BACIU PARTNERS announced that Ana-Maria Baciu, Managing Partner, has been recognised as “Romania Lawyer of the Year”, becoming the first lawyer active in Romania to ever receive this distinction under the Legal 500 CEE Awards.

In 2022, we were writing about the promising but at the time still hypothetical impact of generative AI on HR—from recruitment and performance reviews to promotion decisions—as well as the potential implication of the then-proposed EU AI Regulation (AI Act).

The Romanian Parliament recently adopted a law establishing new measures in the health-care system.

Clifford Chance Badea, the local office of global law firm Clifford Chance, received the Romania Firm of the Year award at the Legal500 Central and Eastern Europe Awards 2025, held last week in Warsaw.

Law firm Zamfirescu Racoți Vasile & Partners (ZRVP) has built an M&A practice that banks on consistency, hands-on partner involvement, and an execution discipline radically oriented toward the client’s interest.

On 6 October 2025, the Romanian Senate approved the “Digital Age of Majority Law” (Legea Majoratului Online), a draft law introducing a robust child-protection regime for online environment.

CEE powerhouse Schoenherr expands its international presence with a new office in the City of London, reinforcing its role as the referral firm of choice for cross-border mandates in Central Eastern Europe.

A multijurisdictional team of Clifford Chance lawyers from the Bucharest, London and Amsterdam offices, coordinated by Partner Mădălina Rachieru-Postolache, has advised NEPI Rockcastle in its most recent green bonds issues worth EUR 500 million, that was 8 times oversubscribed by more than 200 institutional investors.

In recent years, Clifford Chance Badea has strengthened its position within the global Clifford Chance network, with the Bucharest lawyers taking on coordination roles in complex and innovative cross-border projects that involved large teams of lawyers from multiple offices, in one of the most sophisticated financing areas—securitization transactions.

The internship program run annually by Băncilă, Diaconu și Asociații, part of the EY Law network, is a real opportunity for Law students who want to experience business law from the inside.