Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii

Alexandra Pereș specialises in the areas of real estate, mergers and acquisitions, corporate and commercial, banking and finance. She is a highly skilled real estate lawyer, with a particular focus on construction and urbanism, retail, office, energy sector. As part of her experience she has been involved in major projects on the Romanian market, coordinating mergers and acquisition projects, restructuring of debts and receivables and negotiation of afferent guarantees and advising on matters related to construction and urbanism, implementation of various real estate projects, structuring of real estate transactions and the associated financing process, commercial leasing and property management, as well as on various non-contentious aspects of real estate and construction related projects.

Alexandru Cristea is a Partner with Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii Tax SRL, an affiliate of Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii law firm. Previously working with Deloitte and PricewatehouseCoopers, Alexandru focuses primarily on indirect taxation. Alexandru has broad knowledge in tax planning and international efficiency structures, as well as in VAT and excise duty audits. He served major local and multinational clients from a wide array of industries, mainly Energy, Finance and FMCG. He acted as a local consultant in the PHARE program for the implementation of EU Harmonised Romanian VAT legislation, being involved in the drafting process of the law, as well as in organizing training sessions to professionals from the Romanian Ministry of Finance. Also, he actively managed Pre-Accession and Post-Accession projects, consisting in mappings, ERP implementations and industry-focused training sessions for top companies in Romania. Alexandru is a reputable speaker at various tax conferences and seminars and plays an ongoing role in the tax groups of AmCham/Foreign Investors Council (FIC) for the modernization of tax legislation, as well as in the discussions with the Ministry of Finance.Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii and Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii Tax are collaborating with Andersen Global in Romania.

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Anca Pușcașu, a Partner at Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii, is specialized mainly in international arbitration/dispute resolution. Anca represents clients in arbitrations before important arbitral forums including ICSID, ICC, GAFTA and VIAC. She has experience managing claims arising out of privatizations, sale and purchase agreements, natural resource concessions, contracts with States and state-entities. Anca has significant knowledge in international public arbitration, being part of the team representing the Romanian Government in three international arbitration cases brought by foreign investors against Romania to the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes – ICSID. Furthermore, Anca's experience encompasses working with clients in a wide range of industries including mining, oil & gas, electric power, railroads, banking, financial services, retail, real estate and manufacturing. Her practice covers advising on various mergers and acquisitions projects, as well as on corporate and commercial law, consultancy in corporate management, as well as legal assistance and representation in corporate disputes, labor law and various intellectual property matters.

Andreea Oprișan is a Partner with Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii’s competition group. She combines legal and economic competition law tools in view of supporting clients’ projects and handling the full-range of competition law issues from antitrust and compliance matters to merger control and state aid. Other areas in which Andreea advises clients on a day-to-day basis include consumer protection, advertising, unfair competition practices, commercial/contract law. Andreea’s expertise covers a wide area of economic sectors including FMCG, agriculture, automotive, insurance, banking, energy, oil & gas, services, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, healthcare, distribution and logistics, retail, IT&C, media and advertising, etc.

Cătălin Băiculescu is a Partner at Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii. He has advised on many high-profile mergers & acquisitions and Romanian privatisations, and is recognised as an expert in the due diligence process, the negotiation of assets and share-purchase agreements, as well as post-acquisition restructuring matters. His expertise in the banking and finance area includes advising on banking regulatory legal issues and compliance, syndicated loans, project finance transactions, and bank restructuring and privatisation. Cătălin has also assisted international aircraft owners and financing banks in connection with aircraft lease agreements and mortgage agreements signed with local airlines. Furthermore, he is a skilled and resourceful lawyer in electronic communications & IT, where he has advised on licensing issues, telecom service agreements, software development agreements, data privacy and outsourcing agreements. His expertise includes the area of entertainment and media, providing legal assistance services to broadcasters and production companies on commercial contracts relating to television shows, betting and gaming, advertising agreements and regulatory issues.

