Radu Rizoiu

Practice Areas

Banking & Finance

Secured Transactions

Fintech

Energy

Commercial

Real Estate

Competition

Career

Radu is a member of the Bucharest Bar since 1997 and one of the founding partners of Rizoiu & Asociații SCA. Radu has acquired this extensive experience in one of the top 10 law firms in Romania where he worked for almost 16 years reaching the position of Senior Partner. He has a strong international background, having worked on secondment at McCarthy Tétrault in Toronto, focusing on international project financing and energy transactions.

Radu offers legal advice in various business law areas with a special focus on secured transactions, contract law and energy law. He is proficient in structuring complex transactions and drafting project related documentation.

Radu was at the forefront of developing innovative products for structuring secured transactions on the Romanian market since the mid-90s. In the early 2000s, Radu contributed to several large privatization projects where he assisted the investor in negotiating the terms of the contracts with the State and in performing the due diligence on the target and offered legal advice in relation to meeting the terms of the post-privatization covenants. Later on, he was involved in complex restructuring of private businesses.

Starting from the mid-2000s, Radu was actively involved in the energy projects in various areas, such as: negotiating bankable energy supply agreements for large industrial consumers, structuring project finance for green energy projects, offering legal support for development of small hydro plants, wind projects as well as solar projects, structuring the legal foundation for high efficiency cogeneration (CHP) facilities.

He assisted clients in share deals and asset deals, in corporate mergers and dissolutions, in initiation and structuring of advertising campaigns or in infrastructure and real estate projects.

Radu continues to offer legal support to various clients while pursuing an academic career. He is full professor of private law with the Law School of the University of Bucharest, the first ranked Law School in Romania. He is also a trainer with the National Institute for Magistracy where judges and prosecutors are trained. He is often involved in advising the regulators on draft laws in the area of civil and commercial law.

Radu acted as legal expert in several national and international arbitration proceedings (as well as before foreign courts) on matters related to Romanian private law.

Professional Memberships

Bucharest Bar, Center for alternative dispute resolution in banking (honorary conciliator)

Publications

Radu is author of an authoritative book on the Romanian legal regime of security interests in personal property, as well as two prize-winning books on guarantees and the general theory of legal acts. He also published (individually or in partnership) books in the securities field (including a series of comments on the Romanian case law in the security interest field) and in the legal entities field, and over 200 studies, articles and notes. Due to his proficient academic background, Radu was asked to be one of the members of the scholars’ commission in charge of preparing the draft law for the implementation of the New Civil Code. In this capacity, he wrote the sections dealing with commercial contracts (including banking contracts), guarantees and secured transactions.

After contributing to the text of the secured transactions section of the New Civil Code itself, Radu conducted extensive work of better shaping the relevant section before full enactment of the Code and adapting all ancillary legislation (including the rules for functioning of the security interests registrar) to give effect of the new regulation.

Awards