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New Partner Maria Maxim Joins Wolf Theiss Romania

New Partner Maria Maxim Joins Wolf Theiss Romania

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The Bucharest office of Wolf Theiss has expanded its TMT and data protection & compliance practice by adding former EY Senior Manager Maria Maxim to its team. 

Maxim, who joins as Partner and Head of Data Protection, has a career of almost 20 years, during which, Wolf Theiss reports, she "has implemented numerous high-level data protection and compliance programs for major companies and has held a number of external trainings in her areas of expertise." According to the firm, "she has extensive knowledge of the telecom industry, with 18 years of experience working as in-house legal counsel of Telekom SA (former Romtelecom SA), where she started her career in 1990. From 1998, Maria was the legal counsel of the Bucharest branch and between 1999 and 2009 she held different positions as coordinator of the Litigation Division and Labour Affairs of Telekom SA and was thereafter appointed as the President of the Disciplinary Committee. Between 2009-2016 Maria served as the Chief Compliance Officer, and Data Privacy Officer Romania/Anti – Money Laundering for Telekom Romania and also for the other related Romanian subsidiaries of Deutsche Telekom. Her impressive experience includes also the position of Senior Manager, FIDS inside Ernst & Young Romania, where she conducted investigations in several areas, implemented compliance programs, risk assessment procedures and data privacy programs (EU GDPR)."

Maxim has a degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest and a Master's degree in Business Law from Titu Maiorescu University, Bucharest. She recently graduated from the EMBA at Maastricht School of Management and is currently enrolled in the PhD program in Civil Law at the University of Bucharest.

"I am very pleased to join a leading regional law firm such as Wolf Theiss and to be part of an exceptional team of professionals, with a reputation for providing quality legal services in Central and South-East Europe," said Maxim. "I am keen to further develop the Wolf Theiss data protection and compliance practice, relying on my professional experience to ensure, together with my Romanian and regional colleagues, that we become one of the preferred choices for legal services in this field and in related sectors."

Bryan Jardine, Managing Partner of the Wolf Theiss Bucharest office, stated: "We are very excited to have Maria Maxim join Wolf Theiss and to lead our data protection practice in Romania, an area which is becoming increasingly important for companies in all industries, especially in the context of entry into force of the GDPR (The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation). The addition of Maria underscores the firm's goal to develop a preeminent regional data protection law practice."

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Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații is a full-service independent law firm, employing cross-disciplinary teams of lawyers, insolvency practitioners, tax consultants, IP counsellors, economists and staff members. It also operates a secondary law office in Cluj-Napoca (Romania), and has a ‘best-friend’ agreement with a leading law firm in the Republic of Moldova. In addition, thanks to the firm’s dedicated Foreign Desks, the team provides the full range of services to international investors seeking to gain a foothold or expand their existing operations in Romania. Since 2019, the firm and its tax arm are collaborating with Andersen Global in Romania.

Țuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii is providing legal services in every aspect of business, covering all major areas of practice: corporate and M&A; litigation and international arbitration; corporate tax; public procurement; TMT; employment; insurance; banking and finance; capital markets; competition; healthcare and pharmaceutical; energy and natural resources; environmental; intellectual property; real estate; regulatory legal services.

Țuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii is a First-Tier law firm in all international legal directories and a multiple award-winning law firm both locally and internationally. It received the CEE Deal of the Year Award (DOTY Awards 2021) and the Law Firm of the Year Award: Romania (IFLR Europe Awards 2021). 

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