We envision growth across all areas of the firm, with corporate mergers and acquisitions and litigation as the main drivers, followed by real estate, banking and competition law. In addition to our long experience in transactional work, fueled by the economic environment, we see a growing demand for legal risk management services in various practice areas (e.g. white-collar crime, GDPR, senior management personal liability, tax evasion and money laundering risks). Companies operate in an increasingly risky legal environment that involves both the risk of large fines and reputational risk, and we are ideally positioned to assist them in these areas as we can combine our legal expertise with Deloitte`s broader risk management capabilities. «The entire Reff & Associés team gave us the necessary support to carry out our project, but we had an excellent collaboration, especially with Maria-Silvia Axinescu. We can only appreciate their strengths (the quick response, the very well prepared answers to our questions, full legal support, a good distribution of their human resources for the project) because we found no weaknesses in our cooperation. You are our essential consultant. Irina and her team have earned our trust through their in-depth legal and technical knowledge as well as their business approach, providing us with innovative solutions to complex aspects of the law. BANKING AND FINANCIAL CLIENTS: MIHAI ROTARU (Deputy Director of Legal Services) COMPANY: BANCA TRANSILVANIA S.A. (the largest bank in Romania) REFERENCE: Throughout our journey to become the largest bank in Romania, we have worked with Reff & Associates – Deloitte Legal Romania over the past few years on a variety of key issues, from transactions to expansion, innovation and regulatory projects. Their banking and financial practice is extremely mature, competent and reliable and my main contacts, whom I would definitely recommend, are Andrei Burz-Pînzaru, Andreea Șerban and Lorena Roșia. I appreciate their responsiveness, their pragmatic approach, their deep and thorough legal reasoning, and the original way they connect the dots every time and manage to meet our commercial constraints.
Especially during this difficult time caused by the pandemic, the team of Reff & Associates – Deloitte Legal Romania has been very selfless and has remained very close to lawyers in the financial services sector, among other things by organizing a series of very interesting events. It has always been a pleasure for me to participate in such perfectly organized events, which are a very good source of information and ideas. «Very flexible and customer-oriented. Wide range of skills within a company. Law firm from a single source. «They are seriously involved in the smallest details, very structured and logical thinking, a dedicated and hard-working team, they are business-oriented and have solutions to the legal aspects, they also make sure that the other party`s lawyers strictly respect the commercial agreement between the parties. » Dispute Resolution: The firm represents clients in general commercial, civil and labour litigation, including corporate disputes, debt collection proceedings, real estate disputes, settlements and foreclosures. In tax litigation, the firm leverages collaboration with Deloitte`s tax team to ensure all tax and legal matters are handled successfully. PPP and public procurement: The team provides legal assistance to public and private entities in a wide range of public tenders, concessions, PPPs and EU-funded projects. The company has extensive experience in various complex contracts, including the development of the toolkit for the application of concession legislation in Romania, as well as the preparation of a model concession contract for intermodal terminals under a European Investment Bank contract. CLIENT: Valentin Timis (General Counsel) COMPANY: BT Leasing, member of Banca Transilvania Group TESTIMONIAL: I have been working for two years with the litigation team of Reff & Associates led by Mihnea Galgotiu-Sararu and their legal services are exceptional, combining deep legal expertise with a commercial approach and industry knowledge based on their integration into the Deloitte network. They are in contact with our management and give clear and strategic instructions in highly sensitive disputes.
Ana Galgotiu Sararu is the process project manager and is efficient-oriented, pragmatic and highly responsive. CLIENT: DUTU FLORIN (Head of Legal) COMPANY: B2KAPITAL PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT (Distressed bank loan investor and market leader in debt management) REFERENCE: I have worked with Reff & Associates – Deloitte Legal Romania for the past 15 years, as a peer in my former law firm, in some of the banking, real estate projects, the most complex capital markets and economic investigations in the local market. Over the past 2 years, I have had the opportunity to work with the Reff & Associés team as a client while coordinating the legal department with a multinational collection and collection agency.