Mrs Alina Tace > Simion & Baciu Law Firm > Bucharest, Romania > Lawyer Profile
Simion & Baciu Law Firm Offices
AFI Lakeview Building
301-311 Barbu Vacarescu Street, 7th floor
Bucharest 020276
Romania
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Mrs Alina Tace
Work Department
Gaming and Gambling Regulatory, Intellectual Property
Position
Managing Associate
Career
Alina provides comprehensive and commercially-aware legal advice in a vast and continually evolving range of complex regulatory matters, that require technical knowledge and abilities, pertaining to the gaming and gambling, intellectual property and technology and media fields.
In gaming and gambling, she has been active from the very beginning of the reformation of the Romanian legal framework and is well-versed in dealing with all legal aspects related to the operation of such activities, particularly from a regulatory and technical perspective, but also contentious.
Alina is fully acquainted with the entire spectrum of gambling regulatory, compliance, licensing, technical and operational aspects, enforcement and interpretation of the gaming legislation, business operations or dealings with regulators, with an add-on of multi-jurisdictional approach meant to avoid duplication of legal efforts from the part of the clients (where necessary).
She has assisted several of the world’s largest international online gambling operators and B2B suppliers in obtaining their first online licenses and Class 2 licenses in Romania, respectively, while also providing day-to-day advice on technical, operational and regulatory issues related to their activity in Romania.
Alina regularly advises companies on the full range of intellectual property aspects (covering all types of IP rights and multiple jurisdictions), both contentious (such as disputes over the validity of IP rights, trademark/design/patent/copyright infringement claims or plagiarism, domain names disputes, unfair competition disputes, enforcement and border measures, matters related to trade secrets and know-how) and advisory (worldwide re-branding strategies, IP transactions (including negotiation and management of IP rights, as well as due diligence work that precedes such), IP rights transfers, licensing or franchising, advice on IP portfolio management, including IP strategies, IP evaluation etc.
She is a member of the Romanian Chamber of Trademark, Design and Patent Attorneys (licensed as Trademarks, Designs and Patents Attorney) and a licensed European Trademark and Design attorney with EUIPO.
Complementing her intellectual property and gaming & gambling practice with expertise across other business law areas including anti-money laundry, general commercial & corporate, consumer protection, advertising & media, Alina acts as legal advisor to a diverse client base that includes domestic and multinational companies active in telecommunications and technology, automotive, retail, gambling, IT, FMCG, pharma, media/broadcasting and entertainment.
Languages
Romanian (native), English (fluent), French (conversational)
Memberships
Bucharest Bar
Romanian National Chamber of Industrial Property Attorneys
International Trademark Association (INTA)
ECTA – European Communities Trademark Association
Education
University of Bucharest Law School, LLB
Romanian Trademarks, Designs and Patents Attorney
Licensed European Trademark and Design Attorney
Lawyer Rankings
Romania > TMT: gambling law
(Rising stars)‘Experts in Romanian gambling regulation‘, boutique firm Simion & Baciu Law Firm leverages its partners’ extensive experience in the gambling sector to deal with the entire spectrum of licensing, compliance, enforcement, and business operations. Its experience with the Romanian National Gambling Office makes the team well-placed to handle regulatory matters. Clients include online and land-based betting and gaming companies, gaming software and platform providers, and payment service providers both domestic and global. Co-managing partners Cosmina Simion and Ana-Maria Baciu are ‘proactive and across developments before they happen‘, with notable expertise in compliance matters and gambling legislation respectively. Alina Tace joined the team in March 2023 from Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen, and is ‘highly knowledgeable lawyer in gaming matters‘.
Romania > Intellectual property
(Rising stars)Full-service firm Simion & Baciu Law Firm fields a specialist IP department that covers all matters in the area. Day-to-day prosecution and advisory work, anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy matters, and collective management of copyright are all routinely handled, and the firm also works closely with its transactional team and litigators to support clients in complex due diligence and IP litigation. ‘Excellent practitioner‘ Andreea Bende and co-founding partners Ana-Maria Baciu and Cosmina Maria Simion jointly lead the department and are all highly regarded, well-known figures in the Romanian market. Senior associate Ileana Nicolescu is a key contact for litigation matters, while Zsofia-Judit Halmagyi and March 2023 hire Alina Tace provide further support to the practice heads.
Lawyer Rankings
- Intellectual property Romania
- Rising stars Romania > TMT: gambling law
- Rising stars Romania > Intellectual property
- TMT: gambling law Romania