You will find below a selective list of recent representative projects. Please be aware that following the revision of the Statutes of Lawyers’ Profession, clients’ names cannot be publicly disclosed.
Corporate and real estate
- assisted a real estate investment fund with day-to-day corporate activities (changes in corporate structure, advice related to management activity off office buildings, sale of real estates, negotiation of lease agreements, advice and assistance before competent authorities for obtaining required permits and authorizations, restructuring of the EUR 35 mil. bank credit the fund contracted);
- assisted a local real estate developer in the acquisition process (title due-diligence, negotiation, execution) of several plots of land valued at EUR 15. mil from a company that was liquidated following bankruptcy;
- conducted corporate due diligence and drafted related report preliminary to a M&A share deal in the automotive industry with a global value of EUR 48 mil.;
- legal assistance to a majority state-owned company listed on BVB with day to day corporate and real estate matters (advice on the corporate structure and management powers, assistance following different inspections of national authorities;
- assisted a Greek company active in the field of production and distribution of aluminum components following the foreclosure proceedings initiated by the mortgagee for a EUR 2,7 mil. loan;
Competition
- our assistance determined the initiation of a Competition Council investigation against the authority operating the second largest airport in Romania for refusal to supply access to essential facilities in the ground-handling industry under art. 6 of the Competition Law;
- assisted a global player in the production and distribution of tile floors for obtaining the merger clearance from the Competition Council in respect of the concentration resulted following the acquisition of an undertaking from the ceramic tiles industry;
Insolvency
- obtained the rejection of a creditor’s request for opening the insolvency proceedings for an alleged claim amounting to over EUR 11 mil.;
- successfully assisted a public entity with the challenge against the voteless registration in the preliminary list of creditors for a claim amounting to EUR 8 mil.;
- successfully assisted a debtor from the textile industry against the official receiver’s request for annulment of an alleged tripartite netting agreement amounting to EUR 2,2 mil.;
- assisted a Romanian energy supplier and trader in relation to the request for opening of its own insolvency proceedings for a total of claims amounting to approx. EUR 30 mil.;
Administrative and fiscal litigation
- assisted an economic operator in a suite of contentious administrative court files in conflict with the local authority regarding the operation of a nautical leisure center;
- we assist a company with challenging the illegal construction of on apartment building located on the neighboring plot (presidential order to stop the construction works, suspending the effects and canceling the decision of the local council approving the P.U.Z. for increasing the height regime, canceling the building permit having as object the compliance with the law, cancellation of the building acceptance protocol and the attestation certificate and the subsequent demolition of the construction);
- assistance in the litigation having as object the censure of the refusal of the local Council to approve the detailed urban planning documentation for two apartment buildings;
- assisted an Italian highway builder operating in the local market with the annulment of a tax decision and tax audit report in relation to the deductible character of EUR 1,5 mil. acquisitions;
- assisted a real estate investments fund with the annulment of anti-fraud’s decision whereby the client’s office building was seized for a prejudice estimated to EUR 1,2 mil;
- assisted a Romanian company active in the field of public infrastructure building with the challenging of tax decisions with a value of over LEI 6 mil., representing supplementary VAT and profit tax, following the qualification of the tax authority as non-deductible of different purchases of products and services due to an upstream fraud;
- assisted a public authority in a series of 32 court files where taxi operator requested the judicial issuance of taxi permits and authorizations.
Real estate and construction litigation
- we assist various individuals and legal entities to maximize compensations granted for expropriations related to several public infrastructure projects (Târgu-Mureș Motorway segment, Oradea-A3 Motorway Ring Road, etc.);
- we are involved in various land disputes: cancellation of some illegally issued property titles or rectifications of the land register and subsequent reconstitution of the property right in kind (5 hectares in Turda, various areas in Cluj-Napoca, Feleac or Chinteni, etc.), cancellation of property titles and subsequent contracts, disputes generated by deficiencies in the systematic land registration procedure, etc.
- litigations for the recovery of claims or through which remedies are sought as a result of the alleged non-performance of contracts for companies in the field of construction contracting or waterproofing, which also involve the administration of construction expertise;
- we have ongoing litigation through which we aim to maximize the compensations granted by the National Authority for the Restitution of Properties (challenging decisions of invalidation, partial validation or by which undervalued compensations are granted);
- we are involved in various disputes derived from neighborhood relations, real estate partition disputes or having as object the authorization of the demolition of illegal constructions.