Bucharest - 03 decembrie 2008
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Bucharest, 3rd of December 2008: Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii Law Firm appointed a new partner and made other 5 internal promotions, further to the evaluations carried on at the end of November.
As of 1st of January 2009, Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii will have 16 partners, further to the promotion of Şerban Pâslaru as a partner in the firm.
The firm made another five internal promotions, as follows: Vlad Cercel became a managing associate, while Mihaela Ivan, Oana Zancu, Oana Cornescu and Răzvan Mircea are now senior associates.
Şerban Pâslaru was appointed partner with Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii, where he has been working for the past four years. He specializes in public procurement, concessions and other forms of PPP, and, in general, in infrastructure projects. Currently, Şerban Pâslaru manages or is involved in various projects with a value of more than EUR 4-5 billion, such as the Ploieşti-Braşov Highway (Comarnic-Predeal section), the Bucharest ring road or the county emergency hospitals to be constructed in Piatra Neamţ, Suceava and Ploieşti. Şerban Pâslaru also acquired a significant expertise by coordinating various labor law projects.
“The appointment of Şerban as a partner is in line with the promotion policy that we announced ever since the beginnings of Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii. Şerban proved to be truly professional and loyal in all these years since he is a member of our team, and during the last 12 months he successfully undertook the responsibilities of his position as managing associate, proving to have real coordinating skills in large projects”, mentioned Florentin Ţuca, Managing Partner with Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii.
Currently, Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii has a team of 128 legal and administrative staff, out of which 80 lawyers (16 partners and 64 associates). In addition to the 16 Bucharest partners, Tuca Zbarcea & Asociatii has two managing partners in its Cluj regional office.
The firm’s elite group – the managing associates – was created in January 2008 and includes 9 lawyers and 4 members of the administrative staff (the Financial Manager, the Marketing Manager, the IT Manager and the Human Resources Manager). This structure was devised, on the one hand, as a bridge between the team of partners and the rest of the firm, and, on the other hand, this team is, for the lawyers, a “waiting room” to partnership.
Note to the editors:
Şerban Pâslaru became a partner with Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii. He has been working with Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii ever since the establishment thereof in 2005. Şerban specializes in public procurement, concessions and other forms of PPP, having a considerable body of expertise in performing the various stages of the procedure for the awarding of public procurement and concession agreements and in the management of legal risks deriving from the applicable framework, drafting of specific agreements, negotiation of concession agreements and preparation of bids, assistance on the implementation of transaction structure and in relation to the particularities of procurement and concessions regulations in specific sectors. Currently, he is involved in some of the most significant public procurement and concession projects in Romania, such as the Ploieşti-Braşov Highway, the Bucharest ring road or the building of 3 emergency hospitals in Piatra Neamţ, Suceava and Ploieşti.
Şerban Pâslaru also has a significant expertise in dealing with employment matters and the management of complex projects in the field, such as the implementation of restructuring/transfer programs, negotiation of collective bargaining agreements, etc.
Vlad Cercel has been appointed managing associate with Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii. With a legal experience of more than 8 years, Vlad Cercel professionally covers public acquisitions, concessions and other forms of PPP, as well as niche fields of expertise, such as electronic communications and IT. He joined Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii team in 2006. Previously he held the position of Director in the Legal Department of the National Authority for Communications. Particularly, Vlad Cercel has been directly involved in drafting the primary and secondary legislation in the field of electronic communications which fully transposed the EU regulatory framework in this sector.
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