Budusan & Asociatii SPARL

The firm: Set up in 2008, Budusan & Associates’ white-collar defence and compliance practice only handles a select variety of criminal defence issues with a diverse team of specialized lawyers led by former high-ranking prosecutor Ovidiu Budusan.

The firm does not handle street crime, and selects its elite crime cases (political actors, high-profile state officials and dignitaries, industrialists etc) based on a thorough, case-to-case analysis.

The firm represents corporations, boards of directors, executives and public officials in criminal and related regulatory enforcement proceedings in Romania, or with Romanian ties. Collectively, in over a decade, the lawyers of the firm have tried hundreds of major criminal trials.

In addition to wide-ranging white-collar experience, the firm’s lawyers draw upon their prior experience in other core practice areas, including corporate and securities, finance, accounting and tax, pharmaceutical industry and energy industry.

Clients also benefit from the firm’s commanding presence on the Romanian market for over a decade, and from the firm’s depth of experience counselling clients facing high-profile investigations and enforcement proceedings.