Monica Iancu
Monica Iancu is a Partner with very large and diverse relevant transactional background, having acted in a significant number of prominent transactions, advising leading domestic and international energy companies on mergers, acquisitions, privatizations and alliances, as well as on regulatory issues related to market operation.
She has wealth of experience in the energy and natural resources field, having experience across the entire value chain, from generation to supply, transmission and distribution. She is one of the few lawyers on the market with expertise in all the energy fields (both oil and gas and electricity, renewable and conventional sources alike).
Monica has also particular interest in energy transition, nuclear, low carbon energy assets and energy regulation and has acted on complex, first-in-market transactions. She has advised on the largest project by value project in Romania (nuclear technology) and she was involved in an oil & gas project, offshore Romania, one of the most complex oil and gas transactions on the Romanian market in the recent period.
She tops her expertise with significant involvement in digitally driven energy projects which place her very well among the lawyers with full competence to advise on the whole array of projects in the context of the Green Deal.
Monica is also a well-rounded and skilled lawyer, acknowledged by clients for her expertise in virtually all TMT matters across industries such as fintech, whose expertise covers all TMT matters across a variety of industries, such as fintech, energy, retail, pharma.
She is known for her experience in connection with a variety of contracts concerning the setting up of the national wide service for the return guarantee system, including the whole package concerning the software development, acquisition and maintenance contracts for the participants registration platform and the IT equipment required to operate the system, assistance for the setting up and continuous development and upgrade of the legal attributes and conditions for a blockchain-powered platform aimed at creating an ecosystem representing the first peer-to-peer, fully decentralized energy transfer platform allowing users to send and receive energy worldwide, based on its proprietary virtual balancing system, that uses A.I, Big Data, and IoT technologies. She provides constant advise to the largest social platform in relation to all legal matters concerning the Romanian market.
Monica’s practice also covers a broad wide range of compliance projects in the data protection field. Monica has led numerous cross-practice teams in GDPR mapping, gap analysis and implementation projects for some of the most prestigious companies in Romania active in data privacy most exposed / intense industries including energy, banking, retail, pharma.