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  • October 10, 2023 Press release Bucharest, 10 October 2023 Mușat & Asociații advised Naxxar Renewable Energy on the signing of a conditional agreement for the sale of a 60% stake in Naxxar Wind Farm Four SRL (NWF4 – the project company) to Polenergia, the largest private energy group on the Polish market. Currently, Naxxar through NWF4 is developing in Romania one ... READ MORE
  • August 21, 2023 By Mihai Popa, Deputy Managing Partner, Head of Labour & Employee Benefits Department and Dragoș Lungu, Managing Associate Bucharest, 21 August 2023 The former classic (to be read “rigid”) system where performance of work is accomplished in just a single physical workspace for all employees is already starting to fade away, due to its declining economic benefit ... READ MORE
  • August 3, 2023 Press Release Bucharest, 3 August 2023 Musat & Asociatii advised Adesgo SA, the biggest producer of seamless underclothing in Romania in connection with the sale of its business related to the manufacturing, marketing and selling of seamless apparel to Tefron Europe, part of an Israeli group, developer and manufacturer of seamless products, recently entered to the Romanian ... READ MORE
  • July 24, 2023 Press release Bucharest, 24 July 2023 Musat & Asociatii advised Geely Holding Group and Geely Automobile Holdings Limited (collectively referred to above as “Geely”) on the Romanian legal aspects of a binding 50/50 joint venture agreement with Renault Group to launch a new powertrain technology company that aims to become the global leader in developing, manufacturing, and ... READ MORE
  • July 18, 2023 Press Release Bucharest, 18 July 2023 Mușat & Asociații has been named for the second consecutive year winner of the Eastern Europe Firm of the Year award at the LMG Life Sciences Awards EMEA 2023, which took place on 13 July in London. LMG Life Sciences is one of the most prestigious legal guides that centralizes the leading ... READ MORE
  • June 30, 2023 Sorry, this entry is only available in Romanian. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. de Alexandru Terța, Partner și Ștefan Diaconescu, Managing Associate Prescripția răspunderii penale rămâne probabil, până în ziua de astăzi, una dintre cele mai mari ... READ MORE
  • June 29, 2023 Sorry, this entry is only available in Romanian. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Mușat & Asociații și Juridice.ro au organizat dezbaterea “Răspunderea penală a persoanelor juridice. Prevenție, conformitate și managementul riscului”, eveniment care a reunit procurori, ... READ MORE
  • June 13, 2023 Sorry, this entry is only available in Romanian. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Avertizarea timpurie definită prin dispozițiile art. 5 pct. 51 din forma actuală a Legii nr. 85/2014 privind procedurile de prevenire a insolvenței și ... READ MORE
  • June 12, 2023 Musat & Asociatii advised Magna International Inc. on the Romanian legal aspects of the completion of its acquisition of Veoneer’s Active Safety Business from SSW Partners. The combined business is projected to generate more than $3 billion in sales in 2024. With the completion of this acquisition, Magna further strengthens its active safety business, and it ... READ MORE
  • May 11, 2023 Musat & Asociatii advised Switzerland’s construction chemicals group Sika AG on Romanian legal aspects of its EUR 5.3 billion acquisition of Master Builders Construction Chemicals (MBCC) Group from Lone Star Funds, a global private equity firm. The deal implied the divestment of MBCC’s concrete admixtures business to the international private equity investor Cinven. The transaction represents ... READ MORE
  • May 30, 2022 Mușat & Asociații advised CATTED Group, a Romanian business group encompassing companies operating in the real estate sector, on a project financing granted by Libra Internet Bank for the development of the CATTED Family residential project. “We are pleased to have worked with Mușat & Asociații on financing CATTED Family, in the present, the largest residential ... READ MORE
  • May 27, 2022 Sorry, this entry is only available in Romanian. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Mușat & Asociații a organizat în data de 26 mai 2022 cea de-a patra ediţie a conferinţelor din seria „Parteneriat în insolvență – ... READ MORE
  • May 20, 2022 Sorry, this entry is only available in Romanian. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Institutul Național de Pregătire a Practicienilor în Insolvență (INPPI), în parteneriat cu Institutul Național al Magistraturii (INM) și editura Universul Juridic a organizat ... READ MORE
  • May 19, 2022 We’re thrilled to have been named “Eastern Europe Firm of the Year” at the LMG Life Sciences Awards EMEA 2022 held on 12 May in London. A big congratulations to the entire Mușat & Asociații team for winning this award and a big thank you to our clients! We are also very proud that we were ... READ MORE
