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Practice areas

Litigation & Arbitration
International Private Law
Corporate & Commercial Law
Banking & Finance
Administrative Law

Andrei Cristescu is an attorney who practices law in the area of litigation, having a notable experience in a wide range of civil lawsuits, especially in the area of international arbitration, real estate law, commercial and banking law, family law, enforcement proceedings and administrative litigation.

His solid legal knowledge, high attention to details, as well as the creativity of the legal solutions identified for his clients recommend Andrei as an excellent attorney in the numerous litigation files entrusted to Mușat & Asociații by clients consisting of large corporations, banks or other institutions, who benefit from his considerable experience in handling complex, sensitive and controversial matters with diplomacy and efficiency.

Andrei has successfully represented clients before the Romanian courts of law and major arbitral institutions alike, being recognized and highly appreciated by clients for his determination, empathy and his promptness in the resolution of national or foreign disputes.

  • Studies
  • Spoken languages
  • Qualifications & Career
  • Mandates
  • Affiliations
  • Legal experience: 6 years
  • Experience within Mușat & Asociații: 5 ani
  • Senior Associate: 2024 – to date
  • Associate: 2019 - 2024
  • (2020) – Fully qualified lawyer, Bucharest Bar
  • (2018) – Admitted as lawyer, Bucharest Bar
(2018) – LL.B, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law
  • English, CAE
  • French
  • Romanian

Advised a major Romanian energy producer, in a complex arbitration under the rules of the Court of International Commercial Arbitration attached to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania deriving from a contract regarding the rehabilitation of a major hydropower plant, entailing multiple high-stake claims and counter claims with an amount in dispute in excess of EUR 25 million.

Advised a major Romanian energy supply and trading company, in three complex international arbitrations before the German Arbitration Institute (seat of arbitration: Paris, Bonn) and the Court of International Commercial Arbitration attached to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania (seat of arbitration Bucharest) deriving from EFET international agreements for the sale of electricity and involving multiple claims, with an amount in dispute in excess of EUR 8 million.

Represented the highest academic forum in Romania, comprised of prominent personalities from Romania and abroad from all fields of science, art and literature, in lawsuits concerning the recovery of forest land plots with an area of 4,400 hectares, and claims worth over EUR 7 million.

Represented the leading company in the oil refinery business (Romania), in a highly complex case, involving tax evasion, money laundering and the annulment of asset freezing measures imposed on the goods and stocks of the company, with the alleged damages amounting to USD 100 million.

Advised an important financial institution of the European Union, which provides risk capital for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in a series of disputes concerning foreclosure and insolvency proceedings, in order to recover the amounts paid to a leading Austrian bank on the basis of financial guarantees granted to facilitate SMEs’ access to financing.

Represented the largest Greek bank, in numerous lawsuits which involved proving the legality of enforcement procedures initiated against several debtors concerning, inter alia, the lack of abusive character of contractual clauses in the agreements concluded with the banks’ clients.

Represented a well-known and important art collector from Romania, in connection to a lawsuit regarding the annulment of a donation agreement concluded by the latter during the communist regime regarding more than 220 works of art signed by some of the most valuable Romanian artists.

  • Member of the Romanian Bar Association, since 2018