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Christina Vladescu is a Partner in the litigation and arbitration practice group at Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii. As a former judge, she has built up a recognized business litigation practice by effectively combining a thorough understanding of the local judicial system with impressive advocacy skills gained as a trusted legal adviser and pleading lawyer. Such an in-depth knowledge has been pivotal in her achieving favourable results for the firm’s clients before Romanian courts at all levels, including the High Court of Cassation and Justice and the Constitutional Court of Romania. Christina Vladescu has argued and briefed numerous complex civil and commercial cases, especially in matters concerning ownership and other real rights (restitution claims for nationalized properties and expropriation, disputes on real estate transactions), civil and commercial agreements, enforcement, various contractual and tort liability cases, corporate law litigation (shareholder disputes, withdrawals and buy-outs from the company, annulment of GMS resolutions) as well as unfair competition and insolvency matters. Christina Vladescu also has a strong track record of success in handling disputes from a mixture of legal areas such as administrative-contentious (fiscal and customs matters, disputes involving public procurement and concessions), family and labour law. In addition, she has an important practice in managing arbitration cases.

In his capacity as Partner at Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii, Ciprian Dragomir has represented multi-national companies from a variety of industries such as automotive, steel, oil and gas, maritime in connection with their investments in Romania. A further focus of his practice concerns legal advice on a broad range of environmental law issues, including brownfield development and contaminated land liability, waste management, licensing and permitting, environmental impact assessment, greenfield development. Ciprian Dragomir is also a certified intellectual property counselor for trademarks, coordinating the firm's intellectual property practice group and advising clients on all aspects related to the registration, protection, licensing and transfer of patents, trademarks, copyrights, designs and software, as well as data privacy issues.Furthermore, he is a certified insolvency practitioner and one of the associates in TZA Insolventa S.P.R.L., the firm`s specialised insolvency unit.

Ciprian Timofte is a Partner in the firm's Corporate and Mergers & Acquisitions practice groups. He has built up extensive expertise in conducting cross-border and domestic mergers and other corporate reorganizations, as well as in structuring and negotiating complex acquisition deals. Ciprian Timofte heads our firm's Data Protection practice group, being recognized as an outstanding and reputable lawyer in this niche area. In the past years, Ciprian Timofte focused on coordinating complex data privacy projects in all relevant industries and impressed our clients with his solid legal background and practical approach. Ciprian Timofte has been actively involved in various regulatory initiatives concerning data protection, by providing valuable input with regard to data privacy projects laws or regulatory guides. He is a regular speaker and writer on topics related to data privacy and other legal matters.

Cornel Popa is a Partner at Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii. Cornel combines top technical skills with commercial acumen to deal with complex and diverse matters. His multi-disciplinary approach covers large domestic and international joint-ventures, mergers, acquisitions and privatization projects, as well as dispute resolution. Cornel Popa has represented buyers and sellers from a broad range of industries and various Romanian governmental authorities in relation to multi-faceted, sophisticated matters. He is acknowledged as one of the most experienced dispute resolution lawyers in Romania, having dealt with civil litigation, mediation, domestic and international arbitration and participated in many hearings before ICSID, ICC and the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. He also acts for clients active in the oil and gas industry, covering upstream and downstream matters (i.e. exploration, infrastructure and pipeline development and services contracts, related M&A issues etc).

As a Partner at Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii, Dan Borbely co-heads the firm's Real Estate and Construction practice group. He contributed to the development of a unique “one-stop shop” model facilitating access to legal and non legal services for our real estate clients in a timely and efficient manner. He has handled a wide variety of sophisticated transactions covering legal and regulatory issues in purchase and sale, property finance, leasing and concession, property insurance, public and private construction, public works, property development and investment, mortgages and other collaterals, as well as recovery and security enforcement, joint ventures and leasing of all types of properties and especially residential, office and retail projects. Dan Borbely has a broad commercial property background with particular interest in the disposal and acquisition, development agreements and property aspects of corporate related transactions.

