Meet our team

Our Team

Our Team

Meet our team

Together we have built a team that has been consolidated in over 10 years of activity in the field of Business Law, under the coordination of a lawyer with over 20 years of experience in law.

Our Team

Alexandra Tănase

Alexandra Tănase

Paralegal
alexandratanase@patlageanu.ro

Adriana Ceaușescu

Adriana Ceaușescu

Of counsel
contact@aadatabox.ro

About the team

Alis Pătlăgeanu

Bio:

She is a lawyer who has been a member of the Bucharest Bar since 2002. After working for nine years in a top law firm, holding the positions of paralegal, collaborating lawyer and partner, she founded a new law firm in March 2010 – Portnoi si Asociații from the reorganisation of which, in November 2021, Pătlăgeanu & Partners was born.                                                                                                  

She currently coordinates the team of lawyers from Pătlăgeanu & Partners.

Main areas of expertise:

Commercial and Corporate law,

Commercial Disputes and Administrative Litigation,

Public Procurement,

Grant Funds

Mergers and Acquisitions,

Protection of Personal Data – GDPR.

Relevant projects:

She coordinated the team of lawyers that provided legal advice in the current activity of one of the largest air transport companies in Romania;

Successfully represented an insurance broker in the litigation against the Financial Supervisory Authority which ended with the abolition of this authority’s decision to increase the minimum share capital imposed on brokers and which had previously led to the abolition of over 200 insurance brokers; successfully represented a beneficiary of non-refundable funds in the litigation concluded with the annulment of the decision to terminate the financing contract in the amount of approximately 4.5 million Euros;

Provided legal advice to a public authority in the implementation of a project financed from non-reimbursable funds with a value of over 25 million Euros, including advice in relation to public procurement procedures carried out within the project, representation in appeals against decisions to reject reimbursement requests , consultancy in the litigious proceedings generated by or directed against the executor of the works and other providers and suppliers of goods and services;

Assisted, advised and represented clients in procedures for the acquisition of companies or the sale of shares held within them, transactions with values between 100,000 euros and 14 million Euros;

Is co-founder of AA DATA BOX (link); Certified DPO, author and co-author of specialized articles in the field of data protection, participant and speaker at conferences organized on this topic and co-author of the book RGPD – General Regulation on the Protection of Personal Data. Comments and explanations, coordinated by Prof. Andrei Săvescu, Hamangiu Publishing House, 2018.

Studies:

Master – Business Law – Faculty of Law – “Nicolae Titulescu” University from Bucharest (2013);

Law degree – Faculty of Law – University of Bucharest (2001);

Courses, specialisations: expert in accessing non-refundable funds (2009), expert in public procurement (2016), in charge of personal data protection (2019), Scotwork graduate – advanced negotiation skills (2020)

Languages spoken: Romanian, English, French.

Contact: alis@patlageanu.ro

Bio:

She is a lawyer who has been a member of the Bucharest Bar since 2002. After working for nine years in a top law firm, holding the positions of paralegal, collaborating lawyer and partner, she founded a new law firm in March 2010 – Portnoi si Asociații from the reorganisation of which, in November 2021, Pătlăgeanu & Partners was born.                                                                                                  

She currently coordinates the team of lawyers from Pătlăgeanu & Partners.

Main areas of expertise:

Commercial and Corporate law,

Commercial Disputes and Administrative Litigation,

Public Procurement,

Grant Funds

Mergers and Acquisitions,

Protection of Personal Data – GDPR.

