Dispute resolution lawyer Raluca Petrescu, Competition lawyer Mihaela Ion and Real Estate lawyer Ioana Sampek have joined the Popovici Nitu Stoica & Asociatii partnership as of January 1, 2018.
Raluca Petrescu, who became Partner in PNSA's International Arbitration & Complex Claims Practice Group, has spent more than ten years with the firm. She completed a double education in Romanian and French law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Bucharest (where she received her Degree in Law and Master’s Degree) and the University of Paris 1 Pantheon - Sorbonne, France (when she received a Master’s Degree in Business Law). According to PNSA, "Raluca has been involved in various international arbitration proceedings conducted under the Rules of the ICC, ICSID, and Court of International Commercial Arbitration attached to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania, as well as in complex court proceedings. Raluca’s arbitration and litigation expertise is doubled by a strong knowledge in various fields of law such as mergers & acquisitions, energy, privatizations and real estate."
Mihaela Ion became Partner in the Competition & Antitrust Practice Group after being with PNSA for over twelve years. Ion holds a Degree in Law from the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu) and Master’s Degrees in European and International Business, Competition, and Regulatory Law from the Free University in Berlin, in Competition from the Bucharest Academy for Economic Studies, and in International Relations and European integration from the Romanian Diplomatic Institute. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in International Trade Law with Bucharest Academy for Economic Studies, Institute for Doctoral Studies. According to PNSA, "Mihaela has extensive experience in antitrust, unfair competition and trade regulations, including in consumer law, merger control proceedings and state aid.|
Ioana Sampek, who became Partner in the Real Estate Practice Group and who focuses on office, logistics, and industrial real estate management, has been with PNSA for over thirteen years. She holds a Degree in Law from the Romanian American University of Bucharest, and the firm describes her as having "extensive experience in real estate, advising some of the largest real estate investors in Romania on the acquisition, development, lease and operation of high-profile office, logistics & industrial buildings."
"Promoting Raluca Petrescu, Mihaela Ion and Ioana Șampek to partner is a natural next step for them and for us all in PNSA, fully consistent with our performance-based open-partnership values," said Managing Partner Florian Nitu.
