Our law firm’s expertise covers the following core practice areas

Corporate / M&A Commercial Agreements

Environmental law and Regulatory

Data protection

Our law firm’s expertise covers the following core practice areas

Real estate

Our team of lawyers advised many of Romania’s leading and emerging companies in commercial and industrial property sectors with an emphasis on office developments and industrial premises.

We have also provided services related to most advantageous structures from legal and business perspective related to many type of properties, including residential, offices, intramuros and agricultural lands, as well as, forest lands.

In our activity we deal mainly with: constructions, urbanistic plans, leases, portfolio restructuring, concessions, property acquisitions and management, property selling, property financing.

Banking and Finance

Our partners’ extensive experience in Banking & Finance was acquired through a vast number of both domestic and international transactions.

Our services encompass the full scope of banking and finance transactions, such as: acquisition and project finance, including security packages, debt restructurings, derivatives and synthetic securitization, funds and asset management and general banking regulatory.

Our team is versatile in drafting and negotiating complex multilateral finance agreements, Romanian security documentation, domestic and international assignment of portfolios of receivables. We also have a strong regulatory practice covering financial regulatory advice including MiFID and general banking.

Insolvency & Restructuring

COJOCARU & ASOCIATII provides integrated insolvency & restructuring legal services which combine expertise and extensive experience of both lawyers and insolvency practitioners.

We cover the entire panel of pre -insolvency and insolvency transactions, such as: pre -insolvency protection of creditors’ rights, restructurings of distressed companies, court representation under insolvency proceedings and related regulatory advice such as in the case of close -out netting.

Our insolvency & restructuring legal services are based on the synergy between our team of lawyers and insolvency practitioners. Due to our unique blend of calibre, knowledge and experience, we are dedicated to providing high quality pragmatic advice which is both commercially sound and also cost effective.

We have been involved in insolvency proceedings and restructurings from several perspectives, while acting for distressed companies, large lender groups, agents to syndicated lending groups, commercial creditors and lenders/financial institutions.

Corporate, M&A, Commercial Agreements

Acquisitions, assignments and joint ventures have always been an important strategic option for our clients, whether we are talking about individuals, corporations, financial institutions or investment funds. Our clients rely on our advice for a better understanding and assessment of their options and execute their most sophisticated transactions. Our team of lawyers advised many of Romania’s leading and emerging companies, banks, financial institutions and investment funds on mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, public and private equity and debt offerings, private equity investments, and other transactional matters.

Our clients benefit from our extensive knowledge of Romanian corporate governance and we are able to manage even the most demanding due diligence exercises. In line with the Romanian market, where corporate directors and managers face a fast shifting landscape of governance requirements and practices, COJOCARU & ASOCIATII is able to provide practical solutions to ensure the management’s smooth running of the business and other employees’ day – to -day activities.

We provided legal services concerning corporate requirements (especially for listed companies), securities compliance, corporate governance, IT and management compensation. We provide legal services in the full scale of commercial law issues ranging from drafting complex agreements, contracts enforcing, as well as dispute resolutions and litigations. We use our background to support our clients and further advance and develop their business.

Employment

Our team of lawyers advised Romanian and foreign companies activating in a wide range of sectors in relation to very sensitive employment issues.

We assist our clients with restructurings and with managing redundancies.

We have successfully acted on behalf of employers and employees in several court cases concerning, among others, dismissals, investigations, non-compete and confidentiality aspects deriving from employment relations.

We frequently assist our clients with preparing and reviewing their internal regulations, individual and collective labour agreements as well as representing them during the collective negotiations.

Litigation & Arbitration

Our litigation team represents Romanian and foreign businesses in civil and commercial litigation and arbitration matters, including contract disputes, business disputes, and related matters, as well as representation and full support in all aspects of court litigation.

We bring to our work a technical strength and a commercial awareness that consistently achieves outstanding results, in and out of court.

The experience, technical skill and commercial awareness of our lawyers allows us to provide our clients with a complete litigation and dispute resolution service of the highest calibre.

PPP & Concessions

We offer advice on issues pertaining to public procurement law and related matters.

Our expertise centers on providing assistance on the process of drafting government contracts, advice regarding attendance of public bids and support with other litigation and pre-litigation issues that may arise in during the implementation of a PPP.

Environmental law and Regulatory

The large number of national and European laws, as well as the multitude of regulations contained in different orders, decisions, norms, makes it increasingly difficult to obtain a clear picture of the legal requirements.

Our team of lawyers can provide environmental and regulatory services of the highest level, leading clients projects to success.

Energy and Renewables

Our partners have a long-established reputation, earned by addressing difficult and complex issues in the emerging energy sector.

We provide the full spectrum of legal services in the renewable energy sector and we have assisted our clients in relation to the financing and development of renewable energy projects.

Our team of lawyers have extensive knowledge of Romanian energy legislation, as well as the way of working of the governmental bodies and public authorities involved in the authorisation process.

We have also provided advice in matters regarding generation, storage, interconnection, distribution and suply in the energy and renewable energy sectors.

Data Protection

Our team of lawyers are able to provide the full range of services necessary to ensure adequacy and compliance with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation.