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77 EMANOIL PORUMBARU STREET, 011424 BUCHAREST
Tel:
Work +40 21 260 0710
Fax:
Fax +40 31 260 0720
Web:
www.birisgoran.ro

What we say about the firm's legal practice in Romania

Corporate and M&A

Within Corporate and M&A, Biris Goran is a third tier firm,

Renowned as the ‘go to’ tax firm in the Romanian market, Biris Goran SCA’s corporate clients are impressed with ‘quick response times, clearly expressed, detailed legal opinions and a practical, commercial approach’. Dan Visoiu heads a team of three partners and eight assistants in a practice built on excellent real estate expertise. The team acted as lead counsel regarding the corporate restructuring and merger of EU-based group companies holding real estate worth more than €250m. It also advised the vendor in the sale of a real estate development to RREEF and EFG Bank valued at €340m and reported as the largest real estate transaction in Romania to date. On the M&A side, the firm is representing Publicis Groupe in various ongoing acquisitions in Romania.

Real estate and construction

Within Real estate and construction, Biris Goran is a third tier firm,

Biris Goran SCA provides clients with ‘detailed legal opinions and a practical commercial approach in helping to assess risks’. The firm, which is well known for its expertise in tax, is particularly strong in financing and funds work. It advised Sparkassen Immobilien on a €32m real estate refinancing of Hotel Novotel in downtown Bucharest, as well as successfully assisting the sellers in the closing of a forward sale of an office building in the Sema Parc complex to real estate investment fund Europolis, for approximately €110m. Victor Constantinescu and Raluca Nastase are co-leaders of the group; clients say they are ‘very capable and easy to deal with’.


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Romania

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Legal Developments in Romania

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  • Romanian and American Lawyers close third ICSID arbitration case for Romania

    The arbitral tribunal of the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) decided to discontinue the proceedings in the case S&T Oil Equipment and Machinery Ltd. v. Romania in which the claimant sought compensations worth more than USD 150,000,000. It is the third favorable outcome obtained by the lawyers in Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii in front of ICSID, in Washington D.C.
    - Tuca Zbarcea & Asociatii
  • New offices in Bucharest for Lina & Guia

    We are pleased to announce the relocation and expansion of our offices in Bucharest.
    - Lina & Guia SCA
  • Successfully closed the sale of RomCard to Provus

    BCR, BRD, Raiffeisen Bank, UniCredit Tiriac Bank and Financiara successfully closed the sale of RomCard to Provus The new entity will provide a complete range of card-processing services to both domestic and cross-border clients
    - Reff & Associates
  • Legal News Alert

    New Registration Requirements Emergency Government Ordinance no. 54/2010 on certain measures to address tax evasion
    - Lina & Guia SCA
  • Popovici Niţu & Asociaţii advised the largest transactions in the Energy and Healthcare sectors

    Ziarul Financiar rewarded Popovici Niţu & Asociaţii at Lawyer’s Gala for the largest transactions in Healthcare and Energy from 2009.
    - Popovici Nitu & Asociatii
  • Lina & Guia awarded twice for assisting Cosmote on the acquisition of Zapp Romania

    On the first edition of the Attorney Gala of Ziarul Financiar, the award for the largest telecom transaction for 2009 went to "Lina & Guia" for the firm's contribution in providing advice in one of the most important transactions on the telecommunication market of 2009. The firm assisted Cosmote Mobile Telecommunications S.A. on the acquisition of Romanian mobile operator Telemobil S.A., operating under the Zapp trademark.
    - Lina & Guia SCA
  • Reff & Associates – Double award winner for the most important real estate transaction in Romania

    Bucharest, Romania - June 17, 2010 - Reff & Associates has won the award for the most important real estate transaction of the year granted by Ziarul Financiar within the "Lawyers Gala 2010" organized on June 16. After a first prize received from Finmedia at the "Top Lawyers Award Gala" on June 14, this second public acknowledgment underlines the importance and complexity of this transaction successfully assisted by the team of Reff & Associates.
    - Reff & Associates
  • LEGAL & TAX | NEWS - MAY 2010

    BANKING & FINANCE -- PUBLIC PROCUREMENT AND REGULATORY -- EMPLOYMENT AND PENSIONS -- ENVIRONMENT & ENERGY -- TAX -- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 
    - bpv GRIGORESCU
  • New Amendments to the Insolvency Procedure

    The Insolvency Law has been amended for the purpose of introducing, in addition to the old advertising terms stipulated by law, the requirement of advertising the insolvency of the company on the respective companies’ websites.
    - Lina & Guia SCA
  • Law Firm of the Year

    Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii scoops Chambers & Partners’ most prestigious European award of excellence - "Law Firm of the Year"
    - Tuca Zbarcea & Asociatii