Baciu Partners > Bucharest, Romania > Firm Profile
Baciu Partners Offices
AFI Lakeview Building
301-311 Barbu Vacarescu Street, 7th floor
Bucharest 020276
Romania
Baciu Partners > The Legal 500 Rankings
Romania > Intellectual property Tier 1
Full-service firm Baciu Partners fields a specialist IP department that covers all matters in the area. Day-to-day prosecution and advisory work, anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy matters, and collective management of copyright are all routinely handled, and the firm also works closely with its transactional team and litigators to support clients in complex due diligence and IP litigation. ‘Excellent practitioner‘ Andreea Bende and Ana-Maria Baciu jointly lead the department and are all highly regarded, well-known figures in the Romanian market. Senior associate Ileana Nicolescu is a key contact for litigation matters, while Zsofia-Judit Halmagyi provides further support to the practice heads.Practice head(s):
Ana-Maria Baciu; Andreea Bende
Other key lawyers:
Testimonials
‘This is a very versatile, agile and modern law company. The team is very engaged and innovative, reliable and quick. The strengths are the management team and expanded team of lawyers that master their fields of practice. Without having access to inner details, they act like a big, happy family. They provide their services almost in no time and at the highest quality standards. Their team is very pleasant, friendly, approachable, committed, innovative and reliable. Any potential client should know that they can find the proper answer, 100% correct, in this company.’
‘I work closely with Ana-Maria Baciu, and she is one of the best professionals I know, most reliable persons, with a deep sense of reality and urgency. Her exceptional adaptability skills serve as an example for many professionals in her field of activity. Ana-Maria proved to be very flexible and an excellent mediator, moderator in case of divergent points of view. Her very clear and concise manner of expressing technical views on subject matters, make peers acknowledge her as an inspirational professional. Beyond undisputable expertise, Ana-Maria has also always taken into account the greater good when coming up with a solution. She is always calm, confident and true to herself.’
‘Our contact is Andreea Bende who is an excellent practitioner. Andreea’s advice is commercial timely and succinct and she always provides strategies and solutions that are in line with the client’s aims.’
‘Top rate team with significant expertise in all aspects of IP. Extremely reactive and pragmatic business-focused advice.’
‘Ana-Maria Baciu: Extremely competent IP attorney with extensive experience that provides complete but concise advice that is pragmatic and strategic.’
‘The team impresses with its exceptional responsiveness and agility and comprises highly skilled and experienced professionals with in-depth knowledge of IP law. Clients can expect prompt and efficient service without compromising quality.’
‘Andreea Bende stands out for her blend of proficiency, personal attention, and dedication to meeting clients’ unique needs promptly. Andreea is delivering top-tier services.’
‘The team from Simion Baciu law firm has excellent legal knowledge, analyses each case in detail and provides practical solutions. The promptness and professionalism with which they respond to requests is remarkable.’
Key clients
Asociatia Suporter Club UTA
Fiterman Pharma
Dohany KFT
Biotronik AG
Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd.
Pro TV SRL
Nooka Space Limited
Philip Morris International
Viva Wallet/Viva Payments
TEVA Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd and |TEVA Pharmaceuticals SRL
Softnews
Work highlights
- Assisting the UTA football club supporter’s association with safeguarding its rights over the UTA trade mark and official logo.
Romania > TMT: gambling law Tier 1
‘Experts in Romanian gambling regulation‘, boutique firm Baciu Partners leverages its partners’ extensive experience in the gambling sector to deal with the entire spectrum of licensing, compliance, enforcement, and business operations. Its experience with the Romanian National Gambling Office makes the team well-placed to handle regulatory matters. Clients include online and land-based betting and gaming companies, gaming software and platform providers, and payment service providers both domestic and global. Ana-Maria Baciu is ‘proactive and across developments before they happen‘.Practice head(s):
Ana-Maria Baciu
Other key lawyers:
Andrei Cosma
Testimonials
‘Ana-Maria Baciu is unbelievably swift in responding to any requests, no matter how complex, and has a very strong industry knowledge.’
