Cristian Costea has actively participated in the development of many projects for the procurement and implementation of integrated information systems intended for the management of internal activities within public authorities and institutions from Romania, of the integrated system project for the security of Romania’s state frontier - SISF carried out by the Ministry of Administration and Internal Affairs and of the project initiated by the Romanian Government with a view to purchasing Microsoft licences for all the public authorities and institutions in Romania.

He has a rich experience in setting up various forms of partnerships (PPPs, joint – ventures, concessions etc.), obtaining external financing intended for the modernization or development of various infrastructure objectives in the area of transport (airports, railways etc.), but also in carrying out setoffs as a result of procurement of special technique equipment destined to the national defence and security.

		OVIDIU MIHAI TIBULEAC Partner
			Studies: Institute of Law and International Relations “Nicolae Titulescu” Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest Member of the Bucharest Bar Association since 2006.

Ovidiu has vast experience in the insurance/reinsurance area as well as solid knowledge in the legislation of private pensions funds. Ovidiu Tibuleac has also granted legal consultancy and assistance in various specialized areas (commercial law, financial and tax law, civil law) in drafting petitions, legal actions, agreements, legal opinions and other legal deeds or legislative acts drafts in such areas incidental or collateral to insurance.

Ovidiu has been constantly present in TV broadcasts, especially in the “Insurance Policy” broadcast by the “The Money Channel”.

Before joining “Bostina & Associates” team of lawyers, Ovidiu was the manager of the Legal Department of the Insurance Supervisory Commission and of the “Guarantee Fund” Department of such authority, within which he actively participated in preparing legislative acts drafts regulating the insurance and reinsurance areas in Romania.

		ORANIA FERSEDI Partner
			Studies: Faculty of Law, Nicolae Titulescu University Post-graduate studies in Private Law – Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest Member of the Bucharest Bar Association since 2002.

Orania has vast legal experience, representing clients both before public authorities and before contractual partners. She has solid knowledge in civil engineering, real estate projects and transactions, in drafting sale-purchase agreements, lease agreements, mortgage agreements, cadastre and land registration, in negotiating conditions of concluding real estate transactions, legal consultancy in ownership right matters, in representing clients before the competent public authorities, legal assistance in concluding sale-purchase agreements for dwellings under mortgage loan system, in drafting due diligence reports.

		GABRIELA VIZIREANU Partner
			Studies: Faculty of Law, Bucharest University Master Degree in Business Law, Faculty of Law, Bucharest University Member of the Bucharest Bar Association since 2005.

Partner with Bostina & Associates, Gabriela Vizireanu is a Law School graduate and holds a Business Law masters degree from the University of Bucharest.

Highly experienced in complex business deals, mergers, liquidations, share and asset acquisitions and various corporate law matters, Gabriela advised on important projects, such as the listing on capital markets of shares issued by M.T.C.T.-governed companies, the registration of Fondul Proprietatea S.A. as a shareholder in the portfolio companies, or the acquisition of S.C. Delta Titanium S.R.L. by Leader Real Estate International Limited and Intercolony Limited.

		LAURA MOCANU Partner
			Studies: Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest Member of the Bucharest Bar Association since 2000.

Laura Mocanu has special knowledge in international, commercial, civil, administrative and procedural-civil law.

She has rich experience in developing the strategy for the participation in the privatization procedures, in drafting and/or analyzing any deeds/documents of legal nature required with a view to participating in the privatization process, assistance and representation before the public institutions involved in accomplishing the privatization process (Authority for State Assets Recovery, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Competition Council, other ministries and public institutions concerned, etc.), consultancy in respect of the most varied aspects relating to carrying out the privatization process (the social issue, the issue of outstanding budget and commercial debts of companies that are privatized, etc.) post-privatization, legal assistance, consultancy and representation including in the „privatization by liquidation” procedures (sale-purchase of goods/assets of companies subject to voluntary liquidation or bankruptcy). 

		DANA DUNEL-STANCU Partner
			Studies: Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest Member of the Bucharest Bar Association since 1996.

Dana has vast experience in secondary legislation in the electricity and natural gas areas, in drafting, negotiating and performing power supply agreements, sale-purchase agreements for oil products and gas, in commercial contracts pertaining to the energy area, in international commercial contracts, in investment works contracts, in preparing due diligence reports and specialised analyses concerning the legislation in the areas of electricity, oil and natural gas, in drafting bid documents for participation in tenders organized in the energy area and in performing judicial works concerning public procurement, in projects for investments made in the energy area, as well as in the representation of the company’s clients before public authorities in the energy area.

		OLIMP BARBULESCU Partner
			Studies: Faculty of Law, Romanian - American University, Bucharest            Member of the Bucharest Bar Association since 1996.

Olimp joined „Bostina & Associates” in the second half of 2007. He gained a solid expertise in the capital market field after 7 years as an adviser with the Romanian Securities Commission [CNVM]. From the very beginning Olimp has been involved in major projects on the capital market such as drafting parts of the Transgaz prospectus on allocation rights.

		ROXANA ARGHIROIU Partner
			Studies: Faculty of Law, Romanian - American University, Bucharest Member of the Bucharest Bar Association since 2002.

Roxana has vast experience in granting legal assistance and representation throughout the period during which clients are subject to tax inspections, as well as in administrative litigations and tax procedural law, representing clients before the bodies which have the capacity to settle tax disputes, namely specialised bodies within the National Agency for Tax Administration and the competent law courts.

