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Press Release
Bucharest, 18 July 2023
Mușat & Asociații has been named for the second consecutive year winner of the Eastern Europe Firm of the Year award at the LMG Life Sciences Awards EMEA 2023, which took place on 13 July in London.
LMG Life Sciences is one of the most prestigious legal guides that centralizes the leading law firms and lawyers working in the life sciences sector (biotech, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, dietary supplements, food, cosmetics, etc.). Each year, LMG Life Sciences awards the law firms and lawyers behind the most innovative and challenging legal projects in EMEA, the US and Canada, along with its sister companies International Financial Law Review (IFLR), Benchmark Litigation, Managing IP, Expert Guides and ITR.
“It is a true honor to win this award for the second year in a row. I congratulate my colleagues and thank them for the outstanding results we have achieved in the complex mandates entrusted to us by clients in the pharmaceutical and medical sectors. This award is a recognition of Mușat & Asociații’s vast expertise in what is today the most innovative, dynamic and demanding field on the market and of the fact that we have, indisputably, the best team of experts capable of tackling complex and multidisciplinary projects, giving clients an important added security on a fluid and constantly changing market. We are also very proud of our colleagues nominated in individual award categories – Dan Minoiu for Regulatory Advisor of the Year and Manuela Lupeanu for Non IP Litigation Rising Star”, said Paul Buta, Managing Partner, Mușat & Asociații.
Mușat & Asociații was shortlisted in five other award categories for law firms and individuals in the LMG Life Sciences Awards EMEA 2023:
- Antitrust & Competition Firm of the Year
- Regulatory Firm of the Year
- Antitrust & Competition Lawyer of the Year – Paul Buta, Managing Partner
Doctor of Law and Assistant Professor at the “Nicolae Titulescu” Faculty of Law, Paul Buta has over 18 years of legal experience, specialising in civil and commercial litigation, competition law and intellectual property. He has been involved in major cases, assisting a significant portfolio of international clients (mainly foreign investors and multinational companies) on competition, intellectual property and regulatory issues in the pharmaceutical and medical sectors.
- Regulatory Advisor of the Year – Dan Minoiu, Partner
Dan Minoiu has more than 15 years of professional experience, during which time he has advised many companies operating in regulated areas, including pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, private clinics and hospitals, IT companies, as well as FMCG, insurance and agricultural companies. Dan has advised many international and domestic companies in connection with mergers and acquisitions, business transfers, as well as regulatory, commercial, contractual and compliance issues relating to the supply and promotion of products and services on the Romanian market.
- Non IP Litigation Rising Star – Manuela Lupeanu, Managing Associate
Manuela Lupeanu has extensive expertise in competition law enforcement, her work extending to antitrust matters (investigations, complaints, competition assessments and training), merger notifications to the Competition Council and state aid activities. Manuela has advised clients in sectors such as pharmaceuticals, retail, telecom and energy on vertical and horizontal agreements, improper corporate participation in trade associations and potential abuse of dominance.
Among the winners of the other award categories in the LMG Life Sciences Awards EMEA 2023 there were prestigious law firms such as: DLA Piper, Wolf Theiss, Herbert Smith Freehills, Bird & Bird, De Clercq & Partners, King & Spalding, Carpmaels & Ransford, Powell Gilbert, Pinsent Masons, Deris Attorney at Law Partnership, DORDA, Sidley Austin, Carpmaels & Ransford, Gün + Partners, TGS Baltic, Latham & Watkins, Kinstellar, Allen & Overy, Kiortsis & Associates, Arnon, Tadmor-Levy, Roschier, NGL Legal, PLMJ, Schellenberg Wittmer, NSN Law Firm.
About Mușat & Asociații
Mușat & Asociații stands for the highest level of expertise and commitment in assisting clients in their business. Mușat & Asociații provides consulting services in all business law areas, including Mergers & Acquisitions, Privatization, Real Estate, Banking, Energy & Natural Resources, Competition, Corporate, Telecommunications & IT, Labour, Tax, Capital Markets, Environmental Law, Litigation & Commercial Arbitration and Criminal Law.
Recognized as one of the pillars of Romania’s business law practice, Mușat & Asociații is constantly recommended by international specialized publications (Chambers & Partners, International Financial Law Review, Legal 500 etc.) as a leading law firm in Romania. Besides, many of its attorneys have been nominated by such publications among the elite of business law in Romania.
- 2022: Mușat & Asociații was the winner of the award “Eastern Europe Law Firm of the Year” during the gala organized in London by LMG Life Sciences, one of the most prestigious international guides which awards the law firms and lawyers behind some of the most innovative and challenging projects in the EMEA, USA and Canada, together with its sister companies International Financial Law Review, Benchmark Litigation, Managing IP, Expert Guides și ITR.
- 2022: Mușat & Asociații won the „Best Law Firm in M&A, Litigation and Pharma” awards, a distinction handed out by during the Romanian Legal Awards Gala, by the reputed publisher “Legal Marketing”. This was the third time when Mușat & Asociații won the trophy for the Mergers & Acquisitions practice area after 2020 and 2019, the year when Musat & Asociatii was designated the Romanian Law Firm of the Year.
- 2019: Mușat & Asociații won the “Law Firm of the Year in Romania” award, a distinction handed out by the “The Times Legal Innovation, as well as awards for the areas of practice: Mergers and Acquisitions/Privatization, Infrastructure and PPP/Public Procurement and Criminal Law.
- 2018: Mușat & Asociații was awarded by prestigious magazine, CEE Legal Matters, for the largest M&A Pharma transaction in Romania (Dr. Max acquisition of A&D Pharma group). Also in 2018, The Times legal Innovation granted awards for the areas of practice: Mergers and Acquisitions/Privatization, Infrastructure and PPP/Public Procurement and Criminal Law.
- 2016: Mușat & Asociații received the award for the largest transaction in the energy field, for assistance granted to Sterling Resources in the process of sale of operations in Romania to Carlyle International Energy Partners, as well as the award for the largest HORECA transaction for assisting Premier Capital in purchasing McDonald’s in Romania (awards granted by Ziarul Financiar, during the Attorney Gala).
- 2015: Mușat & Asociații won the “Law Firm of the Year in Romania” award, a distinction handed out annually by the reputed British publisher “The Lawyer”.
- 2013: Mușat & Asociații was appointed “Law Firm of the Year in Romania” by International Financial Law Review (IFLR), and this was the second time when the firm was granted this prestigious award, after the distinction received in 2011 (when Romania was included for the first time on the list of countries nominated for the International Financial Law Review (IFLR) awards).
2012: Mușat & Asociații won the Gold Award for the “Best Law Firm in Central and Eastern Europe”, an accolade awarded by the 2012 International Legal Alliance Summit & Awards, and in 2011, the renowned publication Chambers Europe awarded the “Romanian Law Firm of the Year” trophy to Mușat & Asociații, the law firm with the best performance in Romania, during the “Chambers Europe Awards for Excellence 2011” gala.