Biris Goran SPARL

Competition/Antitrust

Co-managing Partner

A founding partner of Biriș Goran, Gelu is one of the top antitrust practitioners in Romania, acting primarily in the areas of competition and antitrust law as well as mergers and acquisitions for more than 26 years. He is regularly called upon by leading multinationals in Romania to handle major merger control applications, to assist during cartel or dominance investigations and to manage their antitrust compliance programs in areas such as banking, retail, construction pharmaceutical & energy.

In addition to competition law, Gelu focuses on mergers & acquisitions.

His experience covers a large range of industries and business sectors, including fast moving consumer goods, construction materials, banking, tobacco, pharmaceuticals and breweries.

Prior to this, Gelu worked in the Bucharest offices of US law firm Altheimer & Gray and Salans from 1999 to 2006. Before that, he worked at the Romanian Competition Council, where he investigated mergers and acquisitions, evaluated potentially illegal agreements and abusive business practices. A Fulbright Scholar, he is admitted to both the New York and Bucharest Bar Associations and is the president of Romanian Association of Fulbright Alumni.

Romanian, English

New York Bar (admitted 2006) Bucharest Bar (admitted 1999)

Northwestern University School of Law, Fulbright Scholar (LL.M. with honors, 2003); University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law (Law Degree, 1997)