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Adrian Hodis is a Romanian and US qualified lawyer with extensive experience in litigation, dispute resolution, and arbitration matters. He has provided assistance and representation to both domestic and international clients, with a particular focus on construction and infrastructure projects, as well as the oil and gas and renewable energy industries. Adrian's international exposure, gained through his work in the UK and Switzerland, has afforded him valuable opportunities to be part of legal teams representing clients before prestigious international arbitration bodies such as the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), and the ICC International Court of Arbitration.

Alexandra is a partner in the Bucharest’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution team. Alexandra’s expertise includes advising and representing clients in commercial, construction and defense arbitration proceedings before the Court of International Arbitration attached to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania and the ICC International Court of Arbitration, in cases seated in Paris, Vienna and Bucharest, as well as in domestic court proceedings. With regard to general administrative disputes, Alexandra has represented clients in various high-profile competition litigations, in claims against various state authorities, including the National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) and the Environment Fund Administration (AFM), in tax and customs-related litigations, as well as in regulatory and public procurement disputes. Alexandra also regularly advises clients from numerous industries—including highly regulated ones such as pharmaceuticals, telecom, automotive, energy, oil and gas—on domestic and EU industry regulations, competition as well as state-aid matters. With respect to life sciences, she has advised and assisted clients on regulatory matters, HTA procedures, pricing and reimbursement—including cost-volume/cost-volume result agreements, donation and sponsorship agreements, public-private protocols, new health reimbursement schemes, healthcare procurement, internal compliance and ethics investigations, employment matters and regulatory and IP litigation. Alexandra’s expertise in the IP field includes advising and representing clients in both pre-litigious situations and court cases, in connection with various trademark, industrial designs, copyright and Internet domain names infringements and protection.

Alin Roca is an Associate in the Capital Markets group at the Bucharest office. His active involvement in recent capital markets endeavors, including initial public offerings, private placements, and merger and acquisition transactions, highlights his expertise. Alin possesses comprehensive training in conducting due diligence exercises, skillfully drafting prospectuses, and conducting thorough research on regulatory matters.

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Senior associate

Argentina Rafail is a Counsel in Dentons' Bucharest office. She focuses on employment and corporate matters. Argentina has worked on transactions involving employment matters (collective bargaining agreements, individual labour agreements, companies’ internal regulations, disciplinary procedures and EU and non-EU citizens’ immigration formalities in Romania), commercial agreements and operation authorizations for local and international clients in the automotive, engineering, construction and infrastructure sectors.

Partner Bogdan Papandopol is coordinating the real estate practice and is head of Dentons’ Global Real Estate Group in Bucharest. He has over 20 years of experience advising a large number of Romanian and international investors in various types of sophisticated real estate M&A transactions, as well as in privatization processes, especially with the involvement of local and international banks. He advised major renewable energy companies in local and cross-border transactions, coordinating complex real estate due diligence exercises.

With more than 25 years of sector experience, partner Claudiu Munteanu-Jipescu leads Dentons’ Energy practice in Bucharest. Highly specialized in renewable energy, Claudiu has led a large number of wind and solar energy projects advising both international and local companies. His expertise encompasses assisting both on the buyers and sellers’ side, as he has also been known for leading numerous oil and gas projects. Claudiu has also significant experience in mergers and acquisitions, and he regularly advises local and international clients on complex regulatory, contractual and corporate matters.

Partner

Cristina Daianu is a partner in the Bucharest Corporate Group. She heads the Venture Technology practice in Bucharest and the local German Desk. With more than 20 years’ experience in corporate and M&A, Cristina assisted local and international clients - ranging from entrepreneurs to large multinational companies - in the most complex and important transactions on the Romanian market. During her career, she advised on a variety of asset and share deals, business transfers, joint ventures, greenfield projects, reorganization and restructuring matters. She also coordinated investment transactions, on either investor or founder side. Member of Dentons Venture Beyond, Cristina is also an active player in the emerging Romanian start-up scene, being a mentor and panelist in many business incubators/accelerators and staying very close to the start-up eco-system. She advises both founders of tech companies, from the first phases of their venture to scale-up in other markets, also covering advice on various investment rounds. Cristina has extensive international experience, working for many years in Frankfurt, being qualified as an attorney in Bucharest and Paris. She is fluent in English, French and German.

Cristina Marcu is a Counsel and a member of the corporate practice groups of Dentons’ Bucharest office. Cristina’s practice mainly focuses on advising local and international clients on complex domestic and cross-border M&A, joint ventures and private equity transactions as well as general corporate matters. She has broad experience on real estate maters covering significant real estate acquisitions, real estate developments and financing, with particular focus on agribusiness. Cristina has been actively involved on specific IP work and assisted on important TMT transactions on the local market.

Counsel

Elena Vlasceanu has over 15 years of experience in advising domestic and international clients on corporate, mergers and acquisitions, energy, construction, real estate, regulatory and compliance matters. Elena has advised on post-privatization matters arising from the sale purchase agreements concluded between the authorities of the Romanian state and private investors, and on various M&A transactions with a focus on renewable energy, transport and logistics and real estate. She has guided clients through every stage of transactions from due diligence and structuring, to negotiation and preparation of legal documentation, to post-transaction transition and post-merger integration. In addition to her M&A expertise, Elena has extensive experience in the energy sector, advising clients on the successful development (including real estate and construction aspects), commissioning and operation of renewable energy projects. She has also been a member of the working group in charge of providing the amendments to the Law 220/2008 regarding the promotion system of energy from renewable energy sources. As far as her experience in compliance matters is concerned, Elena has advised on and participated in industry-civil society working groups on legislation, and liaised with the Government on the National Anti-Corruption Strategy for 2016-2020. Since giving back to the community is an important aspect of her work, Elena has become a legal volunteer for Code4Romania, where she has provided support on various contractual aspects.

