Mr Valentin Berea > RTPR | Radu Taracila Padurari Retevoescu SCA > Bucharest, Romania > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Valentin Berea
Work Department
Dispute Resolution, Competition, Intellectual Property.
Position
Partner
Career
Valentin Berea is a Partner of RTPR (Radu Tărăcilă Pădurari Retevoescu SCA). He specialises in disputes and investigations, with a focus on antitrust and intellectual property.
Valentin is included on the list of arbitrators of the Bucharest International Arbitration Court attached to the American Chamber of Commerce in Romania (AmCham) and is a member of the Administrative Council of this court.
He is also a certified intellectual property counsellor for trademarks and industrial designs and has worked for many years as an assistant professor teaching contract law at Bucharest Law University.
Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers has included Valentin for the last 10 years among the list of top 10 competition law specialists in Romania, a list that is prepared exclusively based on peers’ feedback.
Among recent highlights, Valentin has successfully represented Electrica in a EUR 800 million litigation case against the Romanian Management Company for Ownership in Energy (SAPE) for alleged breaches of the post-privatisation monitoring obligations regarding former distribution subsidiaries of Electrica. He successfully represented the most important Hollywood studios, including Paramount, Sony, Twentieth, Universal, Walt Disney, Columbia and Warner Bros. in the first site blocking case which has ever been tried in Central and Eastern Europe, by suing internet service providers with the aim of blocking pirate movies websites. In anti-trust litigation, Valentin has distinguished himself by winning some of the most notable antitrust litigation cases. For example, together with his team, he succeeded in obtaining in court the first significant reduction (of over 80%) of a fine imposed by the Competition Council (on the insulin trading market), based on a mitigating circumstance. This has set a precedent in court of reducing the fines imposed by the competition authority. Recently, Valentin obtained the full exoneration of British American Tobacco after representing the company in a cartel investigation which lasted for 4 years (including dawn raid proceedings).
Languages
Valentin Berea is fluent in English and French.
Memberships
Valentin Berea is a qualified Romanian lawyer, registered with the Bucharest Bar. He is also a member of the National Union of Romanian Bar Associations.
Education
Valentin Berea graduated from the University of Bucharest, Law Faculty and from the University of Paris I, Pantheone – Sorbonne.
Lawyer Rankings
Romania > EU and competition
(Leading partners)Valentin Berea – RTPR | Radu Taracila Padurari Retevoescu SCA
RTPR | Radu Taracila Padurari Retevoescu SCA fields a team of ‘highly skilled legal professionals who are experts in EU and competition law‘. The group handles the full range of competition matters, including major antitrust investigations, merger approvals, dawn raids, and compliance programs. The client base includes major international and domestic companies and financial institutions. The practice is jointly led by the ‘strategic thinker’ Valentin Berea and Roxana Ionescu, who focuses on merger control and state aid issues. Andrada Rusan is ‘extremely bright and hardworking, a truly rising star‘.
Romania > Dispute resolution
RTPR | Radu Taracila Padurari Retevoescu SCA‘s dispute resolution practice stands out as ‘particularly strong in antitrust, IP, tax and regulatory litigation‘. The group has a solid track record in acting for multinational companies in a range of contentious work, and is often instructed to act as Romanian legal counsel on cross-border mandates. Valentin Berea leads the department, and is an experienced litigator and arbitrator, with a particular focus on competition and IP matters. Alexandru Stanoiu specialises in tax disputes, and Ana Popa is well versed in handling commercial litigation.
Romania > Intellectual property
The ‘young and knowledgeable‘ IP team at RTPR | Radu Taracila Padurari Retevoescu SCA is particularly well known for its counsel in contentious matters and is one of the go-to copyright litigation firms in the country. The firm also has a robust patent litigation offering. On the non-contentious side of things, the team manages trade mark infringement and domain name issues for a broad client base. Valentin Berea is a dispute resolution specialist with a substantial IP practice. He co-leads the department with Lucian Mihai, also an expert in dispute resolution with considerable experience in intellectual property matters. Andrada Rusan and Ana Popa add strength at the senior associate level.
Lawyer Rankings
- EU and competition Romania
- Leading partners Romania > EU and competition
- Intellectual property Romania
- Dispute resolution Romania