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Bradu Neagu & Associates Offices

1st sector
41 Caderea Bastiliei street
Bucharest
Romania
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Bradu Neagu & Associates > The Legal 500 Rankings
Romania > White-collar crime Tier 2
Bradu Neagu & Associates handles a wide variety of high-profile white-collar crime cases, with capabilities in matters both before and after an enforcement case begins. This spans compliance counselling, internal investigations and criminal defence at every level of court. Practice head Roman Bradu, a ‘good leader and a very dedicated professional’, is a highly regarded business lawyer and white-collar litigation expert. His team includes Alexandru Vasilache, counsel of choice in this area for a host of major corporations; and Victor Hirșman, who assists with the range of criminal court proceedings.Practice head(s):
Roman Bradu
Other key lawyers:
Testimonials
‘What stands out most about this firm is that they have both a reactive and proactive approach. Where they are very fast and efficient responders to every issue I sent to them, they have a proactive approach to matters that can better shield our company from being exposed to any risks. We are very happy with their collaboration and the team overall.’
‘Roman Bradu manages every project personally and he decides the delegation of resources to the relevant members of the team. He is very punctual, respectful and with very well -prepared advice and documents.’
‘I can’t speak highly enough of their professionalism and expertise. Their team has a deep understanding of the complexities involved in disputes and criminal investigations, and they are incredibly adept at guiding us through these challenges with precision and care.’
‘I admire Roman Bradu for the type of professionals he surrounded himself with. He gathered a handful of skilled attorneys and he coordinates them towards success. He has a very diplomatic approach and a client oriented demeanour. He is easy-going but very serious when needed. He always shows availability and is quick to lend a hand when needed. He never misses deadlines.’
‘Bradu, Neagu & Associates has been an invaluable resource for us. Their responsiveness is exceptional; they are always available when needed, no matter the urgency or time constraints. Roman Bradu has a unique ability to allocate work efficiently across their associates, each of whom brings a specific strength to the table.’
‘Roman Bradu is very attentive to detail, very meticulous and patient. He takes his time with the issue presented and doesn’t simply jump to conclusions. He always makes sure the file is taken care of by the best suited lawyer and we trust his decisions. He is a good leader and a very dedicated professional.’
‘The team of Bradu and Neagu is full of energy.’
‘The team was always available for discussion and proper process of ideation of defence and plan for the further development of the court cases. Thus, the overall level of cooperation between the in-house team and the company ensured seamless application of the pre-agreed steps and great results.’
Key clients
Lukoil Romania SRL
Litasco Ltd
Euroins Insurance Group AD / Starcom Holding
HS Timber Productions SRL
B-Braun
KazMunaiGaz
Petrotel-Lukoil SA
Work highlights
Bradu Neagu & Associates > Firm Profile
Bradu, Neagu & Associates is growing rapidly in the Romanian capital’s law grandstand with noteworthy results in their legal activity of over 10 years now.
Having started dealing with white-collar crime close to the very beginning of its practice in the country and being heavily specialized in this sector niche, they have amassed valuable experience and gained the appreciation of highly esteemed corporations that have already become loyal to their custom-tailored services.
Founded in 2011 by white-collar crime litigator Roman Bradu, the firm grew stronger working on complex cases that include tax evasion, money laundering, embezzlement, corruption, professional misconduct, influence peddling, public procurement fraud, concealment, misuse of privileged information allegations, and more.
Bradu, Neagu & Associates’ record so far includes having held defense of corporate enterprises with more than $40bn market capitalization and over 100,000 employees in 70+ countries, spanning over all five human-inhabited continents of the globe.
Their clients are innovators and leaders in sectors such as oil and gas, the metal and timber industries, commerce, energy, mining, engineering, and construction.
It is their work philosophy and ethic that drew towards their services some of the most and best valued companies on a global scale – listed in Forbes Global 2000, Forbes Top 100, ENR 250, and Brand Finance Global 500.
Managing partner and business crime expert Roman Bradu holds an impressive record of high-stakes and widely publicized criminal cases involving senior executives and corporate giants among which a money laundering and misuse of company credit case, with allegations of approximately €1.6bn.
He keeps close communication with his clients, focusing on building long-term and worthwhile relations. As the main partner, he is involved actively and thoroughly in the management of every case, ensuring that adversity is led to the best resolve.