Relevant projects:

She coordinated the team of lawyers that provided legal advice in the current activity of one of the largest air transport companies in Romania;

Successfully represented an insurance broker in the litigation against the Financial Supervisory Authority which ended with the abolition of this authority’s decision to increase the minimum share capital imposed on brokers and which had previously led to the abolition of over 200 insurance brokers; successfully represented a beneficiary of non-refundable funds in the litigation concluded with the annulment of the decision to terminate the financing contract in the amount of approximately 4.5 million Euros;

Provided legal advice to a public authority in the implementation of a project financed from non-reimbursable funds with a value of over 25 million Euros, including advice in relation to public procurement procedures carried out within the project, representation in appeals against decisions to reject reimbursement requests , consultancy in the litigious proceedings generated by or directed against the executor of the works and other providers and suppliers of goods and services;

Assisted, advised and represented clients in procedures for the acquisition of companies or the sale of shares held within them, transactions with values between 100,000 euros and 14 million Euros;

Is co-founder of AA DATA BOX (link); Certified DPO, author and co-author of specialized articles in the field of data protection, participant and speaker at conferences organized on this topic and co-author of the book RGPD – General Regulation on the Protection of Personal Data. Comments and explanations, coordinated by Prof. Andrei Săvescu, Hamangiu Publishing House, 2018.

Studies:

Master – Business Law – Faculty of Law – “Nicolae Titulescu” University from Bucharest (2013);

Law degree – Faculty of Law – University of Bucharest (2001);

Courses, specialisations: expert in accessing non-refundable funds (2009), expert in public procurement (2016), in charge of personal data protection (2019), Scotwork graduate – advanced negotiation skills (2020)

Languages spoken: Romanian, English, French.

Contact: alis@patlageanu.ro

About the team

Anca Elena Iancu

Bio:

She is a lawyer member of the Bucharest Bar since 2009. Since 2010, she has been part of the team of lawyers of Portnoi si Asociații, a company from the reorganisation of which, in November 2021, Pătlăgeanu & Partners was born.

Main areas of expertise:

Commercial and Corporate Law,

Civil Law

Labor Law

Consumer’s protection

Assistance and representation in court: Commercial, Civil disputes, Labor law

Relevant projects:

Assistance provided for the audit activity and preparation of compliance documents regarding compliance with Romanian legislation for the local branch of a global leader in the retail and foodservice industry;

Representation in court in the field of consumer rights for one of the largest fashion distribution groups in the world;

Was part of the team of lawyers that provided legal advice in the current activity of one of the largest air transport companies in Romania;

Assistance provided during the establishment and operation of the local branch of a large Turkish company active in the field of forest products.

Studies:

Master – Financial-banking and insurance law – Faculty of Law – “Nicolae Titulescu” University from Bucharest (2013);

Law degree – Faculty of Law – University of Bucharest (2009);

Courses, specialisations:  graduate of the National Institute for the Training and Improvement of Lawyers (2012)

Languages spoken: Romanian, English, Italian.

Contact: ancaiancu@patlageanu.ro 

Bio:

She is a lawyer member of the Bucharest Bar since 2009. Since 2010, she has been part of the team of lawyers of Portnoi si Asociații, a company from the reorganisation of which, in November 2021, Pătlăgeanu & Partners was born.

Main areas of expertise:

Commercial and Corporate Law,

Civil Law

Labor Law

Consumer’s protection

Assistance and representation in court: Commercial, Civil disputes, Labor law

Relevant projects:

Assistance provided for the audit activity and preparation of compliance documents regarding compliance with Romanian legislation for the local branch of a global leader in the retail and foodservice industry;

Representation in court in the field of consumer rights for one of the largest fashion distribution groups in the world;

Was part of the team of lawyers that provided legal advice in the current activity of one of the largest air transport companies in Romania;

Assistance provided during the establishment and operation of the local branch of a large Turkish company active in the field of forest products.

Studies:

Master – Financial-banking and insurance law – Faculty of Law – “Nicolae Titulescu” University from Bucharest (2013);

Law degree – Faculty of Law – University of Bucharest (2009);

Courses, specialisations:  graduate of the National Institute for the Training and Improvement of Lawyers (2012)

Languages spoken: Romanian, English, Italian.

Contact: ancaiancu@patlageanu.ro 

About the team

Laura Popescu

Bio:

She is a lawyer member of the Bucharest Bar and is part of the Pătlăgeanu & Partners law team, collaborating with it and its partner law firms since 2011.

