LDDP Partner Cosmin Soare-Filatov has left the firm to become the Counselor to the President of Romania for Constitutional Reform within the Presidential Administration, the firm announced.

Kinstellar has advised the Max Aicher Group on the sale of a property within the former Combinatul de Utilaj Greu industrial estate in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, to local developer Hexagon Group. Popovici, Nitu, Stoica si Asociatii reportedly advised Hexagon Group.

Nyerges & Partners has advised R.Power on the sale of a 49.99% stake in a 127-megawatt / 254-megawatt-hour battery energy storage system project in Scornicesti, Olt County, to Eiffel Investment Group, as part of a newly formed joint venture. Ijdelea & Associates advised Eiffel Investment Group.

Cytowski & Partners advises Digitail on its USD 23 million series B round with Five Elms Capital. Husch Blackwell reportedly advised Five Elms Capital.

CMS has advised Buildcom on the acquisition of a 91.42% stake in Argus, as well as a 95.36% stake in its subsidiary Comcereal Tulcea, from Infinity Capital Investments.

Romania’s journey toward treating trademarks as bankable assets began not with the adoption of the New Civil Code in 2011, but more than a decade earlier. The turning point came in 1999 with Law no. 99/1999 on certain measures for speeding up economic reform. Title VI of that law, which introduced a modern regime for security interests in movable property, explicitly stated that its scope covered “rights resulting from inventions, trademarks and other intellectual, industrial or commercial property rights.” This was revolutionary for a country emerging from decades of socialist economics where the very concept of intangible asset financing was alien.

Filip & Company has advised Agroserv Mariuta on a private placement of secured corporate bonds raising EUR 3 million. 

Wolf Theiss has advised Rheinmetall on its joint venture with Pirochim Victoria to develop an ammunition powder facility in the Brasov county. 

Clifford Chance has advised Cris-Tim Family Holding on its RON 454.35 million initial public offering on the Bucharest Stock Exchange. Filip & Company advised mandated co-arrangers BCR and BRD-Groupe Societe Generale.

Georgescu Gont has successfully represented the former Finance Minister of Romania and Slatina Mayor Darius Valcov before Romania’s High Court of Cassation and Justice resulting in the annulment of a three-year sentence.

On 10 October 2025, the European Commission published new Guidelines on the online protection of minors (the „Guidelines”), pursuant to the Digital Services Act (i.e., Regulation (EU) no. 2022/2065), aiming to ensure a safe online experience for children and young people.

Kinstellar has advised Integral Capital Group on the acquisition of a majority stake in Calla Clinic, via Integral’s portfolio company Embryos. Schoenherr advised the sellers.

Schoenherr has promoted Evelin Hilna, Matthias Pressler, Michal Jendzelovsky, Jan Primozic, and Magdalena Roibu to Partner across CEE.

On October 16, 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued an important ruling on the right of beneficiaries of European funds to an effective remedy against decisions of national authorities ordering the recovery of subsidies granted under Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 June 2021 laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund Plus, the Cohesion Fund, the Just Transition Fund and the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund and financial rules for those and for the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund, the Internal Security Fund and the Instrument for Financial Support for Border Management and Visa Policy.

Filip & Company, working with Weil, has advised a subsidiary of DIGI Communications on the successful issuance of EUR 600 million 4.625% senior secured notes due 2031. 

Corina Corbu has joined Musat & Asociatii as the firm's new Head of the Litigation Department.

RTPR has advised Arobs Transilvania Software on the acquisition of a majority stake in Global Engineering Services & Solutions. Sole Practitioners Codruta Hageanu and Daniel Hageanu reportedly advised the sellers.

Andronic and Partners has advised DCS Plus Travel Technologies founder Cristian Dinca and venture investors Digital East Fund and Credo Ventures on the sale of the company to UK-based Abingdon Software Group. Vernon | David, and reportedly Merali Beedle and Stek, advised Abingdon Software Group.