Deloitte Tax & Legal week 2020
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Adrian Coman

Managing Associate, Reff & Asociaţii | Deloitte Legal

Adrian is Managing Associate with Reff & Associates and has been part of the legal team since 2016. He serves clients primarily in Public Sector practice.

With more than 10 years of professional experience, he is involved in a wide range of industries and fields, at both national and European level.

His experience on public sector related engagements includes regulatory and compliance advice for domestic and foreign investors. He also advises public authorities involved in complex public procurement/ concessions/ PPP projects.

He covers management and provision of tailored training sessions on national and EU public procurement regulations and sector best practice, as well as consultancy activities and court dispute assistance in relation to both local and EU tendering procedures as well as in relation to tendering procedures organized or financed by IFIs.

Adrian has been actively involved as a legal public sector specialist and contributed valuable professional input, representing and supporting the business community thorough its leading associations, such as AmCham and the Foreign Investors Council, on various legislative initiatives and changes regarding public procurement and concessions legislation, PPP legislation, EU funds secondary legislation etc. He has served as Co-Chairman and Member to relevant committees and professional bodies.

Patricia Enache

Managing Associate, Reff & Associates, Deloitte Legal Romania

Patricia is a managing associate with the financial services team of Reff & Associates, Deloitte Legal Romania.

Patricia has developed her expertise during more than 15 years of practice with major Romanian law firms and is specialized in banking and finance. Over the years, she advised both credit institutions and borrowers, providing a full range of legal assistance services (from structuring, through due diligence, drafting and negotiation transaction documentation and up to post-closing assistance) in various syndicated, club and bilateral financing transactions (including corporate lending, project finance, trade finance, letters of guarantee, consumer finance, etc.).

Moreover, Patricia was involved in debt restructuring transactions and transfers of banking assets, in particular non-performing loan portfolios (with an aggregate face value of approximately EUR 2 billion). Patricia’s experience also includes advising on regulatory, compliance and operational banking matters, as well as on other specific aspects of the financial services area, such as leasing operations, payment services, and insurance.

She also has significant experience in capital markets, among others advising on several public offers of securities, as well as on regulatory matters, derivatives, investment funds etc.

Ana Sabiescu

Senior Manager, Indirect Tax

Ana is a Senior Manager within the Tax team of Deloitte Romania, specialized in VAT and customs duties, but with knowledge and experience on tax advisory projects covering all tax areas.

With an experience of more than nine years in tax advisory, she performed and coordinated advisory projects in implementation of restructuring of business models, tax reviews and due-diligence, tax optimization, litigations and tax expertise, as well as tax representation in front of the tax and customs authorities.

Projects coordinated by Ana include tax assistance during important transactions from the Romanian market, assistance on obtaining VAT refunds for significant investments, as well as implementing and undertaking import / export transactions with goods subject to special customs rules.

Her experience and tax knowledge applies in various industries, but she is specialized in Energy & Resources (both onshore & offshore), Manufacturing and Automotive.

Ana is certified tax consultant, member of the Romanian Chamber of Tax Consultants and she graduated a master class in Tax Law at the Law Faculty from Bucharest University. Currently, Ana has graduated the first two modules for obtaining the Advanced Diploma in International Taxation (ADIT) professional qualification and credential offered globally by the UK based Chartered Institute of Taxation.

Lorena Roșia

Managing Associate, Reff & Associates | Deloitte Legal

Lorena is a fully qualified lawyer who has focused on innovation & digitalization projects and in transformation projects for the legal department.

She has advised large corporates on the roll-out of strategic innovation projects across several markets and is versed in dealing with multiple stakeholders and delivering agile legal support. She is experienced in advising on challenging business propositions, having advised several start-ups and fintech companies in entering the Romanian market against a less permissive legislation.

Lorena also supports general counsels in rethinking the way in-house legal teams work, improving legal processes, adopting e-signature and implementing legal technology, such as contract management tools, legal project management tools, chatbots and legal robots.

Her background as lawyer and experience in IT projects serve her to successfully deliver challenging projects at the intersection between IT and law.

