Zamfirescu Racoti Vasile & Partners

Dispute Resolution, Arbitration, White-Collar Crime, Insolvency

Senior Partner and Founder

Senior Partner and founder of Zamfirescu Racoti Vasile & Partners, Calin-Andrei Zamfirescu is Head of the Dispute Resolution department. Calin is a leading Romanian expert in litigation and arbitration, acting as counsel for major clients in important domestic and international litigation and arbitration proceedings, being praised for his experience in banking, finance, insolvency, liquidation, and bankruptcy-related contentious matters.

As to his relevant experience, he has been an arbitrator in an impressive number of national and international arbitration proceedings, which places him along the most experienced arbitration experts in Romania. Also, he has participated in the elaboration of the major law projects, as the laws on banks privatization, the banking law and the bankruptcy procedure for banking companies.

Calin legally assists and represents clients in front of the courts of law (including the Courts of Appeal and the High Court of Annulment and Justice), the Constitutional Court, the Court of International Commercial Arbitration attached to the Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and other international arbitral courts.

He is Honorary President of the National Union of Romanian Bars, the National Union of Liberal Professions as well as Head of the Romanian Delegation before CCBE (Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe).

Romanian, English, French

Bucharest Bar Association (Since 1976 | Honorary member since 2002) Romanian Lawyers Association (Vice President | 1994-1999; President of the Central Discipline Committee | 1992-1999) National Association of Romanian Bars (President | 1999-2007, Honorary President | 2007-present) Court of International Commercial Arbitration, Bucharest, Romania (Arbitrator since 1999) INSOL Europe (Member since 1999) Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (Head of the Romanian Delegation since 1999) Romanian Association of Liberal Professions (Honorary President since 2007; President | 2002-2004) Balkan Lawyers Association (President | 2003-2005) International Bar Association (Member since 1998)

BA in Law, Magna cum laudae, Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest | 1976 Post-graduate course in Civil and Commercial Law, Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest | 1986