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RTPR Allen & Overy has announced that litigator Valentin Berea has joined the firm as Partner, bringing with him a team of three lawyers. Berea moves over from Bulboaca & Asociatii in Bucharest, where he spent the past 7 years.
Dentons’ Bucharest office has confirmed that Partner Perry Zizzi — who practiced with legacy Salans in Bucharest from 2003-2007, well before that firm merged into the new Dentons — has returned to the fold.
Bondoc & Asociatii has assisted Fondul Proprietatea in its sale of the 13.5% stock of shares it held in Transelectrica.
Perry Zizzi, Partner of Clifford Chance Badea has announced his plans to leave the Bucharest office of the Magic Circle firm, effective July 15. Sources report that the he will move to the Bucharest office of Dentons.
Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker (PHJW) has announced that it advised Citigroup Global Markets Limited, Raiffeisen Bank, and Societe Generale on the EUR 444.3 million initial public offering of Electrica (initially reported by CEE Legal Matters on June 26).
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Voicu & Filipescu and Reff & Associates, working together, have successfully defended representatives of the Bank of Cyprus before the Romanian Supreme Court.
An RTPR Allen & Overy team led by Partner Mihai Ristici and Counsel Alina Stavaru has advised Facebook on its acquisition of LiveRail Romania, a business specializing in providing online video commercials. Buzescu Ca advised on human resources, intellectual property, and data protection matters.
Today marks the 238th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence, and Americans will be celebrating with fireworks, barbecues, picnics, and beer. The famous "Baseball, Hot-dogs, and Apple Pie" recitation resonates today most of all.
VASS Lawyers has secured a victory for an association of three companies -- M.A.R.S.A.T., G.R.I.M.E.X., and Neptun (the "First Association") -- regarding a auction organized by Complexul Energetic Oltenia (CE Oltenia) for the modernization of the Lupoaia excavation facility.
Wolf Theiss Bucharest has assisted LUKERG Renew, through its subsidiary Land Power SRL, to obtain a loan facility of 57 million Euro from the EBRD. The facility was obtained in order to finance the 84 MW Topolog - Dorobantu wind farm, located in the Romanian region of Tulcea.
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The Romanian Bostina si Asociatii law firm will be advising on the implementation of the “Enviropractica” project in the Babes-Bolyai University (BBU) in Cluj-Napoca.
Four senior lawyers -- Partners Ionut Bohalteanu and Silvia Sandu and Senior/Coordinating Associates Daniela Milculescu and Alexandra Patrascu -- have left the Romanian Musat & Asociatii law firm to launch Bohalteanu si Asociatii.
Travelport has acquired the assets of the Romanian subsidiary of Hotelzon as part of its global acquisition of the company.
Allen & Overy, Paul Hastings, Musat & Asociatii, and Clifford Chance were involved in Romania's state-owned electricity provider Electrica.
Wolf Theiss has advised Hendrickson and Winston & Strawn has advised the Frauenthal Group on Hendrickson's June 18 acquisition of FG's subsidiaries in Austria, France, and Romania.
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The Israeli AFI Europe Group has signed a EUR 220 million financing agreement with a consortium of banks for the refinancing of the AFI Palace Cotroceni commercial center in Bucharest.
Bar associations are responsible for the regulation of the legal profession as well as professional organizations dedicated to serving their members. In Romania, the Activity Report for 2013 of the Romanian National Union of Bar Associations (UNBR) states that the UNBR Congress’ mission is to “constantly support the development of the training level of lawyers, enhance relationships between the different Bar Associations in the country and, where needed, make decisions with regards to the deontological regulations of the profession.”
Buzescu CA has announced that it assisted Viking Oil Services obtain an operating license from the National Agency of Mineral Resources in Romania.
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