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Adina Oprea
Adina Oprea
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). 
Aija Panke
Aija Panke
Attorney at Law, Managing Senior Associate
Alexandra Iacob
Alexandra Iacob
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.
Ana-Maria Iordache
Ana-Maria Iordache
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
Anda Rojanschi
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
Andreea Stoica
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
Andrei Iancu
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.
Annalie Croney
Annalie Croney is a solicitor and partner and leads PwC’s UK Legal Banking team.Annalie has over 14 years of experience in advising borrowers and lenders alike on new financing arrangements, re-financings and bank consents in connection with reorganisations and restructurings, focusing on property finance and development finance transactions. She also advises on general corporate, leveraged and acquisition finance transactions.Annalie has a broad practice, also drafting cash pooling product documentation for financial institutions and intra-group cash pooling, netting and other treasury management documentation for large international and domestic corporate groups, as well as advising on consumer credit regulation.Annalie has recently advised on an increasing number of green and sustainability linked loan facilities, leveraging the expertise that PwC has within our extensive multidisciplinary ESG network.  She has been very active recently advising both borrowers and lenders alike in respect of LIBOR transition for their loan documentation and processes and on new SONIA linked financing transactions.Annalie acted for Lazari Investments on their £400,000,000 new facility with Allianz Debt Fund SCSp SICAV-SIF secured against five prime central London offices. This was Allianz’s largest single- loan debt transaction in Europe to date, and one of the largest bilateral private borrower deals in the UK market in 2020. This deal won Real Estate Capital’s award for UK Financing Deal of the Year 2020.
Bart Vanstaen
Advocaat Vennoot / Avocat Associé, PwC Legal BV/SRL
Cezary Żelaźnicki
Cezary Żelaźnicki
EMEA Legal Business Solutions Leader/PwC Legal Polska Managing Partner / CEE Inclusion & Diversity Leader
Charlotte Thackrah
Charlotte Thackrah
Charlotte is a Director in our UK and Global EGC Team.Charlotte has over 15 years’ experience. She has advised a wide range of clients on all matters of corporate governance, with a particular focus on the FS sector.Charlotte advises clients on their corporate governance frameworks and reviews their existing policies and procedures. She works with Boards to practically implement best practices in corporate governance from an advisory perspective.Charlotte’s experience includes working with the subsidiary of a Japanese Bank implementing a new Board and Executive Governance framework and undertaking a gap analysis against the requirements of the UK Corporate Governance Code; and undertaking an effectiveness review of a partnership Secretariat, including advising on and implementing recommended changes.Charlotte is a member of ICSA: The Governance Institute.
Christopher Neill
Christopher Neill
Christopher is a Director in the NewLaw team and has significant experience advising leading financial institutions on areas including commercial contracts, banking and corporate finance, acquisition finance and unsecured lending. Christopher has niche experience in consumer credit licensing, derivatives transactions and securities financing transactions. He has also acted as local counsel on asset-backed securitisations including the acquisition, warehousing and securitisation of residential and commercial mortgages and consumer credit receivables originated in Northern Ireland.Christopher was ranked as a Next Generation Lawyer in Legal 500 and Recognised Practitioner for Banking and Finance in Chambers and Partners; and named in the Northern Ireland "40 Under 40" List 2017.Prior to joining PwC, Christopher was a partner in a top-tier commercial law firm in Northern Ireland specialising in banking and commercial law.Experience Advising a peer-to peer lending platform in relation to the implementation of its operation in Northern Ireland to include the preparation of standard form compliance, loan and security documentation. Advising an IP TV solutions provider on its terms and conditions and contracts with clients, negotiating and advising on contracts with third party content rights holders such as sports licensing and distribution licensors and joint ventures with other sports rights holders. Provision of advice to a European bank in relation to the automation of its SME lending function to include electronic borrower verification, automation of credit scoring and electronic production of standard form facility documentation and external legal instruction. Advising a large housing association in relation to the negotiation and renewal of business-critical unit management software licenses. Advising the Northern Ireland Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute in relation to the capture and exploitation of range of intellectual property assets to include commercialisation and development by way of collaboration with international scientific authorities and research institutes.