‘The team at Simion & Baciu are experts in Romanian gambling regulation. They are proactive, professional and a pleasure to work with. The team always make themselves available at relatively short notice should we need. ’
‘The team has a high professional standard, equity, commitment. Professional opinions are formulated on the basis of deep, detailed, serious, assumed analysis by a team of professional lawyers.’
‘Excellent people skills, extremely reliable as compared with other firms in the region in our experience, and the only firm known for true experience in the betting and gaming sector.’
‘Ana-Maria Baciu: pragmatic, down-to-earth, and overall just a pleasure to deal with. They are proactive and across developments before they happen, just what you want from quality local counsel.’
‘We have never regretted turning to them. Licensing is a laborious process that requires a whole range of necessary skills and experience – from procedural and legal, to understanding the technological aspects of the business. No matter what question we came up with – we always received comprehensive information and qualified assistance.’
Key clients
Flutter Entertainment/Betfair
Entain/Sportingbet
888
Maxbet Group
Playtech
Microgaming (Prima Networks)
Play Online Solutions
Worldpay
Digitain
Balkanix
Betsson
GLI Europe BV
Inspired Entertainment
Bragg Gaming
Work highlights
- Providing advice to 888 in connection with all day-to-day regulatory and legal matters concerning its operations on the Romanian market.
- Providing assistance to Maxbet in relation to all regulatory, intellectual property, tax, consumer protection or marketing & advertising matters which are relevant for the online operations conducted in Romania.
- Providing assistance to Balkanix in relation to regulatory and legal matter concerning its local operations.
Baciu Partners > Firm Profile
BACIU PARTNERS is a business law firm that stands out thanks to its team members independently acclaimed manner to find different and better answers to client’s questions. Our reputation in the Romanian legal market is a result of our firm’s native enthusiastic spirit that is amplified by our clients’ trust in our commitment to provide outstanding legal assistance in a rapid, accessible, and genuinely useful manner.
We come up with feasible legal alternatives that have a sound touch of business acumen. Such approach is doubled by constant vigilance in the face of ever-changing legislation, advocacy initiatives, and active contributions to the professional associations such as AmCham Romania, Concordia, INTA, ECTA, MARQUES, AIPPI or IMGL. Generally, this positions us as the first to signal and to answer genuinely difficult questions from clients in the areas of practice of our expertise: intellectual property, consumer protection, advertising and other regulatory (AML, data privacy), gaming and gambling, complemented by vital points of view on corporate/ M&A aspects and dispute resolution.
Independent observers acknowledge our team members’ goal to foster a collaborative professional environment that echoes the sound of knowledge we create through our collective capabilities, experiences, skills, and genuine personal commitment.
Our shared objective is for each of us to contribute our respective distinctive voice to the unique and unmatchable sound of BACIU PARTNERS.
BACIU PARTNERS is the umbrella brand for BACIU & ASOCIATII Law Firm, BACIU BENDE IP SRL and BPARTNERS 360 REGLATORY SRL.
BACIU PARTNRES
AFI Lakeview Building, 301-311 Barbu Vacarescu street, 7th floor
Bucharest 020276
Email: office@baciupartners.ro
Telephone: +40-31 437 80 13
Main Contacts
| Department | Name | Telephone | |
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| Managing Partner | Ana-Maria Baciu | ana-maria.baciu@baciupartners.ro | +40-31 437 80 13 |
Lawyer Profiles
| Photo | Name | Position | Profile |
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Mrs Ana-Maria Baciu | Managing Partner | View Profile |
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Mrs Andreea Bende | Partner | View Profile |
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Mr Andrei Cosma | Managing Associate | View Profile |
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Adela Nuta | Managing Associate | View Profile |
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Mrs Corina Roman | Managing Associate | View Profile |
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Mrs Irina Valeanu | Managing Associate | View Profile |
Languages
Romanian (native) English (fluent) French Spanish Italian HungarianMemberships
Bucharest Bar AmCham Romania (American Chamber of Commerce in Romania) INTA (International Trademark Association) MARQUES (Association of European Trade Mark Owners) ECTA (European Communities Trademark Association) AIPPISpotlights
Intellectual Property
BACIU PARTNERS is a business law firm that stands out thanks to the independently acclaimed expertise of its team members in intellectual property, consumer protection and advertising, gaming & gambling regulatory.
