Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen

Adina Chilim-Dumitriu is a Partner and Head of the Telecommunications and Media practice and Co-Head of the Corporate/M&A and Public Procurement practices at NNDKP. She has 26 years of professional activity and is particularly experienced in sectors that require technical knowledge and abilities - public procurement (participation in public tender procedures, preparation of claims), telecommunications (regulatory, corporate and contractual aspects) and energy (natural gas field - distribution, supply, transportation, storage and production). She also handles large-scale M&A projects, project finance deals and cross-border acquisitions.

Adriana Ioana Gaspar has 31 years of professional activity in the legal field and is a Senior Partner and Co-Head of the Corporate/M&A and Public Procurement and PPP practices at NNDKP. Her expertise includes M&A, corporate restructuring, infrastructure development and financing, cross-border finance, privatizations, securities and capital markets transactions. She provides strategic advice in structuring and pursuing investments or exit arrangements, including private equity transactions.

Alexandru Aparaschivei has 18 years of professional experience and is a Tax Partner at NNDKP Tax Advisory Services. His expertise covers all taxes and industries, but in the recent years he has focused on VAT. He advises clients in relation to various tax work: general tax advisory, tax audit defense and litigation support, compliance & reviews, M&A, tailored training.

Alina Radu has 26 years of professional experience and is a Partner heading NNDKP’s Banking and Finance practice at NNDKP. Her expertise covers assisting financial institutions and borrowers in major financing transactions, project finance and banking regulatory matters, including launch of new banking products, preparation of standard documents for credit institutions, restructuring of loans, sales and acquisitions of loan portfolios and a wide range of regulatory aspects. Also, she has been significantly involved in privatizations and other foreign investment projects.

Alina Timofti is a Tax Partner and Co-Head of Tax Advisory Services at NNDKP and has 26 years of professional experience. Clients value her broad expertise and commercially driven advice in areas such as tax structuring, transaction advice, tax due diligence, tax reviews, design of tax function and structuring advice in relation to major investments in Romania.

Ana Diculescu-Sova is a Senior Partner heading NNDKP’s Dispute Resolution Department. Her practice covers a wide array of complex matters in civil, commercial, competition and fiscal law. Her undisputed litigation expertise is recognized both at local and international level by clients, competitors and most renowned international legal guides. For over 40 years, Mrs. Diculescu-Sova has successfully represented clients in virtually all major court cases in Romania. She has been formally acknowledged as one of Romania’s best litigators by the entire business community, winning the “Best Lawyer” Award at a prestigious national gala.

Anca Diaconu has significant professional experience in competition, state aid and EU Law matters and acts as Head of NNDKP's Competition, State Aid and EU Law practice. She combines robust academic background with practical experience in high profiles cases. Anca focuses on all aspects of EU and Romanian competition law, including merger clearance, cartels and abuse of dominance cases. She also advises regularly on complex state aid matters and assists high-profile clients with FDI filings. On top of her expertise in transactions and compliance measures, she has a significant track record in competition litigation before national courts, including private damages.

Ciprian Păun is a Romanian law qualified lawyer with over 18 years of professional experience and co-heads NNDKP's Cluj-Napoca office. He specializes in the corporate/M&A, tax and banking law fields, assisting national and international investors and companies active in the oil, financial-banking, commerce, IT, data protection, real estate and capital market sectors.

Corina Dumitru is a Partner in the Corporate/M&A and Public Procurement and PPP practices at NNDKP. She has more than 20 years of professional experience in the legal area, her expertise covering areas such as mergers and acquisitions, corporate law and commercial transactions, as well as banking and finance. Corina has assisted a large number of investors, national and multinational companies, banks and institutions in large complex transactions carried out in Romania.

Daniela Gramaticescu is a Partner in NNDKP's Dispute Resolution practice. She has more than 22 years of professional experience in the legal area, representing clients from various industries before Romanian courts, as well as before international courts of arbitration. Daniela has developed substantial experience in administrative and fiscal litigation, arbitration proceedings, disputes related to construction agreements, civil and commercial litigation, public procurement disputes, labor litigation, as well as enforcement of judgments, corporate disputes and real estate and infrastructure disputes.