Her experience in tax law was acquired through activities such as drafting legal opinions in respect of how to interpret and apply internal tax legislation concerning the value added tax, excise duties, profits tax, income tax for non-residents, etc., as well as the Treatises for Avoidance of Double Taxation concluded by Romania with other states.

Roxana was part of the team of consultants that participated in the discussions on the elaboration of the Tax Code and the Tax Procedural Code, as well as on the amendment and supplementation thereof.

		MIHAI MARIAN Partner
			Studies: Faculty of Law, Romanian - American University, Bucharest       Member of the Bucharest Bar Association since 1998.

Mihai Marian has vast experience in the legislation on constructions, including the International Federation of Consulting Engineers – FIDIC, in commercial or corporate and labour law, in drafting, negotiation and execution of construction and infrastructure contracts, in commercial contracts related to infrastructure and construction activities, in international commercial contracts, in drafting due-diligence reports and specialised analyses on infrastructure and construction legislation, in drafting participation documents for the auctions in infrastructure and drafting legal works on public procurement, as well as in representation of the company’s clients before public authorities competent in constructions.

 

 

		OVIDIU MIHUT Partner
			Studies: Faculty of Law, University of Craiova       Member of the Dolj Bar Association since 2006. Patent Attorney certified by the Romanian State Office for Inventions and Trademarks Member of the National Patent Chamber

Ovidiu has vast experience predominantly in the areas of intellectual property and mass media, in which he has specialized through persistent practice. He is a Patent Attorney also certified for European practice by the Romanian State Office for Inventions and Trademarks, a member of the Patent Chamber since 2004, being acquainted with the performance of all procedures in connection with the registration of any types of industrial property rights. He is among the first consultants in Romania to have put into practice the specific procedures for the protection of industrial property rights within customs clearance operations.

Ovidiu has rich experience accumulated in the legal assistance granted to clients in disputes whose objects are industrial property rights. He also has rich experience in the copyright domain, granting legal assistance and representation to clients in the relation with Collective Management Bodies and ORDA [Romanian Copyright Office].

In the domain of media, Ovidiu has granted legal consultancy and assistance to the company’s clients, particularly in the relation with the National Audio-Visual Council, as well as in the relations between various media institutions.


 

		CATALIN GISCAN Partner
			Studies: Faculty of Law and Administrative Sciences, Spiru Haret University Al. Ioan Cuza Police Academy Master Degree in “Business Law”, majoring in Competition in public services, Dimitrie Cantemir University Member of the Bucharest Bar Association since 2007. Founding member of the National Association of Technicians, Experts and Researchers in Public Services of General Concern

Before joining Bostina & Associates, Catalin was a manager within the National Regulatory Authority for Public Services, participating in drafting the enactments by which public services organisation and operation are regulated, being involved in projects on public corporations reorganisation, regionalisation and concession of public services.

He also participated in finalising the internal regulations and correlation thereof with international financial institutions requirements in view of implementation of financing programmes for public services infrastructure development, coordinated and participated in drafting due diligence reports on public services organisation and operation.

In 2005 Catalin Giscan was a Lecturer delivering the post-graduate course “Business Management in Public Administration” organised by Academy of Economic Studies, teaching administrative law and its implications for public services and transposition of the community acquis in public services.

		ALEXANDRU STOICA Partner
			Studies: Faculty of Law, Dimitrie Cantemir University Post-graduate courses – Criminal Law, University of Bucharest Member of the Bucharest Bar Association since 2004.

Alex joined Bostina & Associates team in 2002, after having previously worked for the Ombudsman institution, being promoted from the position of specialist to that of expert and head of the department.

Alex graduated from post-graduate studies in “Forensic Sciences and Criminology” organized by the Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest, and in “Mediation and Other Dispute Resolution Techniques” – organized by the American Bar Association and the Ombudsman Institution and graduated from the “Project Management” course – organized by CODECS and The Open University.

His activity within Bostina & Associates happily combines his experience as lawyer and his inborn management abilities.

		MARINA TOPSA Partner
			Studies: Faculty of Law, Bucharest University  Member of the Bucharest Bar Association since 2005.

Legal controversies, practical issues overlooked by the legal doctrine and case law, as well as clients with time critical issues, such as financing, mortgages and, fairly often, major risks – these are the professional challenges of a certain real estate segment that are irreproachably dealt with by Marina Topsa. The expertise she derived from complex and quite often innovative deals recommends Marina as one of the Firm’s best lawyers. Her legal analyses and opinions are in high demand and highly regarded particularly by the credit institutions financing purchases of lands and buildings.

Marina’s legal input lies at the junction between real estate operators’ initiatives and the banks’ financing opportunities, with a focus on the analysis and coverage of any legal risks whatsoever. In this connection, she develops effective immovable security schemes and other precautionary legal instruments, generating trust and predictability for the contracting parties, thus fuelling and stimulating our bank Clients’ interest in future crediting.

Moreover, Marina Topsa’s significant expertise includes restaurant service franchising in Romania (but this reference is not exhaustive). In this context, she ensured the conclusion of important franchising agreements and completed the whole range of legal acts related to the main operation, such as leases on commercial spaces located in malls, commercial centres and/or retail parks, various auxiliary agreements and service contracts.