Volciuc-Ionescu — Romania

Ana Sandu

Ana is a Partner at Volciuc-Ionescu. Her practice covers a wide range of corporate/M&A transactions with a particular focus on technology and energy, assisting international corporations, PE and VC funds and emerging companies. Noted for her ‘excellent technical skills‘ by the legal directories and ranked as a rising star (Legal500), Ana has extensive experience in transactions involving domestic and cross-border acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, minority investments and contract negotiations. Ana has advised on a number of headline transactions in Romania – recent experience includes advice to one of the world’s largest delivery platforms in the sale of its business in Eastern Europe, advice to a London-based PE fund focused on technology companies in the acquisition of a local provider of fuel and cost management solutions for the aviation sector, buyer side advice in the acquisition of several companies providing software solutions for the banking and financial industry, advice to a producer of electricity in the acquisition of several wind and solar energy projects in Romania, advice to a supplier of electricity and natural gas on regulatory matters and in relation to the update of their customer contractual documentation. PUBLICATIONS Ana has authored and co-authored several articles on changes in the legal environment on topics such as foreign direct investments, energy and natural gas developments, changes in the corporate legal framework. · Corporate / M&A

Diana Ionescu-Tudor

Diana is a Partner at Volciuc-Ionescu, with a particular focus on real estate, as well as cross-border banking and finance and capital markets and she advises both domestic and international clients active in the real estate, energy, financial services and automotive sectors. Ranked as a rising star in the legal directories, Diana has strong expertise in the property-related aspects in the energy sector, in particular renewable energy and oil&gas, being involved in a number of domestic and cross-border transactions, coordinating legal due diligence investigations, assisting clients in securing land rights for the purpose of developing projects, drafting and negotiating transaction documentation and assisting with the pre- and post-completion work. She assists clients with all aspects of Romanian real estate across a broad spectrum of transactions, with an emphasis on renewable energy projects and property finance, including acquisitions, disposals and development. Diana also offers advice to banks, financial institution and corporate borrowers on finance transactions across multiple sectors, including debt capital markets, corporate finance, acquisition finance, property finance, derivatives transactions, industrials, energy and natural resources, technology and real estate. PUBLICATIONS Diana has written numerous papers on developments in law relating to real estate and banking. · Real Estate

Ramona Volciuc-Ionescu

Ramona heads the corporate / M&A and energy teams. She is recommended by legal directories such as Chambers for her M&A experience: ”[Ramona is] an accomplished practitioner, praised for her very good commercial understanding. She is receptive, supportive and always delivers on time.”, and Legal500 for her energy expertise: ”[Ramona] is very sharp”. Ramona specialises in mergers and acquisitions, with a particular emphasis on the energy and natural resources sector, in Central and Eastern Europe. She dealt with numerous multi-jurisdictional transactions acting on all sides and gained in-depth experience in mergers, domestic and cross-border acquisitions, restructuring and reorganizations, joint ventures, strategic alliances and private equity transactions, as well as regulatory matters. Recent relevant experience includes advising some of the world largest oil&gas companies in relation to petroleum agreements, including concessions, joint operating agreements, farm-in and farm-out agreements, services agreements, licensing and other regulatory requirements for their operations in Romania, advising a world leading utility on the acquisition of several wind farms, photovoltaic plants and biomass projects in Romania, advising a world leading energy group on electricity regulatory and commercial issues, advising a leading regional bank on energy related matters in connection with granting of financing for construction of renewable projects in Romania. Prior to founding Volciuc-Ionescu, Ramona headed the energy team of an international law firm in Bucharest, worked for a leading Austrian law firm in Bucharest and Vienna, and for Lehman Brothers in London. PUBLICATIONS Ramona is a regular contributor to legal magazines regarding energy and M&A topic and frequently provides insights as a speaker at international conferences and seminars. · Corporate / M&A

Sabin Volciuc-Ionescu

Sabin is the managing partner of Volciuc-Ionescu. Chambers highly recommends Sabin for ”tailoring advice so that it can be used in a business context”, while Legal500 praises him for being ”very professional, quick-thinking, and intelligent”. His practice covers a wide range of banking and finance work and capital markets and M&A transactions. Sabin advised on a number of headline transactions in Romania, assisting both domestic and international clients, either financial institutions or corporates. He is focused on financial services, infrastructure and energy sectors and has extensive experience in project finance, sovereign financing, structured finance, corporate, asset and acquisition finance, as well as in M&A and capital markets (including Eurobonds, RON denominated bonds and GDRs). PUBLICATIONS Sabin has written numerous papers on developments in law relating to private international laws, capital markets, securitisation and leasing. He regularly provides insights as a speaker at international conferences and seminars. · Banking & Finance