Cătălina Balan (Burcă-Andonie)

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.

Representative work:

●Assisting clients in investigations of the Competition Council, including during dawn-raids, drafting correspondence and replies to the requests for information.

●Assisting clients and preparing the relevant documentation throughout the leniency and granting for a favourable treatment procedure, including during negotiations with the Competition Council representatives.

●Submitting notifications to the Competition Council in respect of economic concentrations.

●Assisting clients during the entire procedure of obtaining an individual state aid for compensating the damage suffered due to Covid-19 pandemic.