Cristina Ioana Păduraru
Cristina Ioana Păduraru
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.
Cynthia Chan
Cynthia is a Corporate partner in PwC’s international business reorganisations team in the UK. She has dual-qualifications in England and Wales and Hong Kong. Since joining PwC in 2001, she has led a significant number of cross-border corporate reorganisaton projects for US multinational corporations and FTSE 100 groups, often working alongside other specialists in tax and accounting on such projects.She has acted for clients across a wide range of industries ranging from manufacturing, technology, pharmaceuticals, health care, retail, financial services, property development; more recently, Cynthia has been working with a number of financial services groups on their Brexit-related reorganisations.In addition to acting on general intra group reorganisations and refinancings, Cynthia has a special focus on deal related structuring helping groups to carve out pre deal and integrate post deal. She has significant experience in acting for clients in this area. She has also worked on multiple legal entity rationalisation programmes alongside the specialists in Tax, Accounting and PMO, to help her clients rationalise their entity structure and create cost savings.Cynthia heads up the China Business Group at Legal in PwC and has worked with a significant number of Chinese clients in investing and setting up in the UK, including Bank of Communications, GF Securities, China Publishing and China Shipping.Cynthia and her team have been ranked Tier 1 by Legal 500 in International Business Reorganisations, and Cynthia is one of the Leading Individuals in this category.
Dan Dascălu
Dan Dascălu
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.
Daniel Vinerean
Daniel Vinerean
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.
Darren Harris
Darren Harris leads PwC Legal in the Middle East and is the Head of Corporate. Darren acts on a range of corporate matters, including M&A acquisitions and disposals, private equity, group restructurings, joint ventures and shareholder arrangements and his particular focus is M&A and private equity transactions in the Middle East.  Darren advises companies, private equity houses, management teams, high net worth individuals and entrepreneurs on a range of cross-border and multi-jurisdiction transactions. Darren works across Digital, Retail, Private Equity and Industrials sectors.
David Anderson
David is a partner and leads the indirect tax team at PwC, who were winners at the 2014 Tax Awards. He previously spent a period with HM Customs & Excise Solicitor’s Office and with KPMG. He specialises in advice and litigation of all indirect taxes including VAT, customs duty, excise duties, hydrocarbon oils, landfill tax and aggregates levy. He has worked with clients in a wide variety of industry areas which include manufacturing, housing, telecommunications, local authorities, financial services and food and drink industries and has represented clients at all stages of the court structure up to and including the Court of Justice of the European Union. His reported cases include: United Biscuits (Pension Trustees) [2017] EWHC 2895 (Ch) and currently before the CJEU (C-235/10) Wellcome Trust [2018] UKFTT 599 (TC) and currently before the CJEU Healthspan [2018] UKFTT 241 (TC) and currently before the CJEU Rank Group [2019] UKUT 100 (TCC) Rank Group [2018] UKFTT 251 (TC) Investment Trust Companies [2017] UKSC 29 R. (oao Drax Power Ltd) v HMRC [2016] EWHC 228 (Admin) Infinis Energy Holdings Ltd [2016] EWCA Civ 1030 Iveco Limited v HMRC [2016] UKUT 263 (TCC) Brother Industries UK Ltd [2016] UKFTT 788 (TC) London Borough of Ealing (C-633/15) Colaingrove Limited (Verandahs) v HMRC [2015] UKUT 2 (TCC) Colaingrove Limited (fuel and power) [2015] UKUT 80 (TCC) WM Morrison Supermarkets Plc v HMRC [2012] UKFTT 366 (TC) Asda Stores Ltd (C-372/06) Helena Housing Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 569 Matalan Retail Ltd [2009] EWHC 2046 (Ch) Carlsberg and InBev [2012] EWCA Civ 82 David is a regular speaker at tax conferences and seminars.
