Biris Goran has promoted IP/IT lawyer Ana Maria Andronic to Partner, noting that she "placed the firm as the leading name on the IT market in the last few years and will continue to further develop the IP, IT & Media Practice.” The firm also announced that Senior Associate Stefanita Georgescu has joined its Real Estate Practice team.
Andronic joined Biris Goran in 2008 and heads the IP, IT & Media Practice. She specializes on angel and venture capital investments, Internet privacy matters, copyright and trademark related matters, and all related corporate/M&A/labor issues. The firm claims that she is “widely regarded as the leading lawyer in Romania when it comes to IT and online matters,” and notes that "she is the driving force behind VentureConnect, the leading investment platform for IT and online innovative and high growth companies in Romania.”
Andronic graduated from the University of Craiova, Faculty of Law, in 1997, and from the National Institute for Magistrates, Bucharest, in 1998. She obtained an LL.M. in Intellectual Property and Internet Law from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA in 2006. She was admitted to the Bucharest Bar in 2007, and to the New York State Bar in 2011.
Partner Victor Constantinescu stated that: “This promotion is a no-brainer for us: Mary (as we call her) is the best IT-sector lawyer in Romania, bar none. Nobody has her US training and background, transaction resume, experience dealing with IT start-ups and entrepreneurs, and her demeanor and client management skills – all wrapped up in a single lawyer. Mary is a vital part of the BG team and we’re glad that she joins us as partner as she continuously expands her client base.”
Georgescu joins Biris Goran as a senior attorney primarily assigned to the Firm’s real estate practice. He has over 11 years of experience in providing transactional and regulatory advice concerning a broad range of domestic and cross-border transactions, including five years as a de facto in-house lawyer with ING Romania, where he performed extensive title investigations and other real estate matters involving acquisition, disposal, financing, and leasing, and two years as Chief In-house Counsel for Romanian companies belonging to the Kardan Group, where he was involved in a wise variety of financing, corporate, and regulatory matters.