CORPORATE/COMMERCIAL

We advise on company formation, including drafting of corporate constitutive documents, and joint venture agreements, corporate governance issues, issuance of stock, regulatory and compliance matters, including compliance with European Union Directives, corporate restructuring.

We pioneered the use of Opinion Letters issued by government agencies in Romania. We obtained on behalf of Colgate-Palmolive America the first Opinion Letter issued by a Romanian government agency, i.e. the Romanian Development Agency in post-communist Romania. We subsequently obtained other Opinion Letters on behalf of Amoco, ARCO, Elite Romania, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Forest Corporation, Leventis, Mayr-Melnhof Packaging Romania, Pak from the Ministry of Finance, the National Bank of Romania, the Romanian Development Agency, and the General Customs Directorate.

We advised the following multinationals that invested and/or have operations in Romania: Actavis Group hf, Akzo Nobel Chemicals International, Amatil, Amgen Europe, Amoco Corporation, ARCO, Asia Pacific Breweries Limited, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma, The Coca-Cola Company, Colgate-Palmolive, Continental AG, Canadian Oxy, Delta Air Lines, Elite Industries, Estee Lauder, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, EUnet International, Forasol, Forest Oil Corporation, Gazprom Marketing & Trading Ltd., General Electric, Henkel, Hexal, Ikea, Interamerican Hellenic Life Insurance Company, Intercontainer Austria, Intercontainer-Interfrigo (ICF), Kendle International, KPNQwest Romania, Leventis Group, Mayr-Melnhof, McDonald's, Medochemie, Meinl Bank, Menzies Aviation, Merrill Lynch (Commodities) Europe Ltd., Mitsubishi Corporation, Ozgorkey Group, Pak Holding, Palsgaard, Procter & Gamble, Rohm and Haas, Statkraft Markets GmbH, 3M Corporation, The Timken Company, Touax, Travelport Services Ltd., Worldspan, and Wizz Group.

We acted as counsel to the European Commission in relation to studies regarding the implementation of various EU Directives in Romania.

More recently we advised:

• MFS Holding, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation re the acquisition of the Romanian subsidiary of Freudenberg & Co.;

• UniCredit CAIB re merger of CA IB Securities with CA IB Romania;

• Continental AG re restructuring of the shareholding of the Romanian subsidiaries;

• Merrill Lynch Commodities (Europe) re registration of a Romanian branch and  subsidiary, corporate and regulatory matters;

• Gazprom Marketing & Trading re registration of a Romanian branch, corporate and regulatory matters;

• Deutsche Bank Energy Commodities re registration of a branch, corporate  and regulatory matters;

• Kautex Textron Iberica re registration of a Romanian subsidiary as a vehicle  for a "greenfield" project for the production of auto parts;

• Wizz Air Group re corporate governance, commercial, and regulatory issues;

• PetroSantander re permitting matters in relation to petroleum operations.