Angela has remarkable experience in handling complex cases, in administrative litigation as well as in various areas of expertise.
Angela represents significant authorities and important public figures, from the cultural and political environment, public institutions, multinational companies, but also local private companies, on legal matters in the most diverse fields - fiscal, financial investments and the capital market, electoral, public procurement, including legislation special national and union military procurement, corporate governance, pharmaceutical & medical, development of real estate projects, banking operations, energy and public utilities, incompatibilities & conflicts of interest, procedures involving the study of security archives and those specific to the judicial finding of discrimination, reorganization of institutions public, enforced executions, classified data and personal data, classification and declassification procedures of historical monuments and ensembles, as well as those regarding deviations from university ethics and doctoral standards.
Her extensive legal knowledge, consolidated over more than two decades of litigation practice, recommends Angela as an excellent litigator in numerous and highly diverse national and international disputes, including exposure to the Constitutional Court, CJEU and ECtHR, such as and in cases involving the approach of the specific regulations of the institutions and central authorities of the state and of the complementary national administrative jurisdictional procedures, being recognized and appreciated by clients for his analytical spirit, his promptness and his efficiency in the successful management of entrusted mandates.
A major Romanian bank, in an EUR 300 million regulatory dispute with the Romanian Court of Accounts, before the High Court of Cassation and Justice, concerning the implementation of the Bauspar system in Romania. This mandate is a landmark case for the banking industry, its resolution having an impact on more than half a million Bauspar customers.
A major E.U. naval shipbuilding company before the Romanian Courts in a public procurement dispute aimed at cancelling an EUR 1.26 billion military public procurement contract for the acquisition of corvettes. This mandate is notable not only because of the value of the tender (one of the highest to date), but also because it touches on key matters for the Romanian legal system such as (i) the right to a fair trial vs the Romanian Ministry of National Defence denying access to litigation information through classification (secretisation) of information, or (ii) compliance with the Romanian constitutional order vs the Romanian Government bypassing general tender rules on grounds of national security interests.
A consortium of a technological group specialized in security and mobility and a sole importer of military products in Romania, in an EUR 800 million public procurement dispute aimed at cancelling the award of a military public procurement contract for the acquisition of military trucks for breaches of law. Our role included both legal advice on the venture of the two bidders, as well as litigation and representation in successfully challenging the legality of the tender.
A large gas and refining business, in three major litigations in Romania, in the context of the repayment by the company of a historical debt in total value of EUR 570,000,000 to the Romanian State. Further acting for the company in one of the highest-profile disputes, initiated against the National Securities Commission (CNVM), involving claims of USD 50,000,000 (the biggest damage ever claimed by a private investor from a public authority in Romania) and challenging several administrative deeds issued by CNVM.
The President of Romania, in relation to an alleged violation of the legal provision regarding compatibility, as well as in relation to the annulment of the Report by which the National Integrity Agency (ANI) determined that the President violated the laws regarding the avoidance of the conflict of interests. Both files were successfully managed by our legal team, and the courts of law.
A leading global supplier of wires, cables, and wiring systems and a provider of related development services, in various court cases related to the investigation of a transnational informatics fraud, which led to a series of fraudulent transfers in the amount of EUR 40 million.
A major Romanian holding company, in various legal cases (with claims up to EUR 40 million), related to complex public-procurement contracts comprising objectives related to the infrastructure of Cluj-Napoca Airport and IT software for public authorities (IT platform for public procurement contract acquisitions) and other legal matters related to contractual disputes.
The Ministry of Public Finance in a complex case stemming from an extensive reorganization of the Ministry of Finance, in the context of restructuring the entire government apparatus through a government decision.
A global telecoms equipment supplier regarding (i) participation in and winning the procurement procedure for TETRA portable terminals and related infrastructure organized by the Special Telecommunications Service (STS).
A nuclear energy producer from Romania in an administrative litigation against the Court of Accounts, with implications in corporate law.