Main Contacts
Department | Name | Telephone | |
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MANAGING PARTNER | Roman Bradu | [email protected] | (+40) 751 011 111 |
NAME PARTNER | Andrei Neagu | [email protected] | (+40) 726 981 013 |
Lawyer Profiles
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Dr Roman Bradu | Founding & Managing Partner | View Profile |
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Noemi Cădariu | Managing Associate | View Profile |
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Victor Hirschmann | Senior Associate | View Profile |
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Andra Mangiurea | Associate | View Profile |
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Raluca Muresan | Associate | View Profile |
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Andrei Neagu | Founding Partner | View Profile |
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Cristina Savulescu | Senior Associate | View Profile |
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Roxana Tudose | Partner | View Profile |
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Alexandru Vasilache | Partner | View Profile |
Staff Figures
Number of lawyers : 8 Number of legal specialist : 2Languages
English Russian Romanian French SpanishMemberships
Bucharest Bar American Chamber of Commerce in Romania European Criminal Bar AssociationClient Testimonials
COMPANY/FIRM: LUKOIL ROMANIA
TESTIMONIAL: At Bradu Neagu & Associates we found an approach very close to the philosophy at the core of our company, an openness that we have rarely encountered and a hands-on attitude, based on solid legal knowledge. For us, the availability of the lawyers we work with is extremely important. All our requests were treated with the utmost rigor by Roman Bradu and his team, which determines us to further recommend them with an open heart. We have worked and will continue to work with them, maintaining a close liaison, which has become a long-term partnership. Irreproachable services and conduit, accurate assessment of objectives and their steady and timely solutioning, their very way of handling corporate matters is, to us, precisely what we are looking for.
COMPANY/FIRM: LASER PROCESSING
TESTIMONIAL: In the complex civil cases that our company had, we found as a partner, on the legal side, the law firm Bradu Neagu & Associates. The reasons for continuing working with them are heavy and clear. From the first meeting to the success in court, the whole process we went through with them was rigorous, systematic, coherent and correct from all points of view. We benefited from consultancy on every request we had on the tax side, and going on the path chosen by them, we were winners every time.
COMPANY/FIRM: HS TIMBER PRODUCTIONS
TESTIMONIAL: Through the involvement and support of lawyers and specialists from Bradu, Neagu & Associates, we managed to find timely solutions to various civil and commercial incidents that may occur in the large wood industry. The members of Bradu, Neagu & Associates team have constantly advised us to align the requirements imposed by timber perfection with both national and international legal standards.
Last but not least, through his high level of expertise in criminal law, the founding partner, Mr. Roman Bradu, has been and remains for our company, strong support in preventing and combating the international fraud phenomenon, which, unfortunately, can affect even the most complex industries.
Interviews
Roman Bradu, Managing Partner, Bradu Neagu & Associates
What do you see as the main points that differentiate Bradu Neagu & Associates from your competitors?
Our absolute and unconditional 24/7 availability to our clients proves the full-hearted involvement and dedication put forward by our team. This kind of reliability means a lot to our clients and is one of our firm’s differentiators.
We became most specialized in criminal law and especially white-collar crime litigation. Investing most of our resources in the aforementioned sector gives us a mastery advantage over the niche. It is in this focus that a great strength of ours lies. This does not mean, however, that our clients miss anything. Our insights extend to such areas of practice as civil law, commercial law and arbitrage and we also work closely with great names in other corporate matters, M&A, real estate law, competition, antitrust and many more. It is this complementarity we offer that represents another factor of differentiation.
At this point, I should mention that our services, whenever requested, come in a tailored manner to and with each client’s participation. The degree of customization available to the respective client is a feature that builds trust and ensures incredible results in the long-term relations we always aimed to create.
We can add the greatest attention to detail and the most professional handling of each and every file and case to the list. Our work philosophy and ethic drew towards our services some of the best-valued companies worldwide.
Together, all of these traits develop a most valuable blend that makes us truly distinguishable.
Which practices do you see growing in the next 12 months? What are the drivers behind that?
Perhaps it could be considered presumptive trying to predict the evolution of the global needs as the law is both strongly related to and quite similar in many aspects with the economic environment, which is unpredictable par excellence.
Speaking of drivers, the world in its whole self, including law and economics, was visibly shaken by unforeseen or too little-foreseen events regarding the endangerment of our health on a global scale. We are concerned yet confident and believe that solutions are being created for the best possible outcome.
Such events affected our world in a time of immense cognitive and economic growth, when many global market sectors could already be considered volatile, only raising the amplitude of many uncertainties. Some of the large-scale activities, however, had their role significantly emphasized and strengthened. Energy, oil and gas and industries that provide for all human needs, such as agriculture, medical and pharmaceutical, have grown in demand and supply. Some of them particularly had to come up with great amounts of ingenuity and effort to reaffirm their global market presence.
Of course, these industries create the demand themselves, across many areas, including law. Considering their activity is reaching almost every country in the world, they need to consider the legislative aspects of the respective states they enter.
This gives us solid reason to believe our strong suit, criminal law, is on the shortlist of these needs and will continue to be and to grow in the following year and afterwards, alongside civil and commercial law, competition and antitrust, labor and many others, which we are also well within preparation with and ready to handle. As a firm and as a team, with the power of our already built relations strengthening us.
