Costin Taracila is the Managing Partner with RTPR Allen & Overy. Costin has experience in advising international companies on capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, privatisations, corporate and commercial law. Costin was involved as a key member of the legal team in several major privatisation transactions in Romania, including: (i) Electrica Muntenia Sud; (ii) BCR; (iii) Romania's national oil and gas company, Petrom S.A.  Recent transactions include: acquisitions of World Class Romania, Simartis Telecom, “Intercora” retail park, Centru Medical Unirea, Euroclinic Hospital, City Pharma, the Siveco and Romprest exits, the joint venture between Bunge and Prio.

Mihai Ristici is a Partner with RTPR Allen & Overy. Mihai focuses primarily on M&A and mainstream corporate matters, having advised on a number of significant transactions on the Romanian market such as the privatisation of BCR, the sale of Cargus by DHL and the establishment by the Romanian Ministry of Public Finance of a MTN Programme and issues of notes thereunder. Mihai is also currently advising Electrica in the largest Romanian IPO to date. Mihai has also significant experience in energy related matters and in finance matters - real estate, public sector and project finance.

Victor Padurari is a partner with RTPR Allen & Overy. Victor is primarily involved in finance and projects, including secured lending, project finance, LBOs, real estate finance, PPPs, concessions, governmental public debt and municipal finance, as well as general corporate and commercial law, real estate and state aid. 

Alexandru Retevoescu is a partner with RTPR Allen & Overy. Alexandru focuses primarily on banking and finance projects and has provided advice to national and international banks in connection with general corporate, real estate and leveraged finance transactions. He is also experienced at advising on debt restructuring matters and has prior experience of working on both formal insolvency and informal restructuring proceedings.

Valentin Berea is a Partner of RTPR, in association with Allen &Overy LLP. Valentin specialises in competition, intellectual property and litigation. Valentin has successfully coordinated the defence of a pharmaceutical company in one of the largest anti-trust investigations in Romania to date, which resulted in the first substantial fine reduction granted by a Romanian court. He is also a certified intellectual property counsellor for trademarks and industrial designs and an assisting professor teaching Contract Law at the Bucharest Law University. Who is Who of Competition Lawyers has included Valentin for the last 3 years among the list of top 8 competition law specialists in Romania, a list that is prepared exclusively based on peers’ feedback.

Professor Lucian Mihai is an Of Counsel with RTPR Allen & Overy. He is also the chairman of the Bucharest Court of Commercial Arbitration. He specializes both in private and some fields of public law: litigation (including intellectual property, competition and fiscal cases), domestic and international arbitration, regulatory, human rights, constitutional justice, parliamentary proceedings. Dr. Lucian Mihai has 35 years of experience as professor at the University of Bucharest teaching Civil Law, Intellectual Property Law and International Arbitration. He is a former President of the Romanian Constitutional Court (the highest legal position in Romania), former Secretary General of the Chamber of Deputies, former chairman of the drafting committee of the Civil Code enacted in 2011, and member of the Venice Commission (2006-2014). The professor also acted as ad-hoc judge of the European Court of Human Rights. He has been the honorary legal adviser to the UK Ambassador at Bucharest since 1994.

Alina Stavaru (Proteasa) is a Counsel with RTPR Allen & Overy. She is primarily involved in mergers and acquisitions, particularly private equity, complex corporate and capital restructurings and joint ventures. Alina has recently advised Enterprise Investors, one of the largest firms managing private equity and venture capital funds in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe, on the exit from Siveco Romania (a leading software development business) in a leveraged MBO and DHL in relation to the sale of Cargus International (the Romanian domestic courier business) to Abris Capital Partners.

Andreea Burtoiu is a Counsel with RTPR Allen & Overy. Andreea has extensive experience in banking and finance (advising on various syndicated and bilateral finance transactions but also on derivatives and cash management tools), restructuring transactions, as well as capital markets. She advised on important transactions in Romania, such as the establishment by the Romanian Ministry of Public Finance of a MTN Programme and issues of notes thereunder. She recently coordinated the legal team advising one of the banks which financed the complex acquisition by Somaco Antrepriza (which is in its turn an investment of the Swedish investment fund Oresa Ventures) of the business of Europrefabricate (a company in insolvency).

Cosmin Tilea is a Counsel with RTPR Allen & Overy. He has an extensive experience in cross-border financings (especially in project finance transactions), municipal loans and public debt, procurement and energy matters. Cosmin has recently advised (i) EBRD, Erste Bank, BCR and EKF in the first export credit agency covered renewable project financing in Romania, having a value of EUR 125 million, extended to STEAG GmbH for the construction of a 108 MW wind farm; and (ii) EBRD, IFC, BSTDB and other commercial banks in relation to several financings with a total value of EUR 268 million (which include the first renewable project financing in Romania) granted to EDP Renovaveis, the third largest renewable energy producer in the world, to finance the construction of several Romanian wind and solar power plants having a total installed capacity of 335 MW.

Loredana Boeru is a Counsel with RTPR Allen & Overy. She has a vast experience in debt and equity capital markets transactions, having also advised on diversified regulatory matters (eg management of funds and MiFID). Loredana has been involved in two significant transfers of loans portfolios and has worked in an important number of sophisticated finance transactions. Loredana is advised Electrica in the largest Romanian IPO to date and has recently advised JP Morgan on a EUR 450 million Senior Secured Notes corporate bond issuance guaranteed by RCS & RDS, as well as EBRD in an approx. EUR 18.8 ABB.

Adrian Cazan is a Senior Associate with RTPR Allen & Overy. Adrian has extensive experience in all aspects of real estate and M&A transactions, with a focus on renewable energy projects and public procurement. His practice areas also include general commercial and contract law, construction law, energy law and projects. Adrian’s recent expertise includes advising Resource Partners on the acquisition of 71% in World Class Romania S.A and the further complete buyout of minority shareholders in World Class Romania, Bucharest Stock Exchange in relation to the contractual and regulatory requirements for the appointment of its CEO.

Anca Rusu is a Senior Associate with RTPR Allen & Overy. Anca is a specialist in energy, corporate / M&A, and insolvency. Anca’s experience includes advising Eni on the sale of its downstream assets in the CEE region to MOL, Unicredit Bank Austria AG and Intesa Sanpaolo Bank Ireland plc in connection with the EUR 85 million financing extended to a Romanian subsidiary of Samsung C&T Corporation for the development of a 45 MW photovoltaic park located in the County of Giurgiu (one of the largest photovoltaic projects in Romania to date).

Roxana Ionescu is a Senior Associate with RTPR Allen & Overy. Roxana has extensive experience in providing assistance and representation in merger clearance proceedings, investigations undergone by the Romanian Competition Council or complaints formulated by our clients to the Romanian Competition Council. Roxana also has experience in assisting clients in the preparation of compliance programs and in providing day-by-day competition advice. Roxana has advised Profi Rom Food and a leading pension funds management company in two successful antitrust litigations, MOL Romania Petroleum Products during a cartel investigation and is currently advising MOL during the litigation against the decision of the Competition Council.

Valentin Hirit is a Senior Associate with RTPR Allen & Overy. Valentin has experience in litigation matters as well as in advising on mergers and acquisitions, corporate and competition legislation in Romania. He was a member of the team that advised: film producers in relation to claims related to online piracy; one of the largest telecommunication operators in Romania in a dispute concerning a large number of its internet domains; Muntenia, Midtown and GDF Suez in relation to various claims of ownership over plots of land. He also advised Advent International on the Centrul Medical Unirea and Euroclinic Hospital acquisitions, Enterprise Investors on the sale of Artima and A&D Pharma on the acquisition of City Pharma pharmacies.

Victor Rusu is a Senior Associate with RTPR Allen & Overy. Victor has experience in advising international and local companies with regard to commercial transactions, merger & acquisitions, corporate law, and transactions involving telecommunications. He was a member of the team that advised First Retail International (FRI) on the InterCora Romanian retail park portfolio acquisition, Centrul Medical Unirea (CMU), on the Euroclinic Medical Centers and Euroclinic Hospital acquisitions.