Dan Cristea is a Partner in the litigation and arbitration practice group at Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii.He concentrates his practice as a pleading lawyer on commercial and contentious-administrative subjects, whilst also enjoying a wealth of experience in public procurement matters.In the commercial area, his focus includes both corporate disputes (annulment of GMS decisions, company withdrawals, shareholder litigation) as well as contractual disagreements. In administrative matters, he has been involved in a large number of trials regarding acts issued by public authorities in such areas as tax, energy, urban planning or environmental law. In public procurement, Dan Cristea has spoken in dozens of high-value trials regarding award of tender contracts exceeding tens of millions of Euros and has struck down provisions of the national Public Procurement law in front of the Constitutional Court.He is also passionate about his sporting law practice, which has received the Romanian Society for Legal Sciences distinction regarding remarkable contributions in Sports Law (2018).Dan Cristea is a past World Champion in debating (ESL, Dublin, 2009) and a Forbes Romania '30 under 30'.

Dragos Apostol is a Partner specialising in mergers, acquisitions and privatization, as well as corporate and commercial law. He has extensive experience of advising Romanian and foreign investors, as well as public authorities, on legal matters arising from a wide range of industry sectors, such as mining, real estate, financial services/private equity, automotive, agri-business, FMCG, oil and gas, and so on. His legal skills include negotiating, drafting and reviewing complex agreements in the context of joint ventures, assets and share sales and purchases, mergers, acquisitions, business transfers and reorganisations, as well as privatisation and concession projects. In particular, he has developed a considerable body of expertise advising on mergers and acquisitions taking place in the e-commerce sector. In addition, Dragos Apostol has a strong legal background in real estate, particularly in relation to real estate development, investment, sale and purchase, real estate planning, commercial leasing and property management issues, and other non-contentious aspects of real estate and construction related projects.

Dr Florentin Tuca is Managing Partner at Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii. He has gained a wide reputation in handling complex domestic and international arbitration, particularly in relation to privatisation and cross-border disputes, having been involved in four international arbitration files brought against Romania to the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes – ICSID. In addition, he has a wealth of experience in corporate law, banking law, as well as project finance, concessions and other forms of PPP projects, notably in the fields of infrastructure and energy. He has conducted, as co-ordinator, numerous privatisations, joint-ventures, mergers and acquisitions in various industries.He is also highly skilled in drafting laws and regulations, being involved in the development and implementation of the legal framework relating to privatization, concessions, banking and other areas. Florentin Tuca is a regular speaker and writer on topics related to corporate law, PPPs, concession and other legal matters. He is also a founding member and General Secretary of the French-Romanian Chamber of Commerce and holds a PhD degree in PPPs and Concessions. In 2012, he was named European Managing Partner of the Year by The Lawyer magazine.

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.

Gabriela Anton is a Partner at Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii, specialising mainly in banking and finance, and mergers and acquisitions in the banking sector. Her other areas of practice are corporate and commercial law.Gabriela has advised credit institutions, investment funds, and other international financial institutions, as well as borrowers, on a wide range of transactions, such as project finance and corporate finance in various industries. She has also been involved in mergers and acquisitions, privatisations, restructuring projects and the transfer of banking assets, including non-performing loan portfolios.Gabriela’s expertise cover the entire transactional process, from the coordination of the due diligence work to the assistance in the structuring of the transaction, the preparation and the negotiations of the transaction documents up to the financial closing. She is also skilled in handling all legal aspects relating to the disposal of large portfolio of non-performing loans - NPLs (corporate, retail etc), having been involved in the largest deals taking place on the Romanian market in recent years. In addition, her experience includes advising on several cross-border acquisitions/disposals of NPLs in various Eastern European countries.  Gabriela is fluent in English and has a good command of French language.

Ioana Hrisafi-Josan is a Partner at Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii and co-heads the firm's litigation and arbitration practice group, the largest department within the firm. She has successfully covered a wide range of commercial cases, including complex bankruptcy proceedings, competition law related litigations, labour disputes, contentious and administrative disputes, including tax disputes. She has also dealt with a variety of real estate litigation including claims on restitution of nationalized properties and expropriation. A former President Judge of a Bucharest district court, Ioana Hrisafi-Josan is a pleading lawyer before Romanian courts of all levels, including in front of the High Court of Cassation and Justice and the Constitutional Court. In addition, she has been involved in complex domestic and international arbitration files. She is a Certified Expert in Public Procurement. Ioana Hrisafi-Josan is a frequent lecturer at various local and international conferences and author of numerous articles in leading publications on litigation, restructuring and insolvency matters.

