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Zamfirescu Racoti Vasile & Partners
12 PLANTELOR STREET
DISTRICT 2
023974 BUCHAREST
Romania

Work Department

Dispute Resolution, Intellectual Property

Position

Partner

Career

Alina Tugearu, Partner and coordinator of the Intellectual Property Litigation practice, specializes in civil and commercial litigation, with a focus on international arbitration and administrative/contentious disputes.

She has solid experience in trying arbitration cases before national and international arbitral panels in arbitration proceedings held under the auspices of the ICC, LCIA, VIAC, the Court of International Commercial Arbitration (Bucharest) and under the UNCITRAL arbitration rules in ad hoc arbitration, in complex projects involving construction disputes, including matters regarding FIDIC contracts, post privatisation-related disputes and energy-related disputes.

Alina holds a Master of Laws (LLM) degree from Sorbonne University and is also a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in London.

Languages

Romanian, English, French

Memberships

National Association of Romanian Bars; Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London

Education

  • BA in Law, Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest | 2004
  • Maîtrise en Droit, Collége Juridique Franco-Roumain d’Etudes Européenes de Bucharest, Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne | 2004
  • LL.M in Business Law, Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest | 2005

Lawyer Rankings

Romania > Intellectual property

(Leading individuals)

Alina TugearuZamfirescu Racoti Vasile & Partners

The IP team at Zamfirescu Racoti Vasile & Partners is praised by one client as ‘the utmost that one can get in IP litigation‘; the firm represents a broad range of brand and patent owners in the full range of contentious IP matters, including antipiracy and counterfeiting, industrial design and copyright infringements, and domain name disputes. IP litigation head Alina Tugearu is recommended as ‘one of the best professionals on the market‘, and combines with ‘visionary‘ practitioner Cosmin Vasile to ‘make the best team‘.

Romania > Dispute resolution

The disputes team at Zamfirescu Racoti Vasile & Partners is ‘simply among the best both at national and international level and both in terms of results and in terms of lawyer-client approach‘. In addition to its comprehensive civil and administrative domestic litigation work, the firm particularly highly recommended for international arbitration; exemplifying this dual approach, managing partner Cosmin Vasile is ‘the Romanian star of international arbitration, but also a very strong litigator‘. Stan Tirnoveanu provides ‘excellent knowledge and experience‘, while Cosmin Cojocaru and Alina Tugearu ‘have excellent attention to detail married with an ability to understand the bigger picture‘. Other well regarded team members include Calin-Andrei Zamfirescu, Monica Strimbei and associate Violeta Saranciuc, who is singled out for her ‘excellent case management and advocacy skills‘.