Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii

Contact: Gabriel Zbârcea, Managing Partner

Victoriei Square 4-8, Nicolae Titulescu Avenue, America House, West Wing, 8th Floor, Sector 1,
Bucharest 011141

Phone: (+4021) 204-8890
Fax: (+4021) 204-8899
Email: gabriel.zbarcea@N0SPAM.tuca.ro
Web: http://www.tuca.ro

Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii is a recognized leader in the Romanian legal services market in terms of both the high quality services it provides to its clients, as well as of the magnitude of the projects the firm or its partners have been involved in during the recent years.

With over 110 employees (lawyers and professional support members), including 16 partners, the firm is providing comprehensive legal services in all major areas of practice: Mergers, Acquisitions & Privatization; Corporate & Commercial; Litigation & Arbitration; Employment; Banking & Finance; Capital Markets & Securities; Real Estate; Competition; Energy & Natural Resources; Environmental Law; Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Law; Insurance & Private Pensions; Intellectual Property; PPP/PFI and Concessions; Electronic Communications & IT; Taxation.

Our services cover a wide-range of legal services and we always take into account specific market trends that are likely to impact our clients` businesses. Within the current economic turmoil, our Crisis Knowledge Team help minimize risk and exposure during difficult times, while offering a whole range of customized services in areas such as labour law, corporate / contracts, banking and finance, litigation, liquidation and insolvency, competition law and compliance, general regulatory work. Our highly specialized teams of lawyers will help you deal with the issues that are most pressing in the current economic downturn, review your company`s internal norms and practices, identify any current and potential “red-flag” areas and propose the most suitable actions to be implemented.

Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii is also highly regarded for its outstanding expertise in different areas of practice, as evidenced annually by well-known international publications such as European Legal 500, Chambers Global/Chambers Europe, IFLR 1000, PLC-Which Lawyer.

As a general comment, our firm is described as “one of the most dynamic firms in the Romanian legal market at the moment […] which has built a really successful practice and has emerged as one of the burgeoning outfits in the market.” (IFLR 1000, the 2008 edition). Also, according to the 2008 and 2009 editions of Chambers Global, the firm “continues to impress the market with significant mandates” while “its faster than average growth means that Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii is now recognized as a leading law firm”. Furthermore, our firm “offers cutting-edge legal representation and serves clients’ interests beyond the confines of traditional lawyering”, employing a team of “true forward-thinkers” who provide both “innovative and practical solutions to legal problems”. The Legal 500 also recognizes our firm as “one of the leading domestic firms, showing no sign of slowing the pace”.

Our clients range from international and national corporations, financial institutions and banks, to government as well as national and local public authorities and bodies, among which: Erste Bank / BCR, ArcelorMittal, Carrefour, OMV Group / Petrom, CEZ, Philip Morris, Zentiva, Orkla Foods, Colgate-Palmolive, BRD – Groupe Société Générale, Banca Transilvania, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IntelCan Canada, Merrill Lynch, ING Real Estate, Rothschild Private Equity, CA Immo, Ericsson Telecommunications Romania, Siemens, Visa International, ConAgra Foods, Interbrands.

We are committed to embrace an attitude of strategic innovation, to foster a firm culture which encourages partnership, knowledge sharing, leadership and communication at all levels and to provide clients with specialized and value-added services.

To date, we are recognized as one of the most innovative law firms in Europe, and the sole Eastern European law firm ranked in the Financial Times’ Innovative Lawyers Report. According to the Financial Times’ journalists, Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii has “revealed a young, quality firm wedded to doing law differently in the Romanian market and one that has adopted the best practices of more established firms”. In 2008, our firm received the highest total report score for a continental law firm and ranked 3rd in the Continental European Firms table. Also, the firm was described as “a consistent performer” that “has innovated by local standards in every area of its operations” (Financial Times, FT Innovative Lawyers 2008).

We also value our excellent professional relationship with recognized law firms throughout the world, enabling us to become familiar with the professional practice of some of the finest minds in the legal consultancy field.

Please visit www.tuca.ro and www.ckc.tuca.ro for more information about our team and most relevant recent projects.