Ionut Serban is a Partner in the litigation and arbitration practice group at Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii. As a pleading lawyer, he has appeared before Romanian courts at all levels, domestic and international courts of arbitration in complex civil law, corporate and commercial, contentious-administrative, labour and fiscal disputes, complex bankruptcy and reorganization proceedings, forced execution and debt recovery measures, as well criminal law cases and various arbitral proceedings.Ionut Serban has a strong track record in representing local and multinational companies, credit institutions, non-banking financial institutions, governmental institutions and bodies of the local and central public administration system, as well as renowned public figures.

Irina Moinescu is a Partner at Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii. Her main area of practice is in energy law, with a focus on the electricity sector. In the course of her legal career, she has dealt with complex projects in this field, including the first privatization projects in the electricity and gas sectors or the development of large-scale investments, especially renewable projects. Irina Moinescu has also advised on complex regulatory matters, such as amending the applicable regulatory framework in the renewable energy field, having been directly involved in the drafting of the amendments proposed to the law for establishing the promotion system for producing energy from renewable energy sources, as well as on the corporate commercial and mergers and acquisition issues related to the implementation of the firm’s energy projects. Furthermore, Irina has a vast experience in specific operation of commercial companies (such as shares assignment, management procedures, shareholders agreements, share capital increase) and in the drafting, negotiating and closing commercial agreements. Other areas of practice include electronic communications, media and advertising.

Levana Zigmund is a Partner at Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii. She practices in the areas of public international arbitration/dispute resolution, corporate law, as well as mergers, acquisitions and privatisations. She is one of only a handful public international arbitration lawyers in Romania, having been involved in four major international arbitration cases brought against Romania to the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes – ICSID. Her expertise also encompasses arbitration under the leading institution rules, including under the UNCITRAL Rules or the International Chamber of Commerce. She has acted in complex commercial, real estate, fiscal and administrative disputes. Levana Zigmund has represented public and private companies in joint-ventures, corporate governance matters, corporate and commercial transactions, business transfer projects, cross-border investments as well as shipping and transport projects.

Mihai Anghel is a Partner with Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii’s employment practice group, advising companies from various industries, such as FMCG, pharma, transports, IT&C, real estate, financial services, telecommunications, etc. He acquired solid and extensive experience in all relevant employment and labour matters, ranging from hiring and firing, discrimination and harassment, performance appraisals, remuneration and benefits, to union issues and collective bargaining agreements, cross border transfer of undertakings, immigration matters, cross-border secondments, etc.

Mihai Dudoiu is a Partner at Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii and co-head of the firm’s banking and finance practice group, advising on all legal aspects related to banking & finance/project finance. His professional experience includes acting for local and international credit institutions financing real estate developments (commercial, office, residential and hotels), projects in the energy field with a particular focus on renewable energy (such as wind, hydro, photovoltaic, biomass, biogas and cogeneration), acquisitions and green-field investments in the energy sector. The credit and financial institutions, the investment companies and funds as well as the non-banking financial institutions are among his clients. Mihai Dudoiu has also specialised in providing assistance in relation to restructuring of non-performing loans, trading of distressed assets and insolvency matters. He has been involved in the largest deals taking place on the Romanian market in recent years. In addition, his experience includes advising on several cross-border acquisitions/disposals of NPLs in various Eastern European countries.

As a Partner at Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii, Oana Ureche focuses on real estate, corporate and commercial, as well as mergers and acquisitions. She has particular strength in corporate acquisition and sale transactions, related financing issues and preparation of complex sale-purchase operations, having advised both sellers and buyers in sophisticated transactions. She is skilled in drafting of merger plans, due diligence reports and documents substantiating several transactions as well as in negotiating various types of transaction documents. Furthermore, Oana Ureche has been involved in major retail, residential and office development projects, as well as in defining infrastructure projects and has acquired significant experience in matters involving structuring of complex transactions. Her work experience also includes important privatization projects, especially in the electricity and banking sectors.

