 | Assistance to either the claimant or respondent in front of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in three high profile arbitration cases filed against the Romanian state in connection with investment disputes. |
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| Assistance to a series of clients on international arbitration cases, including several FIDIC based constructions related projects, with rendered services ranging from extensive assessment of potential disputes to be settled by means of arbitration, to representation in all phases of the arbitral proceedings settled under various international arbitration rules. |
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| Legal team coordinator assisting an international bank and two senior officers of the client in the criminal investigations conducted by the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) for alleged market manipulation, insider trading and transfer of privileged information in the share deal regarding a domestic bank. The court decision ruled in this case is an instrumental success for the client, as it represents one of the most important court decisions ever ruled in Romania in connection with a capital market related dispute. |
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| Assistance on a considerable number of public procurement related disputes – representing bidders and lenders in complaints filed both with the National Council for Solving Complaints (CNSC) as well as with the courts of justice against procurement procedures and awarding decisions of the contracting authorities. Assisted clients include a Romanian market energy player and a specialist bank for the public sector in the EEC, with a total consideration of the disputed awards in the range of hundreds of million EUR. |
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| Assisted one of the leading cable TV, internet access and telecom operators active on the Romanian market, before Romanian courts in a series of more than 20 litigation cases initiated against the client by the Romanian Customers Protection Agency. |
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| Project coordinator for EUR 300 million loan granted by a specialist bank for the public sector in the EEC to the Romanian Ministry of Public Finance for new aircrafts acquisition by Romanian national airline, Bucharest –Baneasa and Bucharest – Constanta partial railway rehabilitation, national security border equipments acquisition. |
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| Project coordinator for over EUR 250 million bridge loans and municipality bonds or medium and long term loans, granted in the period 2005-2007, by a specialist bank for the public sector in the EEC to local authorities in Targu Mures, Iasi, Sibiu, Bucharest 2nd District, Tg. Jiu, Suceava, Oradea, Constanta etc. in public projects for roads rehabilitation, transportation vehicles acquisition, airport development in Sibiu, schools and kindergartens, social housing, public utilities, exhibition center in Constanta. |
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| Co-coordinator for the US$ 320 million Eurobonds issue with the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. The team advised state owned energy company and 18 electrical power plants with respect to the best financing option that was granted in 2002 by EUROMONEY “Best Loan/Structured Loan of the Year” award for excellence. |
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| Part of the team that advised and assisted on the first international financial market transaction performed by a Romanian railway company representing US$ 120 million Eurobonds issue on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. |
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| Coordinator or part of the mergers and acquisitions teams responsible for some of the most relevant transactions on the market: the first major acquisition of a Romanian IT&C operator; a major publishing group – advising on the over EUR 12 million transfer of company promoting the most successful specialized publications in Romania; assistance to the buyer in the over EUR 50 million acquisition for the control share stock in the 3rd largest electronics and household appliance retailer in Romania. |
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| Project coordinator of an over EUR 30 million residential and commercial development, involving financial loan arrangements with the financing bank and FIDIC terms construction and project management agreements. |
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| Part of the team that on behalf of the private investor negotiating with the Ministry of Waters and Environment the Master Concession Agreement for the US$ 260 million project ‘’Acumulare Lac Vacaresti Complex”. |
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| Part of the team that advised a local municipality in the public – private partnership for the development of an ecological deposit. |
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| Part of the team that implemented at a national scale the collection strategy of a large telecommunications player consisting in various stages of notifications, commercial files, transactions and enforcements. |
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| Negotiating successful transactions after representing the national roads company as defendant in more than 20 complex employment litigations with former regional top management employees. |
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| Representing the national company for postal services in front of the competent Romanian court and in the negotiations with the over 30.000 employee trade union during the unrest in 2005. |
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| Representing the national company for postal services in complex fiscal litigations in legal areas such as: VAT applicability on postal duties in relation to the International Convention on Postal Services, double taxation avoidance treaties with reference to the postal duties for the services rendered in the world’s conflict zones. |
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| Representing the national company for postal services in contentious administrative procedure in front of Competition Council and the National Authority for Communications (ANC ex ANRCTI) for alleged unfair competition. |
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| Representing the regional top management of the national company for postal services in annulment procedure against the Court of Accounts control minutes. |
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