Transylvania's Paun Ciprian and Associates law firm has merged with Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen in Romania.

Stratulat Albulescu has advised Romanian health & fitness chain World Class Romania on its lease of a 1500 square meter space in Bucharest's Expo Business Park for a new fitness club. The lessor was reportedly advised by Peli Partners.

Botezatu & Asociatii | TheCounsel has changed its name to Botezatu Estrade Partners, with Co-Founding Partner Laura Estrade becoming a named partner. 

Glodeanu & Partners has negotiated a lease agreement for Amrest with Caile Ferate Romane, the Romanian railway company, to help Amrest open a new Starbucks in Bucharest's Gara the Nord train station.

Wolf Theiss has advised the Visma group on its acquisition of Intelligent IT, developer of the SmartBill billing software. RTPR Allen & Overy advised Intelligent IT's selling shareholders.

CMS has advised AFI Europe on its EUR 300 million acquisition of four Class A office projects in Romania from NEPI Rockcastle. The sellers were advised on the transaction, which is reported by CMS to be "one of the biggest in CEE and the largest-ever for the Romanian real estate market," by Herbert Smith Freehills and Reff & Associates, the Romanian member firm of Deloitte Legal.

Tuca Zbarcea & Asociatii has entered into a partnership with Trident Capital Investments to offer what it calls "integrated services of legal/tax and financial advisory for clients running various investment projects."

Suciu Popa has successfully represented the Azvi construction company in a labor dispute with one of its former managers.

“There haven’t been significant changes on the Romanian legal market,” says Alexandra Rimbu, Partner at MPR Partners⎮Maravela, Popescu & Roman in Bucharest. “Recent changes were rather small and had no overarching impact on the legal market – the structure remains unchanged.”

Stratulat Albulescu has advised the CalCon Group on its sale of a majority shareholding to Aareon, a provider of systems and consulting services for the property industry.

The Romanian office of CEE Attorneys has advised the founders of 7Card on the acquisition of a 25% shareholding in the Holde Agri project of local Romanian entrepreneurs, which recently succeeded in obtaining a Series A funding of EUR 5 million.

Stratulat Albulescu has advised the Niro Investment Group on a EUR 24 million loan from Libra Bank.

Stratulat Albulescu has helped CCBA Verwaltungs GmbH obtain merger control clearance from the Romanian Competition Council for its takeover of Reinert Kunststofftechnik SRL.

Biris Goran has advised InteRo Property Development Estates SRL on its sale of a 26,200 square meter plot in the northern part of Bucharest to Skanska.

RTPR Allen & Overy in Romania and Allen & Overy in Poland have advised Powszechna Kasa Oszczednosci Bank Polski S.A. on a PLN 73 million and EUR 5.5 million financing granted to Polski Bank Komorek Macierzystych S.A., a Polish stem cells bank. Clifford Chance reportedly advised PBKM.

Stratulat Albulescu  has advised Romanian health and fitness chain World Class Romania on its acquisition of the Planet Swim and Gym fitness center in Bucharest.

Stratual Albulescu has advised Societe Generale, acting through its service center subsidiary, Societe Generale European Business Services, on the lease of 10,500 square meters in the third building of Skanska's Campus 6 development under construction in the Cotroceni part of Bucharest.

Dumitrescu Bajenaru Oancea has merged with Zamfirescu Racoti Vasile & Partners in Bucharest, with Andrei Dumitrescu, Mihai Bajenaru, and Robert Oancea joining ZRVP’s management team as partners effective on January 1st, 2020. The consolidation will boost ZRFP's headcount to 65 lawyers, including 13 partners and 30 staff members.