Cristina Daianu > Dentons > Bucharest, Romania > Lawyer Profile
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Cristina Daianu
Work Department
Corporate M&A, TMT, Venture Technology, Private Equity
Position
Cristina Daianu is a partner in the Bucharest Corporate Group. She heads the Venture Technology practice in Bucharest and the local German Desk.
With more than 20 years’ experience in corporate and M&A, Cristina assisted local and international clients – ranging from entrepreneurs to large multinational companies – in the most complex and important transactions on the Romanian market. During her career, she advised on a variety of asset and share deals, business transfers, joint ventures, greenfield projects, reorganization and restructuring matters. She also coordinated investment transactions, on either investor or founder side.
Member of Dentons Venture Beyond, Cristina is also an active player in the emerging Romanian start-up scene, being a mentor and panelist in many business incubators/accelerators and staying very close to the start-up eco-system. She advises both founders of tech companies, from the first phases of their venture to scale-up in other markets, also covering advice on various investment rounds.
Cristina has extensive international experience, working for many years in Frankfurt, being qualified as an attorney in Bucharest and Paris. She is fluent in English, French and German.
Career
- Partner – Dentons, Bucharest (2015 to date)
- Local Partner – Dentons, Bucharest (2013-2015)
- Managing Counsel – Dentons (formerly Salans), Bucharest (2009-2013)
- Partner – Shindhelm, Bucharest (2006-2009)
- Associate – Salans, Bucharest (2005-2006)
- Associate – Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (2004-2005)
- Associate – Clifford Chance Puender, Frankfurt/Main (2000-2004)
Education
Pantheon-Sorbonne University (Paris I), 1999, Postgraduate studies (Diplome d’Etudes Approfondies), on European Commercial Law
Pantheon-Sorbonne University (Paris I), 1998, Maîtrise, in French and European Law (College Juridique Franco-Roumain)
University of Bucharest, 1998, LLB
Lawyer Rankings
Romania > TMT
Praised for its ‘international experience and expertise together with detailed local knowledge‘, the TMT team at Dentons advises ‘big tech’ telecoms and media companies, private equity, venture capital funds, and start-ups alike, with a client list which includes a number of high-profile media companies. Cristina Daianu leads the firm’s venture tech practice. Daianu ‘has extensive know-how on advising start-ups in the tech sector‘ and focuses her practice on tech investment transactions. Perry Zizzi, managing partner, has experience with significant cross border acquisitions in the sector, while ‘epic’ senior associate Andrei Vartires has a history representing clients before the Romanian parliament.
Romania > Commercial, corporate and M&A
Dentons‘ Bucharest team has a significant presence on major cross-border transactions, with recognised strength in handling real estate, tech, and agribusiness sector work. Joint ventures and M&A deals involving green energy have been key drivers of work for the group. Practice head Perry Zizzi, who is managing partner of the firm’s Romania office, is lauded for his ‘outstanding expertise in M&A and transactions‘, and regularly acts for private equity clients in mandates. Real estate M&A is another area of focus for Zizzi. Cristina Daianu is active in tech-focused M&A transactions, and Cristian Popescu is well-versed in advising on agribusiness, energy and IT matters. Counsels Cristina Marcu and Doru Postelnicu are further names to note.