Capital Markets and Securities; Corporate and Commercial; Mergers, Acquisitions and Privatisations; Healthcare/Medical Services.

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.

University of Bucharest (LL.B., 2000), Central European University, Budapest (L.L.M. in International Business Law, 2003).