MPR Partners — Romania

About

The firm: MPR Partners was founded in 2013 by leading lawyers as a full-service firm and has quickly grown to an impressive portfolio of both landmark work and major clients, including major international corporations, public authorities and sound international organisations. In 2014, the firm began acting as leading counsel in cross-border projects, extended its practice to tax advisory and insolvency and restructuring services and has developed a specialised multidisciplinary team to swiftly handle the growing number of white-collar crime cases. In 2015, the firm became the exclusive Romanian member of the International Business Law Consortium, a global alliance of independent business law firms which was founded in 1996 by the Center for International Legal Studies (a reputed law research, training, and teaching institute, founded in Austria in 1976) and was repeatedly top ranked by Chambers & Partners. By 2016 the firm had been acknowledged as a leading law firm and its founding partners had been noted as leading lawyers by many significant international legal directories and publications, including Best Lawyers International, Chambers & Partners, IFLR 1000, The Legal 500, The Lawyer, and others. In 2017 the firm was designated Law Firm of the Year: during The Lawyer European Awards in London and was awarded by the leading Romanian business and financial newspaper for major M&A transactions completed. In 2018 the firm was Highly regarded for European Law firm of the year and winner of the Law firm of the year Eastern Europe and the Balkans Award during The Lawyer European Awards in London, whilst several of the firm’s major cross border M&A transactions were noted by various business publications. 2019 was an important year as it the firm was re-branded in order for its name to acknowledge the contribution and efforts of all of its partners. Several of the firm’s major M&A transactions were awarded and, as in previous years, firm’s core departments were ranked in top international directories. 2020 brought massive technology related activities for the firm and a considerable enhancement of its online presence, as it created and launched three separate specialized blogs (for employment, technology and competition matters) and a Romanian Legal Updates portal, containing valuable information released by the firm. Furthermore, in order to provide faster and even more cost efficient services, MPR Partners started using the AI Luminance. In 2021 the firm took a very important step forward and opened its very fist international office in London, Great Britain, in the heart of the City, home of the most reputed legal firms. The firm's story is continued laying a solid brick with each year that passes. MPR Partners owes its rapid development to several key features, such as flexible and user-friendly services of the firm coupled with an outstanding quality of service (as openly acknowledged by clients), its multidisciplinary approach and international reach, which enables it to handle the most complex projects, be they local or international. Areas of practice: MPR Partners offers the full range of legal services for businesses and public administrations as well as specialised tax advisory and insolvency and restructuring services. The firm’s key areas of practice include: Banking and finance: specialised team covering all ranges of work in the field. Corporate, commercial and M&A: MPR Partners is commended by clients as a ‘go-to firm for M&A deals’, having been recently involved in several important European/global deals. Competition: the firm’s practice garnered outstanding recognition from clients, who commended MPR Partners as ‘the best (…) from over 20 law firms in the past 15 years’. Dispute resolution (litigation, arbitration and ADR): internationally ranked practice area, with an over 80% rate of success in disputes. Employment: advisory and litigation work for corporations in day-to-day and one-off complex projects. Energy and natural resources: reputed practice, having yielded The Best Lawyers’ Energy Law Lawyer of the Year in 2015. Healthcare and pharma: major regulatory and transactional work for important players. Insolvency and restructuring: highly ranked practice area, having shaped the court practice in the field. IT and telecommunications: major regulatory and transactional work for important players. Real estate and construction, PPP and infrastructure projects: the firm’s practice is appreciated by major international directories. Tax: qualified tax advisers on board covering all relevant aspects. Technology and data protection: solid roaster of major global clients and full service having a business oriented approach and understanding the interplay between data protection, technology and several complementary legal fields, such as employment, IT or competition. ### Languages - English - French - Italian - Romanian - German ### Memberships - Bucharest Bar ### Staffing Figures - 25 Number of lawyers

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Alexandra Rîmbu

Partner · Corporate / M&A

Alina Popescu

Alina is Founding Partner of MPR Partners and heads the firm's Lodon office. She has frequently acted as lead counsel for both complex project and day-to-day assistance undertaken by major corporations in the areas of practice mentioned above. Alina’s expertise equally extends to amicable settlement of disputes as well as the configuration of the client’s pre-litigation conduct, having obtained in this respect notable and cost saving results. · Arbitration & ADR

Anca Băițan

Partner · Litigation

Cristina Crețu

Partner · Data Protection

Dana Rădulescu

Currently Dana is Partner within the advisory practice group of MPR Partners · Banking & Finance

Daniel Alexie

Partner · Corporate / M&A

Felix Tapai

Felix is currently Tax Partner. · Tax

Gelu Titus Maravela

Gelu is Founding Partner at MPR Partners. Throughout his practice, Gelu has been lead counsel in a large number of sizeable projects and has worked for an outstanding number of high profile corporations doing business in Romania as well as for many public authorities, being praised for his results-driven, business-oriented approach, negotiation skills and multi-angled strategic thinking, which have paid striking results in some of the most sensitive and/or sub-leveraged matters. Aside from his general corporate and commercial practice, Gelu holds a wide-ranging expertise in mergers & acquisitions, having been involved in some of the largest deals closed in Romania, including privatizations and all forms of private dealings in the field. Gelu’s corporate and M&A practice is neatly supported by his solid insight of capital markets regulations and know-how acquired through a large number of projects unfolded on the capital markets and the day-to-day assistance of publicly held companies. He also has extensive experience in pharmaceuticals and healthcare matters, having worked for an impressive portfolio of international clients including 9 of the top 12 medicine and medical devices manufacturers worldwide. In addition, he holds in-depth knowledge of oil & gas and natural resources matters, having advised clients on a large number of regulatory and business specific issues. · Corporate / M&A