HOLDER OF THE LAW OFFICE

Qualified lawyer

Member in the Bucharest Bar Association since 1999

Bachelor of Laws of the Faculty of Law, Babes Bolyai University in Cluj Napoca in 1998,

Experience

1999 (January) – 2000 (August) – Collaborator lawyer within Dancu Catalin-Radu Individual Law Office;

2000 – present – holder of “George Papu” Law Office

He is known as a barrister specialized in private law and public law disputes (criminal-commercial, administrative-fiscal, etc.), and his experience in many cases and projects which he has been involved in gave him a wide view on the law.

Even since university he expressed his interest in legal issues, publishing articles in professional journals on issues of private law, starting his career in law in 1999 as a collaborator of “Dancu Catalin Radu” individual law office where he held his internship both in consultancy and litigations, supporting many criminal cases on freedom of expression (press trials) as well as civil cases in trial court.

Since 2000, he has been holding the “George Papu” law office, engaging in complex and mediated lawsuits and also in complex consulting projects in each of the areas of activity of the law office, actively participating in most symposia and training courses in business law, community law etc.

The criminal cases in which he represented important clients, including public clients, were cases related to contraband, corruption, organized crime, money laundering, cybercrime, economic and job-related crime, capital market crimes and offenses committed through mass media, mostly being mediated cases of great complexity.

In private law disputes, he represented important clients in commercial cases, insolvency and managers liability cases, administrative – fiscal cases (including banking contravention law) and constitutional cases, civil law, intellectual property and media (press files), real estate law, foreclosures, preparing numerous cases for the European Court of Human Rights.

In his business consulting activity, he drafted or coordinated numerous projects on banking and commercial law matters, civil and real estate matters, labor law matters, he offered consulting services in contractual matters, including legal audits.

All activities performed in different areas of the law by the collaborators and of counsel lawyers are supervised by the holder of the law office.

Published Articles

About excluding the buildings from commercial law (“Revista de drept comercial” issue 2/1998 – see article in pdf format)

Some considerations on providing evidence by main modality (“Revista de drept comercial” issue 9/1998 – see article in pdf format)

About the content of the preliminary complaint and the effects of irregularities in this regard (“Dreptul” issue 5/2001 – see article in pdf format)

Pleading in a won press lawsuit (taken by “The New Review of Human Rights”, issue 2/2006 – see published written findings in pdf format)

Qualified Lawyer

Lawyer cooperating with Papu George Individual Law Office (of counsel)

2000-2004 – Faculty of Law, “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca

2004-2006 – “Business Law in the Information Society” Master – Faculty of Law, “Ovidius” University, Constanta

Experience

2005-2007: Trainee lawyer in Bucharest Bar Association, supervisor: Papu George

2007-2008: Qualified lawyer, collaborator within “Papu George” Law Office, Bucharest Bar Association

2008-present: Holder of “Papu Viorel” Law Office, Constanta Bar Association,

2010-present: Of Counsel Papu George – Law Office

Besides the vast expertise in the private and public sector, his work always aims at individual or collective professional development, as he is a constant fighter for the freedom of expression and for the excellence in the lawyer’s profession, standing out in this respect by several interventions in the public space dedicated to legal sciences.

Since 2008, he has distinguished himself in the field of car tax litigations, winning over 100 cases of this kind.

His expertise includes litigation in the area of administrative and tax law (compensations, law 9/1998, cancellations of local council decisions, acquiring special allowances, tax appeals, canceling budgetary debts, exemption from special administrative fines of contentious administrative etc.), in the criminal law (exonerations in final analysis, abolitions of non-indictment ordinances, solutions for not commencing criminal prosecution, assisting the injured party etc.), in the area of family law (divorce with extraneity elements, divorce by agreement, without the presence of both spouses in court, presidential orders on child’s custody etc.), in the public or private general law (obtaining public information, maintaining concession contracts, public procurement assistance, judicial interdictions, exequatur, maintaining the advance payment under the pre-sail contract in case of non-performing the contract, finding the nonexistence of the loan agreement, debits recovery from insurance companies, evictions, etc.) in the inheritance law (heredity petitions, establishing the quality of sole heir etc.), in the land law (vesting of possession and issuing the ownership title, cancellation of ownership title etc.), in the property law (expropriation, claims, usucapio, real estate accessions, superficies, delimitations of property boundaries, partitions etc.), in foreclosure matters (appeals to enforcement, temporary suspension of foreclosure, cancellation of enforceable title etc.), in the area of commercial law (payment demands and orders, insolvency, oppositions to partner’s acts, etc.).

