Firm Profile > Biris Goran SPARL > Bucharest, Romania

Biris Goran SPARL > Firm Profile

The firm: Biriş Goran is a Romanian law firm of approximately 45 lawyers and tax consultants. With one partner licensed to practice in the US and most of the senior associates educated, trained or licensed in various European countries, the firm offers business advice to Western standards to its wide range of clients, including multinational corporations, investment funds and local high-net-worth entrepreneurs. The firm focuses primarily on transactional work, including tax, corporate/M&A, real estate, competition, litigation, labor, energy, data protection, IP, IT&C,  as well as insolvency and public acquisitions. The firm is also widely recognized as having the top tax practice in Romania.

Areas of practice

Taxation: the firm has extensive experience in tax planning, structuring cross-border transactions and tax litigation. In addition, the tax group advises on a wide array of taxation matters, such as direct and indirect taxation, customs and leasing, transfer pricing, thin-capitalisation issues, personal income taxation and tax litigation. The tax group is lead by Gabriel Biris and Ruxandra Jianu, leading tax law experts, heavily involved in the consultations regarding the drafting of amendments to the Romanian Fiscal Code and its implementation legislation.

A forte of the firm’s practice is tax litigation, where we currently represent institutional clients against the tax authorities on litigation related to VAT reimbursements, excise and other fiscal obligations and tax audits, for EUR
multi-million amounts. As particular detail to support the “innovative” attribute of the firm’s litigation practice, in some administrative and tax disputes our
arguments found successful in court determined the Romanian state to amend the legislation in the energy and tax sectors.
Contact: Gabriel Biris, Ruxandra Jianu

Antitrust/Competition: the firm’s antitrust/competition practice is lead by Gelu Goran, with over 22 years of experience in competition matters, including regulatory authority experience as former attorney with the Romanian Competition Council. Among others, the firm offers merger control assistance, and regularly advises clients on price fixing and collusion investigations, as well as exclusive dealing arrangements and antitrust compliance and audits. LafarageHolcim, JT International, Nestle, Procter & Gamble, Siemens and UniCredit Bank are among the most important companies advised by the firm.
Contact: Gelu Goran

Real estate: the firm’s real estate practice group represents clients in all aspects of real estate investments, from sales or purchases of shopping centers, hotels, office buildings, hypermarkets and raw land, commercial and hotel leasing, retail or warehouse roll-out programmes, to joint ventures with private parties or governmental bodies (PPPs), as well as the representation of lenders and developers in all types of lending and re-financing arrangements. The firm has strong expertise in advising on real estate financing and taxation and tax efficient investment structures, providing a cutting edge ‘one-stop’ shop for real estate investments in Romania, as it continues to advise on ‘headline’ transactions in the country. This group is lead by Raluca Nastase and Daniela Lazea.

Litigation and insolvency: the firm provides its clients with comprehensive advice at every stage of a controversy, whether it is proactive problem avoidance, effective negotiation and settlement, or vigorous advocacy both in court and before governmental agencies and tribunals. Tax litigation is a particular specialty of the firm and the tax practice’s deep knowledge of the litigation and the practice of the authorities leads to unparalleled service. The firm also has an active insolvency practice licensed with the Romanian National Union of Insolvency Practitioners, advising both insolvent companies and creditors on all stages of workout, insolvency and bankruptcy procedure.
Contact: Mihai Nusca (Litigation) and Raluca Nastase (Insolvency)

Corporate/M&A: Attorneys comprising the firm’s corporate/M&A practice group have been involved in privatization/M&A transactions in the Central and East European area and Romania since 1997. They have advised well-known multinational and local clients active in industries ranging from fast moving consumer goods, construction and real estate development, manufacturing and financial services, to banking, media, internet and defense industry investors.
Contact: Gabriel Biriş

Energy and natural resources:
Biriş Goran lawyers are well aware of the specificity of the electricity market in Romania and the European Union and the firm’s team is able to provide an integrated approach to its clients acting in the industry, covering issues regarding taxation, competition, corporate and the organization and
functioning of the companies, as well as real estate, litigation and labor related matters. Dana Dunel-Stancu heads the firm’s energy practice. A noted expert on the Romanian market for her energy and oil and gas expertise, Dana has been practicing exclusively in energy field since 2002 and has a thorough and proven command of the regulatory and practical commercial opportunities and constraints in the field.
Contact: Dana Dunel-Stancu

Lawyer Profiles

Photo	Name	Position	Profile
	Mrs Andra Șurariu	Senior Associate	View Profile
	Alina Andrei	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Sorin Aungurenci	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Răzvan Bardicea	Senior Associate	View Profile
	Mr Sorin Biban	Senior Tax Manager	View Profile
	Mr Gabriel Biriş	Gabriel is a founding partner of Biriş Goran and is widely regarded…	View Profile
	Ioana Cartite	Senior Tax Manager	View Profile
	Mrs Dana Dunel Stancu	Head of Energy & Natural Resources	View Profile
	Ms Ana Frațian	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Gelu Goran	Co-managing Partner	View Profile
	Ms Mioara Grecu	Senior Associate	View Profile
	Mrs Roxana Guiman	Senior Associate	View Profile
	Mrs Ruxandra Jianu	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Daniela Lazea	Partner	View Profile
	Mrs Teodora Moțatu	Partner	View Profile
	Mrs Raluca Năstase	Raluca joined Biriş Goran as a Partner in 2006, and currently heads…	View Profile
	Mr Mihai Nușcă	Partner, Head of the Litigation Practice	View Profile
	Mrs Oana Olteanu	Senior Associate	View Profile
	Ms Mariana Signeanu	Senior Associate	View Profile
	Ms Anca Zegrean	Senior Associate, Head of Litigation Department	View Profile