Career
Sorina Olaru is a highly experienced litigator with over 26 years of experience in the field of litigation, including mediation and arbitration.
She is representing and coordinates the representation of clients before the Romanian courts of all levels and specialization (civil, commercial, banking, intellectual property, competition, labour, or administrative), including the High Court of Cassation and Justice and the Constitutional Court of Romania.
She brings solid expertise in representing clients before The General Court of the European Union (EU Tribunal), The European Court of Justice, in obtaining preliminary rulings, as well as the European Court of Human Rights.
Sorina is highly skilled in representing and coordinating the representation of major international corporations, global leaders in their sectors, in administrative and competition disputes, regulatory and licensing disputes, restructuring disputes, and in complex and multidisciplinary disputes, with multiple claims and parties, involving civil commercial and property recovery matters, intellectual property rights, patents in the pharmaceutical sector, commercial, banking and fiscal law, before national and European courts.
Her vast expertise also includes the representation of clients before domestic and international arbitration panels, in cases solved under various rules of arbitration (Bucharest Rules of Arbitration, ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, Swiss Rules of International Arbitration), related to the performance of commercial contracts, privatization agreements, civil construction contracts (including FIDIC contracts).
She is an arbitrator and a member of the Board of Directors of the Court of International Commercial Arbitration attached to the Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry since 2015.
Sorina joined NNDKP in 2007 and was appointed Partner in 2009.