Stratulat Albulescu has advised the Ministry of Research, Innovation, and Digitalization of Romania on the merger between Orange Romania and Orange Romania Communications.
Orange Group is a telecommunications and digital service provider, serving more than 287 million customers worldwide.
The firm explained that "the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization of Romania is the state authority in the fields of research, experimental and technological development, innovation, communications and digitalization, cyber security, postal services, radio communications, information technology, information society, and the national interoperability framework."
According to Stratulat Albulescu, the merger had the aim to “create a fully converged telecommunications operator by integrating the latter into Orange Romania. The consolidated company following the merger will further Orange's objective of becoming the preferred provider of fixed-mobile convergent services on the Romanian market, both for the residential and business segments. At the same time, it will stimulate investment and competition in the telecommunications sector in Romania, which will undoubtedly bring benefits to society as a whole. Since the acquisition in 2021 by Orange Romania of 54% shares in the fixed services operator, Orange Romania Communications (previously Telekom Romania Communications) and Orange went through a series of important technical steps, which allowed the unification of contact channels to ensure an aligned customer experience for Orange Romania Communications S.A. customers, as well as the launch of the first joint commercial offer.”
The Stratulat Albulescu team included Managing Partner Silviu Stratulat, Partners Cristina Man and Andrei Albulescu, Managing Associate Adrian Hlistei-Muresan, and Senior Associates Bogdan Florea and Amanda Csaki.