Ed Stacey
Ed Stacey
Ed is a partner in the Employment legal team. He has a wealth of experience advising clients on international projects and has recently advised two FTSE 100 clients on global compliance projects.Ed advises on the legal aspects of global mobility programmes, restructuring, the delivery of global training and the development of global policies and procedures. Ed is experienced in working with employers on employee change programmes and transactions, including restructurings and TUPE work. He has advised on the exit of senior executives; numerous individual hires; and on team moves involving the enforcement of restrictive covenants in the UK and internationally. He has advised clients in the Employment Tribunal and High Court on all types of employment litigation, and has significant experience of high profile discrimination claims. Ed’s work has been widely reported in the UK media (including the BBC, The Times, and the Financial Times) and the German press (Die Welt). The Legal 500 directory describes Ed as ‘very good at making difficult judgement calls’ and leading an extremely hard-working team ‘that is very capable of running complex, high-level employment litigation’
Els Empereur
Els Empereur
Advocaat Vennoot / Avocat Associé, PwC Legal BV/SRL
Erki Fels
Erki Fels
Attorney-at-Law Erki Fels has successfully participated in several public procurement disputes that have gained media attention and helped shape case-law. Erki’s extensive experience in public procurement disputes covers the fields of construction works, public transport, IT, media, healthcare and energy. Due to his practical experience he frequently trains others and engages in academic work. He is a visiting lecturer at University of Tartu where he teaches public procurement and supervises and reviews master’s theses. At the request of Ministry of the Finance, Erki compiled an analysis on the pre-conditions for paying average salaries in public procurement procedures. He is one of the co-authors of the commented version of Public Procurement Act – a book published in 2019.
Georgiana Bălan
Georgiana Bălan
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.
Georgie Blyth
Georgie is a Partner and UK & EMEA International Business Reorganisations Leader.
Imbi Jürgen
Imbi Jürgen
Attorney-at-law Imbi Jürgen is a recognised specialist with long-term experiences with a focus on the energy sector and other regulated business fields. Imbi has provided consultations to energy producers, network operators, providers of energy services and new energy solutions as well as commercial consumers in their relations with regulators and other parties in the market in organising business, concluding contracts and solving disputes. Imbi has remarkable experiences in the field of environmental law as well, incl. in relation to the liability of a producer and environmental liability in general, as well as licencing and planning procedures. Imbi has advised many clients from energy and industrial sectors to medical and training sectors in numerous acquisition and finance transactions.
Indrek Leppik
Indrek Leppik
Indrek Leppik, Attorney-at-Law, heads up the litigation team at PwC Legal Estonia. Indrek has been involved in litigation work since 1997 and has extensive experience in the field.
Indrek Ergma
Indrek Ergma
Indrek Ergma, attorney-at-law, heads the Corporate and Employment practice at PwC Legal in Estonia. Indrek’s main focus is on corporate restructuring and the regulation of relationships between shareholders and partners. Indrek also has extensive experience in counselling in the field of market regulations.
Jana Tudelep
Jana Tudelep
Jana is an attorney-at-law at PwC Legal who mainly specialises in real estate and construction law, planning, environmental law and dispute resolution. Jana advises clients not only in Estonian and English languages, but also in Russian. She has represented clients in several complex and highly publicised disputes. For example, Jana represented the NGO Estonian Green Movement in the legal dispute with the city of Tallinn concerning the construction of Reidi road and the environmental impact assessment related to it as well as advised the city of Tartu in the national designated spatial plan proceeding initiated for the construction of a wood refining plant. Jana has also diverse experience in civil litigation, having represented clients in contractual disputes and, for example, in cases concerning insurance or bankruptcy proceedings. In addition, Jana has extensive experience in the field of contract law. She has advised clients in entering into large-scale construction and design agreements, lease agreements and other agreements related to construction and real estate. Jana has also participated in several real estate-related M&A transactions as a project team member.
Janis Gavars
Managing Senior Associate / Co-Head of M&A practice
Jonathan Gibson
Jonathan Gibson
Jonathan is Head of UK and Global EGC at PwC, which is the leading practice for legal entity governance transformation on a global basis. Jonathan leads our network of PwC governance specialists in over 155 countries around the world.He helps multinational clients respond to increasing regulation and risk and the impact this is having on governance and compliance across their business. Projects include the improvement of legal entity governance frameworks, streamlining and implementing global legal entity management solutions, operating UK and global managed services, delivering digital solutions, entity rationalisation programmes and educating boards and directors on their legal and governance duties.Jonathan spent three years in Dubai running our Middle East legal and governance business across the Middle East region.Jonathan speaks at external conferences and PwC client forums in the UK, US and Middle East on all aspects of governance and compliance and in particular international trends in subsidiary governance and regulation.Jonathan is a Fellow member and adviser to ICSA: The Governance Institute.
