Reasonably new on the market, Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii is carving itself out a strong position in banking and capital markets. The firm is prominent in local financing, asset finance, banking transactions and cross-border finance....
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Reasonably new on the market, Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii is carving itself out a strong position in banking and capital markets. The firm is prominent in local financing, asset finance, banking transactions and cross-border finance. Furthermore, the firm is proficient in the capital markets and acts as the sole legal advisors to the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE), on all key matters in the local capital markets. "Tuca are big local players," one peer says. The firm has a large banking and finance practice that is made up of 11 finance lawyers and 15 lawyers working in the capital markets, debt recovery, insolvency, bankruptcy and enforcement procedures. It is also a strong favourite for international firms such as Shearman & Sterling, SNR Denton, Ashurst and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
Deals
Mihai Dudoiu, along with senior associates Dragos Stratone and Patricia Enache, is advising Carrefour Romania in connection with the €47 million financing for the development of the largest shopping centre outside Bucharest. Additionally, the firm advised Banca Comerciala Romana on two financing agreements, at an aggregate of €50 million, entered into between Banca Comerciala Romana (BCR) and a Romanian and Italian energy investment group. The firm also helped the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE) on the restructuring of the Rasdaq market operated by it and advised the Black Sea Trade and Development Bank (BSTDB) on a €30 million financing made available to a Greek company also active in Romania.
Stefan Damian (Leading lawyer bio)
Mihai Dudoiu (Leading lawyer bio)
Silvana Ivan (Leading lawyer bio)
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Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii has one of the largest M&A and corporate practice groups in the country. This means that it has 30 lawyers in the Bucharest office alone that provide advice on the full spectrum of corporate transactional, mergers and acquisitions, public takeover bids, public and private acquisitions, share transfer agreements, spin-offs, joint ventures....
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Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii has one of the largest M&A and corporate practice groups in the country. This means that it has 30 lawyers in the Bucharest office alone that provide advice on the full spectrum of corporate transactional, mergers and acquisitions, public takeover bids, public and private acquisitions, share transfer agreements, spin-offs, joint ventures. restructurings and private equity investments. The firm is also proficient in the development of large-scale greenfield investments.
Deals
Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii advised Erste Bank Group on a series of transactions, at approximately €600 million, for acquiring minority stakes (30.12%) held by five major investment companies (SIFs) in Banca Comerciala Romana (BCR). Legal advice concerned all capital markets, commercial, corporate, and taxation matters required by the transaction. Furthermore, in the largest completed deal on the online market thus far in 2012, the firm advised the owners of e-Jobs Group, the most significant Romanian player on the on-line recruitment market, and the American investment fund Tiger Holding, also one of the company's shareholders, in connection to the sale of a majority stake (70%) to Swiss media group, Ringier.
Stefan Damian (Leading lawyer bio)
Florentin Tuca (Leading lawyer bio)
Gabriel Zbarcea (Leading lawyer bio)
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Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii is experienced in project finance in Romania and has dealt with high profile projects in infrastructure, energy and natural resources and it possesses sound understanding of PFI (private finance iniative), PPP (public-private partnership), BOT (build-operate-transfer) and BOOT (build-own-operate-transfer). Furthermore, depending on the context, the firm brings in other departments such as its energy, M&A, competition, real estate and infrastructure practice groups....
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Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii is experienced in project finance in Romania and has dealt with high profile projects in infrastructure, energy and natural resources and it possesses sound understanding of PFI (private finance iniative), PPP (public-private partnership), BOT (build-operate-transfer) and BOOT (build-own-operate-transfer). Furthermore, depending on the context, the firm brings in other departments such as its energy, M&A, competition, real estate and infrastructure practice groups. "Tuca's finance team is good," one peer says. "Mihai Dudoiu is a very good finance lawyer but only in Romanian law."
Deals
Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii provides continuing legal advice to the Romanian Ministry of Transport and the National Company of Motorways and National Roads in respect to the concession contract for the prospective €2 billion Bucharest Ring Road. Owing to the financial crisis, authorities had put the project on hold but it is now, in terms of PPP/PFI (public-private partnership/private finance initiative) projects, one of the government's top priorities. Furthermore, the firm advised Expur in relation to €30 million additional financial facilities granted by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). In addition to the existing €80 million financing, the additional EBRD facilities will help support Expur's strategy of contributing to the development of the rapeseed meal market and the cultivation of "high oleic" sunflower seed in Romania.
Mihai Dudoiu (Leading lawyer bio)
Serban Paslaru (Leading lawyer bio)
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