Last but not least, given the need to implement the Whistleblower Directive (EU) 2019/1937 which will constitute a novelty factor for 2022, the Romanian companies, especially private ones, with a minimum of 50 employees, will have to implement internal channels of reporting and management of notifications as well as means of protection for whistleblowers.
Ensuring a balanced and effective level of protection for whistleblowers through the prism of internal legislation will represent a growing need of the Romanian private companies and not only. In addition to the protection offered to the whistleblowers, organizational frameworks are compulsory for a well-managed reporting activity so that no potential employee or collaborator should be afraid to report illegal or fraudulent activity.
As the rules on whistleblowers are covered by a European Directive, the protection of whistleblowers from one EU member state to another, is unfortunately fragmented. To overcome this fragmentation, common minimum standards are needed to ensure that potential whistleblowers are effectively protected against any form of retribution. For the proper application and implementation of the whistleblower directive, the role of a dedicated team of lawyers is essential in guiding and advising companies that are required to comply with the requirements of the European Union Law.
What’s the main change you’ve made in the firm that will benefit clients?
Our firm’s main change that is already beneficial for our clients is the collaboration with economics and tax professionals. We have also developed strong collaborations with engineers specializing in the natural gas industry.
Securing their involvement and bringing their exquisite expertise to the table assures our clients, once again, that Bradu Neagu & Associates is in excellent capability of connecting to an increasingly rich spectrum of services, in addition to our continually improving criminal, commercial and civil law focus.
Time has proved to us that additions like this are much welcome. Consequently, we are already working towards an alliance with a prodigious multinational law firm, opening up a vast array of possibilities for our clients.
Is technology changing the way you interact with your clients, and the services you can provide them?
Most definitely so.
Technology is, has been and will be further changing the way law services are provided to clients, from now old discoveries that were once considered novelty – the mobile phone, the fax, etc. – to what is nowadays state-of-the art communication.
Although personal and direct face-to-face discussion and debating can hardly be replaced, there is no doubt that tools for instant video conferencing have made reaching our international clients faster than ever before. Communicating through emails and internet-based calls facilitates almost instantaneous response to any category of urgency, and allows us, as a law firm, to be closest to our clients whenever most imperative needs pressures.
An even stronger point can be made of the fact that it is not always the case to be reactive. Many times, it is rather the moment to proactively offer prompt prevention advisory, to which timely gathering of information, its subsequent analysis, interpretation and dissemination to our clients is of utmost importance.
Needless to say, the internet and internet-related technologies orbiting it are the perfect infrastructure to accomplish such a goal. One deeply related aspect that is always taken into consideration, is that of online security, the trust all involved parts have in the algorithms and programs that encrypt restricted conversations and that ensures what in a law office is essential and should always be mandatory – complete and absolute privacy.
Can you give us a practical example of how you have helped a client to add value to their business?
I believe that top-quality legal services provided at the right moment and place are bound to always positively impact any client and their business, always adding value. Every criminal case won is a liability taken down, every fine avoided – one more investment opportunity, every wrong decision not being made, owing to preventional advice that had just been received – another year or more not consumed in a court of justice, not hindered but on the contrary, allowed to be as much productive as one can be.
All winning work that we have done is but approximately quantifiable in terms of return of value, but the latter is always on the positive side for the client, be it in terms of monetary value added, assets not lost, or in the very image of the corporation or the individual acquitted being rectified.
To name a more differentiating type of practical situation in which a client gains value for their businesses, there is a service contract we offer that is based upon punctual assistance. This means the client is not required to spend on legal services that never need be fulfilled, but only on those occasions when they make a specific request.
This is in great favor of the capital pool of any enterprise or individual and is a service some of our clients have already chosen and are most pleased with.
Are clients looking for stability and strategic direction from their law firms – where do you see the firm in three years’ time?
Stability and strategic direction provided by the law firm are foundational building blocks of all the long-term collaborations we desire to create with our clients. Trust in our ability to anticipate and to cancel adversity before they emerge is key. My partners, associates and I are doing everything within our power to keep this up to upright standards, gathering all pieces of information that can possibly matter, analyzing, structuring and restructuring them with all our experience united until the resolution is at hand.
With time I want Bradu Neagu & Associates to offer clients consultancy abroad and legal assistance in countries other than Romania, especially on the corporate flank, to provide them with an even wider array of options and to cover in detail other fields of activity, such as fiscal.
Another investment towards a better future of the firm and what it can provide to its clients is the one in people. We are committed to harmonious growth of the legal society and of our firm as well and intend to gather around us and into our ranks more and more young and talented lawyers. This will not only give Bradu Neagu & Associates the ability to honor more requests, but will also, and more importantly, create a growing, welcoming and better prepared legal context for companies from all around the globe.
Overall, I do not think it is a matter of where I see the firm in three years’ time, but rather how. And the answer to that is clear to me: stronger, taller, deeper-rooted and with an even more profound insight into the national and global legal world.
Legal Briefings
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