DLA Piper Dinu SCA is a key choice for clients from highly regulated industries, with notable experience in pharma and FMCG. The team can offer tax support within various types of corporate projects, such as M&A transactions, business expansion, restructuring, permanent establishment, and due diligence assessments. Leveraging the firm’s international reach, it can deliver services across multiple jurisdictions. The practice is headed by Tudor Nedelea, who specialises in tax compliance and efficiency. Another key member is Lidia Duțu-Cârstea, who focuses on international tax issues. Octavian Ionașcu joined the team in June 2025 as tax director, focusing on indirect taxation matters.
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- Everyone we've interacted with has been very helpful and knowledgeable.
- Tudor Nedelea on the tax side is always available for our questions and always willing to help find the best solution in the network.
- We worked very well with Lidia Dutu from the Romanian team. She proved to be very competent, along with her colleagues, of course.
- I am very happy to be working with DLA Piper Dinu SCA. They put effort into understanding our particular business, our needs, and always come up with the most appropriate solution.
- ‘DLA Piper Tax Romania has an excellent team of professionals that answered promptly to our inquiries and advised us to take the best solutions for us.’
- ‘We are working with Tudor Nedelea and his team; beside the well documented advices that they gave us, we appreciate their availability, the fact that they are proactive and present the legislative changes and their potential implication in our business, the quality of debates that we have and the trust that in any case together we will make the correct decision for our business from tax point of view.’
- ‘Speed of problem solving and efficiency, offering multiple solutions to problems. Lidia Duțu has outstanding activity and collaboration with our entity, as well as with Tudor Nedelea.’
Key clients
- Axel Johnson, Inc.
- Ariadna Lowendal and Top Diagnostics
- Philip Morris Trading SRL
- Affidea Romania
- Affidea BV
- InnovX – Business Accelerator
- Group One.com AB
Work highlights
Advised Axel Johnson, Inc. on its acquisition of a majority stake in La Fantana.
Advising Affidea Group on their strategic expansion on the Romanian market and with the restructuring of their local operations through merging one of their operational entities with its parent company.
Supporting the MoonShotX Program on a pro-bono basis.
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Practice head
Tudor Nedelea
Other key lawyers
Lidia Duțu-Cârstea; Octavian Ionașcu