Emil Bivolaru is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution practice at NNDKP. Emil has more than 23 years of highly dynamic and successful litigation activity, representing clients in court and before the Arbitration Court in a variety of legal areas, including tax, restructuring, banking and finance, civil. He is recognized for his outstanding ability to manage complex restitution claims for properties confiscated under the communist regime, civil implications of white-collar fraud, major commercial litigation and bankruptcy matters.

Eva Forika is a highly seasoned Romanian law qualified lawyer with over 25 years of professional experience in the legal field and heads NNDKP's Timisoara office. Her expertise covers fundamental business-related areas of corporate and commercial law, real estate law, labor law and tax matters. Her practice also includes dispute resolution, with particular focus on contracts, regulatory, property and labor matters.

Gabriela Cacerea is a Partner and Co-Head of Corporate/M&A and Energy and Natural Resources practices at NNDKP and has over 21 years of professional experience. Her area of expertise includes M&A, privatizations, corporate re-structuring, contracts, corporate law, private equity transactions, capital markets transactions and cross-border transactions. She is highly specialized in the energy sector, particularly in electricity, gas and renewable energy (generation and production, transport, distribution and supply). In addition, her industry expertise also includes insurance, media, advertising and consumer goods and services, IT and online business.

Georgeta started her collaboration with NNDKP in 2004. She became familiar with a diversity of business models while assisting both large multinational companies and domestic clients. She gained significant industry expertise and was constantly connected to the business environment, benefitting from the variety of the clients’ industries, as well as from her active role in the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham Romania) Competition Committee. Georgeta has focused on projects with great impact on companies’ business: investigations and related competition litigation, including pleading before EU courts (General Court), merger clearance in multijurisdictional M&A transactions, competition compliance in the clients’ day-to-day business.

Ioana Niculeasa has over 23 years of experience in the legal field and heads the Real Estate Practice of NNDKP. She has handled complex and significant real estate transactions encompassing a large scale of sophisticated share and asset deals while providing clients with the most suitable transaction framework. She is highly experienced in drafting due diligence reports, drafting and negotiating real estate documents and providing assistance on real estate construction and development matters.

Iurie has 17 years of experience in the legal field and heads the Data Protection practice of the firm. Iurie specializes in the data protection field, his expertise covering processing employees’ data, building and using databases for supporting sales and marketing activities, e-privacy matters (including social networking sites, cookies consent rules and commercial communications), data sharing in mergers, acquisitions and winding-up projects, regulatory compliance (including in connection with disciplinary procedures and FCPA audits), data breach regulations, data subject rights, processing and data transfer formalities, archiving formalities (including in cases of winding-up of companies), classified information.

Lavinia Ionita-Rasmussen is a Partner in the Real Estate practice at NNDKP. With a professional experience of over 18 years in the legal area, Lavinia is acknowledged as a leading practitioner in the Romanian real estate market. Her expertise covers the full spectrum of real estate matters. She has successfully negotiated and closed complex projects and business structures, provided assistance in transaction arrangements, development issues or constructions and urbanism and applied integrated exit solutions. Lavinia is also specialized in FIDIC contracts.

Lucian Barbu is a Tax Partner at NNDKP Tax Advisory Services. He is specialized in local and international tax advice and has more than 21 years of experience assisting Romanian and foreign clients in projects related to: structuring operations from a tax perspective, drafting procedures, tax review, company reorganization operations in the form of mergers and spin-offs, advice on tax control issues and drafting the necessary objections.

Marius Ionescu has 26 years of professional experience and is a Tax Partner and Co-Head of Tax Advisory Services. His areas of expertise cover investment tax structuring, tax planning transaction advice, assistance during tax audit, tax review and due diligence projects. His broad experience in the field is also reflected in a high-caliber portfolio of clients in a wide range of industries.

