Deputy Managing Partner. Iulian Popescu specializes in all aspects of Corporate & Commercial work, and is well-known for bringing a business-oriented and strategic approach when advising clients on public and private mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, disposals, joint ventures, and negotiation of various commercial contracts. Iulian advises multinational and local leading players across a wide array of industries, with a particular focus on Energy, Environment, Telecom, IT & Media, Infrastructure, Shipping, Aviation & Transport. Iulian’s innovative approach and wealth of experience in successfully executing some of the most sophisticated energy, TMT and infrastructure projects, many across multiple jurisdictions, make him a top choice for clients from these sectors, as he is able to draw on his practical and comprehensive expertise to advise on all aspects of their businesses. He is also particularly skilled in public acquisitions and PPPs, concession law and licensing/regulatory issues. He regularly works with leading international and domestic telecom operators and media and technology companies on the full range of matters relating to IT law, interconnection and outsourcing agreements, online commerce, and data protection.Iulian is also deeply knowledgeable of the Shipping, Aviation & Transport sectors, with particular focus on shipping and the admiralty, where he has extensive experience in dealing with contentious and non- contentious matters related to multi-jurisdictional disputes and transactions.
Muşat & Asociaţii
The ‘prompt, dedicated and efficient’ team at Musat & Asociatii is well regarded for handling a broad range of corporate matters, including large M&A deals, divestments, corporate governance, joint ventures and transfers of business. Gheorghe Musat is a highly respected practitioner, and Razvan Stoicescu is 'highly professional and efficient'. Iulian Popescu, IP expert Paul Buta and Monia Dobrescu, who focuses on finance transactions, are key lawyers in the practice. All named practitioners jointly head up the practice.
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Testimonials
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‘Musat is a big law firm with many lawyers specialized in various domains. We have been working with them for so many years so they know very well the company. Their lawyers are prompt, dedicated and efficient.’
‘I will mention here Razvan Stoicescu, the main partner who is very business and strategic oriented, with excellent communication skills, very prompt and efficient.’
‘Excellent level of market knowledge.’
‘We worked with Razvan Stoicescu, and he was highly professional and efficient. Working with him was amazing.’
‘I'm working closely with Razvan Stoicescu and his team since 2017 on different topics. He is a good leader - establishing the overall strategy and working together and very closely with his team for achieving the best results. Always available, we can count on his prompt support. He treat the matters with professionalism and responsibility.’
‘Razvan Stoicescu - hard working lawyer, very responsible, very good attitude in general, having a great experience on legal matters. Great way of dealing with his clients, always with a positive attitude and always oriented to find the best solutions considering the business needs.’
Key clients
- Geely Holding Group and Geely Automobile Holdings Limited
- Kohlberg Group
- Romgaz SA
- Ecolab Group
- Investcorp
- Engie Romania S.A.
- Premier Capital B.V.
- Amazon.Com Inc.
- Hili Properties PLC
- Sika AG
- Adesgo
Work highlights
- Advised Geely Holding Group and Geely Automobile Holdings Limited on the Romanian legal aspects of a joint venture agreement with Renault Group to launch a new powertrain technology company.
- Advised Kohlberg & Company on its investment in in Worldwide Clinical Trials (WCT).
- Advised SNGN Romgaz on corporate governance matters.
Lawyers
Next Generation Partners
Deputy Managing Partner. Razvan Stoicescu has been acting as a transactional lawyer for more than 15 years. During this time, Razvan has been active in M&A and Privatizations, Banking & Finance and Capital Markets being involved in significant / representative deals for the local market. In his day to day activity, Razvan also advises on matters of Corporate & Commercial Law, Public Procurement & PPPs, and Energy and Natural Resources. Razvan advises in a variety of M&A deals, including acquisitions, mergers and divestitures, cross‑border transactions, take-private transactions, joint ventures (including ventures involving Romanian public authorities), or privatizations. The M&A expertise also encompasses corporate governance and related liability advice for both public and private equity companies.Razvan also advises financers, borrowers, underwriters, and issuers on domestic and international financings (acquisition finance, capitalizations, security taking and enforcement in Romania), capital markets offerings, structured products, derivatives, as well as the regulations of the financial & banking and capital markets fields.Razvan’s clients include public and private companies ranging from blue-chip multinational corporations to local companies, private equity and other financers, including venture capital, and sovereign funds, boards of directors of private, or public companies, as well as the Romanian State and other local ministries and public institutions.Razvan is an arbitrator with the arbitration panel of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, and an insolvency practitioner. Between November 2016 and May 2017, Razvan held the position of independent non‑executive member of the board of directors of the biggest listed Romanian natural gas company, SNGN Romgaz S.A., a company admitted to trading on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, and with GDRs trading in the London Stock Exchange, with a market value of EUR 2.5bln.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Gheorghe Mușat, Răzvan Stoicescu, Iulian Popescu, Paul Buta, Monia Dobrescu