This is complemented with strong capabilities in corporate/M&A, as well as in other regulatory fields such as anti-money laundering (AML) or data privacy; also, in times of contradiction, that require unblocking sensitive situation, we smoothy mix consultancy negotiation skills with our dispute resolution capabilities.
Our firm’s innate enthusiastic spirit is amplified by our clients’ trust in our commitment to respond to their legal needs with outstanding services in a rapid, accessible, and primarily useful manner. Our secret? We immerse our minds into their projects to understand what they want to achieve. We come up with feasible legal alternatives that have a sound touch of business acumen and are consistently practical.
Our unique reputation in the Romanian legal market is a result of our aspiration to solve legal intricacies that our clients and business partners meet, regardless of their complexity and industry-based specificity. We concentrate on understanding contexts and invest time and effort to unearth pros and cons before transforming them into coherent legal assistance. Thanks to our team members’ early and consistent exposure to the design and rolling out of some of the current most ardent legislative frameworks, we can assist with immediately actionable insights in industries such as retail, gaming, media and entertainment, FMCG, technology, sports, luxury goods, fashion, and many more.
Through its Intellectual Property practice, BACIU PARTNERS makes available to the business community the in-depth knowledge more commonly associated with boutique IP firms, authentically coupled with the resources and expertise required for complex transactional work and disputes resolution representation characteristic to business law firms.
We aim to constructively question the status quo and use our curious minds to find different and better answers to our client’s questions. To do so, we find inspiration in exchanging ideas and encourage a constant flow of feedback by direct interaction with clients and peers. Our mind set is boosted by active roles of our team members in professional organizations including the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Romania, INTA, ECTA, MARQUES, AIPPI, IMGL and Concordia (Employers’ Confederation). In this way, we consolidate our specific manner of staying ahead of the common course of legal thinking and anticipating trends.
TMT: gambling law
BACIU PARTNERS is a business law firm that stands out thanks to the independently acclaimed expertise of its team members in intellectual property, consumer protection and advertising, gaming & gambling regulatory.
This is complemented with strong capabilities in corporate/M&A, as well as in other regulatory fields such as anti-money laundering (AML) or data privacy; also, in times of contradiction, that require unblocking sensitive situation, we smoothy mix consultancy negotiation skills with our dispute resolution capabilities.
Our firm’s innate enthusiastic spirit is amplified by our clients’ trust in our commitment to respond to their legal needs with outstanding services in a rapid, accessible, and primarily useful manner. Our secret? We immerse our minds into their projects to understand what they want to achieve. We come up with feasible legal alternatives that have a sound touch of business acumen and are consistently practical.
Our unique reputation in the Romanian legal market is a result of our aspiration to solve legal intricacies that our clients and business partners meet, regardless of their complexity and industry-based specificity. We concentrate on understanding contexts and invest time and effort to unearth pros and cons before transforming them into coherent legal assistance. Thanks to our team members’ early and consistent exposure to the design and rolling out of some of the current most ardent legislative frameworks, we can assist with immediately actionable insights in industries such as retail, gaming, media and entertainment, FMCG, technology, sports, luxury goods, fashion, and many more.
In TMT: Gaming and Gambling law, we embed industry-specific understanding in our work, given that we have been at the forefront of the development of the Romanian gambling market – we have been building our expertise ever since the first international companies active in this field started tackling Romania, including by being involved in the drafting of the Romanian gambling legislation and cooperating with professional industry associations.
We aim to constructively question the status quo and use our curious minds to find different and better answers to our client’s questions. To do so, we find inspiration in exchanging ideas and encourage a constant flow of feedback by direct interaction with clients and peers. Our mind set is boosted by active roles of our team members in professional organizations including the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Romania, INTA, ECTA, MARQUES, AIPPI, IMGL and Concordia (Employers’ Confederation). In this way, we consolidate our specific manner of staying ahead of the common course of legal thinking and anticipating trends.
- Intellectual property
- TMT: gambling law