Mrs Dana BIVOL > Popescu & Asociatii > Bucharest, Romania > Lawyer Profile

Popescu & Asociatii‘s tax team made up of ‘highly reputed lawyers’ supports clients in both contentious and non-contentious tax matters, with crossover experience in commercial, IP, banking and finance, and real estate law. Octavian Popescu, Dana Bivol, Nicoleta Tandareanu, and Gheorghe Buta co-lead the team. Popescu has particular strength in criminal matters, while Bivol is the name to note for insolvencies, and Buta is recommended for dispute resolution.

Popescu & Asociatii fields an energy and natural resources team of ‘top lawyers’ providing ‘spectacular solutions’ for clients’ needs. ‘Extraordinary lawyer‘ Loredana Popescu  co-leads the team, combining banking & finance, corporate, M&A, and real estate experience with energy sector expertise. Co-head Dana Bivol is noted for her experience in environmental law and is the key contact for disputes.

The PPP and procurement team at Popescu & Asociatii draws on its ‘broad expertise covering complex projects and transactions‘ to advise clients across the transport, urban planning, agriculture, natural resources, and energy sectors. Loredana Popescu co-heads the team and is praised for her ‘deep expertise in PPP and the procurement landscape in Romania’. Co-heads Dana Bivol and Octavian Popescu specialise in environmental law and dispute resolution; the latter is particularly noted for his arbitration work.

Popescu & Asociatii‘s employment team is particularly experienced in complex, reputationally sensitive matters including corporate transactions, partner disputes, and employee disputes; making it ‘ an inevitable choice for the employment sector of the country’. The unit has extensive expertise of working with the banking and finance sector, both locally and internationally, and is able to advise on regulatory and compliance requirements for the Romanian market. Co-heads Dana Bivol, Anca Simeria and Loredana Popescu bring their extensive corporate experience to the practice.

With an excellent reputation for handling insolvency disputes, Popescu & Asociatii‘s team is also recognised for its strength in representing companies in high-profile contentious matters in the Romanian market. The client base includes several prominent national and international companies, commercial banks and public institutions. Octavian Popescu is a highly regarded disputes practitioner; he co-heads the practice with Gheorghe Buta, Nicoleta Tandareanu and Dana Bivol, who focuses on energy and natural resources matters. Stefan Baiculescu is a name to note. Iuliana Bidalache has left the firm.

Dispute resolution is a core area of strength for Popescu & Asociatii, and the practice has extensive expertise in handling both litigation and arbitration. Gheorghe Buta is a very highly regarded dispute resolution practitioner in Romania, with an excellent track record in handling high-profile commercial disputes. Octavian Popescu is well versed in advising on corporate disputes, banking and finance litigation, and white- collar crime cases. Dana Bivol heads up the practice with Popescu and Buta. Litigator Andreea Mihalache is a name to note, as is Constantin Branzan.