Oglinda & Partners

Oglindă & Partners is a Romanian boutique law firm specialized in international arbitration, construction and corporate law. During more than 20 years of experience in this particular area of expertise, Oglinda & Partners' lawyers learned that excellence in arbitration and construction can only come along with a deep know-how in complementary branches as public procurement, M&A and corporate law and real estate.

Therefore, starting in 2016 the boutique was organized on departments able to provide this complementary support for the firm’s main activity – Arbitration and Construction – this way transforming Oglinda & Partners into a top choice for foreign investors interested in arbitration and construction in Romania.

To this day, the firm has kept its core specialization and its major activity regards arbitration and construction, even though the departments initially designed to provide support for the main specialization matured into new areas of practice due to the high demand, which created the necessity to expand these teams and attract talented and experienced lawyers in public procurement, M&A and corporate law and real estate.

Areas of practice:
International arbitration: International arbitration in Romania was born with us and we were born with it.

After the communist economy fell and free market economy took its place, in the 90’s, international arbitration started to evolve in Romania.

As lawyers specialized in international arbitration in Romania, Oglinda & Partners' team has participated in the most complex and innovative cases that shaped the arbitration into becoming the most efficient method of solving commercial litigations in Romania.

Oglinda & Partners’ lawyers have contributed at the birth of Romanian modern arbitration being involved in drafting the Rules of Arbitration of Bucharest Court of Arbitration and promoted the introduction in Romanian Arbitration Rules of new and modern institutions like emergency arbitrator, simplified procedure, interim measures, party appointed experts or the participation of third parties in arbitral proceedings.

Moreover, our lawyers counseled the Romanian Government to enact the law that introduced mandatory arbitration clause into the Romanian Public Procurement Contracts regarding construction and public works.

Our lawyers specialized in Romanian arbitration coordinated the first emergency arbitrator procedure in Romania and in the last 20 years they were involved as lawyers or arbitrators in more than 300 arbitration cases in front of Romanian and foreign arbitral institutions like ICC, VIAC, LCIA, SCC, SHAC or Eastern Europe Courts of Arbitration, covering a wide range of sectors and industries such as energy, environment, construction in public and private sector, banking and finance, waste and water, EPC contracts, pharmaceutical, ITech Law, transportation and maritime law, etc.

Therefore, international arbitration is our law firm's trademark.

Construction and engineering: Oglindă & Partners' construction and engineering team gathers together lawyers and engineers with over 20 years of experience in Romanian construction law, that became leaders on the Romanian market by proving their expertise in major projects for airports, bridges, buildings, dredging, energy, railway, roads, water treatment etc.

Oglindă & Partners has shaped its construction law team in order to offer one of the most innovative and interconnected services in the Romanian construction market that has become a must-have for any contractor or public authority: management of construction contracts.

Providing strategic advice, high-quality drafting and innovative solutions, the team works alongside the most experienced specialists in construction and engineering  in Romania (engineers, architects and construction costs specialists) providing interconnected know-how from the precontractual phase, following the evolution of the project throughout its progress, until its completion, including through assistance and representation in court or arbitral proceedings for disputes which have arisen in relation to  Romanian construction projects.

Corporate and M&A: Foreign investors rely on Oglindă & Partners when they need Romanian lawyers specialized in M&A to help them extend on the Romanian market, frequently aiming for synergy, higher growth, stronger market power or diversity.

Oglindă & Partners provides highly experienced lawyers and of-counsels covering the entire chain of genuine due-diligence so necessary for securing transactions made by foreign investors in Romania: finance, real estate, competition, energy, tax, employment, domestic and cross-border insolvency, state-aid, EU-regulations, compliance, etc.

Oglindă & Partners’ M&A team counts on some of the most experienced litigators and leading specialists in Romania, assisting its clients in insolvency and bankruptcy special procedures, privatizations, restructurings, private transactions, mergers, spin-offs, cross-border acquisitions, divestments, joint ventures.

Public procurement: Oglindă & Partners' public procurement team was tailored throughout its seven years of experience and became leading practitioners in Romanian public procurement, handling the full range of matters in this area.

The team earned this reputation by successfully assisting private and public entities in all stages of the process from initiating the tender according to the selection and award criteria to clarification and evaluation.

Oglindă & Partners’ strong skills in public procurement law are completed by the experience and know-how in representing domestic and international bidders to challenge and defend procurement decisions in front of Romanian Council for Solving Complaints and Romanian courts of law.

The in-depth capacity to provide full services led Oglindă & Partners to be the first choice of foreign investors that participate in Romanian bids in industries such as: infrastructure, transportation, construction, energy and environment, EPC, technology, pharmaceutical and healthcare, education, etc.

Real estate: Success in the Romanian real estate market takes more than basic legal skill and what makes our practice so unique is our profound understanding of the client’s business. We provide commercially viable solutions for leading Romanian project developers, as well as foreign investors in the Romanian real estate market.

With over 20 years of experience as real estate lawyers in Romania, Oglindă & Partners has the resources and capability to build teams suited to each client’s specific interests, offering a solution-oriented approach on the most significant transactions in the Romanian real estate market.

Our Bucharest-based team has earned a leading reputation as real estate litigators, successfully representing private investors as well as public authorities in some of the most complex real estate disputes in front of Romanian courts of law.