Our Team

Expertise

Ana Diculescu-Sova heads the firm’s Dispute Resolution practice and has an impressive career, with over 50,000 representations before national and international courts and arbitration panels. Her expertise covers:

• complex litigation and international arbitration
• creditors’ rights in bankruptcy proceedings
• real estate proceedings under special property laws
• intellectual property disputes
• contracts and commercial litigation
• administrative and fiscal litigation
• privatization proceeding
• insurance disputes
• enforcement proceedings and precautionary measures
• individual and collective labor disputes

Representative Cases and Transactions

• challenge on behalf of a major local insurance company of a state authority decision to lift administration rights
• creditor’s intervention on behalf of Romania’s largest oil and gas maintenance company, to recover an important debt and maintain a controlling position in the creditors’ assembly and the creditors’ committee
• representation of a real estate developer in the insolvency of its debtor, who initiated the process fraudulently in order to prevent the enforcement of the creditors’ rights over their secured assets rights
• corporate disputes on behalf a large Romanian investment fund, concerning  the shareholders’ agreement and general assembly meetings related to the administration of the company
• privatization dispute on behalf of a Canadian company, related to the contract award to a state-owned copper mining company
• title litigation on behalf of a real estate developer concerning 47,000 sq.m. of land in Bucharest
• administrative litigation, on behalf of a British real estate services firm, to obtain a building permit for a major business office in Bucharest
• successful defense of a major Romanian bank in a collective consumer protection action brought by the bank’s debtors
• representation of a major bank in a complex litigation involving real estate and banking law, with respect to a breach of contractual obligations undertaken by a real estate debtor under two contracts, a sale-purchase agreement, and a term loan agreement
• successful commercial litigation on behalf of a major foreign steel producer arising from an international sale-purchase agreement concluded by a former communist state enterprise