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Loredana Chitu

Loredana is partner and head of the Capital Markets group in Bucharest. She has vast experience in both equity and debt capital markets work, having advised issuers and investment banks on local and international deals. A well-known lawyer for capital markets regulatory work, she advises on shareholders’ rights and disputes, takeovers, insider dealing and market abuse, MIFID, transparency and corporate governance requirements, as well as on regulatory aspects of DLT / blockchain solutions. She also advises private equity funds on regulatory matters under AIFMD and EuVECA.

Sandra Constantin

Sandra is a senior associate in the Dentons Bucharest banking and finance group. She is assisting on a range of finance transactions, with a focus on real estate and acquisition finance, syndicated or bilateral. She acts for banks, international financial institutions and borrowers in transactions in Romania and across CEE. Her background also includes advising on acquisitions of credit institutions and performing and non-performing loan portfolios, factoring arrangements, as well as on regulatory compliance matters in the banking and payment service industries.

Tiberiu Csaki

Tiberiu Csaki is a partner and head of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice group based in Dentons' Bucharest office. He concentrates his long standing practice primarily in commercial litigation and international arbitration (including alternative dispute resolution), and also has extensive experience in labor litigation, restructuring and insolvency, mergers and acquisitions, securities and privatizations. Tiberiu has represented major international clients from various industries, such as energy, oil and gas, maritime salvage, chemical industry, insurance, cement and FMCG.

Simon Dayes

Simon Dayes is part of the Dentons’ Bucharest Banking and Finance team. Qualified as an UK solicitor, he has been advising banks, international financial institutions and project sponsors in cross border credit transactions in Central Europe from a Bucharest base for over 15 years. Simon works on project finance, structured trade finance and financial restructurings, corporate and real estate lending, and syndications. With sector focuses including energy and renewables, concession-based infrastructure and hotels, Simon has worked widely across Central and Western Europe and Africa.

Lawrence Florescu

Lawrence Florescu is a UK and US qualified senior associate in Dentons’ Banking and Finance group in Bucharest. He is often called upon by partners to provide English law advice and transaction management on their cross-border transactions. He specializes in project finance and corporate lending transactions in emerging markets and is actively involved in cross-border transactions spanning Europe, Africa, and Middle East.

Stefi Ionescu

Stefi Ionescu is a counsel in Dentons' Bucharest office and a member of the Banking and Finance team. Stefi has over 10 years of experience in transactional and consultancy work for financial institutions as well as investors and large corporates and is dual qualified as a Romanian and English lawyer. Stefi has worked intensively in local and international syndicated financing and debt restructuring deals in a wide variety of sectors, most notably real estate, energy, agribusiness, and FMCG. Stefi also regularly advises on regulatory matters in the banking and capital markets sector.

Simona Marin

Simona is an English and New York qualified partner in Dentons’ Banking and Finance team in Bucharest. She focuses on project finance, real estate finance and other financing structures, syndicated and bilateral, secured and unsecured. She has over ten years' experience advising on a broad range of high-profile financings and projects throughout the Central and South East Europe region. She has advised on transactions in the energy and utilities, hotels and leisure, financial services, infrastructure and project finance, as well as the real estate and construction sectors. She acts for lenders and borrowers and has been involved in advising international banks and financial institutions on a number of ground-breaking transactions in the region in recent years.

Carolina Mitea

Carolina is an associate in the Public Procurement practice of Dentons’ Bucharest office. She advises both international and domestic clients on a wide range of matters related to public procurement, infrastructure and PPP, environmental law, and regulatory compliance.

Claudiu Munteanu-Jipescu

With more than 25 years of sector experience, partner Claudiu Munteanu-Jipescu leads Dentons’ Energy practice in Bucharest. Highly specialized in renewable energy, Claudiu has led a large number of wind and solar energy projects advising both international and local companies. His expertise encompasses assisting both on the buyers and sellers’ side, as he has also been known for leading numerous oil and gas projects. Claudiu has also significant experience in mergers and acquisitions, and he regularly advises local and international clients on complex regulatory, contractual and corporate matters.

Luiza Onofrei

Luiza is a key member of Dentons’ Real Estate team, bringing strong expertise in the real estate sector and a proven track record in both local and cross-border transactions. She has played a central role in high-profile deals for real estate investors, developers, contractors, and funds in the Romanian market.

Andrei Orbesteanu

Andrei is a counsel with Dentons’ Litigation and Dispute Resolution group. He specializes in litigation and alternative dispute resolution and has extensive experience in restructuring and insolvency/bankruptcy as well as tax litigation, advising on intricate or sensitive matters that require a high degree of litigation expertise in different sectors such as energy, real estate, fintech, and aviation. Andrei gained experience in working with both governmental and private entities, and represented clients before local and international arbitration bodies in investment arbitration, commercial arbitration, and litigation, with a focus on disputes related to Bilateral Investment Treaties.

Bogdan Papandopol

Partner Bogdan Papandopol is coordinating the real estate practice and is head of Dentons’ Global Real Estate Group in Bucharest. He has over 20 years of experience advising a large number of Romanian and international investors in various types of sophisticated real estate M&A transactions, as well as in privatization processes, especially with the involvement of local and international banks. He advised major renewable energy companies in local and cross-border transactions, coordinating complex real estate due diligence exercises.

