Horaţiu Dumitru, senior associate with Muşat & Asociaţii law firm, received the excellency diploma from the e-Finance magazine for the extensive collaboration in the field of legal advisory provided to IT & C companies, at the 100th anniversary issue of the magazine.
For more than seven years, Horaţiu Dumitru has been writing the e-Legal Focus column, covering hot subjects from an e-commerce perspective, including electronic intellectual property, private data protection in the virtual environment, as well as other appealing subjects regarding online gambling, data retention, open-source licenses or the freedom of speech on the internet. “I enjoy assisting the knowledgeable Romanian public in discovering the ways foreign courts of law employ to solve cases situated at the turn between law and new technologies, hoping that highlighting the respective errors and controversies will help our IT & C companies to avoid falling in the same trap, at least by requesting assistance from experienced law firms”, says Horaţiu Dumitru, Senior Associate Muşat & Asociaţii.
The distinction was awarded at the 6th edition of the E-finance Gala, which acknowledges the efforts and the impact of products, services, partnerships and the influential people in the information technology, communications and banking & finance domains in 2008, according to the organizers.
Muşat & Asociaţii’s expertise in IT, Telecom & Media is constantly appraised by international publications with tradition in ranking lawyers, the Firm having been awarded the highest qualification and ranked in Band 1 by the prestigious Legal 500 guide in this area of practice. “The most important recognition is the one we receive from our clients. It is a great honour to gain the trust of the biggest names in the international IT & C and we pride ourselves with a portfolio which simultaneously includes clients such as Google, Yahoo! Amazon Technologies, Oracle, Orange, British Telecom or AT&T”, says Cătălin Băiculescu, Co-Managing Partner Muşat & Asociaţii and head of the IT, Telecom & Media practice.