The ‘professional, pragmatic and responsive lawyers’ in the dispute resolution team at STOICA & ASOCIAȚII are regularly sought after by major multinational companies, domestic entities and public bodies requiring assistance with contentious matters in Romania. Areas of recent growth include telecoms litigation, and cases regarding environmental taxes. The firm also fields strong contentious offerings across IP, competition law, and restructuring and insolvency. ’Eminent practitioner’ Valeriu Stoica coordinates the litigation group and draws on a wealth of diverse advocacy experience. Cristiana Stoica is the key figure on the arbitration side and is the lead contact for the firm’s consultancy activity. Dragoș Bogdan and Dan Rareş Răducanu are further experienced counsel to note, while Daniel-Alexandru Aragea receives client acclaim and is a key name in civil litigation. Bogdan Popescu, Yolanda Beșleagă, and Constantin Cosmin Pintilie all provide valuable support to the partners.
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‘Highly professional and strongly connected with the clients' needs.’
‘Highly professional, strongly involved, always providing us with the best advice and always available.’
‘They proved to have an in-depth knowledge and openness to explore the particularities and the regulatory intricacies of our sector. They are remarkably well connected to the case law and work on a wide variety of cases, which influences their management of the files. They are both remarkable scholars of law, as well as practitioners. The young team of lawyers under Valeriu Stoica swim right side by side with him.’
‘Stoica & Asociatii's professional, pragmatic and responsive lawyers are certainly representatives of an elite school that has trained many of Romania's top lawyers. Their company helps us in a commercial litigation dispute.’
‘Valeriu Stoica is an eminent practitioner of both the firm and the Romanian legal profession is a reference name, a trainer of magistrates and lawyers in his position as professor emeritus.'
'Daniel-Alexandru Aragea is an excellent practitioner with unique and very thorough skills in the case before us, he is an authority in the field.’
‘Open communication, availability, respect for the client's needs, knowledge.’
‘The team is very diverse, from professors to court lawyers. A very good doctrinarian approach.’
Key clients
- Tehnic-Asist S.R.L.
- Avenor Foundation
- CET S.A. Iași
- Mol Romania Petroleum Products
- Tioss Commerce S.R.L.
- Foto Distribuție S.R.L.
- Inditex Romania S.R.L.
- Grup 4 Instalații S.A. and G4 Electrice S.A.
- UTI Group S.A.
- Ariston Thermo Romania S.R.L.
Work highlights
- Representing CET S.A. Iași in a litigation having as object an action the recovery of possession of the thermal power stations, following the termination of a lease contract concluded by the client with the territorial administrative unit.
- Representing Foto Distribuție S.R.L. in a dispute concerning the obligation of the national concessionaire energy distributor to take over an energy station and several energy capacities ancillary to said station.
- Representing Kaufland Romania SCS before the Romanian courts in a dispute involving the performance of a construction contract for the construction of one of the retailer’s biggest stores.
Lawyers
Hall of fame
The lawyers at the very top of the profession, widely known and respected by peers and clients for their longstanding involvement in market-leading work.
Leading partners
The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.
Dragoș Bogdan
Next generation partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
Andreea Stoica
Leading associates
Leading associates with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.
Practice head
Valeriu Stoica; Cristiana Stoica
Other key lawyers
Dragoş Bogdan; Dan-Rareş Răducanu; Daniel-Alexandru Aragea; Bogdan Popescu; Yolanda Beșleagă; Constantin Cosmin Pintilie