News - Musat & Asociatii – Attorneys at Law

Musat & Asociatii’s Managing Associate Stefan Diaconescu wins Rising Star Award for Romania at the Rising Stars Awards EMEA 2021

29 September 2021

Congratulations to Managing Associate Stefan Diaconescu, winner of the Rising Star Award for Romania at the Rising Stars Awards EMEA 2021, awarded by Euromoney’s Legal Media Group, part of the prestigious IFLR1000 guide.

Mușat & Asociații advises Google on its $2.1 billion acquisition of smart health wearables company Fitbit

20 January 2021

Musat & Asociatii advised tech giant Google LLC (Google) on all Romanian legal aspects of its acquisition of Fitbit for a total equity value of approximately USD 2.1 billion.

Thomson Reuters’ International Banking Law and Regulation 2020 – Monia Dobrescu authors Romanian Chapter

04 August 2020

Banking Partner Monia Dobrescu writes about concepts of “Credit Institution” and “Bank”— Credit institution and the general procedure for the authorization of banks in Romania, in Thomson Reuters’ April 2020 edition of International Banking Law and Regulation, Romanian law chapter.

COVID 19: Brief guidance for employers during the state of alert

20 May 2020

Starting with 15th of May 2020, the state of emergency was replaced with the state of alert in Romania. Therefore, while the legislative context in continuous change is still imposing protective measures, the Romanian Government is looking to gradually relax the lockdown measures.

Coronavirus: GEO 48/2020 provides new clarifications and tax facilities

23 April 2020

In the Official Gazette no. 319 dated 16 April 2020, the Emergency Government Ordinance no. 48/2020 on certain fiscal and financial measures was published, which provides new clarifications and tax facilities.

EDPB Adopts Further Covid-19 Guidelines on Geolocation and the Processing of Health Data

23 April 2020

The main aspects tackled by Guidelines 04/2020 are the use of location data and of contact tracing applications. Once again, EDPB underlines that personal data should be processed in accordance with the legal processing principles no matter the purposes aimed. More precisely, the location data collected from electronic communication providers may only be transmitted to authorities or other third parties to the extent that: (i) they have been anonymised by the provider or, (ii) with the prior consent of the users(for data indicating the geographic position of the terminal equipment of user, which are not traffic data);

EDPB supports EU’s data privacy approach for Covid-19 contact tracing apps

16 April 2020

On 14 April, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published a letter providing advice on the draft Guidance on apps supporting the fight against COVID-19 pandemic, released by the European Commission.