The Legal 500

Work Department

Energy and Natural Resources; Corporate and Commercial; Mergers and Acquisitions; Electronic Communications and IT; Media and Advertising.

Position

Irina Moinescu is a Partner at Tuca Zbarcea & Asociatii. Her main area of practice is in energy law, with a focus on the electricity sector. In the course of her legal career, she has dealt with complex projects in this field, including the first privatization projects in the electricity and gas sectors or the development of large-scale investments, especially renewable projects. Irina Moinescu has also advised on complex regulatory matters, such as amending the applicable regulatory framework in the renewable energy field, having been directly involved in the drafting of the amendments proposed to the law for establishing the promotion system for producing energy from renewable energy sources, as well as on the corporate commercial and mergers and acquisition issues related to the implementation of the firm’s energy projects. Furthermore, Irina has a vast experience in specific operation of commercial companies (such as shares assignment, management procedures, shareholders agreements, share capital increase) and in the drafting, negotiating and closing commercial agreements. Other areas of practice include electronic communications, media and advertising.

Career

Irina Moinescu has been directly involved in many of the firm`s most relevant projects in the field of energy, including: executive coordinator of the legal team assisting CEZ in the development of the largest onshore wind farm project in Europe totalling investments worth EUR 1.1 billion located in the Dobrogea region; executive coordinator of the legal team retained by CEZ in relation to a EUR 20,000,000 acquisition of a 100% stake in TMK Hydroenergy Power and related assets (four reservoirs with dams and four small hydropower plants); coordinator of the legal team retained by CEZ and a local association for renewable energy for the drafting of the amendments proposed to the law for establishing the promotion system for producing energy from renewable energy sources; member of the legal team retained by CEZ (including its Romanian electricity distribution subsidiary) in relation to the applicable unbundling requirements set by the domestic and EU-law in the areas of corporate and energy law, as well as in the regulatory field; member of the legal team assisting Enel SpA Italy with respect to the closing of the privatization of the electricity supply and distribution companies Electrica Banat SA and Electrica Dobrogea SA, including the structuring of the future management team of these two companies.

Languages

English.

Member

Bucharest Bar Association; Multilaw; Romanian Wind Energy Association (RWEA).

Education

University of Bucharest (LL.B., 2000).