Cristina Bidiga
Managing Associate, Co-head of Cluj-Napoca Office
Expertise
- dispute resolution
- commercial transactions
- labor law
Representative Cases and Transactions
- defense of one of the top automotive suppliers in the world in a labor litigation related to the termination of the labor contract for disciplinary reasons
- defense of a Romanian branch of a leading global bank in challenging a collective dismissal of personnel
- representation of one of the largest global providers of insurance, annuities, and employee benefit programs in a dispute related to the interpretation of an insurance contract
- representation of one of the world’s leading suppliers in the automobile safety field in various labor litigations alleging wrongful terminations of labor contracts for disciplinary reasons or for reasons not related to the person of the employee
- enforcement on behalf of a Spanish stainless steel products manufacturer of an arbitral award granted by the Austrian Chamber of Commerce; representing the company in the recognition procedure of the award and in several objections to the enforcement
- representation of a local ceramic tile producer in a misdemeanor trial in which the court validated the defense that the transfer of CO2 certificates is a complex operation and the law regulates only the material transfer, not the juridical operation
- public procurement litigation cases on behalf of two Romanian construction companies in which the court validated the defense in relation to the bidder’s interest to contest a public procurement procedure
- insolvency-related litigation on behalf of an energy supplier in a precedent-setting case on contractual relationship in the context of insolvency
- assistance to a Romanian traditional dairy company in a labor litigation related to the termination of the labor contract after a partial transfer of undertaking
- assistance to one of the world’s leading suppliers in the automobile safety field in collective dismissal procedures
Education
- Cluj-Napoca Babes-Bolyai University Law School, Law Degree
Memberships and Affiliations
- Cluj County Bar
Notable Contributions
- speaker and moderator – “Cluj Legal Weeks” webinar series, organized by NNDKP (2020)
- speaker at the event “Legal&Tax Conference, 3rd edition – How do we manage tax and (macro)economics risks in 2020?”, organized by NNDKP and Ziarul Financiar (2020)
- speaker at the HR Summit Cluj-Napoca, organized by Libero Events (2019)
- speaker at the conference “Operational HR Cluj-Napoca”, organized by Business Mark (2018)
- speaker at the workshop “The fiscal policy and the new management risks” organized by NNDKP (2018)
- “Fast Procedures for Retrieving Debt” (Transilvania Business, 2013)
- speaker at Lex Atelier workshop on the amendments to the Labor Law introduced in 2011 (Cluj-Napoca, 2011)