Karel Romet Pedajas
Karel Romet Pedajas
Karel Romet Pedajas is specialized mainly in the area of commercial and tax law. Before becoming an associate, he worked in the tax department of PwC Estonia. Karel has substantial experience in the area of commercial law and he has dealt with both international transactions and the day-to-day affairs of clients.
Karen Root
Karen Root
Karen Root is an attorney-at-law whose main areas of expertise involve corporate law and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Karen has an extensive experience in corporate law and M&A. She has led several cross-border restructurings and she has participated in or headed numerous legal due diligence and M&A transactions. For her vast experience in working closely together with several BIG4 leading auditors, Karen is a valued expert who is often working in partnership with PwC accounting consultancy team, assisting clients in complex matters from legal issues to accounting entries. Furthermore, Karen has written several articles and given practical trainings related to corporate law.
Kevin King
Kevin is a corporate partner specialising in engagements in the financial services sector.Kevin has extensive experience advising large multinational financial services clients and other organisations on complex structuring, compliance and corporate transformational projects, frequently leading multidisciplinary teams of professionals on cross-border engagements. He works closely with global PwC tax, regulatory, accounting and other specialists to provide a combined offering – ensuring that reorganisation projects are implemented taking account of tax and regulatory considerations, and in accordance with their commercial objectives, across all relevant jurisdictions.Kevin’s recent experience includes advising on several Part VII transfers in the banking sector. He has also advised on several large Brexit restructurings, including an 11 market restructuring of an EEA passported bank. Kevin recently supported an Asian bank on its wind down and transfer of its UK business. Kevin has led the legal work on several Part VII transfers under FSMA 2000 and has worked on several strategy projects advising large global banking and insurance broking clients on their European and global group structures and business models. He also advises clients on regulatory capital issuance.Kevin joined from KPMG where he built up the legal practice in financial services. He previously worked at Skadden and Slaughter and May.
Kirill Ležeiko
Kirill Ležeiko
Kirill is Head of Financial Transactions and Capital Markets at Advokaadibüroo PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal in Estonia.
Kris Charik
Kris Charik
Kris is a Director in our UK and Global EGC team. Kris specialises in providing governance, transaction and compliance support to multinational clients. Kris has extensive experience in the provision of legal entity governance and compliance services to clients globally, ranging from small and large private groups to large listed PLCs and US multinationals.Before returning to UK, Kris led our practice for the Middle East from Dubai and during his five years in the region he worked closely with locally headquartered Sovereign Wealth Funds and other large locally owned/government organisations. Kris is a member of ICSA: The Governance Institute.
Latika Sharma
Intellectual Property Legal Leader, Latika is a Director with more than 20 years’ experience advising on all aspects of intellectual property law and practice. This includes extensive experience advising on licensing, franchising and a range of R&D and collaboration agreements. Latika has developed an unrivalled practice in IP structuring (reorganising IP ownership and use within large groups, including tax-related projects, with an expertise in issues such as patent box, transfer pricing and BEPS). Working with corporate finance, valuations and other IP experts around PwC, she has unparalleled experience in IP commercialisation and IP audits and risk reviews (covering IP processes and controls). She regularly helps clients to develop IP strategies, deal with IP disputes or adapt their operating model to accommodate an evolving innovation. She can also draw on the expertise of IP lawyers across PwC’s global network of over 100 legal practices around the world.
Laura Freestone
Laura is a Director and corporate lawyer (qualified in Scotland) in PwC’s International Business Reorganisations legal practice. Laura specialises in strategic global corporate reorganisation projects for international groups. Laura has recently acted on a number of highly technical projects, including those requiring cross-border merger and/or Societas Europaea for Brexit related restructuring projects.Laura joined PwC in 2010 from Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP, where she was a member of the corporate team in London, specialising in M&A and AIM listed work. Laura spent three years (2012 - 2015) on secondment to PwC’s corporate team in Sydney, Australia.
