked in a Bucharest law firm specialised in commercial law, public procurement and M&A.

Sonia Bălănescu is a Bachelor of Law from the Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest and has been a member of the Bucharest Bar Association since October 2015. She also holds a Master`s degree in International Arbitration, English language, from the University of Bucharest. Sonia joined the D&B litigation team in February 2018, her core competencies being civil and commercial law and labour law.

Sorin David is a partner of D&B David si Baias. He has been a member of the Bucharest Bar since 1991 and he is an arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration of the Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Mr David has legal qualifications obtained in Romania (PhD, summa cum laude), USA (Master of Laws) and the Netherlands (post-graduate studies). He is also an associate professor of law at the Law School of the Bucharest University, teaching commercial law and competition. He is an expert in corporate law, competition and M&A. Sorin David is the author of more than 30 law journal articles published in Romania or abroad. He is co-author of ’Commentaries on Company Law’, one of the leading law books on Romanian company law, that was awarded the Romanian Academy prize. Sorin David has been involved in several projects for the alignment of Romanian legislation with EU regulations and international best practice. He specialises in competition, commercial and consumer protection law and has been ranked by Chambers and Partners as Eminent Practitioner in Coporate/ M&A and Competition/ Antitrust. Recently, Sorin David has advised a significant number of clients acting in various fields, such as production, distribution and marketing FMCG, within important transactions. He has been involved in many projects in different fields of activity, providing legal advice to clients on various matters and coordinating restructuring projects in respect of Romanian companies or Romanian subsidiaries of international companies.