Gheorghe Buta

Practice Areas

With 45 years of experience, both as magistrate and attorney-at-law, PhD. Gheorghe Buta is specialized in handling disputes and national and international commercial arbitrations.

PhD. Gheorghe Buta is one of the most famous attorney-at-law in Romania who, over the years, has assisted the most important local and international players, from a diverse sectors of activity, in the most well-known and complex litigations and arbitrations from Romania, with a special emphasis on commercial, civil and administrative disputes, insolvency and enforcement procedures, public acquisitions claims, debt recovery, large-scale tax litigations initiated against the control authorities in respect of VAT matter, income tax and other taxes, European or Union judicial procedures for regulating or establishing good practices in national law, etc., to list only a few of his areas of expertise.

Career

PhD. Buta is also an arbitrator at the Court of International Commercial Arbitration attached to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania and the International Arbitration Courts in Vienna and Paris. Twice a member of the Superior Council of Magistracy, in 2007 he was nominated by the Romanian Government as a candidate of the Romanian State for the position of judge at the European Court of Human Rights.

Professional Memberships

Member of the Bucharest Bar

University Professor / Scientific Researcher at the "Acad. Andrei Rădulescu" Institute of Legal Research, Romanian Academy.

Full member and vice president of the Academy of Legal Sciences of Romania.

Founding member and on the Board of Directors of the Romanian Institute of Commercial Law.

Director of the Romanian Journal of Commercial Law and member of the editorial board.

Human Rights Expert for the Council of Europe.

Member of the Commission for the drafting of the Penal Code and amending the Code of Criminal Procedure.

Member of the Board of Directors and Vice-President (since 2017) of the Union of Jurists of Romania

Member of the editorial board of the "Romanian Journal of Jurisprudence"

Member of the Commissions for defending doctoral theses at the Institute of Legal Research "Acad. Andrei Radulescu" of the Romanian Academy, University of Craiova, Academy of Economic Sciences Bucharest, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca.

Publications

"Romanian Legal Encyclopedia vol. IV lit. J-P" (collective), Universul Juridic Publishing House, 2025;

"Romanian Legal Encyclopedia vol. III lit. F – Î" (collective), Universul Juridic Publishing House, 2022;

"Romanian Legal Encyclopedia vol. II lit. D – E" (collective), Universul Juridic Publishing House, 2021;

"Romanian Legal Encyclopedia vol. I lit. A – C" (collective), Universul Juridic Publishing House, 2018, awarded the "Andrei Rădulescu" Prize by the Union of Jurists of Romania;

"Global Securities Litigation and Enforcement" (collective), P.H. Conan and M. Gelter, Cambridge University Press, 2018;

"The New Civil Code. Studies and Comments, Vol. I - IV, under the aegis of the "Acad. Andrei Rădulescu" Institute of Legal Research, Romanian Academy, Universul Juridic Publishing House, 2012 - 2016;

"Trust and the Management of Another's Property" (monograph), Universul Juridic Publishing House, 2017;

"The New Civil Code. Comments" (collective), 490 pages, published in three revised and expanded editions, in 2010 and 2011, Universul Juridic Publishing House, Bucharest;

"Civil Procedure Code Commented and Annotated", second revised and completed edition, Universul Juridic Publishing House, Bucharest, 2008 (in collaboration with Prof. Dr. M. Tăbârcă), 1850 pages – awarded the "Honorary Diploma" in 2009 by the Union of Jurists of Romania;

"Civil Procedure Code Commented and Annotated", Universul Juridic Publishing House, Bucharest, 2007 (in collaboration with Prof. Dr. M. Tăbârcă), 1750 pages;

"Payment Order Procedure. Doctrine and Jurisprudence", CH Beck Publishing House, Bucharest, 2006, (in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Ion Deleanu), 540 pages – awarded the "Istrate Micescu" prize in 2006 by the Union of Jurists of Romania;

"Commercial Jurisdiction. Theory and Jurisprudence", Lumina Lex Publishing House, Bucharest, 2003, 545 pages – awarded the "I.L. Georgescu" prize in 2003 by the Union of Jurists of Romania;

"Jurisprudence of the Commercial Division of the High Court of Cassation and Justice", annual publication (collective work), Hamangiu Publishing House, Bucharest, 2005 (first edition), 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012;

"Bulletin of Jurisprudence of the Cluj Court of Appeal", annual publication (in collaboration), Lumina Lex Publishing House, 1999 (first edition), 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005;

Over 125 studies, articles, and comments published in recognized legal journals.