Oana Gavril is a Partner in the litigation and arbitration practice group at Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii. She has an extensive experience in complex litigation in legal areas such as administrative and fiscal law, labour and civil law, including matters of real estate and matters of corporate law. Oana has conducted numerous disputes concerning the annulment of tax decisions, disputes on determining and sanctioning the irregularities in accessing and using of European funds and/or of national public funds afferent thereof, as well as litigation cases on challenging the building permits/ Zonal Urban Plans and the challenging of various dismissal decisions, and cases regarding enforcement procedures and contractual or tort liability. In addition, Oana was involved in complex international arbitral proceedings.

Raluca Vasilache is a competition Partner with Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii and head of the firm`s practice in this area. She has covered a wide array of legal issues in the field of competition law, as well as intellectual property. Praised for her work on merger control, antitrust and State aid cases she has undertaken numerous procedures of reviewing mergers and acquisitions under antitrust and competition law, acting for multinational clients from various sectors, such as oil, steel, pharma, telecommunications, consumer goods retail, electricity. She has also advised in relation to investigations with the Romanian Competition Council, dawn raids of the authority and State aid matters, as well as on litigation involving competition law issues. Furthermore, she has wide experience with privatization and post-privatization matters of major State-owned enterprises, especially on the merger and State aid issues. Her intellectual property experience includes assistance on various matters, such as consumer protection and anti-counterfeiting, unfair competition, trademark and copyright regulatory issues.

Razvan Gheorghiu-Testa is a Partner at Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii, having built up a strong legal career in real estate, corporate/M&A, as well as taxation. Further to his expertise in real estate matters, he combines tax and corporate law skills offering multidisciplinary strategies and solution in relation to a broad spectrum of property matters. He has been directly involved in many of the most important projects taking place in Romania, including acquisitions and disposal of real estate, investment and development real estate projects, and real estate finance. Razvan Gheorghiu-Testa regularly offers planning advice on investments to major institutional investors, as well as international companies from a variety of industries, such as retail, consumer goods, steel, energy, telecommunications, oil and gas, pharma. In addition to his role as one of the coordinators of the firm’s real estate practice group, he co-heads the firm’s specialised tax division, Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii Tax SRL.Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii and Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii Tax are collaborating with Andersen Global in Romania.

As a Partner at Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii, Robert Rosu co-heads the firm`s litigation and domestic arbitration practice group, the largest department within the firm. He is also responsible for the implementation of a business-oriented approach aimed at assessing the best course of action to be taken in dealing with litigation matters to the advantage of our clients. His practice covers a broad range of litigation matters in the following areas: commercial litigation, usually involving company law and shareholder disputes, administrative, competition, employment, intellectual property, taxation as well as enforcement procedures and criminal litigation. In addition, he is a resourceful litigator who has briefed and argued a number of complex and high-profile cases at the International Court of Arbitration, having acted on behalf of the Romanian government and various foreign investors. Further to his practice in litigation and arbitration, he has been involved in several important state-owned enterprise privatizations as well as acquisition transactions in the private and public sectors.

Serban Paslaru is a Partner at Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii, specialising mainly in PPP, PFI and concessions, as well as labour/employment law where he heads the firm's practice group. In the course of his legal career, he has achieved a considerable body of expertise in dealing with the various stages of the procedures for awarding public procurement and concession agreements, as well as in the management of the legal risks deriving from the applicable legal framework. In this area he has been involved in major projects, especially in infrastructure and public utilities sectors, acting both on the public and the private side. He also has an impressive experience in the employment area of practice where he has coordinated or been involved in a wide variety of projects including personnel restructuring, transfers of undertaking, negotiation of collective bargaining agreements etc.

