Recent deals highlights of our firm include:

• Restructuring of a EUR 673,500,000 secured facility

  Advising a global leading financial services firm in connection with the restructuring of a EUR 673,500,000 secured facility granted for the acquisition of a German based automotive sector company

• Reduction of the fine imposed by the Romanian Competition Council

  Successfully advising and representing a pharmaceutical company in connection with obtaining, through a final court decision, of a reduction of approximately 70% of the fine imposed by the Romanian Competition Council to a pharmaceutical company in the most important anti-trust case in Romania to date (with total fines applied to all parties involved exceeding EUR 30,000,000); this is the first case in Romania to date in which a law firm obtained a fine reduction based on an alleviating circumstance in a cartel case before a Romanian court

• EUR 120,000,000 term loan

  Advising a major Romanian local government in connection with a proposed EUR 120,000,000 term loan to assist its undertaking of rehabilitation works

• US$ 200,000,000 notes

  Advising Citibank NA (London) in connection with the planned issue by a major provider of telecommunication services on the Romanian market, of a USD 200,000,000 notes in order to assist the refinancing of its existing debts as well to support further investment projects

• EUR 986 million rights issues

  Advising a leading Greek bank in connection with rights issue of up to EUR 986 million

• Acquisition of a Romanian market leading providers of personalized mass documents production services

  Advising a large European accounting and factoring company in connection with the acquisition of a Romanian market leading providers of personalized mass documents production services

• Transfer of undertaking

  Advising Wipro Technologies in connection with the transfer of undertaking in Romania as part of a multijurisdictional transfer from Alcatel Lucent

• Granting of a USD 25 million facility

  Advising Overseas Private Investment Corporation in connection with the granting of a facility agreement USD 25 million to a Romanian financial institution, Capa Finance

• Granting of a USD 10 million facility

  Advising Overseas Private Investment Corporation in connection with a USD 10 million facility agreement for the financing of the lending activities of a Romanian non-banking financial institution (Express Finance – Instituţie Financiară Nebancară SA) to micro-clients (enterprises for business purposes and individuals for home improvement and energy efficiency) and to small and medium size enterprises

• EUR 75,000,000 term secured facility

  Advising one of the largest full service banks in the world in connection with the preparation and negotiation of transaction documents relating to a EUR 75,000,000 term secured facility agreement to a state owned company in order to assist it in its investment programme

• Factory unit close-down

  Advising Kraft Foods Romania in connection with the factory unit close-down and project related to transfer of undertaking

• Energy projects - renewable energy

  Advising Winstar Trading International in connection with its partnership with Verbund for development of 150 MW wind project and sale of the project company developing a 50 MW wind project in Tulcea county (estimated project value EUR 225 million)

• Energy projects - renewable energy

  Advising a group of investors - among which the largest Austrian power company - in relation to a joint-venture agreement for building and operating a 750 MVA transformer station for the joint connection of several individual wind parks with an aggregated capacity of 600 MW

• Energy projects - renewable energy

  Advising ImWind Immobilien - Windkraft Verwaltungs - und Beteiligungs GmbH in connection with the acquiring of a micro-hydropower plants portfolio and a proposed joint-venture for the development of up to 100 MW wind projects in Dobrogea area with a well-established Romanian wind farm developer

• Energy projects - renewable energy

  Advising Windkraft Simonsfeld in connection with the development of a 84 MW wind park in Banat area

• EUR 1 billion Eurobonds issue

  Advised the Romanian State in connection with the EUR 1 billion Eurobonds issue

• Advised Fondul Proprietatea on the fund manager selection strategy

  Advised Schroders Investment Management Limited in connection with establishing the strategy of Fondul Proprietatea S.A. for the selection of the management fund of its assets, estimated at EUR 4 billion

• EUR 750 million Eurobonds issue
  

  Advised the Romanian State in connection with the EUR 750 million Eurobonds issue

• Dole acquisition of the largest Romanian fresh fruits distributor
  

  Advised Dole Europe SAS in connection with the take-over of the largest Romanian fresh fruits distributor

• USD 7.5 billion Medium-Term Notes Issuance

  Advising Citigroup Global Markets Inc in connection with the establishment of the program for the issuance by a leading Greek bank subsidiary of Medium-Term Notes

• Cartel investigation before the Romanian Competition Council

  Representing successfully a major pharmaceutical company in relation to obtaining of a fine reduction before the Bucharest Court of Appeal in an administrative litigation against the Competition Council in the most important anti-trust case in Romania to date (with fines exceeding EUR 30,000,000)

• Disposal of OTP Hungary insurance arm to France's Groupama

  Advised OTP Hungary in connection with the disposal of its insurance arm to France's Groupama, transaction worth of US$897.2 million

• Sale of one of the largest GSM retailers in Romania

  Advised Proton Tehnologies in connection with the sale of its majority participation to Vodafone Romania S.A.

