Valentin Berea
Partner
RTPR | Radu Taracila Padurari Retevoescu SCA
More informationRTPR | Radu Taracila Padurari Retevoescu SCA fields a team of 'highly skilled legal professionals who are experts in EU and competition law'. The group handles the full range of competition matters, including major antitrust investigations, merger approvals, dawn raids, and compliance programs. The client base includes major international and domestic companies and financial institutions. The practice is jointly led by the 'strategic thinker' Valentin Berea and Roxana Ionescu, who focuses on merger control and state aid issues. Andrada Rusan is 'extremely bright and hardworking, a truly rising star'.
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Testimonials
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‘The RTPR Team is fast and bold! What I love about them is that they speak on client's language and they really understand the industry in which the company activates. I think they are excellent partners, an extension of the legal department.’
‘What I like about Valentin Berea is that he speaks on client's language and he really understands the industry in which the company activates. I think he is an excellent partner, an extension of the legal department.’
‘The RTPR team is a longstanding partner for us, which we trust with our most intricate legal matters. The cooperation has always been outstanding – they are the perfect mix of legal expertise, hard work and creativity, hence we always trust that they would come up with the most creative and efficient solutions.’
‘Partner Valentin Berea is a very experienced antitrust litigator, who can pursue a case from stage one administrative phase all the way to a final ruling before local or even European courts, together with talented senior associate Andrada Rusan, who is also specialised in both competition litigation and day-to-day advice. On top of that, partner Roxana Ionescu also masters merger clearance and state aid matters.’
‘The team is composed of highly skilled legal professionals who are experts in EU and competition law. They have extensive experience in handling a wide range of legal matters within these areas.’
‘Great, well resourced team, covering the whole spectrum of competition matters - antitrust, state aid, merger control etc. They have the best antitrust litigation team. Very innovative when it comes to compliance training and they are also the most responsive lawyers I have worked with.'
‘Valentin Berea coordinates this practice and focuses on antitrust investigations and litigation. He is a strategic thinker, very creative, involved and passionate about what he does, which makes him wonderful to work with. Roxana Ionescu is a stellar merger control lawyer. She helped us get a merger clearance in record time, always super careful to every detail. Andrada Rusan is one of their associates, whom I have noticed to be extremely bright and hardworking, a truly rising star.’
Key clients
- Groupama Asigurari
- Electrica
- Zenith Media
- Ursus Breweries
- Regina Maria
- Maspex Romania
- Scania AB, Scania CV AB, Scania Deutschland GmbH, Scania Romania
- Asirom Vienna Insurance Group
- Henkel Romania
- British American Tobacco
Work highlights
- Represented Zenith Media Communications in a case before the European Court of Justice.
- Represented Groupama in court proceedings concerning the reduction of a fine imposed by the Romanian Competition Council.
- Advising Scania on a follow-on private damages case related to a cartel investigation.
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Roxana Ionescu
Partner
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Valentin Berea, Roxana Ionescu