Mr Razvan Stoicescu > Musat & Asociatii > Bucharest, Romania > Lawyer Profile

Musat & Asociatii
43 AVIATORILOR BOULEVARD
1ST DISTRICT
011853 BUCHAREST
Romania

Work Department

Mergers & Acquisitions / Privatisation, Banking & Finance, Capital Markets & Securities, Telecom, IT & Media, Restructuring & Insolvency, Energy & Natural Resources

Position

Deputy Managing Partner. Razvan Stoicescu has been acting as a transactional lawyer for more than 15 years. During this time, Razvan has been active in M&A and Privatizations, Banking & Finance and Capital Markets being involved in significant / representative deals for the local market. In his day to day activity, Razvan also advises on matters of Corporate & Commercial Law, Public Procurement & PPPs, and Energy and Natural Resources.

Razvan advises in a variety of M&A deals, including acquisitions, mergers and divestitures, cross‑border transactions, take-private transactions, joint ventures (including ventures involving Romanian public authorities), or privatizations. The M&A expertise also encompasses corporate governance and related liability advice for both public and private equity companies.

Razvan also advises financers, borrowers, underwriters, and issuers on domestic and international financings (acquisition finance, capitalizations, security taking and enforcement in Romania), capital markets offerings, structured products, derivatives, as well as the regulations of the financial & banking and capital markets fields.

Razvan’s clients include public and private companies ranging from blue-chip multinational corporations to local companies, private equity and other financers, including venture capital, and sovereign funds, boards of directors of private, or public companies, as well as the Romanian State and other local ministries and public institutions.

Razvan is an arbitrator with the arbitration panel of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, and an insolvency practitioner. Between November 2016 and May 2017, Razvan held the position of independent non‑executive member of the board of directors of the biggest listed Romanian natural gas company, SNGN Romgaz S.A., a company admitted to trading on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, and with GDRs trading in the London Stock Exchange, with a market value of EUR 2.5bln.

Career

  • Deputy Managing Partner, Muşat & Asociaţii: 2018 to date;
  • Partner, Muşat & Asociaţii: January 2015-2018;
  • Partner, Bulboacă & Asociaţii: 2010-2014;
  • Managing Associate, Bulboacă & Asociaţii: 2009-2010;
  • Senior Associate, Bulboacă & Asociaţii: 2007-2009;
  • Associate, Linklaters Miculiti, Mihai & Asociaţii: 2003-2007

Languages

Romanian, English, French and Italian

Memberships

Bucharest and Romanian Bar Associations National Insolvency Practitioners Association

Education

Law degree, University of Bucharest

Lawyer Rankings

Romania > Energy and natural resources

The energy and natural resources team at Musat & Asociatii advises across the entire energy-related spectrum, including on energy trading, generation, distribution, transmission & supply licensing, alongside emissions trading and renewable energy matters. In the oil and gas sector, the team is experienced in upstream and downstream projects. The unit’s mining expertise includes both restructuring in the state-owned mining sector and new investments in the mining field. Iulian Popescu and Razvan Stoicescu co-lead the team. Andrei Ormenean is praised by clients for his ‘innovative approaches to legal challenges’. 

Romania > PPP and procurement

Musat & Asociatii‘s infrastructure, PPP and public procurement team focuses on the development, acquisition and divestitures of large-scale projects, working with sponsors, lenders, project originators, development banks and multilateral agencies. Both private and state-sponsored infrastructure projects, with an emphasis on the transportation sector, are areas in which the team is particularly strong. Notable specialisms within the team also include military projects and social infrastructure projects. Angela Porumb is a key contact for project-related litigations. Practice group co-heads Iulian Popescu and Razvan Stoicescu have longstanding experience in the PPP and procurement sector.

Romania > Commercial, corporate and M&A

(Next Generation Partners)

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The ‘prompt, dedicated and efficient‘ team at Musat & Asociatii is well regarded for handling a broad range of corporate matters, including large M&A deals, divestments, corporate governance, joint ventures and transfers of business. Gheorghe Musat is a highly respected practitioner, and Razvan Stoicescu is ‘highly professional and efficient‘. Iulian Popescu, IP expert Paul Buta and Monia Dobrescu, who focuses on finance transactions, are key lawyers in the practice. All named practitioners jointly head up the practice.

Romania > Dispute resolution

Musat & Asociatii is home to ‘one of the strongest dispute resolution teams on the Romanian market‘, with ‘the ability to handle complex and sophisticated disputes‘. The group acts for an established client base of domestic entities and international companies with operations in Romania, and is well versed in assisting with high-value arbitration cases. Paul Buta specialises in IP, competition, civil, and commercial litigation, and senior partner Gheorghe Musat is a highly regarded practitioner in the space. Razvan Stoicescu, the ‘very dedicated and experienced litigator’ Angela Porumb, and Andra Mihalache, who is well versed in acting for clients in highly regulated sectors, are key names to note.