  • May 9, 2022 Mușat & Asociații successfully advised the syndicate of banks comprised of Jefferies Finance LLC, J. P. Morgan and Danske Bank A/S, as lenders, on the Romanian law aspects involving the Romanian company BFG Packaging SRL, as part of the EUR 650 million financing of the multijurisdictional acquisition of four companies in the business-to-business (“B2B”) distribution ... READ MORE
  • May 6, 2022 What? As explained in prior countdowns (see DLC countdown 12, DLC countdown 13 and DLC countdown 14) the notions of “active sales” (to actively target individual customers) and “passive sales” (to respond to unsolicited requests from individual customers) are pivotal to the world of vertical agreements. In principle, buyers should be allowed to actively and passively sell ... READ MORE
  • May 6, 2022 What? One of the common types of distribution agreements are selective distribution agreements. In a system of selective distribution, the supplier undertakes to sell the contract goods or services, either directly or indirectly, only to distributors selected on the basis of specified criteria and these distributors undertake not to sell such goods or services to unauthorised ... READ MORE
  • May 3, 2022 For the second year in a row, Muşat & Asociaţii authors the Lexology GTDT’s Labour & Employment chapter for Romania. Managing Associate Simona Anton and Senior Associate Evelina Mieisor-Grecu highlight key employment issues businesses should consider and give an overview of worker representation, hiring employees, including foreign workers, liability for acts of employees, taxation, employee-created ... READ MORE
  • May 2, 2022 By Managing Associate Stefan Diaconescu Cybercrime is rapidly growing in numbers in the current economic and social context in which communication, trading, business meetings or shopping take place mostly online. Threats arising from cyberspace are more and more sophisticated, with recent surveys showing that persons who perpetrate frauds are becoming ever more adept at misleading companies, ... READ MORE
  • April 26, 2022 What? Dual distribution occurs where a supplier sells goods or services both directly and through independent distributors, thereby competing with these independent distributors on the downstream market. A classic example would be that of a manufacturer of a clothing brand who sells these clothes in his own stores but also relies upon independent retailers to sell ... READ MORE
  • April 13, 2022 What? Dual distribution occurs where a supplier sells goods or services both directly and through independent distributors, thereby competing with these independent distributors on the downstream market. A classic example would be that of a manufacturer of a clothing brand who sells these clothes in his own stores but also relies upon independent retailers to sell ... READ MORE
  • April 12, 2022 Sorry, this entry is only available in Romanian. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. 1. Noul sistem RO e-Transport a fost implementat prin intermediul Ordonanței de Urgență nr. 41/2022, în vigoare din 11 aprilie 2022. Adoptarea sa ... READ MORE
  • April 8, 2022 What? Dual distribution occurs where a supplier sells goods or services both directly and through independent distributors, thereby competing with these independent distributors on the downstream market. A classic example would be that of a manufacturer of a clothing brand who sells these clothes in his own stores but also relies upon independent retailers to sell ... READ MORE
  • April 7, 2022 Mușat & Asociații advised Catted, a Romanian logistics and warehousing company, on the sale of logistics park Business Park Chitila, with a total leasable area of 7000 sqm, and of a 45.ooo sqm land in Ștefănești to estate developer Globalworth. With this strategic partnership, Catted and Globalworth aim to strengthen their offering for small and ... READ MORE
  • April 6, 2022 We are delighted to announce that partner Monia Dobrescu has been named to IFLR1000 Women Leaders in Romania for 2022. In its 5th edition, IFLR1000 Women Leaders this year recognizes more than 1000 women lawyers globally with outstanding reputations within their markets. A partner at Muşat & Asociaţii for a decade, Monia coordinates the Banking & ... READ MORE
  • April 6, 2022 As exclusive contributors to the Romanian chapter of this year’s Employment & Labour Law Country Comparative Guide published by the international legal directory The Legal 500, Deputy Managing Partner Mihai Popa and Managing Associate Simona Anton answer key questions for employers, from employee rights or protections to navigating termination of employment. You can find out more ... READ MORE
  • April 6, 2022 What? Dual distribution occurs where a supplier sells goods or services both directly and through independent distributors, thereby competing with these independent distributors on the downstream market. A classic example would be that of a manufacturer of a clothing brand who sells these clothes in his own stores but also relies upon independent retailers to sell ... READ MORE
