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Closing: Victoriabank Acquisition of BCR’s Chisinau Subsidiary Now Closed

Closing: Victoriabank Acquisition of BCR’s Chisinau Subsidiary Now Closed

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On January 22, 2024, Vernon David announced that Victoriabank’s acquisition of the BCR Chisinau subsidiary (reported by CEE Legal Matters on April 7, 2023) had closed.

Established in 1989, Victoriabank is a Moldovan commercial bank. Its main shareholders include Romania's Banca Transilvania and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

BCR Chisinau has over 13,000 active clients, 110 employees, and four branches – two in Chisinau, one in Cahul, and one in Balti.

Erste Group member BCR has an extensive network in Romania: 19 business centers, 17 mobile offices dedicated to companies, and 430 retail units across the country.

As previously reported, Vernon David and Filip & Company advised Moldova's Victoriabank, while Schoenherr advised the seller.

The Vernon David team was led by Chisinau-based Partners Roman Ivanov and Sergiu Bivol and included Senior Associate Nadejda Ciubotaru and Associates Adelina Braga and Mihai Silta.

The Schoenherr team included Romania-based Partners Matei Florea and Madalina Neagu and Senior Attorney-at-Law Alexandra Pop, as well as Moldova-based Office Managing Partner Vladimir Iurkovski, Attorney-at-Law Andrian Guzun, and Associates Denis Lefter and Adriana Otean.

The Filip & Company team included Managing Partner Cristina Filip, Partner Alina Stancu Birsan, Senior Associates Rebecca Marina and Camelia Iantuc, and Associate Bianca Gheorghe.

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Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații is a full-service independent law firm, employing cross-disciplinary teams of lawyers, insolvency practitioners, tax consultants, IP counsellors, economists and staff members. It also operates a secondary law office in Cluj-Napoca (Romania), and has a ‘best-friend’ agreement with a leading law firm in the Republic of Moldova. In addition, thanks to the firm’s dedicated Foreign Desks, the team provides the full range of services to international investors seeking to gain a foothold or expand their existing operations in Romania. Since 2019, the firm and its tax arm are collaborating with Andersen Global in Romania.

Țuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii is providing legal services in every aspect of business, covering all major areas of practice: corporate and M&A; litigation and international arbitration; corporate tax; public procurement; TMT; employment; insurance; banking and finance; capital markets; competition; healthcare and pharmaceutical; energy and natural resources; environmental; intellectual property; real estate; regulatory legal services.

Țuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii is a First-Tier law firm in all international legal directories and a multiple award-winning law firm both locally and internationally. It received the CEE Deal of the Year Award (DOTY Awards 2021) and the Law Firm of the Year Award: Romania (IFLR Europe Awards 2021). 

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