Our competition professionals were invited to contribute to this year edition of International Comparative Legal Guide’s Merger Control. The guide is freely available in full online on ICLG.com and the entire Romanian landscape is comprised therein and it is entirely accessible here.

In May 2020, a group of Romanian senators have proposed a legal enactment to prohibit the sale of shares owned by the Romanian state for a two-year period. Such proposal has been motivated based on the erratic economic fluctuations generated as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and measures imposed as a result of the […]

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Our competition experts provided the entire information regarding Merger Control in Romania for Chambers and Partners’ Global Practice Guide 2019. Amongst the topics covered we mention legislation and enforcing authorities, procedure: notification to clearance, decision: prohibition and remedies, third-party rights, confidentiality and cross-border co-operation, appeals and judicial review and many others.

Our competition experts exclusively contributed to the Romanian chapter of ICLG – Merger Control Laws and Regulations, covering all major issues in merger control including relevant authorities and legislation, notification and its impact on the transaction timetable, remedies, appeals & enforcement and substantive assessment. The ICLG Merger Control Guide is accessible online here.

The Romanian legal framework governing M&A is much in line with international practice, and hence foreign buyers may expect to find themselves on familiar soil and to run into no major surprises. However, certain specificities do arise from Romania’s historic background with privatisation, for instance, having been for a long time a significant component of […]