Mr Alexandru-Cristian Stanescu > Lexters > Bucharest, Romania > Lawyer Profile

Lexters
Heleșteului Street, No. 17
Bucharest, 1st District
Romania

Work Department

Technology, M&A

Position

Alex Stanescu, a partner at the firm, is focusing on a wide span of legal areas including banking, capital markets, blockchain & cryptocurrency, EU consumer protection, financial instruments, and cross-border commercial international arbitration.

Career

Alexandru worked with RTPR-Allen Overy on banking regulations early in his career. He then pursued a tri-lingual MBA from Deusto University, Spain where he also obtained an LLM. Alexandru was an attorney in the London office of Baker Botts, covering arbitration and corporate matters. Prior to that, Alexandru worked for the World Bank in Trade and Competitiveness, covering competition law and policy, insolvency, and enforcing contracts for doing business. He clerked for the European Court of Justice and the European Investment Bank.

Languages

Romanian, English, French, Italian, Spanish.

Memberships

New York Bar Association

Bucharest Bar Association

Alexandru is a member of the Working Group on the Law on Blockchain, President of the Spanish Club of Arbitration in Romania, and a Board Member of ThinkBlockTank.

 

Education

Columbia University School of Law – LL.M – 2016 – 2017;

University of Bucharest – LL.M – 2013 – 2014;

Universidad de Deusto – MBA – 2007 – 2008;

Ecole de Management de Nantes Autencia – MBA – 2007 – 2008;

University of Bucharest – BA Law – 2003 – 2007.

Personal

Believer in a better society through sound policy making and disruptive technologies.

Plurilingual. Bringing the experience in shaping legal and economic policies to a career in international decentralized business solutions and new tech adoption.