Firm Profile > Biris Goran SPARL > Bucharest, Romania
Biris Goran SPARL Offices
47 AVIATORILOR BOULEVARD
011853, BUCHAREST
Romania
Biris Goran SPARL > The Legal 500 Rankings
Real estate and construction Tier 2
Biriş Goran SPARL hosts a ‘very professional team’, praised for its ‘experience in the field of real estate and construction’. Daniela Lazea heads the practice with Raluca Nastase and recently assisted One United Properties with its €16.8m acquisition of the North Gate office complex in Bucharest. The ‘impressive’, ‘polite and efficient’ Sorin Aungurenci acted for Hagag Development Europe on the acquisition of a six-hectare piece of land scheduled for a residential project.
Tax Tier 2
Noted for its ‘ability to understand the nature of the business it is analysing’, Biriş Goran SPARL's team handles the full spectrum of tax work with particular expertise in tax litigation. Ruxandra Jianu heads the practice with Gabriel Biris, who acted for Banca Comercială Română in its large tax audit relating to financial transactions. On the transaction front, the team advised ECC Romania on the tax aspects of its cross-border merger with Fire Corporation. Alina Andrei and tax manager Ioana Cartite ‘are both very good professionals’.
EU and competition Tier 3
Biriş Goran SPARL is experienced with handling cartel matters, leniency cases, compliance work and antitrust litigation, acting for a client base which includes UniCredit Bank, Siemens and Nestlé. Practice head Gelu Goran is acting for Aon UK and affiliate, Aon Romania, in a Competition Council investigation into alleged bid-rigging and price fixing in the aviation insurance market.
Restructuring and insolvency Tier 3
At Biriş Goran SPARL, practice head Raluca Nastase is acting for Global Vision on its acquisition via public auction of 93ha of land from three companies in insolvency. Her team is particularly experienced in restructuring options analysis and is active in the construction and real estate, telecoms, energy and transport sectors.
Commercial, corporate and M&A Tier 4
Real estate-driven transactions are a core strength for Biriş Goran SPARL with the team acting for clients such as One United Properties and LeasePlan Romania. Recent highlights include acting for Coresi Business Park in the sale of its flagship office centre to real estate company Immochan. The practice acts for both domestic and overseas clients and regularly advises Greece-based Zeus International on its operations in Romania. Ana Frațian and Christian Mindru jointly lead the group.
Dispute resolution Tier 4
Biriş Goran SPARL has a focus on tax litigation but also handles administrative and antitrust matters. Practice head Mihai Nușcă represented BCR in a high-profile audit of its financial transactions, including drafting the tax appeal against the decision of the Romanian tax authorities and acting on the mutual agreement procedure. Industries of expertise include telecoms, energy, transport, oil and gas, gambling and real estate.
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 & 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
Main Contacts
| Department | Name | Telephone | |
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| Tax, Corporate/M&A | Gabriel Biris | office@birisgoran.ro | +40 21 260 0710 |
| Competition/Antitrust | Gelu Goran | office@birisgoran.ro | +40 21 260 0710 |
| Real estate, Insolvency | Raluca Nastase | office@birisgoran.ro | +40 21 260 0710 |
| Litigation | Mihai Nusca | office@birisgoran.ro | +40 21 260 0710 |
| Data Protection, IP and IT&C | Roxana Guiman | office@birisgoran.ro | +40 21 260 0710 |
| Labour | Anca Zegrean | office@birisgoran.ro | +40 21 260 0710 |
| Tax | Ruxandra Jianu | office@birisgoran.ro | +40 21 260 0710 |
| Finance and restructuring | Mariana Signeanu | office@birisgoran.ro | +40 21 260 0710 |
| Energy and Natural Resources | Dana Dunel Stancu | office@birisgoran.ro | +40 21 260 0710 |
| Transfer Pricing | Alina Andrei | office@birisgoran.ro | +40 21 260 0710 |
Lawyer Profiles
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Mrs Andra Șurariu | View Profile | |
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Alina Andrei | View Profile | |
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Mr Sorin Aungurenci | View Profile | |
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Mr Răzvan Bardicea | View Profile | |
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Mr Sorin Biban | View Profile | |
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Mr Gabriel Biriş | View Profile | |
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Ioana Cartite | View Profile | |
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Mrs Dana Dunel Stancu | View Profile | |
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Ms Ana Frațian | View Profile | |
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Mr Gelu Goran | View Profile | |
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Ms Mioara Grecu | View Profile | |
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Mrs Roxana Guiman | View Profile | |
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Mrs Ruxandra Jianu | View Profile | |
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Ms Daniela Lazea | View Profile | |
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Mrs Teodora Moțatu | View Profile | |
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Mrs Raluca Năstase | View Profile | |
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Mr Mihai Nușcă | View Profile | |
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Mrs Oana Olteanu | View Profile | |
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Ms Mariana Signeanu | View Profile | |
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Ms Anca Zegrean | View Profile |
Staff Figures
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Biri? Gorans priority will always be the needs of its clients. However, the firm also recognizes the need to give back to the wider community that made us what, and helped us reach where we are.
As such, we actively encourage our lawyers to get involved, and dedicate firm resources and time, to a number of initiatives past and present:
- Gabriel Biri? is actively involved in Ready Nation Ro, a Romanian NGO supported by Ready Nation US, which aims to determine a large number of Romanian business leaders to actively engage in creating public policies impacting the early education;
- Ruxandra Jianu headed in 2018 the tax task force of the Coalition for Romanias Development (Coali?ia pentru Dezvoltarea Romaniei), a private non-political initiative, gathering the most representative organizations for the business environment in Romania with the purpose to provide a cohesive basis for consultation with the Government and other public institutions on topics that impact the business and economic climate in Romania;
- supporting with legal advice Fotograful Anului în România (The Photographer of the Year in Romania), a national large-scale competition aiming to recognize Romanian photographic art and photographic artists and to further become a platform for promotion, valorisation and education in the art of photography. The competitions jury is formed of prestigious photographers from Romania and abroad, editors of international publications as well as cultural managers in the field;
- providing pro bono assistance with regulatory and litigious issues for identity rights protection to the PACT Foundation, a non-governmental and non-profit organization, which helps foster sustainable development of at risk local communities in rural and small-urban areas in the South of Romania;
- supporting ZP3, a non-governmental and non-profit organization set up by two of our colleagues, Anca Zegrean and Teodora Mo?atu, devoted to help orphans and impoverished children with education materials, food and clothing, toys, cleansing products, and in some cases fire-wood. We take a particular interest in talented and academically gifted children, aiming to achieve both immediate and lasting change in their lives by providing them with educational supplies, and helping them to fulfill their potential Anca Zegrean.
- active involvement in various chambers of commerce. For instance, Biris Goran has been present at AmChams task forces on Tax, Competition, Energy or IP / IT matters since its inception in 2006;
- teaching positions and presentation of seminars at law faculties, including tax seminars held by our tax team with the European Law Students Association;
- providing pro bono work to selected charities, such as SOS Satele Copiilor, Ovidiu Ro, Asociatia Vasiliada or Fundatia Scheherazade.