Participant to the following Colloquiums, Conferences:

• “Business Law” International Conference 2011 – Organizers: Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest, and Piperea & Asociatii – Bucharest, 13-14 May 2011.
• The National Conference of the New Codes of Romania – Organizers: Faculty of Law, Universitatea de Vest, Timisoara, and the National Institute for the Training and Professional Development of Lawyers – Timisoara, 27-28 May 2011.
• Knowledge, Understanding and Implementation of the new fundamental codes of Romania – Organizers: Constanta Bar Association and the National Institute for the Training and Professional Development of Lawyers – Constanta, 24-25 June 2011.

Published Articles

• Acquiring the quality of manager of a joint-stock company, in Revista de Dreptul Afacerilor, issue 8/2004. (read the article, to read the article click “zoom in”)
• Legal means to recover the first registration tax, on juridice.ro and in Revista de Dreptul Afacerilor, issue 7-8/2008. (read the article, to read the article click “zoom in”)
• Measures having equivalent effect to quantitative restrictions at import: used car. EC Commission c. Austria (Case C-524/2007). The conduct of the Romanian state executive body in the field, on juridice.ro. (read the article, to read the article click “zoom in”)
• The legal nature of the acts underlying cashing the pollution tax. Consequences and behaviors. The relevance of establishing the legal nature to the national court, on juridice.ro and within the Colloquium “Car Tax under Community Law”, organized by the Centre for European Legal Studies of the Romanian Academy, on 20.03.2009. (read the article, to read the article click “zoom in”)
• On the need to change art. 57 of Law no. 51/1995. Debating the issue of practicing illegal lawyer’s profession, on juridice.ro and within the debate on amending the Law on lawyer’s profession of 19.03.2009, held at Parliament House. (read the article, to read the article click “zoom in”)
• Procedural and execution issues preliminary to effective recovery of the special car tax in “Curierul Fiscal” issue 8-9/2011 and on juridice.ro. (read the article, to read the article click “zoom in”)

Qualified Lawyer

Lawyer cooperating with Papu George Individual Law Office (of counsel)

Member of Bucharest Bar Association since 1999

Bachelor in Laws of the Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest, in 1998.

President of the Disciplinary Commission within the Romanian Federation of Swordplay

Member in the Judiciary Committee of the International Federation of Swordplay

Experience

1998 – 2004 – collaborator lawyer within “Rasvan & Mihaela Dobrescu” Law Office

2003 – present – collaborator on certain projects with “George Papu” individual law office

2004 – present – collaborator within “Mihaela Dobrescu” individual law office

2011 – present: lawyer cooperating with Papu George law office (of counsel)

Having a relevant experience, she is known as a barrister specialized in public law disputes (especially criminal law) and private law disputes (especially civil and family law).

She has a vast experience in crimes related to contraband, corruption matters and corruption-related matters, drug traffic, economic crime, money laundering, organized crime, cybercrime, crimes committed through mass media, blackmail etc., both for the prosecution phase as well as for the court phase, in complex cases, some of them highly mediated.

In private law disputes, due to the many cases assigned to her, she has a varied experience in divorce matters, minors’ custody matters, partition, both in matrimonial and inheritance matters, foreclosures, and also in cases of Law 10/2001, as well as in contentious administrative and fiscal matters, making numerous memoranda to the European Court of Human Rights.

As a member of the Legal Committee of the International Federation of Swordplay she revises the Federation Statute, the Implementing Regulations of the Statute and she writes the Statute articles as well.

In the area of consultancy, she assisted many clients in real estate transactions in the negotiation phase and in perfecting the sale-purchase contracts, security interest, sales of litigious rights, performing consulting activities in commercial matters as well.

Collaborator lawyer within “George Papu” law office;

She graduated from Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest, in 2005;

Master in Business Administration – University of Bucharest 2006-2008;

She graduated from The National Institute for the Training and Professional Development of Lawyers in 2009;

She is a member of Bucharest Bar Association since 2007.

Relevant Experience

She joined “George Papu” law office in 2009 as qualified lawyer.

Within “George Papu” law office, she has carried out assistance and especially representation activities in many lines of business of the law office, in civil, commercial and corporate law litigations, in contentious administrative and fiscal matters, in bankruptcy proceedings before the courts of Bucharest and not only, and before public authorities as well.

Lawyer cooperating with Papu George Individual law Office (of counsel)

Member in Arad Bar Association since 1999, organized as “Buda Radu Calin” Individual Law Office.
Master in Business Law of the Faculty of Law, Universitatea de Vest, Timisoara, (anul 2006).
He graduated from the Faculty of Law, day classes, within Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, with the paper: The Inheritance Rights of the Surviving Spouse, coordinator: Prof. dr. Dan Chirica (1999).
He graduated from “Elena Ghiba Birta” high school from Arad, Mathematics-Physics Section (1995).
Foreign languages: English.

