Ms Florentina Frumusanu > Budusan & Asociatii SPARL > Bucharest, Romania > Lawyer Profile
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43 Calea Dorobantilor, 1st Floor
010553, 1st District
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Ms Florentina Frumusanu
Work Department
Litigation & Consultancy
Position
Partner
Career
Florentina Frumusanu is a partner with Budusan & Associates. She specializes in cases of tax evasion, accounting offences, capital market crimes, offences against the customs regime and intellectual property law, off shore transactions, corruption offences, corporate fraud and fraud against the financial interests of the European Union.
Florentina gathered experience as an in-house lawyer in a multinational oil group, where she advised regarding corporate, capital markets, intellectual property and environmental law, on matters concerning commercial contracts and negotiations, environmental conformity, capital market transactions, public-private partnerships, projects and public acquisition procedures for infrastructure projects.
Over the last year, Florentina coordinated the legal assistance and representation of a food and beverages company, indicted in a complex case of tax evasion with an estimated damage of approx. EUR 3 million, as well as money laundering of an amount of approx. EUR 10 million, allegedly intended for corrupt practices (in connection with high government officials, namely, ministers). As second chair in many of the firm’s major tax evasion and money laundering cases, Florentina coordinated the defence efforts and developed the trial strategies on the technical issues particular to this type of offences (e.g., forensic reports, counter-evidence etc.).
At the same time, Florentina acted as first chair in a high-profile pre-trial investigation into illegal export of art, as well as in several other cases concerning illegal art trade and money laundering, a typology of crime relatively new in the practice of the Romanian judicial bodies.
Finally, she coordinated the legal services provided by our firm in matters derived from criminal cases in our portfolio, including administrative (e.g., fiscal) matters, and civil procedures separated from the criminal trials, among which an arbitration procedure pending before the Arbitration Court by the Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, concerning claims of approx. Eur 3 million, made in connection with a tax evasion conviction.
Languages
English, Romanian
Memberships
Bucharest Bar Association
Lawyer Rankings
Romania > White-collar crime
(Next Generation Partners)A regular fixture at the top of the Romanian white-collar crime market over the past decade, boutique firm Budusan & Asociatii SPARL
specialises in business crime cases, either in defence of its clients, or acting for victims in seeking compensation. The department also advises companies from a pre-emptive perspective to mitigate criminal law risks that may arise from business activities. Former high-ranking prosecutor Ovidiu Budusan heads the team and is a reliable choice for major business crime cases, tax evasion, and corruption. Florentina Frumusanu is one of the younger stars of the market, recently acting in a complex tax evasion case in the food and beverages industry, as well as a high-value money laundering case. Liana Iacob has experience managing fraud cases in banking and finance, as well as assisting corporate clients in the IT, energy, and real estate sectors, among others. George Toniuc is also a key figure who has represented industry leaders and individual clients in criminal matters.