Mr Gabriel Zbarcea > Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii > Bucharest, Romania > Lawyer Profile
Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii Offices
4-8 SOSEAUA NICOLAE TITULESCU
AMERICA HOUSE, WEST WING, 8F, SECTOR 1
011141 BUCHAREST
Romania
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Mr Gabriel Zbarcea
Work Department
Corporate and Commercial; Mergers, Acquisitions and Privatisations; Energy and Natural Resources; Real Estate.
Position
Gabriel Zbarcea is Managing Partner at Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii. His practice focuses on corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions/privatisations, and energy and natural resources. He has considerable experience in assisting Romanian and foreign companies in international joint ventures and corporate restructuring; and he has acted, as coordinator, in major industry mergers and acquisitions and privatisations deals, as well as in complex projects in the electricity, oil, gas and mining sectors. He also specializes in property law and the financial and security aspects of real estate transactions.
In addition to his legal background, Gabriel Zbarcea honed his skills and talents in the public sector while working within the Cabinet of the Romanian Prime-Minister and the Romanian Privatization Agency – the Authority for State Assets Recovery (AVAS) (Romania’s privatisation authority). As such, he was in charge of the recovery of banking assets, the implementation of the government’s strategy to conclude the privatisation process of all companies in which the Romanian state holds interests and which are in the authority’s portfolio, the management of the state’s interests in such companies.
Career
Managing Partner, Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii (from 2006 to present), Authority for State Assets Recovery (AVAS) and Cabinet of the Romanian Prime-Minister (from 2004 to 2005), Deputy Managing Partner, Muşat & Asociaţii (from 2002 to 2004), Partner, Muşat & Asociaţii (from 1997 to 2002), Associate Professor to the Political and Administrative Sciences, University of Bucharest, Law Department (from 1996 to 1998), President of the Students’ League, University of Bucharest (from 1993 to 1995), Secretary General of the European Law Student Association (ELSA) (from 1992 to 1993).
Languages
English.
Memberships
Bucharest Bar Association; Junior Chamber International (JCI); former president of the Youth Promotion Association (APT); former president of the Students` League; former secretary general of the European Law Student Association (ELSA).
Education
University of Bucharest (LL.B., 1995).
Lawyer Rankings
Romania > Commercial, corporate and M&A
Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii is ‘at the top of the game‘ in the corporate and commercial arena. The group provides ‘clear, to the point, and practical‘ advice to clients in a broad range of industries. M&A work forms a key pillar of strength for the team, and the department works closely with the firm’s energy, real estate and tax groups to support clients on deals and corporate governance issues. The practice is led by the quintet of managing partners Florentin Tuca and Gabriel Zbarcea; the ‘sharp and talented‘ Cătălin Băiculescu; Stefan Damian, who handles complex corporate reorganisations, public and private M&A, and post-privatisation issues; and Horia Ispas, who is well known for handling M&A and corporate restructuring matters in the banking sector. Razvan Gheorghiu-Testa and Sorin Vladescu have respective expertise in real estate and energy transactions. Silvana Ivan, Oana Ureche and Dragos Apostol are other recommended lawyers.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Employment
- Energy and natural resources
- EU and competition
- Intellectual property
- PPP and procurement
- Real estate and construction
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
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