Areas of Practice:

Commercial Law

• legal assistance (consulting) and representation before courts and other bodies with jurisdictional activity.
• legal assistance (consulting) on establishing various associative forms and on drafting the necessary documents for the operation of companies,
• legal assistance (consulting) and representation in insolvency and administrators’ liability proceedings
• legal assistance (consulting) and representation in trade receivables foreclosure proceedings, including in appeals to enforcement.

Civil Law

• legal assistance (consulting) on real estate matters, including drafting of pre-contracts, sale-purchase agreements, rent agreements etc.,
• drafting and representation services in contractual liability actions and in tort actions
• representation in civil disputes, in litigation relating to compliance and protection of property rights (including special laws), regarding the execution of contracts specific to achieving attributes correlative to ownership right, usucapio, evictions etc.
• representation in foreclosure matters, and in matters of appeal to execution as well

Lawyer cooperating with Papu George Individual Law Office (of counsel)

Member in Timis Bar Association since 2002, organized as Rusu Aspru Ilya Individual Law Office.

Master in Community Law and European Integration within Tibiscus University, Timisoara, with the paper: “The European Arrest Warrant”, International Jurisdiction discipline, coordinator: Conf. Dr. Judge Mancas Ramiro Virgil (2008).

Graduate from the Faculty of Law, day classes, within Tibiscus University, Timisoara, with the paper: Post-conviction Relapse in Roman Criminal Law, coordinator; Lector Doctorand Attorney Mircea Zarie (2000).

Graduate from Colegiul Banatean High School from Timisoara, Philology – History Section (1996).

Foreign languages: English, Serbian, Bulgarian

Areas of Practice

Banking – Commercial Law

• legal assistance (consulting) and representation in pre-litigious phase (negotiations, preliminary conciliation proceedings etc.) including before public or private institutions or before individuals and legal entities,
• legal assistance (consulting) and representation in commercial litigation on the execution of commercial contracts, incidents in performing the activity of companies and banking institutions (collection of debts, claims actions, termination of contracts, etc.)
• legal assistance (consulting) and representation in contraventional – banking litigation
• legal assistance (consulting) and representation in foreclosure and administrators’ liability proceedings
• legal assistance (consulting) and representation in trade receivables foreclosure proceedings, including in appeals to enforcement and in temporary suspension of foreclosure
• drawing complaints and supporting cases before the ECHR (European Court of Human Rights).

Contentious administrative and fiscal

• legal assistance (consulting) and representation before state authorities in pre-litigious phase for both administrative and tax authorities, drawing complaints, memoranda, petitions etc.
• legal assistance (consulting) and representation in administrative and jurisdictional procedures;
• legal assistance (consulting) and representation before contentious administrative and fiscal courts, irrespective of their level, before the Constitutional Court, following the drafting and invocation of unconstitutionality exceptions,
• drawing complaints and supporting cases before the ECHR (European Court of Human Rights).

Civil Law

• legal assistance (consulting) on real estate matters, including preparation of pre-contracts, sale and purchase agreements, negotiations etc.,
• drafting and representation services in contractual liability claims, including contract cancellations, claims actions and tort actions
• representation in civil disputes, in litigation relating to the compliance and protection of property rights (including special laws) regarding the execution of contracts specific to attributes correlative to ownership right, usucapio, evictions etc.,
• representation in foreclosure matters, and also in appeal to enforcement, in temporary suspension of foreclosure,
• representation in presidential ordinances, distraint, judicial seizure, precautionary garnishee seizure,
• drawing complaints and supporting cases before the ECHR (European Court of Human Rights).

Family Law

• legal assistance (consulting), drafting and representation services in actions on adoption, partition, dissolution of marriage, child’s custody, alimony, etc.
• legal assistance (consulting), drafting and representation services in disputes concerning the acknowledgement of parents’ rights on children born to surrogate mothers.

Graduated from Faculty of Law, “Nicolae Titulescu” University in 2007

Master in Business Law – Faculty of law, Nicolae Titulescu University, 2008

Member of Bucharest Bar Association since 2011.

Relevant Experience

She joined “George Papu” law office in 2010, carrying out a preparatory internship for the lawyer’s profession.

She participated in the preparation of important files, in drawing up legal documents and in assisting clients in civil litigation, especially in regard to tort liability, freedom of expression, foreclosure etc., in commercial and administrative and tax litigations.

She has also drafted documents of criminal matters – focusing on criminal prosecution, detention orders or restraining orders etc.