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Practice areas

International Arbitration
Litigation & Arbitration
Energy and Natural Resources
Infrastructure and PPP/Public Procurement
Corporate & Commercial Law

Iuliana specializes in international arbitration. She acted as counsel in multiple high-stake arbitral disputes in front of major arbitral institutions, also focusing on complex cases involving applications for provisional measures, annulment of Arbitral Awards or recognition and enforcement proceedings.

Iuliana regularly advises clients in connection with complex investment protection matters. She assisted and represented clients in relation to complex domestic litigations arising out of major infrastructure projects and in high-stake proceedings before international courts (the Court of Justice of the European Union, the European Court of Human Rights).

Iuliana is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and of the ICC Institute of World Business Law. She is listed as arbitrator at multiple arbitration institutions.

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  • Legal experience: 13 years
  • Experience within Mușat & Asociații: 13 years
  • Partner: 2021 – to date
  • Managing Associate: 2017 – 2021
  • Senior Associate: 2012 – 2016
  • Associate: 2011 – 2012
  • (2013) – Fully qualified lawyer, Bucharest Bar
  • (2011) – Admitted as lawyer, Bucharest Bar
(2017) – Master's Degree in „South East European Law and European Integration” LL.M. Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria
(2007) – LL.B, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law
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  • German
  • Romanian

Represented a major European energy group, in a high-stakes complex ICC international arbitration (seat of arbitration: Paris) involving multiple claims in excess of USD 1.2 billion.

Represented a major European energy group, in a complex ICC arbitration (seat of arbitration: Paris) deriving from a privatisation agreement and involving claims in excess of EUR 520 million.

Represented a major State-owned company in connection with several complex ICC arbitrations (seat of arbitration: Paris, Bucharest) arising out of major rehabilitation projects with an amount in dispute in excess of EUR 30 million.

Represented a major European energy group in a complex ICC arbitration (seat of arbitration: Paris) deriving from the privatization of state-owned electricity companies, involving claims in excess of EUR 45 million.

Represented an important local construction and engineering company in a high-stake preliminary ruling procedure before the Court of Justice of the European Union regarding the interpretation of EU law public procurement provisions.

Represented a major global construction company, in multiple ICC arbitrations (seat of arbitration Geneva and Bucharest), arising out of international construction contracts (infrastructure projects) with a cumulated value in dispute in excess of EUR 95 million.

  • Arbitrator on the list of arbitrators of the Bucharest Court of Arbitration
  • Arbitrator on the list of arbitrators of the Court of Arbitration of the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • Arbitrator on the list of arbitrators of the Permanent Court of Arbitration of the Romanian-German Chamber of Industry
  • Arbitrator on the list of the Court of International Commercial Arbitration of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Moldova
  • Member of the Romanian Bar Association, since 2008
  • Member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law
  • Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb)
  • Top Lawyer in Litigation & Arbitration Award at the Top Lawyer Awards Gala 2024, organized by Finmedia and Financial Market magazine
  • Lady Lawyer in Litigation & Arbitration Award at the Lady Lawyer Awards Gala 2023, organized by Universul Juridic