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Adina Chilim-Dumitriu

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, with a successful career spanning 27 years. She regularly advises on large domestic and cross-border deals, complex corporate/contractual matters, and M&A transactions. She has extensive experience in fields requiring technical expertise such as public procurement telecommunications, and defense. In the public procurement field, Adina assists both public and private companies throughout public procurement proceedings, as well as in connection with the implementation of publicly procured contracts and the management of public procurement-related administrative and court claims. In the telecom and media fields, she advises major players in this sector on a wide range of matters, from regulatory to commercial and M&A.

Adriana Ioana Gaspar

Adriana I. Gaspar has been a Senior Partner with Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen since 2000, co-heading the Corporate/M&A and Public Procurement and PPP practices. She has earned unanimous recognition for her wide-ranging experience in structuring cross-border and domestic investments and for her valuable contribution to a number of landmark projects for Romania, whether transactional or regulatory reforming. 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

Alexandru Aparaschivei has 19 years of professional experience and is a Tax Partner at NNDKP Tax Advisory Services. He coordinates the indirect tax practice of NNDKP Tax Advisory Services, being involved in various tax projects, e.g., tax consultancy, tax audit defense and litigation support, compliance & reviews, M&A, tailored trainings. His expertise covers all taxes and industries, but in the recent years he has focused on VAT, serving clients in particular in energy & natural resources, industrial and manufacturing, financial services, retail, and real estate sectors.

Alina Radu has 27 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 27 years of experience in local and international tax consultancy. 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. Alina is one of the coordinators of NNDKP's Center of Excellence in Fiscal Disputes (CELF).

Ana Diculescu-Sova

Ana Diculescu-Sova is a Senior Partner at Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen, heading the firm’s Dispute Resolution practice. She has an impressive career in the legal field, spanning 48 years, with over 50,000 representations before national and international courts and arbitration panels. She is widely acknowledged for successfully handling challenging, high-profile and high-stakes cases involving contentious matters across various legal areas (civil law - real estate proceedings under special property laws, contracts, corporate, banking, administrative and tax disputes, as well as disputes concerning public procurement, foreign investment and insolvency matters). Her undisputed litigation expertise is recognized both at local and international level by clients, competitors and renowned international legal guides.

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 19 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 21 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. Her expertise spans across a variety of industry sectors, including software engineering, high tech, automotive, manufacturing & industrial, energy and natural resources, financial services, food and beverages, agribusiness.

Daniela Gramaticescu

Daniela Gramaticescu is a Partner in NNDKP's Dispute Resolution practice. She has 23 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. He is a highly regarded litigator with more than 24 years of professional activity, regularly acting as the coordinator of litigation specialists in complex high-stakes disputes handled by the firm. Emil represents clients in court and before the Arbitration Court in a variety of legal areas, including tax, restructuring, banking and finance, civil law, distressed debt, as well as property restitution matters. Furthermore, he is widely praised for his valuable expertise in tax inspection and tax evasion cases and has handled complex labour restructuring procedures and cases regarding the civil implications of white-collar fraud.

Eva Forika is a highly seasoned Romanian law qualified lawyer with 26 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. She assists domestic and international clients in a wide range of industries, including automotive, agribusiness, industrial and manufacturing.

Gabriela Cacerea

Gabriela Cacerea is a Partner and Co-Head of the Corporate/M&A and Energy and Natural Resources practices at NNDKP. With over 22 years of professional experience, she is well-versed in mergers and acquisitions, privatizations, corporate restructuring, private equity transactions, joint ventures and minority investments, capital markets or strategic investor transactions, IPOs and SPOs, as well as commercial contracts. Also, she is widely recognized for her strong expertise in the energy sector, coordinating conventional electricity, renewable and energy efficiency projects, all matters related to transition to clean energy and decarbonization, as well as natural gas downstream projects.

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

Ioana Niculeasa has 24 years of experience in the legal field and heads the Real Estate Practice of NNDKP. She advises clients on all types of real estate projects, from projects related to the construction and development of office and residential buildings, shopping centres and logistic and industrial parks, to complex concession agreements, public-private real estate partnerships and agricultural investments. Ioana also assists clients with general corporate matters in the real estate industry, private sales and acquisitions, complex lease agreements, and construction contracts (governed by domestic legislation as well as FIDIC). Ioana has handled highly complex real estate transactions encompassing sophisticated share and asset deals while providing clients with the most suitable transaction framework.

Iurie has 18 years of experience in the legal field and heads the Data Protection practice of the firm. He specializes in the data protection field, his expertise covering processing employees’ data, building and using databases to support sales and marketing activities, e-privacy matters, 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, classified information. Additionally, Iurie leverages his extensive expertise in various fintech projects handled by the firm.

Lavinia Ionita-Rasmussen

Lavinia Ionita-Rasmussen is a Partner in the Real Estate practice at NNDKP. With a professional experience of over 19 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 22 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. He advises clients from a diverse range of industry sectors, including energy and natural resources, advertising, financial sector, manufacturing, infrastructure, pharma and technology, to name a few.

Marius Ionescu has 27 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, including energy, manufacturing, real estate, distribution, retail, mining, automotive, investment funds.

Marius Ezer is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution Department at NNDKP. He has 19 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 25 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 22 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 assisted clients in a wide range of industries, including information technology, automotive, heavy industries, logistics and pharmaceuticals.

Roxana Abrasu is a Partner and Head of the Employment practice of NNDKP. She has 17 years of professional experience in the employment field, assisting Romanian and foreign clients on the full range of employment matters, either in the context of major projects or during regular business activity. Her practice covers coordinating the implementation of internal rules and advising on individual and collective dismissal processes linked to clients’ business redesign or downsize initiatives and on the full spectrum of employment termination issues, implementing local or transnational transfers of businesses (TUPE), conducting collective negotiations, dealing with discrimination and harassment claims, implementing restrictive covenants, preparing the strategy and back-up documentation in employment claims.

Ruxandra Bologa

Ruxandra Bologa is a Partner and Co-Head of Corporate/M&A and Energy and Natural Resources practice at NNDKP. With 23 years of experience in the legal field, Ruxandra is well-versed in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and minority investments, corporate reorganisations, privatizations, outsourcing projects, as well as in projects involving complex regulatory, corporate and commercial law aspects. Her expertise also includes highly regulated sectors such as energy, having coordinated oil & gas projects (upstream, midstream, downstream), renewable/green energy projects (development & permitting, project finance, M&A, interconnection & trading), projects related to the transportation/distribution/supply of natural gas and electricity, as well as mining projects and carbon capture and storage projects.

Silviu Badescu is a Tax Partner at NNDKP Tax Advisory Services. With an experience of over 23 years in tax advice and accounting, Silviu is specialized in areas such as restructuring tax advice, tax reviews, consultancy from the perspective of direct and indirect taxation, tax litigation and counselling provided during tax controls. His extensive experience in the tax consultancy field is reflected in a high-level portfolio of clients in a wide range of industries, among which energy, retail, meat processing, manufacturing, real estate, automotive.

Sorina Olaru is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution practice at NNDKP. She is a highly skilled pleading lawyer and arbitrator with more than 26 years of expertise in the litigation and arbitration fields, 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), as well as before domestic and international arbitration panels, in cases solved under various rules of arbitration. Also, Sorina often sits as arbitrator in domestic and international arbitration cases.

Valentin Voinescu

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 20 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 19 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 19 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.