• Acquisition of one of the largest Romanian companies carrying out drilling activities in the petroleum and natural gas domain

  Advising in connection with the acquisition of one of the largest and oldest Romanian companies carrying out drilling activities in the petroleum and natural gas domain

• Acquisition of one of the leading engineering companies in Romania

  Advising Pöyry Infra GmbH in connection with the acquisition of shares in Consilier Construct, one of the leading engineering companies in Romania and certain of its affiliate companies

• Establishment in Romania of a joint-venture designed to develop and operate a modern aluminium special profiles factory for the aerospace sector

  Assisting a leading aerospace components manufacturer in setting up a joint-venture for the establishment in Romania of a modern aluminium special profiles factory for the aerospace sector

• Acquisition of wind farms

  Advising two international energy companies in connection with the proposed acquisition of two wind farm projects having a total installed power of 700 MW

• Wind farm development

  Advising the owner of several wind farm projects of up to 600 MW installed power in connection with the process of attracting ARP Verbund in the development phase

• Acquiring of a hydropower portfolio containing 11 micro-hydropower facilities in N-W Romania

  Advising in connection with the acquiring of a hydropower portfolio containing 11 micro-hydropower facilities in N-W Romania

• EUR 20 million financing for an extrusion facility plant

  Advising in connection with an EUR 20 million facility agreement for the purposes of developing and operation of an extrusion facility plant with production capacity of 2,000 metric tons located in the Nord West part of Romania

• Financing for operating a large retail park

  Advising in connection with the financing of the acquisition by an investment bank of a Romanian company operating a large retail park near Bucharest

• EUR 65 million secured long term financing made available to a Romanian SPV

  Advising in connection with an EUR 65 million secured long term financing made available to a Romanian SPV of the well-known UK based real estate developer Mivan in order to assist in the construction of a shopping mall located in the North West part of Romania offering a total net lettable area of 25,065 sqm of retail space and approximately 46,000 sqm built area

• EUR 40 million secured long-term financing made available to a private equity fund

  Advising in connection with an EUR 40 million secured long-term financing made available to a private equity fund in order to assist it in the acquisition of a group of eight Romanian companies operating in the material construction sector

• Financing of the construction of two chemical tankers ESP located at shipyards in Romania

  Advising in connection with the financing of the construction of two chemical tankers ESP located at shipyards in Romania

• Senior loan and a subordinated loan to a Romanian non-finance institution

  Advising in connection with a senior loan and a subordinated loan to a Romanian non-finance institution whose proceeds are designated to be used by the barrower to make loans to micro-clients (enterprises for business purposes and individuals for home improvement and energy efficiency) and to small and medium size enterprises

• Acquisition of one of the largest regional copper companies based in Romania

  Advising in connection with the proposed acquisition of one of the largest regional copper companies based in Romania

• Insolvency proceedings of a textile operator company

  Representing a German bank in relation to the insolvency proceedings of a textile operator company

• Restructuring of a major real estate project in Romania

  Advising in connection with the restructuring of a major real estate project in Romania

• EUR 100 million cross-border trade receivables purchase programme

  Advising in connection with the structuring and establishment of a cross-border trade receivables purchase programme for a company with worldwide presence

• Trademark litigation

  Representing successfully the romanian branch of a leading Greek bank in relation to a trademark litigation regarding one of its marks

• Insolvency proceedings of snapshot booths companies

  Advising a Romanian leasing company in connection with several insolvency cases against various debtors

• EUR 23 million sale of two companies owning a large real estate property

  Assisting on the sale side in relation to the sale to an important outlet developer of two companies owning a large real estate property adjacent to a popular highway

• Major trademark litigation

  Representing successfully a major international construction company in a trademark intellectual property litigation in relation to a well-known trademark

• Litigation before the Romanian Audiovisual Council (“CNA”)

  Representing successfully a global consumer goods company in a dispute with one of the most popular TV stations before the Romanian Audiovisual Council

• Arbitration before the World Intellectual Property Organisation

  Representing successfully a leading European freight exchange operator in a Domain Name dispute before the World Intellectual Property Organisation arbitration panel in Geneva