Simona Rosca

Associate

Simona is a member of the firm’s Dispute Resolution department with a special focus on commercial matters, tax and administrative disputes.  In support of her continuous work, Simona also advises on pre-litigation mattes including advising on tax inspections and administrative procedures before public authorities.  Her work has also included assisting clients on various environmental matters, including packaging and extended producer responsibility and waste management.

Simona has extensive experience in large commercial litigation, including advising on insolvencies, construction and property disputes and unfair competition practices.  Simona’s expertise includes representing clients in claims against the public authorities, including the Romanian Environmental Authorities, the Romanian Tax Authorities, the State Domain Agency as well as claims against various Public Water Companies.  Her work included both administrative and civil litigation.

Representative transactions include: 1) representing a large foreign food business operator in a complex damage claim against one of Romania’s biggest food producers regarding non-compliant and dangerous food products; 2) advising a Romanian agricultural business with property disputes and claims; 3) representing a Romanian construction company in a complex litigation regarding its contractual liabilities and duties; 4) assisting a top Romanian bank and its management in court in relation to enforcement procedures resulting from credit and mortgage agreements concluded with consumers.

  • Assisted a Romanian iron powder producer (part of a large US group) with a complex dispute against the environmental authorities. This is a leading case with regard environmental regulations.

  • Represented a UK food supplier in a claim against Romanian’s biggest chicken meat company for damages caused by a recall of the products delivered by the Romanian company. This is one Romania’s leading food safety cases.

  • Represented a leading Spanish tech company in relation to the use of innovative technology solutions for sustainability in the energy and water infrastructure projects. The case involves numerous claims and court filings with regard to use of such technology, with a case value of over Euro 10 million.

  • Assisted Romania’s largest mining operation with several disputes against Romanian public authorities (cases were valued in the Euro 10’s of millions).

  • Advised one of Romania’s largest breweries in several commercial litigation cases (value in the 10’s of millions).

  • Represented an UK insurance company with an insurance fraud case involving Romanian’s largest energy distribution company.

  • Assisted a Romanian gold mine in a complex equipment and property dispute.

  • Represented an Italian multinational cement producer in a complex dispute regarding the building a clinker grinding plant in Romanian and for the production, sale and distribution of cement.
  • Represented a client in one of the largest insolvency cases in recent Romanian history. The case involved a state company and one of the most important chemical producers in the Central and Eastern Europe and included numerous claims and files.

  • Assisted a leading Romanian supplier of plastic bottles with regard to the collection of millions of Euros of receivables, including advising on several large insolvencies and bankruptcies as well as on matters involving “pre-insolvency” collection strategies.

  • Represented one of the top 5 agricultural businesses in Romania in an insolvency claim filed against it.

  • Represented a leading Romanian bank in the insolvency and restructuring of one of Romania’s leading oil equipment manufacturers.

Education:

  • LL.B, University of Bucharest; Bucharest, Romania
  • International Business and Economics, Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies; Bucharest, Romania
  • Master Degree, Tax Law, University of Bucharest, Romania

Qualified:

  • 2013