Main areas of expertise:

Commercial Law, Corporate Law – mergers and acquisitions, divisions, company transfer, etc.:

Administrative Law, Public Procurement and Financing through non-reimbursable funds and state aid;

Civil, Commercial, Administrative and Fiscal disputes;

Labor Law and Social Security Law;

Medical and Pharmaceutical law;

Intellectual Property Rights (trademarks, copyrights, actions in unfair competition, etc.);

E-commerce and personal data protection – GDPR compliance implementation and analysis.

Relevant projects:

Providing complex legal advice for national and international clients in various areas of business, such as domestic and international trade, including commercial contracts, retail, financing, transport, aviation, media, medical and pharmaceutical, public procurement and public-private partnerships, etc.;

Providing permanent legal advice for participants in public procurement procedures in the fields of education and health;

Providing legal advice to beneficiaries of non-reimbursable funds, both in the pre-contractual stage and in the stage of implementation and verification of the projects financed in this way;

Advising and representing clients, including foreign investors, in procedures for the reorganization of some Romanian commercial companies and the sale of stakes, transactions with values over EUR 10 million;

Carrying out extensive “due diligence” type investigations related to multivalent commercial transactions between companies operating in different markets such as retail, industrial production, advertising production, medical technologies and providing legal advice in securing commercial transactions;

Providing consulting and legal assistance in the medium term in the current activities of an air transport company, one of the main air operators in Romania;

Representation of clients in complex disputes arising from commercial disputes, administrative and fiscal disputes and in the field of public procurement, disputes arising from civil disputes, including disputes with a real estate component and regarding the retrocession of real estate and special repair laws, etc.

Successful representation of clients before the National Council for the Resolution of Appeals and before the courts in appeal procedures initiated by private operators against the contracting authorities, in over 30 cases;

Successful representation of beneficiaries of non-reimbursable funds in litigation initiated against public authorities with attributions in the field of financing, regarding financing of up to 14 million Euros;

Permanent legal consultancy and provision of specific data protection services for private educational institutions in the medium term; legal consultancy specific to the field of personal data protection in over 30 procedures for implementing GDPR requirements at the level of private entities and groups of companies.

Studies:

Master – Business Law – Faculty of Law – University of Bucharest (2011);

Master – Judicial Career – Faculty of Law – University of Bucharest (2009);

Law degree – Faculty of Law – University of Bucharest (2008);

Faculty of International Economic Relations – Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies (2011).

Courses, specializations: graduate of the National Institute for the Training and Improvement of Lawyers (2013), Public Procurement Expert (2017), Personal Data Protection Officer (2019)

Foreign languages: Romanian, English, German, French.

Contact: laurapopescu@patlageanu.ro

Bio:

She is a lawyer member of the Bucharest Bar and is part of the Pătlăgeanu & Partners law team, collaborating with it and its partner law firms since 2011.

Main areas of expertise:

Commercial Law, Corporate Law – mergers and acquisitions, divisions, company transfer, etc.:

Administrative Law, Public Procurement and Financing through non-reimbursable funds and state aid;

Civil, Commercial, Administrative and Fiscal disputes;

Labor Law and Social Security Law;

Medical and Pharmaceutical law;

Intellectual Property Rights (trademarks, copyrights, actions in unfair competition, etc.);

E-commerce and personal data protection – GDPR compliance implementation and analysis.

Relevant projects:

Providing complex legal advice for national and international clients in various areas of business, such as domestic and international trade, including commercial contracts, retail, financing, transport, aviation, media, medical and pharmaceutical, public procurement and public-private partnerships, etc.;

Providing permanent legal advice for participants in public procurement procedures in the fields of education and health;

Providing legal advice to beneficiaries of non-reimbursable funds, both in the pre-contractual stage and in the stage of implementation and verification of the projects financed in this way;

Advising and representing clients, including foreign investors, in procedures for the reorganization of some Romanian commercial companies and the sale of stakes, transactions with values over EUR 10 million;

Carrying out extensive “due diligence” type investigations related to multivalent commercial transactions between companies operating in different markets such as retail, industrial production, advertising production, medical technologies and providing legal advice in securing commercial transactions;

Providing consulting and legal assistance in the medium term in the current activities of an air transport company, one of the main air operators in Romania;

Representation of clients in complex disputes arising from commercial disputes, administrative and fiscal disputes and in the field of public procurement, disputes arising from civil disputes, including disputes with a real estate component and regarding the retrocession of real estate and special repair laws, etc.

