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Our team

Francisc Peli

Managing Partner

Francisc is a founding partner of PeliPartners and one of the most acclaimed lawyers on the Romanian market, having acquired his reputation in leading Romanian transactions. Ranked no. 1 in both Chambers Europe and Legal 500 (Romania) for real estate practice in Romania, Francisc is recognized as “exceptionally hard working and business-oriented”. He has the ability and the experience to cover all legal services ancillary to real estate business, from land acquisitions, financing, development and project management, construction contracts, lease agreements, to the most complex of exit transactions.

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Carmen Peli

Partner, Head of Corporate M&A, Finance & Banking, Competition & Commercial

Carmen is one of the founding partners of PeliPartners, with over 20 years of experience in Corporate M&A, Banking & Finance and Competition matters. Well-known for her innovative legal solutions, Carmen Peli acts as C-suite senior consultant for large corporations and investment funds. She has been a leading lawyer in some of the landmark M&A transactions in Romania in the banking, oil & gas, healthcare & pharma, retail sectors. Her deep understanding of economics and the ability to find common ground solutions are praised by clients.

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Oana Bădărău

Partner, Head of Real Estate & PPP

With a significant experience in landmark transactions and projects, Oana Bădărău is Partner and Head of Real Estate & PPP at PeliPartners, coordinating the practice that gathers one of the largest and most experienced real estate legal teams in Romania. Prior to joining PeliPartners, Oana was Partner and Head of Real Estate at a local law firm. Oana’s expertise includes real estate transactions, development and financing of projects, land acquisition, leasing, urban planning. Oana advises regularly on construction law, particularly by providing legal assistance on FIDIC forms and FIDIC adjudication/arbitration.

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Ana Atanasiu

Partner

With more than 15 years of experience in the legal field and holding a PhD in Commercial Law, Ana specializes in a wide range of litigation, including with respect to shareholder protection against abuse of minority/majority rights and in boardroom risks and liabilities. Ana also advises on alternative dispute resolution procedures as an arbitrator or mediator and assists clients on corporate and regulatory matters.

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Oana Bucșa

Partner

Oana has extensive knowledge in dealing with complex competition and commercial law mandates. She has advised clients on a various range of projects, focusing on investigations of the Romanian Competition Council, merger control, structuring of commercial contracts, state aid, competition compliance programs, as well as data protection matters.

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Mădălina Fildan-Răileanu

Partner

With over 20 years of experience in business law, Mădălina’s main practice areas are Real Estate, Energy and Mergers & Acquisitions, in which she has a senior specialist position and project coordination role. She participated in projects that span a large part of the real estate market, including retail, residential, office buildings as well as the industrial and forestry areas. Mădălina was directly involved in and coordinated legal transactions related to the sale or acquisition of lands, construction projects, forward purchase projects and the lease of commercial centres, office buildings and logistic centres.

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Alexandra Ioniță

Partner

With over a decade of experience, Alexandra specializes in providing legal advice to clients in real estate investments and divestments. She helps clients navigate the complexities of these transactions, offering insights during the due diligence analysis and in all transaction stages. Alexandra’s expertise extends to assisting clients with post-transactional matters, ensuring a smooth process from start to finish.

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Denisa Frîncu

Managing Associate

Since joining our team, more than 10 years ago, Denisa has been involved in a variety of transactional and non-transactional real estate, commercial and corporate matters, including legal due diligence investigations for the acquisition of real estate, construction projects, leasing and operational aspects, as well as drafting and negotiating various agreements.

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Delia Lepădatu

Managing Associate

Delia is a key member of our Finance & Banking practice, coordinating multiple financing transactions and being part of high-level legal due diligence investigations. Delia also has a strong background in Restructuring & Insolvency, Corporate M&A and general commercial matters, advising clients in complex transactional and non-transactional matters.

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Cătălina Balan (Burcă-Andonie)

Senior Associate

Cătălina’s areas of expertise include competition law, commercial, as well as public procurement, retail and consumer law. She was involved in various projects related to competition matters, assisting clients during all stages of an investigation across various industries, such as: market for commercialization agricultural machinery, tools and equipment in Romania, the market of eggs’ production and marketing, insurance services market, wood procurement market, the market of travel products trading, leasing market or financial market. She has also assisted companies during economic concentrations control of the Competition Council, as well as with drafting their commercial policies, discount policies and reviewing agreements on competition matters.

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Mirabela Maria

Senior Associate

Mirabela's background includes complex real estate projects with a strong corporate and M&A component, as well as several significant commercial projects. She has assisted clients in all stages of development of their real estate projects (whether office, logistic or retail projects). Her experience covers land acquisition, urbanism and construction (including FIDIC contracts), leasing and operational aspects, divestment transactions, as well as various other types of commercial contracts.

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Ioana Militaru (Waszkiewicz)

Senior Associate

With a background of more than 15 years in real estate transactions, Ioana has advised leading international developers and operators in office, retail, infrastructure, residential, industrial, logistics, as well as energy projects. Ioana has also gained extensive experience on corporate governance during a two year in-house counsel position with Argo Real Estate Opportunities Fund Ltd.

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Ionelia Anton

Associate

Ionelia’s main areas of expertise include competition law, commercial, as well as consumer protection law. She provides assistance on a variety of compliance related matters, advising companies on aspects related to FDI, merger control and conduct during investigations of the Romanian Competition Council. She has also been involved in regulatory matters related to the pharma and insurance market.

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Victor Chiriac

Associate

Victor provides legal support in all stages of real estate transactions, from the due diligence review until closing. He is also involved in drafting and negotiating lease agreements, construction agreements, as well as various commercial contracts. Through his detail-oriented approach, Victor is committed to delivering reliable and thorough legal assistance.

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Ana-Maria Ilie

Associate

Ana-Maria advises clients on a wide range of matters, including the acquisition and sale of real estate assets, due diligence, drafting and negotiation of sale and lease agreements. She possesses adequate skills and has a rich background of legal knowledge which facilitates the legal research of even the most complex matters. Her approach guarantees the identification of customized solutions tailored to meet the specific needs of the client.

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Marian Lișcan

Associate

Marian is primarily involved in corporate and M&A matters, commercial contracts, regulatory aspects, GDPR matters and litigation. He is a highly organized and resilient attorney-at-law with a strong focus on delivering excellent results. Marian provides assistance and representation in court for various clients and foreign investors from a wide range of industries, including e-commerce, medical devices and radiology, sports and automotive, from the early stages of establishing various business entities and continuing with assistance with respect to corporate governance matters and day-to-day business administration.

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Ciprian Neagu

Associate

Ciprian has been involved in several transactional and non-transactional commercial and real estate matters, including due diligence review, development and construction matters, as well as various agreements. Furthermore, Ciprian is involved in dispute resolution projects, covering multiple areas of expertise.

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Călin-Theodor Ștefanopol

Associate

Calin is involved in disputes on real estate, civil and commercial matters, including in relation to performance of contractual obligations and enforcement proceedings. Furthermore, Calin is involved in complex insolvency cases.

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Ana-Maria Tanvuia

Associate

Ana’s experience includes various litigation areas, such as commercial disputes, encompassing both corporate and contractual disputes, civil and real estate matters. Ana has represented the firm’s clients in enforcement proceedings, skilfully navigating the complexities of executing judgments and securing assets. In addition, she has extensive experience in disputes arising from insolvency proceedings, advising both creditors and debtors.

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