ALBOTA LAW FIRM

Address: 12-14 Teodosie Rudeanu Street, Entrance A, Ground Floor, Ap. D01 - D02, 1st District, Bucharest, RO-011258, Romania
Tel: +40 370 509 600, +40 799 936 000
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.albota.ro
Most senior representative: Oana Albota, Partner
No. of local partners: 1
No. of lawyers: 7
Offices in Romania: Bucharest
Representative clients include: Atenor/Nor Real Estate/Nor Residential Solutions, Shikun Binui/Point Development, White Star Real Estate/Liberty Technology Park/Liberty Residential, Hili Premier Estates Romania, Civitta Strategy & Consulting, S Group Holding/Green Gate Development, Mentech Instal, Skv Properties, Ox2/Ox2 AB Stockholm - Sucursala Bucuresti, A7 Betons.

Partners and heads of practice

Oana Albota, Partner

Practice Areas: Construction & Real Estate; Litigation & Arbitration; Banking & Finance; Corporate & Commercial

Oana is the founding partner of Albota Law Firm; prior to this, Oana coordinated the real estate practice of PeliFilip. With more than 22 years of experience in business law, she is one of the most appreciated real estate lawyers in Romania; she has advised leading developers in transactions constituting landmarks for the real estate market in Romania. She is highly recommended as construction and FIDIC specialist.

Andreea Ciobanu, Senior Associate

Practice Areas: Construction & Real Estate; Banking & Finance; Corporate & Commercial

Andreea has been practicing law for 18 years and joined Albota Law Firm in September 2014. Prior to this, Andreea worked for 4 years for a multinational corporate services provider. Andreea also worked for almost 2 years as in-house lawyer for a major Romanian company acting in the field of fuel distribution. With a solid understanding of the Romanian law and an impressive experience in the Corporate & Commercial field, Andreea advises clients on matters like: company formation, restructuring, complex shares transfers, commercial contracts and corporate governance, financing agreements.

Bogdan Roscaniuc, Senior Associate

Practice Areas: Construction & Real Estate; Energy; M&A

Bogdan has been practicing law for 18 years. Bogdan joined Albota Law Firm in January 2019; prior to this, Bogdan worked for the local office of Wolf Theiss. Bogdan gained expertise in the real estate field, with a focus on real estate title review, transfer, development and asset management, as well as extensive involvement in corporate matters adjacent to real estate transactions, including corporate governance matters and commercial agreements.

Diana Badea, Senior Associate

Practice Areas: Construction & Real Estate; Litigation & Arbitration

Diana joined Albota Law Firm in July 2018. Prior to this, she worked for almost 12 years in the consultancy department of two important Romanian Law firms located in Bucharest. With more than 22 years of experience in business law, Diana has vast experience and expertise in drafting, amending and negotiation of a wide variety of commercial agreements and she provides business oriented legal advices on matters like: office and residential investments, construction and permitting process, construction claims, civil litigation, arbitration.

Ana Maria Mincu, Senior Associate

Practice Areas: Construction & Real Estate; Corporate & Commercial

Ana Maria joined Albota Law Firm on April 2019. Ana Maria has been practicing law for 24 years with major law firms and gained significant expertise in the real estate, construction, corporate and M&A matters.

Mihai Macovei, Senior Associate

Practice Areas: Construction & Real Estate; Litigation 

After spending more than 7 years in one of the Big Four law firms in Romania and a short interim at one of the rapidly expanding, young law firms in the business, Mihai joined Albota Law Firm in November 2020. Mihai is a professional litigator, with substantial experience in a wide array of disputes, ranging from commercial, real estate & construction to tax and administrative or even bankruptcy.

Miruna-Maria Pioara, Senior Associate

Practice Areas: Construction & Real Estate; Corporate & Commercial, Energy

Miruna joined Albota Law Firm in September 2023. Miruna focuses her practice on real estate law, counseling various Romanian and foreign investors in complex real estate and commercial transactions, assisting in the drafting, negotiation and implementation of agreements related to land acquisition, authorization, construction, compliance with building laws and regulations, sales, and lease.

List of the most representative projects

Real Estate

Advised Hili Premier Estates Romania with the signing of a €15.4 million facility agreement and related security package concluded with OTP Bank Romania for refinancing of a loan contracted for the development of a building in Bucharest of approx. 18,000 sqm.

Advised Atenor/Nor Residential Solutions in relation with the development, financing, and sale of the mixed-use (residential and retail) project UpSite Bucharest, the first
residential project of Atenor in Bucharest of approx. 29,300 sqm residential (268 apartments) and 1,950 sqm retail to be developed in two residential high-rise buildings of 14 and 24 floors.

Assisting Atenor with the development, financing and leasing of @Expo project, a smart business campus in Bucharest of approx. 54,000 sqm offices and 950 sqm retail located at the Expozitiei area.

Assisting Liberty Technology Park in relation with the development, financing and leasing of an office project located in Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County (a modern industrial park designed for office use, comprised of 5 Class A office buildings, with additional 3 ha of land for further development, in Cluj-Napoca).

Advised Liberty Residential in relation to the development, financing and sale of a residential project located in Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, which comprises two buildings with a height regime of Ground floor plus 6 floors, each building including a number of 134 apartments.

Assistance provided to Shikun & Binui/Point Development in relation to the development and sale of the apartments and villas in the residential projects New Point 1, New Point 2 and New Point Villas. The projects consist of (i) New Point 1: 6 buildings, with a height of 9 floors, with 68 apartments for each building (i.e., 408 apartments in
total), (ii) New Point 2: 6 buildings with approx. 600 apartments in total and (iii) New Point Villas: 126 villas.

Assistance provided to Civitta Strategy & Consulting on drafting guidelines and procedures for implementation of the Urbanism Code and with other legal matters raised under the contract having as subject matter the “Procurement of expert services for the elaboration of three procedures in the field of town and country planning and building permitting, a cooperation protocol, five guidelines, three control procedures, a cost and quality standard for the elaboration and updating of spatial planning and town and country planning documents and for participation in regional dissemination sessions within the SIPOCA 50 project” concluded between the client and Ministry of Development, Public Works and Administration.

Assisted Ox2 AB Stockholm with the review and negotiation of a FIDIC-based Plant – Conditions of Construction Contract to be signed with the contractors of the wind farm with a capacity of 99 MW located in Galati County, as well as with the review and negotiation of the direct agreement to be signed with the final investor of the project. The assistance also included advice regarding various permitting and regulatory matters related to the development process of a wind farm in Romania, both for real estate and energy aspects and revision of various agreements related to the organization of the construction works, such as the project management agreement.

Advising SKV Properties with the sale and the leasing of apartments and commercial spaces within Gafencu Project. The project is located in Bucharest, 49 Grigore Gafencu St., 1st district, being a mixed-used residential and office project located in the luxury area of the North of Bucharest, having a built-up area of 35,000 sqm and comprises 124 apartments. 

Specialist lawyers: Oana Albota, Bogdan Roscaniuc, Andreea Ciobanu, Diana Badea, Ana-Maria Mincu, Mihai Macovei, Miruna- Maria Pioara.



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