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Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii Offices

Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii
4-8 SOSEAUA NICOLAE TITULESCU
AMERICA HOUSE, WEST WING, 8F, SECTOR 1
011141 BUCHAREST
Romania
Visit website 40 21 204 8890 40 21 204 8899

Mr Cornel Popa

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+4021 204 88 94 cornel.popa@tuca.ro

Work Department

Mergers, Acquisitions and Privatisations; Oil and Gas; International Arbitration; Corporate and Commercial.

Position

Cornel Popa is a Partner at Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii. Cornel combines top technical skills with commercial acumen to deal with complex and diverse matters. His multi-disciplinary approach covers large domestic and international joint-ventures, mergers, acquisitions and privatization projects, as well as dispute resolution. Cornel Popa has represented buyers and sellers from a broad range of industries and various Romanian governmental authorities in relation to multi-faceted, sophisticated matters. He is acknowledged as one of the most experienced dispute resolution lawyers in Romania, having dealt with civil litigation, mediation, domestic and international arbitration and participated in many hearings before ICSID, ICC and the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. He also acts for clients active in the oil and gas industry, covering upstream and downstream matters (i.e. exploration, infrastructure and pipeline development and services contracts, related M&A issues etc).

Career

Partner, Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii (from 2005 to present), Partner, Muşat & Asociaţii, Partner (from 2003 to 2005), Partner, Sulica & Asociaţii (from 1999 to 2002, Senior/Associate from 1996 to 1999).

Languages

English, French.

Memberships

Bucharest Bar Association; Court of International Commercial Arbitration (attached to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Romania); ICC Institute of World Business Law.

Education

University of Bucharest (LL.B., 1995).

Lawyer Rankings

Romania > Commercial, corporate and M&A

Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii advised a multinational telecommunications conglomerate on its multi-billion euro acquisition of another telecommunications company’s operations in Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania. In a further highlight, it assisted Keysight Technologies with a complex corporate reorganisation following the $1.6bn acquisition of the Romanian subsidiary of IXIA group. Stefan Damian, Cornel Popa and Catalin Baiculescu are the key members of the team, which covers acquisitions, dispositions, financing arrangements, joint ventures as well as corporate advisory work.

Romania > Dispute resolution

The nine-partner practice at Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii is well regarded for both domestic and international arbitration. It represents Gabriel Resources (Canada) and Gabriel Resources (Jersey) in proceedings initiated against the Romanian state regarding a proposed breach by the Romanian government of the Agreement for the Promotion and Reciprocal Protection of Investments made with Canada, Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The team also represents Alstom Transport in a dispute with CFR in relation to public acquisition contracts totalling €290m. Robert Roşu, Cornel Popa, Ioana Hrisafi-Josan and Levana Zigmund are the names to note.

Romania > Energy and natural resources

Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii handles a wide range of matters including M&A, regulatory work, financing, employment issues as well as energy sector disputes. China General Nuclear Power Group receives advice on investment plans to develop two additional nuclear units at the Cernavodă nuclear power plant. Sorin Vlădescu assists CEZ with various energy market issues. He heads the practice alongside Cornel Popa, Irina Moinescu and Cristian Radu. The team has particular expertise in the renewables, energy and power, nuclear, oil and gas and natural resources industries.

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