Clifford Chance Badea's corporate and commercial practice in Bucharest acts as a key Eastern European hub for cross-border matters, including major transactions, corporate governance and restructurings. Enel and Mondelez are a couple of international heavyweight clients for the firm, looking to the department for advice on Romanian legal aspects of large deals. Loredana Ralea and Nadia Badea co-head the practice; Ralea is well versed in assisting entities in the consumer goods, financial services and energy sectors, while founding partner Badea represents private equity, real estate, pharmaceutical and healthcare companies. Eleonora Udroiu and Lavinia Dinoci are also recommended.

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  • ‘Industry and business knowledge, people, availability, identifying practical solutions to legal questions and issues.’

  • ‘We have worked intensely in the past years with the Clifford Chance team, relying on their expertise and skills for corporate, contracts, competition, employment. I would recommend each of them to any business in our industry and not only having the confidence that they are great professionals, and the result of the work will achieve and even exceed the expectations of their client.’

  • ‘Clifford Change Badea represents a real elite presence on the legal services market and is recognized for the exceptional quality of the services it offers. When it comes to large and complex projects, Clifford Change Badea is a reliable partner.’

Key clients

  • Enel Green Power Romania
  • Enel SPA
  • Mondelez
  • Actis
  • PayU
  • Enery
  • JC Flowers

Work highlights

  • Assisted Enel Group with the sale of all participations in its group subsidiaries in Romania to Greek company Public Power Corporation.
  • Advised Actis on its joint venture with Low Carbon for the development of two renewable energy projects in Romania.
  • Assisted Actis and its CEE platform Rezolv Energy with the acquisition from Monsson of a Romanian company developing a solar project.

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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Nadia Badea, Loredana Ralea

Other key lawyers

Eleonora Udroiu, Ecaterina Burlacu, Lavinia Dinoci, Andrei Caloian, Radu Costin