Mr Matei Florea > Schoenherr si Asociatii SCA > Bucharest, Romania > Lawyer Profile
Schoenherr si Asociatii SCA Offices
BLVD DACIA NR 30, ET. 7
SECTOR 1
010413 BUCHAREST
Romania
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Mr Matei Florea
Work Department
banking & finance
Position
partner
Career
Matei Florea is a partner at Schoenherr and the head of the firm’s banking & finance practice group in CEE/SEE. He has been the main driver behind the development of Schoenherr’s banking & finance practice in Romania as well as the development of specific NPL-related products CEE-wide. He focuses mainly on deleveraging transactions, debt restructuring projects, financial sector M&A deals, financing, as well as financial services regulatory. He has advised on major bank M&A deals and record-setting loan portfolio transactions in the Romanian market and in the CEE region. In addition, he advises on bank and direct lending projects, including real estate and project finance, acquisition finance, corporate lending and municipal financing. His financial services regulatory work includes obtaining the regulatory approval for bank M&A deals, as well as assisting on complex consumer-related disputes, currency conversation programmes, GDPR implementation, etc. Matei also runs the firm’s projects, concessions/PPP, public procurement practice group in Bucharest.
Memberships
Bucharest Bar (2003)
Education
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law, Bucharest/Romania (LL.B. 2002)
Lawyer Rankings
Romania > PPP and procurement
The regulatory team at Schoenherr si Asociatii SCA draws upon its wider energy, infrastructure, banking and finance, dispute resolution and insolvency expertise to advise a range of lenders and bidders in the projects, concessions and public procurement space. A particular area of strength is transport infrastructure projects, along with corporate energy efficiency programmes. Mihai Băicoianu joined the team in March 2023 from Zamfirescu Racoti Vasile & Partners and is recommended as ‘an exceptional professional in the public procurement field‘. Matei Florea heads the team; Valeria Stropșa is also recommended.
Romania > Banking and finance
(Leading individuals)Schoenherr si Asociatii SCA has ‘an excellent banking and finance team, long established as one of the powerhouses in this area in Romania’. The group handles the full range of banking and finance work, including domestic and cross-border financing and refinancing matters, project finance, acquisition finance, real estate finance, debt restructuring and NPL transactions. Practice head Matei Florea has been kept busy handling investments in distressed bank assets and debt restructuring matters for both lenders and borrowers. Counsel Adina Damaschin assists with cross-border financing. Alexandra Pop and Francesca Buta are names to note.
Austria > Banking and finance
Led from Bucharest by Matei Florea, Schoenherr (Schönherr Rechtsanwälte)‘s ‘highly experienced’ integrated team operates across all of the firm’s offices in the CEE region, allowing it to handle a high volume of multi-jurisdictional matters that span from complexly structured finance transactions to financial services litigation. The group is instructed by fintech clients, financial institutions, and insurance companies and shows proficiency in ESG-related topics such as green financings. Key contacts in Austria are the ‘go-to lawyer for strategically important financing transactions’ Martin Ebner, as well as Peter Feyl
, who combines regulatory expertise with knowledge of debt finance and M&A, and Laurenz Schwitzer, who focuses on real estate and asset finance.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals Romania > Banking and finance
- Banking and finance Romania
- PPP and procurement Romania