Lawyer profile
Practice areas
- Corporate / M & A
- Telecommunications / IT
- Banking & Finance
- Employment Law
Professional experience• Senior Associate, Wolf Theiss Bucharest, Romania, since 2007
• Associate, Wolf Theiss Bucharest, Romania, since 2005
• Associate lawyer, Dorina Dumitrescu Law Office, Bucharest, Romania, 2004
• Lawyer, Deloitte & Touche Romania, 2004
• External lawyer, ABN AMRO Bank, Bucharest, Romania, 2003
• Trainee, Dumitrescu & Lina SCPA, Bucharest, Romania, 2002-2003
Education• London School of Economics and Political Science (LL.M.)
• University of Bucharest (Bachelor of Laws 2002)
Representative workMs. Maxim’s practice is focused on M&A, banking and finance and capital markets work in Romania.
Representative transactions include advising: Deutsche Bahn AG on the acquisition of ownership by their subsidiary Schenker AG in Romtrans SA (Romania's leading international; transporter and freight forwarder) through a private tender offer to the individual shareholders in Romtrans; Bank Austria, a member of UniCredit Group, and Vereinsbank Victoria Bauspar AG, on the sale of HVB Banca pentru Locuinte S.A. to Raiffeisen Group; Trade House "KazMunaiGaz" JSC, Kazakhstan, on the acquisition of a 75% stake in Rompetrol Group N.V.; Erste Bank in its exchange offer to employee shareholders of Banca Comerciala Romana S.A (Romania) and capital increase against contribution in kind of Erste Bank; Andrae-Noris Zahn AG, a leading German pharmaceutical wholesaler and logistics company, on the acquisition of a controlling block of shares in Farmexpert DCI S.A.; Bank Austria Creditanstalt AG during the merger of its Romanian subsidiaries (i.e., HVB Bank Romania and Banca Comerciala “Ion Tiriac” S.A.); and the preparation of key privatization strategy reports for the Government of Romania, including: Proposed Privatization Strategy: Policy Framework for the Romanian Power Generation Sector – feasibility project regarding the privatization of SC Termoelectrica SA; and Phase II report for Romania Thermal Plant Privatization – legal research regarding the future privatization of Rovinari and Turceni Thermal Plants.
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