  • April 5, 2022 Sorry, this entry is only available in Romanian. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Mult așteptata Lege nr. 72/2022 pentru anularea unor obligații fiscale și pentru modificarea unor acte normative a fost publicată în data de 31 ... READ MORE
  • April 4, 2022 We are delighted to have been shortlisted for the third time in a row in as many editions for LMG’s Life Sciences Awards 2022. This year, Mușat & Asociații is nominated 4 times: 2 Europe-wide nominations in the category “Law Firm of the Year” Awards, for “Patent Strategy Firm of the Year” and “Product Liability Firm of ... READ MORE
  • March 31, 2022 Sorry, this entry is only available in Romanian. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Declarația fiscală 101 și instrucțiunile sale de completare au fost ajustate prin intermediul Ordinului nr. 423/2022. Aceste modificări erau așteptate deoarece din 2022 ... READ MORE
  • March 22, 2022 What? Classic notions in the world of vertical agreements are those of “active sales” and “passive sales”. Active sales involve some form of active targeting of a particular customer group or territory. Passive sales consist of transactions in response to unsolicited requests from individual customers without having initiated the sales by means of active targeting of ... READ MORE
  • March 21, 2022 Mușat & Asociații’s lawyers obtain a new favourable solution in front of the High Court of Cassation and Justice that for the first time questions the practice of the tax authorities regarding the tax treatment applicable to sponsorship/patronage/private scholarships expenses   Press Release The team of lawyers specialised in tax litigation from Mușat & Asociații’s tax law and ... READ MORE
  • March 16, 2022 What? Classic notions in the world of vertical agreements are those of “active sales” and “passive sales”. Active sales involve some form of active targeting of a particular customer group or territory. Passive sales consist of transactions in response to unsolicited requests from individual customers without having initiated the sales by means of active targeting of ... READ MORE
  • March 11, 2022 Sorry, this entry is only available in Romanian. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Având în vedere necesitatea de a fi întreprinse în continuare măsuri de sprijin şi asistenţă umanitară pentru cetăţenii ucrainieni sau apatrizii afectaţi de ... READ MORE
  • March 10, 2022 Looking ahead, 2022 could be a crucial year for real estate investments in Romania. The implementation of the country’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) calls for extensive legislative changes that may have a real impact on the business environment. In this second article in The Legal 500 (Legalease)‘s In-house Lawyer magazine, the winter 2022 edition, ... READ MORE
  • March 9, 2022 In this article in The Legal 500 (Legalease)‘s In-house Lawyer magazine, winter 2022 edition, Partner Alexandru Terta and Managing Associate Stefan Diaconescu highlight the essential role that the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) will play in criminal investigations aimed at preventing and sanctioning individuals and/or legal entities who perpetrate crimes against the financial interests of the ... READ MORE
  • March 9, 2022 What? Classic notions in the world of vertical agreements are those of “active sales” and “passive sales”. Active sales involve some form of active targeting of a particular customer group or territory. Passive sales consist of transactions in response to unsolicited requests from individual customers without having initiated the sales by means of active targeting of ... READ MORE
  • March 2, 2022 What? Online sales restrictions are under close scrutiny from the European Commission and national competition authorities. It is well established that outright online sales bans are qualified as hardcore restrictions, which cannot benefit from the VBER. However, also with respect to other online sales restrictions businesses must tread carefully. For example, in a selective distribution system, brand ... READ MORE
  • February 23, 2022 What? When a supplier or manufacturer charges different wholesale prices for the same product depending on whether the product is intended to be sold online or offline, or whether the buyer will sell it to a retailer or directly to end-customers, dual pricing is practiced. A dual pricing practice does not always qualify as a restriction of ... READ MORE
  • February 16, 2022 Musat & Asociatii advised Switzerland’s construction chemicals group Sika AG on all Romanian legal aspects of its EUR 5.2 billion acquisition of MBCC Group (Master Builders Construction Chemicals) from Lone Star Funds, a global private equity firm. The acquisition is subject to regulatory clearances and is expected to close by the end of 2022. With subsidiaries ... READ MORE

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