Mrs Rodica Manea > CMS > Bucharest, Romania > Lawyer Profile
CMS Offices
One Tower 165 Calea Floreasca
12th–14th floors, District 1
014459 Bucharest
Romania
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Mrs Rodica Manea
Work Department
Corporate M&A
Position
Partner, Corporate M&A
Career
Rodica Manea is a partner in the Corporate and M&A Team in Romania with extensive experience in international and domestic mergers & acquisitions, private equity, complex corporate transactions, capitalisations, investment and general contract matters (e.g. joint ventures, partnerships and shareholders’ agreements), as well as regulatory compliance.
With over 20 years’ experience, Rodica has a particular focus on transactions in the financial institutions and services sector, as well as in the manufacturing, agribusiness, automotive, and consumer products sectors, to mention a few. Rodica has advised a wide variety of international clients on transactional and regulatory matters with respect to their acquisitions or divestments in Romania and has worked on some of the most significant M&A deals in Romania in recent years.
Rodica also leads the corporate practice of our dedicated team of restructuring lawyers, advising all types of stakeholders involved in, or impacted by, financial restructuring and corporate insolvency situations. She has a strong track record of assisting a broad spectrum of clients on national and cross-border restructurings, having extensive experience in corporate reorganisations and post-acquisition restructuring projects.
Her recent experience includes advising on some of the largest transactions in Romania and CEE, for clients such as Ford Otosan, B2Holding ASA, OTP Bank, Alpha Bank, National Bank of Greece, OCP Group, and more.
Languages
Romanian, English, French
Memberships
Bucharest Bar Association
Education
2002 – LLM in Business Law from the University of Sorbonne and Romanian Business Law Institute
1999 – BA in law from the University of Bucharest, Romania
Lawyer Rankings
Romania > Restructuring and insolvency
CMS‘ Bucharest office houses a team with an excellent reputation in restructuring and insolvency work. The group advises on matters across the CEE region, often handling financial restructurings, corporate insolvency issues, out-of-court restructurings, and insolvency proceedings. The practice is jointly led by the quartet of Ana Radnev and Cristina Reichmann, who are well versed in advising on pre-insolvency issues and non-performing loans; Horia Draghici, who focuses on insolvency disputes; and corporate restructuring expert Rodica Manea.
Romania > Commercial, corporate and M&A
The Bucharest office of CMS is home to a prominent corporate practice. The department continues to handle a steady workflow of high-profile deals spanning a range of major industries in Romania; clients note the practice’s ‘on the ground expertise in most of the countries in the CEE region‘. Practice head Horea Popescu regularly leads on multijurisdictional transactions from Bucharest and assists local clients with outbound investments. The ‘highly experienced transactional lawyer‘ Rodica Manea has a broad practice, with particular strength in financing transactions, and Mircea Moraru focuses on corporate matters in the technology and energy sectors. Claudia Nagy and Raluca Ionescu are other key contacts.