MPR Partners

Managing Partners: Gelu T Maravela, Alina Popescu
Partners: 7
Lawyers: 15
Languages: English, French, Italian, Romanian, Spanish
Offices: London and Bucharest

Firm Overview:
MPR Partners is an independent European law firm, with offices in London and Bucharest, providing outstanding quality on the full range of legal, tax and insolvency services. Most recent recognition includes "Managing Partner of the Year" shortlist during The Lawyer European Awards 2021, ‘Law Firm of the Year: Eastern Europe and the Balkans Award,’ during The Lawyer European Awards 2018 in London whilst simultaneously being Highly Commended (runner-up) for ‘The European Law Firm of the Year Award’ during the aforementioned event. Previously awarded ‘Law firm of the year:’ in London at The Lawyer European Awards 2017, the firm has represented international and domestic clients in a wide array of complex projects, deals and disputes, its portfolio including global companies, high-profile private investors and public authorities. MPR Partners' senior team consists of attorneys who have previously acted at top levels of leading Romanian and international law firms, as well as of seasoned tax advisors and insolvency practitioners. MPR Partners is member of the International Business Law Consortium, a Chambers top ranked global alliance of law firms. Lawyers contribute to international and national publications edited by prestigious organisations and publishing houses.

Main Areas Of Practice:  

Corporate & Commercial/M&A: MPR Partners has a state-of-the-art corporate/M&A team, who have been nominate for and awarded numerous awards. The leading business and financial newspaper and online portal Ziarul Financiar, awarded the firm the award for the FMCG biggest and most important transaction, and also nominated it for a second major FMCG transaction for one of the largest transactions in the chemicals industry. The department is co-headed by the two expert founding partners, who have played key roles in several outstanding M&As and corporate projects over the last 16 years. The cumulated hands-on expertise of the team covers all niche aspects of M&A deals including competition, merger control and compliance audits.

Dispute Resolution/Litigation, Arbitration & ADR: With 3 partners acknowledged for their arbitration practice, insolvency specialised partners, associated tax advisors and specialised criminal lawyers on board, MPR is well equipped to go beyond commercial litigations and cover the full spectrum of high-profile disputes. Work includes commercial and administrative litigations, commercial and investment arbitrations, insolvency proceedings, tax litigations, fraud disputes and white collar crime.

Restructuring & Insolvency/Insolvency (Restructuring & Bankruptcy): With a specialised insolvency house on board and outstanding financial expertise of one of its partners, MPR is able to handle highly complex restructuring and insolvency cases from all angles, including the technical/ financial side. MPR is known for turning restructuring and insolvency into efficient tools used to enable M&A deals, recovery of debts and improvement of a company’s management.

Competition: MPR Partners' competition team has hands-on expertise in the whole range of competition matters spanning antitrust (merger clearance, anticompetitive behaviour, dominance abuse) as well as State aid and unfair competition.