Suciu Popa successfully represented Hidroelectrica S.A, in a complex labour class action initiated by 3,000 employees concerning certain rights claimed under the collective bargaining agreement (CBA).  By this decision, the Bucharest Court of...more »

NNDKP represented the National Museum of Romanian History (MNIR) and obtained an irrevocable court decision that annulled in full the New MNIR public procurement proceeding. ...more »

Zamfirescu Racoți & Partners (ZRP) and Tănăsescu Gavrilă & Asociații (TGA) bring another victory to Romania in an ICSID investment arbitration initiated by Alpiq AG Switzerland (Alpiq). By the arbitration request filed in November 2014, the mother-company of two Romanian subsidiaries acting as energy traders claimed for damages following termination of two long-term energy supply contracts concluded with state-owned Hidroelectrica, Romania’s biggest power producer...more »

By the judgment delivered on 30 October 2018, the Bucharest Court of Appeal ordered in the first instance to suspend the execution of the ANAF Order no. 1960 / 08.06.2018. By this Order, as of 10 November, a new obligation is the obligation for economic operators of energy products (gasoline, diesel oil, gasoline, liquefied petroleum gas and biofuel), namely to have storage facilities....more »

The Baylor Marea Neagră Foundation, represented by NNDKP, may continue to donate the medicines necessary for treating severe conditions after having won a court dispute against the Romanian fiscal authorities.  The Romanian fiscal bodies refused to authorize the VAT-exempt import of the medicines necessary for treating several serious conditions, including HIV/AIDS infection, anemia caused by chronic renal diseases and certain types of cancer....more »

A team from Wolf Theiss Bucharest Litigation and Arbitration Department, coordinated by Ligia Cecilia Popescu, Partner, obtained a first-instance decision in a litigation worth EUR 180 million against the majority shareholder of Electroputere Craiova, Al Arrab Company Saudi Arabia, member of the Al Rajhi group....more »

The litigation practice of Clifford Chance Badea has secured a very important favorable decision for global client Pfizer in relation with the claim of a pharmaceutical company concerning the Romanian Ministry of Health's public acquisition procedure of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. ...more »

The Emergency Arbitrator Procedure was unknown in the Romanian arbitration practice until the beginning of 2018, when it was introduced in the New Procedural Rules of the Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIR). In the first case brought ...more »

NNDKP successfully represented the company Azomureș in a commercial dispute that involved damages in the amount of EUR 15 million, representing lost profits pursuant to a framework transportation agreement.  ...more »

Hategan Attorneys through the Tax Department won in the first instance at the Timis Court, an important lawsuit against ANAF, DGFP Timis, representing one of the largest developers of renewable energy projects in the West. Thus, the Timis Tribunal decided that several components of the photovoltaic park can not be considered as constructions, thus avoiding the increase of the building tax due. This court judgment could have a major impact on the renewable energy industry....more »