Successful representation of clients before the National Council for the Resolution of Appeals and before the courts in appeal procedures initiated by private operators against the contracting authorities, in over 30 cases;

Successful representation of beneficiaries of non-reimbursable funds in litigation initiated against public authorities with attributions in the field of financing, regarding financing of up to 14 million Euros;

Permanent legal consultancy and provision of specific data protection services for private educational institutions in the medium term; legal consultancy specific to the field of personal data protection in over 30 procedures for implementing GDPR requirements at the level of private entities and groups of companies.

Studies:

Master – Business Law – Faculty of Law – University of Bucharest (2011);

Master – Judicial Career – Faculty of Law – University of Bucharest (2009);

Law degree – Faculty of Law – University of Bucharest (2008);

Faculty of International Economic Relations – Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies (2011).

Courses, specializations: graduate of the National Institute for the Training and Improvement of Lawyers (2013), Public Procurement Expert (2017), Personal Data Protection Officer (2019)

Foreign languages: Romanian, English, German, French.

Contact: laurapopescu@patlageanu.ro

About the team

Alexandra Tănase

Bio:

She graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest in 2022 and is currently a master’s student at the same institution, specialising in “Urbanism and Spatial Planning Law”.

Main areas of interest:

Commercial and Corporate law;

Commercial disputes and administrative litigation;

Urban planning and territorial development law;

Protection of personal data – GDPR.

Languages spoken: spoken: Romanian, English.

Contact: alexandratanase@patlageanu.ro

Bio:

She graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest in 2022 and is currently a master’s student at the same institution, specialising in “Urbanism and Spatial Planning Law”.

Main areas of interest:

Commercial and Corporate law;

Commercial disputes and administrative litigation;

Urban planning and territorial development law;

Protection of personal data – GDPR.

Languages spoken: spoken: Romanian, English.

Contact: alexandratanase@patlageanu.ro

About the team

Adriana Ceaușescu

Bio:

Adriana is an expert in data protection Lead Auditor ISO 27001 – Information Security Management System, Cybersecurity Specialist.

She participated as a speaker at several conferences on data protection, the last of which was the IFS International Conference (International Featured Standards 2022 – May 27, 2022) and won the “Summer GDPR Challenge” contest in 2019, which was attended by over 40 data protection specialists from Romania.

 

Main areas of interest:

Protection of personal data – GDPR

Cybersecurity

Relevant projects:

Coordinated and coordinates the implementation of GDPR requirements at insurance companies, health, online stores, SMEs;                                                Coordinates the activity of an outsourced data protection officer (DPO) for several companies in different fields of activity;                                                                         Is a lecturer and teaches courses for data protection officers.

 

Courses, specializations: responsible for the protection of personal data (2019)

Languages spoken: Romanian, English.

Contact: contact@aadatabox.ro    

Bio:

Adriana is an expert in data protection Lead Auditor ISO 27001 – Information Security Management System, Cybersecurity Specialist.

She participated as a speaker at several conferences on data protection, the last of which was the IFS International Conference (International Featured Standards 2022 – May 27, 2022) and won the “Summer GDPR Challenge” contest in 2019, which was attended by over 40 data protection specialists from Romania.

Main areas of interest:

Protection of personal data – GDPR

Cybersecurity

Relevant projects:

Coordinated and coordinates the implementation of GDPR requirements at insurance companies, health, online stores, SMEs;                                                Coordinates the activity of an outsourced data protection officer (DPO) for several companies in different fields of activity;                                                                         Is a lecturer and teaches courses for data protection officers.

Courses, specializations: responsible for the protection of personal data (2019)

Languages spoken: Romanian, English.

Contact: contact@aadatabox.ro