The Legal 500

Work Department

Competition & Anti-trust, Intellectual property, Healthcare & pharmaceuticals, Dispute Resolution.

Position

Partner. Anca Buta Musat has extensive experience in dealing with the whole range of competition issues such as merger control and anti-competitive practices and conducts, having represented clients both before the European Commission and the Romanian Competition Council. Her track record includes advising on exclusivity arrangements, cartels, enforcement mechanisms employed by the competition authority, negotiations on remedies endorsing anti-trust approvals, compliance counselling (including trainings and dawn-raids simulations), as well as state aid-related issues and public services contracts. Over the years, she had an important role in structuring various types of agreements submitted for approval to the Competition Council and for securing individual exemptions. Anca is also an IP certified attorney and has built an impressive expertise in complex patent annulment cases, drafting and negotiating trademark and patent licensing/assigning agreements, franchise agreements, and advising clients on IP portfolio management and exploitation. She is one of Romanian’s leading practitioners in Pharma & IP Law, being able to provide integrated legal assistance to major clients from this industry, taking into account the interface between pharma legislation and IP rights. Anca coordinates Antitrust, Intellectual Property and Pharmaceuticals disputes, being involved in complex cases regarding enforcement mechanisms employed by the competition authority, negotiations on remedies endorsing antitrust approvals, exclusivity arrangements, price-fixing and market sharing cartel investigations, as well as patent infringement or annulment, trademark and copyright infringements, or IP rights enforcement. Mrs. Anca Buta Musat is constantly involved in promoting Competition Law initiatives, by means of public debates and position papers. She assisted clients in a wide variety of industries, including brewing, constructions, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, software, internet infrastructure, retail services, food, cosmetics, mass-media, banking, etc.

Career

Partner, Musat & Asociatii 2007 to date; Senior associate, Musat & Asociatii 2003-2007.

Languages

English, French, Greek and Romanian.

Member

Bucharest and Romanian Bar Associations;.

Education

King’s College London (postgraduate Diploma in EC Competition Law, 2007); King’s College London (Summer School in European Union Law, 2005); University of Salzburg /University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law (LLM in Transnational Business Transactions, 2005); University of Bucharest (Law, 2003).