Muşat & Asociaţii - Business Law Firm of the Year at ACQ Global Awards
MUŞAT & ASOCIAŢII has been ranked “Business Law Firm of the Year 2008 Eastern Europe (Romania)” in the fourth edition of ACQ Global Awards, an initiative which rewards excellence in the mergers & acquisitions field, promoted by ACQ Finance Magazine. This distinction was granted further to an independent poll carried out by the well-known British publication among more than 2,200 relevant professionals.
“This award is yet another validation of Muşat & Asociaţii’s expertise in the mergers and acquisitions field, gathered in almost 20 years in which we undertook a central, dominant role within the local legal practice, partaking in most of the major privatizations and acquisitions going on in Romania in the past two decades. Acting primarily on behalf of the foreign investors, we have assumed, from the very beginning, international standards regarding the quality of our professional services and take great delight every time M&A professionals from abroad acknowledge our performances and bestow their vote of confidence upon us”, said Gheorghe Muşat, Senior Partner MUŞAT & ASOCIAŢII.
The ACQ Global Awards 2009 winners were selected further to the assessment of a questionnaire completed by 2,284 legal advisors and in-house corporate counsel around the world, alongside business journalists, analysts and researchers in this field. As a result, the publishers of ACQ Magazine selected the personalities and corporations “with the strongest impact on the mergers and acquisitions industry in 2008”.
MUŞAT & ASOCIAŢII’s expertise in mergers & acquisitions has been forged in numerous major transactions, among the most talked-about ever performed in Romania and successfully concluded. Among the most recent instructions, we note: the acquisition of Electrica Muntenia Sud by Enel, amounting to EUR 820,000,000, assisting Sider Sipe for the sale of EUR 120,000,000 of the majority stake in Ductil Steel, sale of BT Asigurări to Groupama for the amount of EUR 100,000,000, consulting AFI Europe for the buy-out of 50% of Cotroceni Park, for the consideration of EUR 78,800,000, restructuring the Poşta Română company (Romanian Postal Services), as well as the PPF Investments acquisition sequence including the Continental hotel chain, natural gas distributors Gaz Sud and GDR, etc.
MUŞAT & ASOCIAŢII is ranked in the top tier of Romanian law firms in the latest editions (2009) of the prestigious international publishers PLC - Which lawyer?, International Financial Law Review – IFLR 1000, Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners in: mergers & acquisitions (IFLR 1000, PLC - Which lawyer?, Legal 500), litigation & arbitration (PLC - Which lawyer?), banking (IFLR 1000), capital markets (IFLR 1000, PLC – Which Lawyer?), energy (Legal 500), environment (PLC – Which Lawyer?), privatization and PPP (Legal 500, Chambers Europe), taxation (PLC – Which Lawyer?), real estate (Legal 500), constructions (PLC – Which Lawyer?), private equity (PLC – Which Lawyer?), IT, telecom & media (Legal 500 Europe), outsourcing & IT (PLC – Which Lawyer?).
Six Awards for Muşat & Asociaţii at the “Top Lawyers” Gala
MUŞAT & ASOCIAŢII, a leading law firm in Romania, received excellence awards in all areas of expertise at the “Top Lawyers” Gala, for remarkable performance in the fields of Mergers & Acquisitions, Litigation & Arbitration, Banking, Finance & Capital Markets, Real Estate & Infrastructure, Energy & Natural Resources, IT, Communications & Media.
“We are honored to receive these awards. They bring a local perspective – an extremely well documented one, I believe - to the appraisals of the international specialized publications. We appreciate the organizers’ initiative to build an objective analysis of the skills, knowledge and experience of law firms in Romania. The impressive number of domains in which we were awarded is a natural consequence of the involvement of MUSAT & ASOCIATII, one of the few genuinely “full service” law firms in Romania, in numerous high-profile projects spread across all majors areas of legal expertise. It stands out as another recognition of the impeccable standards we have always imposed in the quality of our legal advice and we are glad that our efforts are acknowledged also by Romanian publications, not only by the long-established international guides with tradition in the assessment of attorneys’ expertise”, Cătălin Băiculescu, Co-Managing Partner of Muşat & Asociaţii, stated on this occasion.
Additionally, the firm was granted a special award for excellence in IT, Communications & Media. “This distinction equally honors us, as it recognizes our merits in an extremely specialized field: it is not easy for any law firm to gain the trust of the most reputable names in the international IT&C, but we take pride in our client portfolio which simultaneously includes Apple, Google, Yahoo! Amazon Technologies, Oracle, Orange, British Telecom or AT&T”, says Catalin Baiculescu.
Furthermore, the firm’s outstanding expertise is acknowledged by all the major British legal guides which rank MUŞAT & ASOCIAŢII at the top of their rankings in Romania, in: mergers & acquisitions (IFLR 1000, PLC - Which lawyer?, Legal 500), litigation & arbitration (PLC - Which lawyer?), banking (IFLR 1000), capital markets (IFLR 1000, PLC – Which Lawyer?), energy (Legal 500), environment (PLC – Which Lawyer?), privatization and PPP (Legal 500, Chambers Europe), taxation (PLC – Which Lawyer?), real estate (Legal 500), constructions (PLC – Which Lawyer?), private equity (PLC – Which Lawyer?), IT, telecom & media (Legal 500 Europe), outsourcing & IT (PLC – Which Lawyer?).