Iulia Titirisca is a key member of the Competition and Antitrust team in Dentons Romani. She is part of the team advising on merger control and merger clearance matters, representing the clients before the Romanian Competition Council.

Lawrence Florescu is a UK and US qualified senior associate in Dentons’ Banking and Finance group in Bucharest. He is often called upon by partners to provide English law advice and transaction management on their cross-border transactions. He specializes in project finance and corporate lending transactions in emerging markets and is actively involved in cross-border transactions spanning Europe, Africa, and Middle East.

Partner

Loredana is partner and head of the Capital Markets group in Bucharest. She has vast experience in both equity and debt capital markets work, having advised issuers and investment banks on local and international deals. A well-known lawyer for capital markets regulatory work, she advises on shareholders’ rights and disputes, takeovers, insider dealing and market abuse, MIFID, transparency and corporate governance requirements, as well as on regulatory aspects of DLT / blockchain solutions. She also advises private equity funds on regulatory matters under AIFMD and EuVECA.

Maria Tomescu is counsel in Dentons’ Bucharest Banking and Finance team. She has more than 15 years of experience advising lenders – banks and international financial institutions – and borrowers in financing transactions in Romania and South Eastern Europe. Her record of accomplishments includes some of the top transactions in the market and she is often lead lawyer on prominent finance deals. She advises on a wide range of real estate and project finance deals, including financings, refinancings and acquisitions of retail/commercial centers, office and logistics; and also on acquisition finance transactions.

Oana is a senior counsel and head of the public procurement practice in Dentons’ Bucharest office. With more than 15 years of professional experience, she has solid experience implementing complex public procurements, PPPs and concession projects in Romania as well as throughout Europe. In her capacity as a public procurement expert of the European Commission, the World Bank and the European Investment Bank, Oana honed her skills in this area, advising private and public clients active in key sectors such as government, security and defense, energy, waste management, automotive, IT&C or infrastructure on a wide range of legal and strategic matters. Clients value her innovative and sustainable procurement advice, as well as her abilities in cross-border joint procurements, preparation and implementation of PPP projects and negotiation of concession contracts. A Fulbright scholar, Oana is a certified expert in Best Value Procurement (BVP), a methodology developed at Arizona State University, widely used to increase the cost-efficiency and effectiveness of the procurement of goods and services.

Counsel

Perry V. Zizzi is Managing Partner of the Bucharest office and head of the Corporate practice group in Romania. He has over a quarter century of experience advising on M&A in the emerging markets of Central and Eastern Europe, Western Europe, the US and elsewhere. He has particular expertise advising private equity clients and he is recognized as a market leader in real estate M&A.

Raul Mihu, partner, heads the competition and life sciences practices of Dentons’ Bucharest office. His expertise in the competition sector includes assessing and reforming clients’ business practices and franchise systems, assisting them in investigations by competition regulators and devising novel approaches to client needs in this field, both in Romania and at the European level. Raul is also specialized in the pharma sector, where he has advised several major drugs companies and distributors on competition and regulatory matters. He also has experience in advising clients in connection with clinical studies made on patients, including on related data protection matters. He is an initiator of CSR and pro-bono programs and has championed several initiatives aimed at streamlining lawyer efficiency by increasing computer literacy and leveraging new technologies.

Sandra is a senior associate in the Dentons Bucharest banking and finance group. She is assisting on a range of finance transactions, with a focus on real estate and acquisition finance, syndicated or bilateral. She acts for banks, international financial institutions and borrowers in transactions in Romania and across CEE. Her background also includes advising on acquisitions of credit institutions and performing and non-performing loan portfolios, factoring arrangements, as well as on regulatory compliance matters in the banking and payment service industries.

Simon Dayes is a Partner in Dentons’ Bucharest Banking and Finance team. Qualified as an UK solicitor, he has been advising banks, international financial institutions and project sponsors in cross border credit transactions in Central Europe from a Bucharest base for over 15 years. Simon works on project finance, structured trade finance and financial restructurings, corporate and real estate lending, and syndications. With sector focuses including energy and renewables, concession-based infrastructure and hotels, Simon has worked widely across Central and Western Europe and Africa.

Simona is an English and New York qualified partner in Dentons’ Banking and Finance team in Bucharest. She focuses on project finance, real estate finance and other financing structures, syndicated and bilateral, secured and unsecured. She has over ten years' experience advising on a broad range of high-profile financings and projects throughout the Central and South East Europe region. She has advised on transactions in the energy and utilities, hotels and leisure, financial services, infrastructure and project finance, as well as the real estate and construction sectors. She acts for lenders and borrowers and has been involved in advising international banks and financial institutions on a number of ground-breaking transactions in the region in recent years.

Stefi Ionescu is a senior associate in Dentons' Bucharest office and a member of the Banking and Finance team. Stefi has over 10 years of experience in transactional and consultancy work for financial institutions as well as investors and large corporates and is dual qualified as a Romanian and English lawyer. Stefi has worked intensively in local and international syndicated financing and debt restructuring deals in a wide variety of sectors, most notably real estate, energy, agribusiness and FMCG. Stefi also regularly advises on regulatory matters in the banking and capital markets sector.

Tiberiu Csaki is a partner and head of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice group based in Dentons' Bucharest office. He concentrates his long standing practice primarily in commercial litigation and international arbitration (including alternative dispute resolution), and also has extensive experience in labor litigation, restructuring and insolvency, mergers and acquisitions, securities and privatizations. Tiberiu has represented major international clients from various industries, such as energy, oil and gas, maritime salvage, chemical industry, insurance, cement and FMCG.