Silvana Ivan is a Partner at Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii and works as part of the firm’s capital markets and securities, as well as corporate and commercial practice groups. She has a strong background in mergers and acquisitions and privatisation/post-privatisation issues. She regularly assists some of the firm's most important clients in relation to a wide range of capital market/financial instruments transactions, as well as with respect to various regulatory and compliance requirements applicable to the regulated entities in the field. She attended intensive workshops with the Vienna Stock Exchange and Prague Stock Exchange and also with their related clearing and settlement service providers and has further acquired a significant expertise in the drafting and implementing of new capital market regulations and procedures in view of optimising the local legal framework and harmonising it with the relevant international standards and practices. Furthermore, Silvana Ivan took part in high-profile investment projects, acting for renowned multi-national companies active in various industries (e.g. financial services, pharma and healthcare, FMCG etc.), in relation to their operations and investment plans in Romania, including mergers and acquisitions, privatisation/post-privatisation issues, activities’ and business model restructuring, corporate and commercial issues. Silvana also specializes in the applicable regulations affecting the Healthcare sector, covering regulatory compliance matters (for the service providers, staff, special equipment etc), contractual framework with the Health Insurance Houses, legal matters pertaining to service provider-patient relationship, as well as to the relationship between the medical staff and the clinic/hospital, anti-corruption and deontological matters, special insurance requirements, advertising and promotion rules, etc.

Sorin Vladescu is a Partner at Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii, specialising in energy law, especially electricity. Sorin covers regulatory components of M&A and other transactional work arising from the energy sector, including restructuring/de-regulation arising out of the wholesale and retail electricity/power market, as well as development of energy projects (such as electric, oil and gas fired plants, nuclear and hydro-electric plants, etc). He is one of only a handful of lawyers specialising in renewable projects (i.e, financing, development and regulatory issues surrounding wind generation, solar, biomass energy generation). In addition, he has been involved in several major privatisation deals in Romania in the electricity and gas distribution sectors and contributed to the amendment of the regulatory framework relating to the support scheme for the generation of power from renewable energy sources.

Stefan Damian is Deputy Managing Partner at Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii. He specialises in mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance and capital markets. Stefan has built up a considerable body of practice and experience on the merger and acquisitions/privatization, post-merger and acquisitions/privatization issues affecting private and State-owned enterprises, and on the reorganization of corporate and commercial relationships. His capital markets experience includes assistance in the first listing of an international company in Romania, while also working very closely with the main regulatory authorities – the Bucharest Stock Exchange, as well as investment banks, investment and private equity funds, buyout funds, venture capital firms, real estate funds and other alternative investment vehicles, public portfolio companies in many types of investment transactions, including buyouts and recapitalizations, fund formation and management, acquiring participations and exiting procedures, and joint ventures.

Vlad Cercel focuses on PPP/concession and public procurement projects, as well as electronic communications and IT. He has a wealth of practical experience in advising on the application and implementation of the various stages of procedures for awarding PPP and concession contracts, and has in-depth knowledge of the particularities of public procurement, concessions and PPP regulations in specific infrastructure sectors, such as: motorways, national roads, airports, parking facilities, social infrastructure and public utilities. He has represented leading sponsors, lenders, development banks, project originators, equipment suppliers, infrastructure funds, public sector entities, as well as public authorities in relation to public procurement, concessions and public-private partnership agreements. Vlad Cercel has amassed considerable industry knowledge and expertise in advising on regulatory matters affecting the electronic communications and IT field. In his capacity as one of the main coordinators of the firm’s projects in this area, he has been involved in negotiating and drafting sector-specific contracts, including agreements on access and interconnection, facility sharing, value-added services, network building, outsourcing, equipment, service provision, retransmission agreements and so on. He has also covered authorization and licensing procedures and other specific matters in these areas, including mergers and acquisition projects in the TMT sector. Prior to entering private practice, Vlad Cercel worked with the Romanian Regulatory Authority for Communications, where he was directly involved in drafting the primary and secondary legislation applicable to the sector as part of Romania’s integration into the European Union. He also handled a broad range of legal matters in the electronic communications sector.