Laura Nadel
Laura Nadel
Laura leads our employment legal business in the North, advising regional clients on the full spectrum of legal issues from holiday pay and national minimum wage compliance, to day to day employment advice, deals and transformation projects. She works with clients ranging from FTSE 100s to private businesses, inbounds and start-ups, Laura is extremely client focused and is recognised for her commercial and business-focussed approach. She also has significant experience leading multi-disciplinary teams, delivering large scale projects on the ground.Legal 500 describes Laura as a ‘leading light of the local market’ and she was included in the Northern Power Women Future List 2019.
Mari Kelve-Liivsoo
Mari Kelve-Liivsoo
Mari Kelve-Liivsoo is an associate with PwC’s litigation and public procurement team. She has thoroughly researched the application of the EU standard term directive on public contracts and a potentially resulting conflict between private and public procurement law. Mari has in-depth knowledge of state aid regulation and she has studied comparative private law and corporate social responsibility.
Mari Männiko
Mari Männiko
Mari is an experienced Attorney-at-Law and since 2021 also a member of the Ethics Tribunal of the Estonian Bar Association. Her favourite fields of practice are media law, labour law, insolvency law and naturally data protection. Mari has been teaching privacy law and data protection at University of Tartu for years and she has also supervised numerous master’s theses. In addition to university students Mari has trained top specialists, providing data protection trainings at the Estonian Bar Association and at the office of the Auditor General. She has also provided many media trainings. Mari is an experienced litigation attorney whose focus is on media disputes. Clients speak highly of Mari’s straightforwardness and her willingness to compromise to reach the most reasonable decisions for her clients. Pursuing litigation at any cost is not characteristic of Mari.
Mark Whitehouse
Mark leads the Direct Tax Disputes practice. He is one of the UK’s leading specialists in contentious tax (a leading individual in both Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners), having 28 years’ experience in the field. He is a corporate tax specialist and has been involved in some of the most significant tax cases over the last decade including the UK’s only substantive transfer pricing case (DSG Retail) and several groundbreaking EU tax cases (ACT GLO, Philips Electronics, BMW and Stamp Duty GLO). He has particular experience in group litigation orders (in the context of EU law challenges), tax planning challenges, HRCP cases (the High Risk Corporate Programme), corporate tax appeals, judicial reviews and, in particular, matters of international taxation such as international transfer pricing disputes. He also has an extensive practice advising clients who seek to contest EU state aid decisions in respect of UK taxation matters. Mark’s practice includes acting for a wide range of clients ranging from blue chip FTSE100 companies, US multinationals, Premier League clubs and public and private businesses based around the world with UK operations. Where PwC acts for a client in respect of their tax affairs, Mark is their first port of call when an enquiry is opened and matters become contentious. He is also regularly called in to advise clients alongside other law firms where clients are looking for an experienced pair of hands to provide additional guidance and strategic oversight. Mark litigated on behalf of GE in respect of an HMRC clearance which was the largest piece of litigation currently being run by HMRC's Large Business.Mark litigated the UK’s only substantive transfer pricing case, DSG Retail Limited, and several groundbreaking EU tax law cases (including Philips Electronics and BMW). Recent significant cases include the Stamp Taxes GLO, Alan Anderson, Air Berlin, and Biffin. Mark is a member of the PwC Tax Dispute Resolution Network, which brings together specialists in tax disputes from across the whole of the global PwC network. He is also a CEDR accredited mediator and has experience of alternative dispute resolution. He has worked for HMRC’s solicitors’ office and has first-hand knowledge of how HMRC handles disputes.
