WHITE-COLLAR CRIME LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR IN ROMANIA Mușat & Asociații Octavian Popescu Partner Tel: +(40-21) 202 59 00 / (40-21) 202 59 33 octavian.popescu@musat.ro www.musat.ro During the 27-year history of Mușat & Asociații, the firm has built a strong and experienced Litigation Department, gaining extensive expertise across a broad spectrum of industries and business fields and a deep understanding of the Romanian market. One of the focal areas of its Litigation Department is the Criminal Law practice, developing since its early years and grown to be a key reference in the legal market and for Romania’s business environment. The dedicated specialisation and extensive expertise of the firm’s lawyers has always proved to be an invaluable asset for its clients, either facing criminal investigations or trials, or attempting to avoid and prevent such risks in their activity. Mușat & Asociații’s services include consultancy and prevention of criminal law matters (such as preparing legal analyses, opinions or memoranda on different criminal law and criminal procedural law issues; assisting and representing our clients in different extrajudicial procedures, in order to avoid criminal implications or complex risks; preparing and concluding high-profile civil transactions, to amicably settle civil damages claims within criminal law procedures) and also representation and assistance in criminal litigations (during the criminal investigation phase or the court trial). Partner Octavian Popescu noted: “We were one of the first of a very few full-service law firms to understand and present to our clients the increasing impact of regulatory requirements, compliance issues and white-collar criminality on the conduct of ordinary business. We have consistently advised and represented our clients
or their representatives in situations where they are victims or directly affected by criminal conduct. The strategies designed and implemented together with our clients have involved extensive knowledge of the law, vast experience in criminal investigations and litigations, while ensuring the best advice through the efforts of a multi-disciplinary legal team – consisting not only of litigators but also tax experts, corporate lawyers and compliance legal advisers.” He added: “We pride ourselves on being the most experienced, numerous and well-organised team of attorneys available in the Romanian legal market, capable of handling an impressive portfolio of complex mandates, always setting legal precedents and breaking new ground. Our strength is that we built a strong team formed by strong people that are specialised on connected areas of practices: Litigation & Arbitration, Mergers & Acquisitions, Telecoms & IT, Capital markets, Corporate & Commercial, Real Estate, Banking & Finance.” Moreover, the firm’s Criminal Law practice is noteworthy among industry insiders for balancing the wisdom and expertise of a dedicated team of more than 15 lawyers and counsellors, highly specialised in a wide range of criminal investigations, litigations and disputes, as well as in multiple substantive and procedural laws. Over the past decades, Mușat & Asociații has been actively involved in many of the largest, high-profile criminal investigations and trials to arise in Romania, always at the core of legal precedents and rulings. Mr Popescu concluded: “Our Criminal Law team has proved that an extensive yet versatile team of attorneys is a key factor in obtaining favourable decisions for our clients.”
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GLE Awards 2017