Zamfirescu Racoti Vasile & Partners

Dispute Resolution, Intellectual Property

Managing Partner

Cosmin Vasile is managing partner of Zamfirescu Racoți Vasile & Partners and head of the firm’s Arbitration Practice Group. He has extensive experience of more than 23 years in handling cross-border disputes and boasts already an outstanding track-record of around 100 international arbitration proceedings as counsel and arbitrator conducted under various laws and sets of arbitration rules, including ICC, LCIA, CAM, SCC, VIAC, UNCITRAL, ICSID and CICA.

Cosmin has successfully coordinated an impressive number of significant and mission critical disputes for his clients, often in the glare of media attention. Winning groundbreaking awards for his clients in Romania has brought him international recognition and a well-deserved place among the best arbitration practitioners worldwide, being held in esteem for his work as a counsel. As one of the leading experts in construction, capital markets, privatization and energy arbitrations in Romania, Cosmin is called upon to provide legal counsel to both government institutions and private companies.

Cosmin is one of the top Romanian lawyers with significant experience in investment arbitration, having advised both on high-profile ICSID and ad-hoc investor-state arbitrations. He helps clients in a variety of industries including energy, infrastructure and financial services and is valued for his in-depth knowledge of procedural rules, investment arbitration case law, public international law, and investment treaty interpretation.

Cosmin has acted in cases concerning a wide range of commercial contracts in various industry sectors. Cosmin regularly sits as arbitrator in domestic and international proceedings. In addition to his appointment to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators, he is a CIETAC and CICA arbitrator and acts as a member of several arbitration institutions including the SCC Arbitrators’ Council, the IBA Arbitration (Co-Chair of the Insolvency and International Arbitration Working Group) Committee, The Institute for Transnational Arbitration (Co-Chair of the European Task Force), and The London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), Arbitration and ADR worldwide.

. Since 2015 he is a member of the Court College of The Court of International Commercial Arbitration attached to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania.

In court, Cosmin has an impressive record, being popular among major domestic and international corporations for advice in high-profile commercial, administrative-contentious, public procurement and capital markets disputes. During the last years, he has focused on cross-border litigations, international private law matters and a wide range of commercial disputes in various industry sectors, such as construction, energy, privatization, M&A. Cosmin also acts for a significant client roster in intellectual property matters, being a highly regarded IP litigator in both patent and trademarks.

Cosmin was the ICC YAF Regional Representative for the Europe and Russia chapter for the 2017–2019 mandate. From this position, he was responsible for the promotion and development of the dynamic global network of young arbitration talent.

He regularly speaks and publishes on topics related to arbitration and is a member of the Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Committees of the International Bar Association (IBA). He holds a doctorate degree from the University of Bucharest and defended his doctoral thesis on the topic “The Applicable Law in the Ad Hoc Commercial Arbitration” (2011). Cosmin is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in London (FCIArb) since 2012 and holds a diploma in International Arbitration from this institute. He has been awarded the Certificate of the ICC Advanced Arbitration Academy for Central and Eastern Europe and the Certificate of the International Academy for Arbitration Law (Paris).

Bucharest Bar, 2001

English, Romanian

National Association of Romanian Bars International Bar Association (Co-Chair of the Insolvency and International Arbitration Working Group) The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London (Member, Fellow) Young International Arbitration Group, Court of International Arbitration, London China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) (Arbitrator) International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (Arbitrator, Conciliator) The London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) (Member) Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, SCC Arbitrators' Council (Member of the Council) The Court of International Commercial Arbitration attached to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania (Member of the Court College, Arbitrator) ICC Young Arbitrators Forum International Council for Commercial Arbitration International Arbitration Institute (IAI Paris) Dispute Resolution International Board, IBA The Alternative Banking Dispute Resolution Centre (Conciliator) Institute for Transnational Arbitration  (Co-Chair of the European Task Force)

BA in Law, Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest | 2001 LL.M in Public Law, National School of Political and Administrative Studies | 2002 Psychology and Pedagogy Studies, Faculty of Psychology, University of Bucharest | 2003 Post-graduate Studies in Private Law, Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest | 2004 Ph.D in Law, Thesis “The applicable Law in the ad-hoc Commercial Arbitration”, Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest | 2011 Diploma in International Arbitration, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London | 2012 Certificate ICC Advanced Arbitration Academy for Central and Eastern Europe | 2015 Diploma International Academy for Arbitration Law, Paris | 2016 Diploma Reimagining Strategy: Applying Design Thinking To Your Organization, Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts ǀ 2020