CEE/CIS - Romania

Baciu Partners

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‘Experts in Romanian gambling regulation’, boutique firm Baciu Partners leverages its partners’ extensive experience in the gambling sector to deal with the entire spectrum of licensing, compliance, enforcement, and business operations. Its experience with the Romanian National Gambling Office makes the team well-placed to handle regulatory matters. Clients include online and land-based betting and gaming companies, gaming software and platform providers, and payment service providers both domestic and global. Ana-Maria Baciu is ‘proactive and across developments before they happen’.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Ana-Maria Baciu is unbelievably swift in responding to any requests, no matter how complex, and has a very strong industry knowledge.'

  • ‘The team at Simion & Baciu are experts in Romanian gambling regulation. They are proactive, professional and a pleasure to work with. The team always make themselves available at relatively short notice should we need. ’

  • ‘The team has a high professional standard, equity, commitment. Professional opinions are formulated on the basis of deep, detailed, serious, assumed analysis by a team of professional lawyers.’

  • ‘Excellent people skills, extremely reliable as compared with other firms in the region in our experience, and the only firm known for true experience in the betting and gaming sector.’

  • ‘Ana-Maria Baciu: pragmatic, down-to-earth, and overall just a pleasure to deal with. They are proactive and across developments before they happen, just what you want from quality local counsel.’

  • ‘We have never regretted turning to them. Licensing is a laborious process that requires a whole range of necessary skills and experience - from procedural and legal, to understanding the technological aspects of the business. No matter what question we came up with - we always received comprehensive information and qualified assistance.'

Key clients

  • Flutter Entertainment/Betfair
  • Entain/Sportingbet
  • 888
  • Maxbet Group
  • Playtech
  • Microgaming (Prima Networks)
  • Play Online Solutions
  • Worldpay
  • Digitain
  • Balkanix
  • Betsson
  • GLI Europe BV
  • Inspired Entertainment
  • Bragg Gaming

Work highlights

  • Providing advice to 888 in connection with all day-to-day regulatory and legal matters concerning its operations on the Romanian market.
  • Providing assistance to Maxbet in relation to all regulatory, intellectual property, tax, consumer protection or marketing & advertising matters which are relevant for the online operations conducted in Romania.
  • Providing assistance to Balkanix in relation to regulatory and legal matter concerning its local operations.

Lawyers

Leading individuals

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Ana-Maria Baciu

Other key lawyers

Andrei Cosma