Matt Timmons
Matt Timmons
Matt is a Director in our UK and Global EGC team.Matt specialises in helping multinational corporations reduce cost, risk, and complexity associated with operating diverse corporate structures spanning multiple territories.Matt has spent time on secondment to New York advising US multinational groups needing to respond to increased regulation and focus on legal entity structures, such as FATCA and Dodd Frank, and the impact this is having on their future legal entity governance and compliance obligations.More recently he’s been with clients on regulations focused on improving transparency and reporting with respect to corporate ownership e.g. BEPS, CBCR, Fourth Money Laundering Directive and in particular, new UK corporate governance regulations for private businesses.Matt is a member of ICSA: The Governance Institute.
Michał Rams
Michał Rams
Partner at Pwc Legal, Advocate Head of White-Collar Crime Practice
Mihaela Papandreia
Mihaela Papandreia
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 Ragea
Mihaela Ragea
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 Boian
Mihail Boian
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
Ovidiu Bold
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.
Peter Johnson
Peter is a solicitor, chartered accountant and chartered tax adviser in the Legal Tax Disputes team. Peter focuses on direct tax disputes, particularly those with a multi-disciplinary aspect – recent projects have encompassed a variety of tax law, commercial law, administrative law and technical accountancy issues. Where litigation has proved necessary, Peter has helped clients with cases going to the Tax Tribunal, High Court (Business & Property Courts), High Court (Administrative Court) and the Court of Justice of the European Union. Peter is also an experienced tax adviser more generally, and acts as a corporation tax adviser in non-contentious matters for a number of international corporate clients of the firm.
Pritul Shah
Pritul Shah
Pritul is a Director in our UK and Global EGC Team.Pritul specialises in providing subsidiary governance, transaction and compliance support to multinationals with a particular focus on Listed clients. He has extensive experience in advising clients on global governance structures with a particular focus on improving governance, streamlining processes and using technology to provide services more efficiently and cost effectively. Pritul leads our global company secretarial managed services offering where he provides an integrated company secretarial service as an extension to a clients’ in-house team. In addition, Pritul has spent some time on secondment to a FTSE 250 insurance group to help them prepare for an IPO and leading a review of their global subsidiary governance framework as well as setting up the new share schemes.He has also provided board governance support to a number of Financial Services regulated entities and Pensions boards.Pritul is a member of ICSA: The Governance Institute.
Romana Petre
Romana Petre
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.
Simon Suuban
Simon Suuban
Simon Suuban is an associate in the litigation team at PwC Legal Estonia, focusing primarily on resolving disputes related to administrative law.
Sonia Voinescu
Sonia Voinescu
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 Balanescu
Sonia Balanescu
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
Sorin David
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.
Tilly Harries
Tilly Harries
Tilly is a qualified barrister with 15 years’ experience of advising on employment matters and litigating employment disputes. As a barrister, she brings extensive litigation experience from the initial preparation of claims up to and including advocacy in the tribunal and judicial mediation. She has represented a wide variety of clients, including multi-national companies, trade unions, insurers, partnerships, public and government bodies and major PLCs.Described as being ‘always solutions orientated’, Tilly has particular expertise in managing and resolving contentious matters. She has assisted clients with investigating discipline and grievance issues, resolving whistleblowing complaints, dealing with sexual harassment allegations and managing senior exits.Tilly also leads PwC’s HR Support service. The service provides clients with unlimited HR compliance and employment law advice to manage their people risk and ensure they stay compliant with the law. Through the service, clients receive unlimited advice from PwC’s specialist employment lawyers on any employee issue for a low cost fixed monthly fee.Tilly received a ‘Women in Law Award’ in 2018 and 2019 from Lawyer Monthly in recognition of her outstanding legal expertise and contribution within Employment Law. She is also referenced in the Legal 500 2020 as “a good leader” who makes “great tactical decisions”.
Victoria Smylie
Victoria is an Associate in the firm's Private Client and Employment Departments.On the Private Client side, Victoria specialises in wealth, tax, succession and asset protection planning (often involving a multi-jurisdictional element) and trust law. Victoria is a DIFC Wills Draftsmen and advises clients on both DIFC and Common Law Wills.Victoria also advises on all areas of the UAE Labour Law and DIFC Employment Law, assisting both private individuals and local and international companies across a range of sectors, onshore and within the free zones. Victoria regularly provides clients with employment litigation assistance in both the Dubai courts and the DIFC Small Claims Tribunal.

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