Angelica Pintilie

Angelica is a senior associate in the Energy group in Bucharest, with a strong focus on renewable energy projects and extensive experience advising clients across the energy and natural resources sector. She provides regulatory guidance and supports clients in both transactional and day-to-day operational matters, including, but not limited to permitting, electricity production, supply, and trading activities.

Catalina Raca

Catalina is a Romanian law qualified senior associate in the Dentons Bucharest Banking and Finance Group, being an active member of the Romanian Bar. She regularly advises lenders – banks and international financial institutions – in cross-border lending transactions in Romania and Southeastern Europe.

Alexandra Radulescu

Alexandra is a partner and co-head of the Bucharest’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice. Alexandra’s expertise includes advising and representing clients in commercial, construction, and defense arbitration proceedings before the Court of International Arbitration attached to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania and the ICC International Court of Arbitration, in cases seated in Paris, Vienna and Bucharest, as well as in domestic court proceedings. With regard to general administrative disputes, Alexandra has represented clients in various high-profile competition litigations, in claims against various state authorities, including the National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) and the Environment Fund Administration (AFM), in tax and customs-related litigations, as well as in regulatory and public procurement disputes. Alexandra also regularly advises clients from numerous industries—including highly regulated ones such as pharmaceuticals, telecom, automotive, energy, oil and gas—on domestic and EU industry regulations, competition as well as state-aid matters. With respect to life sciences, she has advised and assisted clients on regulatory matters, HTA procedures, pricing and reimbursement—including cost-volume/cost-volume result agreements, donation and sponsorship agreements, public-private protocols, new health reimbursement schemes, healthcare procurement, internal compliance and ethics investigations, employment matters and regulatory and IP litigation. Alexandra’s expertise in the IP field includes advising and representing clients in both pre-litigious situations and court cases, in connection with various trademark, industrial designs, copyright and Internet domain names infringements and protection.

Argentina Rafail

Argentina Rafail is a Counsel and co-head of Employment in Dentons' Bucharest office. She focuses on employment and corporate matters. Argentina has worked on transactions involving employment matters (collective bargaining agreements, individual labour agreements, companies’ internal regulations, disciplinary procedures and EU and non-EU citizens’ immigration formalities in Romania), commercial agreements and operation authorizations for local and international clients in the automotive, engineering, construction and infrastructure sectors.

Alin Roca

Alin Roca is an Associate in the Capital Markets group at the Bucharest office. His active involvement in recent capital markets endeavors, including initial public offerings, private placements, and merger and acquisition transactions, highlights his expertise. Alin possesses comprehensive training in conducting due diligence exercises, skillfully drafting prospectuses, and conducting thorough research on regulatory matters.

Simona Rădulescu

Simona Radulescu is a Senior Associate in Dentons’ Bucharest Employment and Labor team. She specializes in the interconnected fields of employment law and data protection, with a particular focus on aligning workplace practices with privacy regulations to ensure robust and practical compliance. Her work has concentrated on clients in the technology and life sciences sectors, where her employment expertise integrates seamlessly with data privacy and GDPR matters.

Iulia Titirisca

Iulia is an associate and core member of the Competition and Antitrust practice group in Bucharest. She advises Romanian and international clients on complex competition matters, including merger control, antitrust compliance, and investigations initiated by the Romanian Competition Council, with notable experience in the retail and life sciences sectors.

Maria Tomescu

Maria Tomescu is counsel in Dentons’ Bucharest Banking and Finance team. She has more than 15 years of experience advising lenders – banks and international financial institutions – and borrowers in financing transactions in Romania and South Eastern Europe. Her record of accomplishments includes some of the top transactions in the market and she is often lead lawyer on prominent finance deals. She advises on a wide range of real estate and project finance deals, including financings, refinancings and acquisitions of retail/commercial centers, office and logistics; and also on acquisition finance transactions.

Andrei Vartires

Andrei is a core member of the TMT practice in Bucharest. He has extensive experience advising on high-profile regional and international projects involving telecom operators and technology providers, with a strong focus on telecommunications regulation and compliance. His work covers a broad range of TMT regulatory matters, including cybersecurity, location-based services, cloud services, and mobile applications. His portfolio includes major regional and global telecommunications and technology companies.

Oana Voda

Oana is a senior counsel and head of the public procurement practice in Dentons’ Bucharest office. With more than 20 years of professional experience, she has solid experience implementing complex public procurements, PPPs and concession projects in Romania as well as throughout Europe. In her capacity as a public procurement expert of the European Commission, the World Bank and the European Investment Bank, Oana honed her skills in this area, advising private and public clients active in key sectors such as government, security and defense, energy, waste management, automotive, IT&C or infrastructure on a wide range of legal and strategic matters. Recently, she has been increasingly involved in defense-related public procurement matters, advising on sensitive, high-value cross-border procurement processes and compliance frameworks under EU standards. Clients value her innovative and sustainable procurement advice, as well as her abilities in cross-border joint procurements, preparation and implementation of PPP projects and negotiation of concession contracts. A Fulbright scholar, Oana is a certified expert in Best Value Procurement (BVP), a methodology developed at Arizona State University, widely used to increase the cost-efficiency and effectiveness of the procurement of goods and services.

Perry Zizzi

Perry V. Zizzi is Managing Partner of the Bucharest office and head of the Corporate practice group in Romania. He has over a quarter century of experience advising on M&A in the emerging markets of Central and Eastern Europe, Western Europe, the US and elsewhere. He has particular expertise advising private equity clients and he is recognized as a market leader in real estate M&A.