D&B David si Baias is a single, integrated, law firm that values collaboration, professionalism, public service and the highest ethical standards. |
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D&B David si Baias is the correspondent law firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Romania. D&B David si Baias has a pronounced and solid relationship with Landwell, the global correspondent law firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers, with lawyers in over 40 countries. |
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We are particularly known for complex transactions and dispute resolution, as well as working in teams with other professionals such as accountants, tax consultants and financial advisers in order to deliver integrated solutions to our clients. Our office is staffed with qualified lawyers of the highest caliber. We continually cultivate relationships and build upon capabilities in areas of law useful to our clients' commercial endeavours. This allows us to bring broad knowledge and experience to complex transactions, litigation and arbitration. |
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Our clients are public and privately held commercial businesses and financial institutions, as well as governments and state owned entities, involved in sophisticated corporate and financial transactions and complex dispute resolution proceedings.
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D&B David si Baias offers the following types of services in Romania: |
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Corporate and Securities Practice |
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Labor and Employment Practice |
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Mergers and Acquisitions Practice |
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Telecommunications Practice |
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Banking Practice |
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Antitrust – Competition Practice |
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Privatization Practice |
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Energy, Infrastructure and Project Finance Practice |
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Intellectual Property Practice |
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Real Estate and Environmental Practice |
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Litigation Practice |
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| Corporate and Securities Practice |
The Corporate Department of D&B David si Baias provides a broad range of corporate and business services to publicly held corporations and private businesses. In many cases, we serve as general counsel for corporations and represent them in all aspects of their evolution and operation. Our corporate practice is broad and often intersects with closely related practices- particularly tax, corporate transactions, and securities. We are involved in all aspects of corporate governance. We represent corporations in structuring their initial capitalization and in ongoing corporate financing transactions utilizing a wide range of public and private debt and equity instruments. Our expertise is particularly strong in the area of securities transactions (including but not being limited to public offers, enforcement of securities regulations, etc.). |
We are active in domestic and cross-border corporate transactions: major mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, as well as equity investments and change of control transactions. We also counsel businesses in connection with their contractual relationships with domestic and international customers, suppliers and distributors. |
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| Labor and Employment Practice |
| D&B David si Baias represents clients on labor issues. We also have an extensive advisory practice that focuses in helping clients achieve their business objectives efficiently by drafting employment contracts between companies and their executives. In addition, D&B David si Baias performs due diligence reviews in corporate transactions advising clients on matters such as outstanding collective bargaining agreements and employment contracts. We have also developed a great deal of expertise in labour force restructuring working closely with our tax and human resources specialists. |
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| Mergers and Acquisitions Practice |
| D&B David si Baias advises multinational industrial and service businesses and major commercial and investment banks in structuring and completing domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures and equity investments. We have strong experience advising clients on the intricately structured transactions, often involving multiple jurisdictions and compressed time periods, which are commonplace in today's merger and acquisitions environment. As a very active law firm in Romania in mergers and acquisitions, D&B David si Baias has taken the lead in devising productive deal structures. These transactions often involve due diligence, regulatory approvals and approval from competition authorities. |
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| Telecommunications Practice |
| D&B David si Baias has been involved in communications related transactions, financings and disputes in virtually every sector of the industry. We advise private sector and state-owned enterprises engaged in the provision of fixed, cellular and satellite telecommunications and broadcasting services. Our experience includes regulatory issues, transnational investments, infrastructure and strategic investments, privatizations, concessions and project finance. |
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| Banking Practice |
A major component of the firm's banking practice consists of advising lending institutions in financing domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and equity investments. We assist banks and other financial services clients with all aspects of the deal structure, negotiation and documentation. |
We have experience advising banking and other financial services clients on a wide range of extensions of credit, such as secured and unsecured credit facilities. These include acceptance and letter of credit facilities, receivables and other asset based financings and project loans of all types, as well as structured commercial paper programs. |
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| Antitrust – Competition Practice |
| D&B David si Baias antitrust group is composed of lawyers with extensive knowledge gained from both private and public practice. Our lawyers have broad experience, counseling clients involved in mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures that may be reviewed by the Competition Council. We also provide extensive pre-consummation planning and advice to both buyers and sellers in order to ensure rapid approval for the transactions. |
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| Privatization Practice |
| D&B David si Baias has consistent experience in advising government entities, state owned enterprises, multilateral institutions, international banks and strategic investors on privatization transactions. This work has involved advising on the development of privatization schemes, the development of analytical criteria for judging privatization proposals, preparation of regulatory preconditions to privatizations and execution of privatization transactions. We are capable of providing advice to strategic and financial investors in these newly privatized entities. In addition, we can represent multilateral and other financial institutions that are involved in privatization transactions as financial advisors, lenders, arrangers, underwriters and investors. |
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| Energy, Infrastructure and Project Finance Practice |
| D&B David si Baias represents developers, equity investors, lenders, multilateral agencies and governments in connection with the structuring, financing and operation of infrastructure and development projects- power, energy, natural resources, water and other industrial undertakings. The distinguishing characteristic of these projects is that their financing is to be serviced by the revenues generated by the projects themselves, and recourse is essentially confined to the projects' assets. We thoroughly understand the key players in project finance and their concepts of risk and reward. This enables us to create innovative, yet practical, approaches to achieving clients' objectives. |
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| Intellectual Property Practice |
| Clients requiring IP counsel have access to our resources. Clients involved in transactions or in need of IP advice have lawyers with depth of experience close at hand. We counsel on patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and personal data protection as well as on the new concepts embodied in the intellectual content of digital information. We provide intellectual property advice in the course of transactions, prepare registrations for a wide range of clients as they create, acquire, and divest intellectual property rights in Romania. |
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| Real Estate and Environmental Practice |
Our Real Estate Department has represented clients in complex real estate transactions. This representation includes real estate financing, acquisition and sales, leasing, land use and real estate development. |
In response to the growing needs of lenders, developers and manufacturers for environmental and land use advice, when planning a real estate transaction or facing governmental regulatory issues, we have developed experience in the environmental sector. |
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| Litigation Practice |
| Our litigation department does more than merely practice law, but rather it performs as passionate, uncompromising advocates at the highest level, achieving outstanding results for our diverse clientele. We can represent clients in arbitration, mediation, and other types of alternative dispute resolution forums. One of the areas of expertise for us is tax litigation. In each case, D&B David si Baias attorneys worked to establish a constructive and cooperative relationship between client and counsel in order to achieve the best possible result. |