Marius Ezer is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution Department at NNDKP. He has more than 18 years of professional experience with focus on complex insolvency proceedings, creditor rights and asset recovery, as well as complex tax disputes. In addition, Marius assists clients in disputes related to corporate reorganization, labor litigation, disputes related to loan facilities for real estate development projects or enforcement of lease agreements or disputes involving contractual relations governed by FIDIC rules.

Oana Partenie is an Of Counsel specializing in dispute resolution matters. She has over 24 years of experience representing clients in civil and commercial litigation, international trade law disputes, enforcement proceedings, consumer protection and administrative litigation and insolvency proceedings. She also assists in public procurement disputes and disputes related to the recovery of property. In addition to representing clients in court proceedings, Oana is a mediator, trained to participate in mediation and the settlement of disputes before they are addressed to the courts.

Răzvan Vlad is a Partner in the Corporate/M&A and Public Procurement and PPP practices at NNDKP. He has  21 years of professional activity, focusing his practice on corporate and commercial law. His areas of expertise include corporate restructuring operations and other business transactions aimed at increasing business efficiency, mergers and acquisitions as well as specific regulatory and performance aspects related to FIDIC contracts in major infrastructure projects. Răzvan has also assisted clients in complex projects in the automotive and heavy industries.

Roxana Abrasu is a Partner and Head of the Employment and Labour law practice of NNDKP. She has over 16 years of professional experience in employment and labor law. She has extensive knowledge and experience assisting both private Romanian and foreign clients on the full range of employment matters, either in the context of major projects or during regular business activity. Roxana provides expert advice in relation to individual and collective labour relationships, being called to implement HR strategies, anticipate legal issues and reduce legal risks in the context of enforcement of business strategies.

Ruxandra Bologa is a Partner and Co-Head of Corporate/M&A and Energy and Natural Resources practice at NNDKP. She is a highly versed lawyer with over 22 years of experience in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and restructurings. Also, she has particular expertise in highly regulated sectors such as energy, with a specific focus on oil&gas and has advised on a wide range of projects in the natural resources field, including mining.

Silviu Badescu is a Tax Partner at NNDKP Tax Advisory Services. With an experience of over 22 years in tax advice and accounting, Silviu is specialized in areas such as company reorganization, tax reviews and due diligence projects, advice from the perspective of direct and indirect taxation, counseling provided during tax controls, assistance provided to important local and international companies.

Sorina Olaru is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution practice at NNDKP. She is a highly experienced litigator with 25 years of experience in representing clients before the Romanian courts of all levels and specializations (civil, commercial, labor or administrative), including the High Court of Cassation and Justice and the Constitutional Court of Romania. Sorina often sits as an arbitrator in domestic arbitration proceedings.

Valentin Voinescu is a Partner in NNDKP's Banking and Finance practice. He is a seasoned corporate finance lawyer with a strong business focus, with 19 years of professional experience in corporate finance, bank lending, capital markets and turnaround and restructuring. During his career he acted as lead Romanian counsel in a wide range of transactions (aggregate deal value well in excess of EUR 5bn). He is also an experienced trainer, hosting lectures on banking and finance issues.

Valeriu Mina is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution practice at NNDKP. He has over 18 years of professional experience in dispute resolution and arbitration matters, representing an important number of clients in complex commercial disputes such as those arising in connection with the administrative contractual relations governed by FIDIC rules, as well as in public procurement related litigation. Valeriu's expertise also includes civil disputes related to challenging public or private property rights, insolvency proceedings, labor and intellectual property litigation.

Vlad Tanase is a Partner in the Real Estate practice at NNDKP. Having a professional experience of over 18 years, he assists clients in connection with a wide range of real estate matters, including real estate acquisition, transaction structuring, due diligence, joint ventures and exit strategies. His expertise includes urban planning, construction agreements and permitting matters for complex mixed-use projects, industrial, mining and energy industries as well as in-depth knowledge of office, retail, logistic and hospitality businesses.