Delia Lepădatu

Delia is praised for being “always available for legal advice, solution oriented, very strong diligence and attention to detail.”— Legal 500 – Romania, Banking & Finance (2024)

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.

Representative work:

●Assisting a major Belgian retail park developer with an aggregate EUR 123M refinancing of its entire retail park portfolio in Romania, comprised of 24 retail parks with a gross leasable area of 132,000 sq. m.

●Assisting a major Belgian retail park developer in relation to the divestment of its retail park portfolio, the largest real estate transaction of 2023 in Romania, performed by way of a share deal including a total of 11 target companies owning 25 retail parks throughout the country, as well transferring the existing financings granted to the targets.

●Assisting a large office and mall developer with an EUR 80M refinancing of its portfolio of office buildings and malls, the first of their kind in Romania.

●Assisting several leading Romanian banks during the due diligence processes performed in the M&A banking sector for the acquisition of well-known financial institutions, with emphasis on compliance with consumer protection legislation.

●Assisting a Polish-based retail property investment company with respect to several financing structures of over approximately EUR 44M concluded with multiple Romanian banks for the purpose of developing retail parks across the country.

●Assisting the developer of a luxury hotel in Bucharest with obtaining an EUR 30M financing from a syndicate of banks comprised of some of the largest private and state-owned Romanian banks.