Dragne & Asociatii SCA

The firm: Dragne & Asociații is one of Romania’s leading law firms, providing a broad scope of legal services across a wide range of sectors and recognized for its extensive experience in dispute resolution and arbitration. The law firm’s team of dedicated Lawyers is committed to delivering high quality technical advice on each file and understanding each client’s business.

The law firm’s clients range from multinational developers and entrepreneurs in various key industries, leading banks and other financial institutions or private individuals to state-owned companies and state authorities.

Dragne & Asociații’s core practice areas are litigation and arbitration, restructuring and insolvency, corporate and commercial, M&A and enforcement. The law firm also has excellent practitioners in the fields of tax, banking and finance, real estate and construction, employment, intellectual property, competition and antitrust.

Ion Dragne, managing partner, is widely regarded as one of the most experienced and respected litigators in Romania, his litigation practice covering a wide range of legal areas.

The partners of the law firm have a significant role in resolving the law firm’s cases: Stelian Garofil (managing partner), Delia Boșman (deputy managing partner), Andreia Oana Dumitrescu (partner), Daniel Cîrstea (partner), Ioana Oprea (partner), Zoe Lungu (partner), Gabriel Paraschiv (partner), Ana-Maria Filip (partner), Bogdan Toma (partner).

Areas of practice:  Dragne & Asociații is one of the few law firms in Romania having experience in international commercial arbitration, investment arbitration (under the ICSID, ICC, UNCITRAL, VIAC, CCIR and other sets of rules) and cross-border dispute resolution. The law firm has a unique record in successfully handling high stake disputes. Dragne & Asociații’s team has acted for Mr. Viorel Micula and Rieni Drinks SA in the ICSID arbitration that was successfully finalised at the end of 2013, with a 250 million USD ruling as well as in a second ICSID arbitration case in Romania.

The law firm advises on all sort of litigation cases including: commercial and construction disputes, administrative complaints, competition litigation, insurance related claims, enforcement procedures, tax litigation, real estate and property claims, employment disputes, criminal proceedings, consumer protection, intellectual property etc.

The team has experience in handling high-profile restructuring and insolvency projects of multimillion Euros, focusing on the real estate, telecommunication and financing sectors. The team provides advice on matters from creditor claims, reorganization of business and enforcement of security to disposal of assets of bankrupt companies.

Dragne & Asociații also advises on complex transactions and general corporate and commercial issues, in various fields of activity including joint ventures, merger and acquisitions. The team provides assistance on company creation/start-up, public takeovers and various legal issues for non-profit organizations.

Regarding the tax practice area, Dragne & Asociații covers all sorts of tax matters in transactions. The team proficiently advises its clients on tax controversies or disputes with the tax authorities.

The banking and finance department works for many of the commercial financial institutions in Romania and insurance companies. The team advises on real estate finance, project finance, debt restructuring, various regulatory matters, enforcement of securities and negotiation of major financing contracts.

Dragne & Asociații assists multinational companies and private clients investing in Romania in plots of land, energy plants, residential buildings and shopping centers. The work ranges from due diligence to sale purchase contracts, chain of titles checking, land book issues, regulatory matters, negotiation and monitoring lease agreements and FIDIC contracts, to real estate complex litigation.

The team also assists multinational companies on sensitive labour contracts negotiations, drawing up internal policies, termination of executive contracts, restructurings and collective dismissals. The expertise also includes claims for compensation and labour litigation.

Dragne & Asociații advises on the enforcement of IP rights (trademark, design, patent, and copyright), licensing, distribution agreements, franchising deals, unfair competition matters and regulatory aspects of mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. The team has assisted the Romanian Competition Council in relation to investigations and compliance procedures of various companies.