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Kinstellar is delighted to announce the promotions to Partner of Iustinian Captariu and Remus Codreanu and the promotion to Counsel of Zsuzsa Csiki.

Partner

Iustinian Captariu, Bucharest: Iustinian Captariu has over 10 years of experience advising clients on competition, energy, joint ventures and other transactional work. He focuses on all aspects of competition law and related areas including abuse of dominant position, cartels, merger control, joint ventures, dawn raids and unfair competition, as well as on energy transactions and other energy matters.

Iustinian is currently leading the firm’s Competition and Energy practices in Romania.

Iustinian provides advice to important local and international clients on significant investigations conducted by the Competition Council in Romania. His experience covers a wide variety of sectors, including energy, private pension funds, retail, pharma, financial, automotive, and insurance. He also represents clients in dawn raids and before courts of law during appeals against sanctions imposed by the competition authorities.

Iustinian has extensive experience in the energy, power and gas sectors, advising clients on restructurings, acquisitions and all types of regulatory matters. Iustinian has also advised on important acquisitions and joint ventures in Romania and across the region, such as the acquisition in 2016 by MET group of the Romanian power supplier Repower, one of the leading players on the Romanian electricity market.

Iustinian has constantly received recognition from legal directories and praise from clients for being a trusted advisor. In the 2017 editions, clients refer to him as ‘practical, responsive and an excellent communicator’ (Chambers Europe).

Remus Codreanu, Bucharest: Remus Codreanu has over 13 years of broad and in-depth experience advising and representing Romanian and international companies active in various sectors, including IT, energy, retail, life sciences, construction, automotive, forestry & agriculture and chemicals, His expertise spans several practice areas, including dispute resolution, white-collar crime, employment law, administrative law (including public procurement), intellectual property, insolvency and media law.

Over the years, Remus has advised and represented important local and international clients in contentious matters, including litigation & arbitration matters, before all levels of courts and other local and international jurisdictional bodies, including Romanian prosecution offices and related criminal courts.

Remus is a diligent, talented, credible and successful litigator who has taken significant strides since joining Kinstellar. He has positioned himself as a key pillar of both the Dispute Resolution and White-Collar Crime practices in Bucharest and has proven to be a valuable and reliable resource for other important practice areas, including Public Procurement, Employment and Intellectual Property. His very high success rate in dispute resolution matters, his hard work, and his commitment to the firm are impressive.

Before joining Kinstellar as an Associate in 2010, Remus worked as an independent litigation lawyer and as Head of the Legal Department of Romanian Public Television. Remus graduated from Bucharest University, Faculty of Law. He has published several articles in prestigious Romanian legal magazines and completed a PhD with a thesis on IP infringements.

Counsel

Zsuzsa Csiki, Bucharest: Zsuzsa Csiki has over nine years of experience advising Romanian and international companies on corporate mergers and acquisitions and other cross-border transactions/restructurings, covering various sectors, such as financial services, banking, automotive, construction, forestry, retail and technology, media and telecommunications. Her expertise also extends to capital market transactions and financial regulatory matters, coordinating teams locally and cross-border.

With an impressive track record and strong interpersonal and organisational skills, Zsuzsa advised and coordinated several important clients on significant transactions in Romania and on a cross-border basis, such as the divestiture by Alpha Bank of its shares in the Chisinau-listed Moldavian bank, Victoriabank S.A., to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and Nestlé on the Romanian law aspects of its global joint venture with R&R Ice Cream, a leading UK-based ice cream producer owned by the French private equity fund, PAI Partners.

Zsuzsa is building her reputation on the market in Romania and abroad as a corporate and M&A lawyer and as a specialist in all aspects of financial regulatory advice and capital market transactions. She has become the ‘go-to’ person in the office in these areas.

Jason Mogg, Firm Managing Partner, comments: ‘’We are fortunate to have Iustin, Remus, and Zsuzsa as part of our team. These promotions are in recognition of their importance to our firm and its future and to their commitment to delivering exceptional value to our clients. On behalf of the Partners and the entire firm, I warmly congratulate them! We look forward to their leadership and continuing contributions to the firm.’’