The energy and natural resources team at Musat & Asociatii advises across the entire energy-related spectrum, including on energy trading, generation, distribution, transmission & supply licensing, alongside emissions trading and renewable energy matters. In the oil and gas sector, the team is experienced in upstream and downstream projects. The unit’s mining expertise includes both restructuring in the state-owned mining sector and new investments in the mining field. Iulian Popescu and Razvan Stoicescu co-lead the team. Andrei Ormenean is praised by clients for his ‘innovative approaches to legal challenges’. 

Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Collaboration and people.’

  • ‘Razvan Stoicescu is very opened mind, very professional and very inventive.’

  • ‘The strength of the Energy and natural resources team is reflected in its efficiency, its experience and the capability to deliver complete legal advise, focusing on the client's goal and committed to finding a wide range of solutions available to the client's needs.’

  • ‘Andrei Ormenean, acting in his role as Partner, is a strategic thinker and has proved resilience, determination and innovative approaches to legal challenges in this dynamic, constantly changing legal field.’

Key clients

  • Transenergo COM S.A.
  • Hidroelectrica

Work highlights

  • Assisted and represented Transenergo COM S.A. in three complex international arbitrations before the German Arbitration Institute and the Court of International Commercial Arbitration attached to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania.
  • Assisting Hidroelectrica in connection with a complex arbitration dispute arising in connection with a complex infrastructure project of national importance regarding the rehabilitation of one of the largest hydropower plants in Romania.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Iulian Popescu, Răzvan Stoicescu

Other key lawyers

Andrei Ormenean