Alexandru Stănescu

Practice Areas

Tech, Fintech & Deep Tech namely:

Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technology; Software as a Service (SaaS); Venture Capital Deals for Fintech and Technology Startups and VCs; Payment Systems, Processors, E-Money Institutions and and Digital Assets Payments; Regulatory Compliance (including Financial markets, Anti-Money Laundering, Markets in Crpyto-Assets Regulation, Transfer of Funds Regulation and Consumer Protection); Smart Contracts and Decentralized Applications (dApps) and DAOs; M&A in the Tech Sector.

Career

Alexandru graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest. He worked with RTPR-Allen Overy on banking regulations early in his career. He then pursued a tri-lingual MBA from Deusto University, Spain and an LLM. Alexandru was a visiting lawyer in the London office of Baker Botts, covering arbitration and corporate matters. Prior to that, Alexandru worked for the World Bank in Trade and Competitiveness, covering competition law and policy, insolvency, enforcing contracts for doing business. He clerked for the European Court of Justice and European Investment Bank. Alexandru was a Fulbright scholar and Wien Corporate Responsibility Fellow at Columbia Law School where he obtained the Masters Degree in Law.

Professional Memberships

New York Bar Association

Bucharest Bar Association

Publications

Global Legal Insights - Blockchain & Crypto Currency Regulation 2023 (5th Edition) - The emergence of DAOs: From legal structuring to dispute resolution (co-author with Tudor Velea)

Lexology (former Law Reviews) - Virtual Currency Regulation: Romania

Legal 500 - Comparative Guide: Romania Blockchain

Cointelegraph - Blockchain tech in national elections: An experience from Romania

Personal

Believer in a better society through sound policy making and disruptive technologies.

Plurilingual. Bringing the experience in shaping legal and economic policies to a career in international decentralized business solutions and new tech adoption.