Roman | Partners is a business law firm with over 15 years of top quality experience, having acted for major players on the business market in Romania. We regularly provide legal services to foreign companies operating on or having interests in Romanian business market, mainly from the US or UK, but also Germany, Switzerland, Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Austria, Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, France, De
nmark, Singapore, India etc. We advised US clients, such as the US Embassy in Romania and the US Department of State from Washington D.C., for which we have acted as legal counsel for many years in projects exceeding many million dollars, US Peace Corps, Electronic Arts, BlueSpace Software Corp., Digg Inc., Hog Slat, Intertractor America Corp., UK clients and law firms, such as premier international law firm Norton Rose in connection with projects exceeding Euro 100 million, Orange UK, Allied Domecq Spirits & Wine Limited, Cap Gemini on a contract with British American To***co, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on loan facilities, German companies Metro Cash & Carry, Real Hypermarket, Praktiker AG and French DIY retailer Bricostore on complex and expensive real estate investment projects. We cover a broad spectrum of legal activities in the areas of company and commercial law, corporate and project finance, banking and finance, real estate transactions, taxation, labor law, mergers and acquisitions, shipping & road transportation, IP rights, dispute resolution etc. We advise clients from various industry sectors, from retail, hypermarket, cash & carry and DIY businesses to IT and Telecom and game industry, from clothing to swine production, from heavy industrial equipment to tiles and parquet production, from ship operators to diplomatic missions. Our law firm has been involved in multiple cross-border operations, supporting clients on all legal aspects of the transactions, such as Finnish corporation Elcoteq SE on the acquisition of its local factory by the American company Andrew Corporation for a transaction value of US$ 20 million, a French company of the SUEZ Group on the acquisition of a Romanian metal recycling company worth € 44 million a year in turnover, Karelia Corporation from Finland in Euro 4.5 million factory acquisition, subsidiaries of major international banks, including Unicredit and Societe Generale, in the financing operations of parts of Euro 1.2 billion Baneasa real estate project in Bucharest, Cypriot ship operator LMZ Transoil Shipping Enterprises, as well as the financing banks ABN Amro and Emporiki Bank, in connection with two crude oil tanks delivery by the Romanian shipyard Daewoo Mangalia, for a total value of Euro 60 million, world's leading company in games industry Electronic Arts which we advised, among other matters, in connection with US$680 million transaction with Jamdat Mobile, or leading American private equity fund Warburg Pincus and RED Management Capital that undertook development projects in Romania of over Euro 300 million. Our firm has been instructed as legal counsel on significant cross-border transactions by premier UK law firms, among which Norton Rose and Osborne Clarke, as well as prestigious US law firms, such as Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP (K&L Gates LLP), Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, Maupin Taylor (currently Williams Mullen). We are known for our commercial approach to transactions and for understanding our clients’ economic goals. We bring vast experience, legal precision, excellent professional skills and quality legal mind.
