Voicu & Asociatii

The firm: Voicu & Asociatii (formerly Voicu & FIlipescu) was established in 2001 by Romanian lawyers Daniel Voicu and Mugur Filipescu who at that moment took over the Romanian office of the international law firm Arent Fox Kitner Plotkin & Kahn LLP.

Ever since its establishment, Voicu & Asociatii has been one of the top Romanian law firms in terms of turnover, market position and reputation. Today the group includes the law firm, a dedicated tax and accounting company and a specialized insolvency practice, acting in a tryptic formula, our consultancy advisors revolving around the core team of lawyers.

Voicu & Asociatii is a mature law firm, constantly extending its expertise and currently being one of the most important Romanian full-service law firms. Its valuable expertise and wide portfolio of projects are constantly recognized and awarded by national and international research bodies.

Areas of practice:
Mergers and acquisitions: Voicu & Asociatii advises companies on making acquisitions, merging, being acquired, or fending off hostile takeovers, using a variety of transaction formats – leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, recapitalisations, minority investments, spin-offs and covering issues related to bid and tender preparation and mergers and acquisition finance.

Banking and finance: Voicu & Asociatii provides expert advice to prominent international and local financial groups in M&A implementation or their day-to-day corporate, regulatory and commercial matters, restructuring lending activities, and acquisitions or launching new business lines, either by applying for the specific licences or passporting such licences from other EU countries.

Compliance & Consumer protection: Our experts  provide legal advice to international and local clients in connection to general regulatory compliance and consumer protection matters. Our attorneys create specific instruments meant to prevent law breaches affecting client's businesses  and  drawing up their internal regulations to ensure compliance with applicable law. Our expert attorneys provide custom made schemes and training programs for consumer protection best practices, also serving as a liaison with public authorities.

Data protection and privacy: Our expert team covers the full range of data protection and privacy issues including: GDPR compliance (assistance with processes and documentation), data protection audits and trainings,  data processing and transfer agreements, processing and transfer of employee personal data, assistance before the Romanian Data Protection Authority, advice regarding lawful processing of data in the context of marketing-related activities.

Dispute resolution: The Firm’s specialized lawyers have assisted clients in thousands of litigation and international arbitration cases, with a focus on commercial, employment, public procurement, insolvency and tax. Voicu & Asociatii represents large and small companies and partnerships, their officers, directors and management, as well as private individuals, in a diversity of litigation and/or arbitration matters. Its latest projects include public procurement cases, labour litigation, insurance cases as well as commercial, including debt recovery, and civil litigation.

Employment: Voicu & Asociatii ’s specialized practice covers day-to-day employment advice, conducting compliance audits and defining compliant employment documentation, assistance in complex termination cases, collective dismissals, complex outsourcing projects, immigration formalities, employees data privacy, employment litigation and liaising with union/employee representatives.

Real estate and construction: Voicu & Asociatii provides advice to real estate developers in all phases of their investments, including real estate acquisition, permitting, project finance, property development, agreements, lease, exit strategies, dispute resolution and environmental aspects. The firm also assists retailers in their network expansion projects, as well as corporate clients on negotiating, entering/extending and exiting from lease agreements.

PPP and public procurement: the team has extensive experience in assisting clients on procurement procedures. It assists bidders as well as contracting authorities and financing institutions on all phases of procurement procedures and has a high success rate in procurement litigation cases in front of the administrative complaints body as well as in court.

Energy: mergers and acquisitions on the energy market, development of greenfield projects, construction and construction-related permits, engineering, procurement and construction agreements, operation and maintenance agreements, grid connection power agreements, power purchase agreements, including EFET, supply agreements, grant of subsidies process, project finance and regulatory.

Tax: general advice to local and multinational companies on a wide variety of tax and accountancy matters including: financial due diligence investigations, feasibility studies and business valuation, tax assistance involving tax compliance as well as optimization/restructuring advice, payroll services etc.

Insolvency and restructuring: the practice includes services provided as liquidator in bankruptcy files, efficient capitalization of insolvent companies’ assets in a record time-frame as well as official receiver in insolvency files of various companies, with an aim to reinsert their debtors into the business circuit.