Qualifications and education:

• Bachelor’s degree in law from Babes Bolyai University in 2013. Lorena graduated Magna Cum Laude.
• Member of Bucharest Bar since 2013.
• LLM in Business Law from Bucharest University.

Monica Țariuc

Senior Manager, Global Employer Services, Deloitte Romania

Monica is Senior Manager within the Tax department of Deloitte Romania specializing in income tax and social security contributions matters.

In her 10 years of experience in Deloitte Tax, Monica was involved in various local and international tax consultancy projects, serving a significant number of clients in respect of their remuneration policies and the tax treatment applicable income derived by individuals, being it of a dependent or personal nature (e.g. salary income, income obtained as a freelancer, investment income, other income). She also has an extensive experience in mobility projects being a connoisseur of the international legislation on tax and social security.

Monica holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Business and is a member of the Romanian Chamber of Tax Consultants. She is also a Member of the Deloitte global working group on social security matters.

Gabriela Ilie

Managing Associate, Reff & Associates | Deloitte Legal

Gabriela is Managing Associate within the employment practice within Reff & Associates and is an attorney-at-law with an experience of over 12 years.

Specializing in Employment law, Gabriela assisted in numerous complex employment matters such as transfer of employees in the context of transfer of undertakings, cross-border assignments, determining the law applicable to employment agreement with foreign component, claims for discrimination at the workplace, organizing the working schedule of employees, dismissal procedures, work through temporary work agents, as well as with respect to day-to-day employment issues such as execution of individual employment agreements, negotiations for mutual termination, non-compete clauses etc. She has also assisted a significant number of clients in labor law due diligence.

Gabriela is also specialized in Insolvency law. She has been involved in a significant number of projects with insolvency law implications, as well in insolvency law due diligence processes.

She assisted debtors facing insolvency and inquiring advice to stand against creditors, as well as debtors in financial difficulties seeking to restructure their activity. She has also given assistance to creditors within the insolvency procedure, either by day-to-day activity to ensure protection of their rights or by accompanying them both for the acquisition of assets within the procedure and for the acquisition of receivables for the purpose of obtaining ownership right over the assets.

Silvana Balea

Manager, Indirect Tax, Deloitte Romania

Silvana has more 6 years of experience in the area of VAT, starting her career within Deloitte Romania.

She was involved in providing VAT consultancy and compliance services to a wide range of companies acting in industries such as manufacturing, financial services and real estate.

Silvana also assisted various clients from the Financial Services sector during VAT/general tax audits. In some cases, she was directly involved in representing the client in front of the tax authorities, on a daily basis during the audit.

Silvana graduated the Faculty of Finance, Insurance, Banking and Stock Exchange and holds a Master’s degree in Banking and Insurance. She is also a member of the Romanian Chamber of Tax Consultants.

Adriana Neacșu

Manager, Transfer Pricing, Deloitte Romania

Adriana is Manager within the Transfer Pricing department of Deloitte Romania and has over 7 years experience in the field of taxation. Adriana is specialized in transfer pricing services, having extensive experience in providing assistance to Romanian companies on issues concerning the transfer pricing area. She has assisted numerous companies in preparing the transfer pricing documentation file, being also involved in restructuring, due-diligence, assistance in applying for Advance Price Agreements, etc.

Adriana has been involved in providing assistance to companies in various industries such as: consumer goods industry, manufacturing, technology, media and telecommunications, agricultural industry, financial services and insurance.

Adriana is a graduate of the Faculty of Finance, Insurance, Banks and Stock Exchange within the Academy of Economic Studies of Bucharest and obtained a Master's degree from the same faculty, specializing in Corporate Finance. Additionally, Adriana is a member of the Romanian Chamber of Tax Consultants and is currently attending ADIT courses

Mihaela Iacob

Senior Manager, Direct Tax, Deloitte Romania

Mihaela is a Senior Manager specialized in Direct Taxation within Deloitte Romania. Mihaela has more than 12 years of experience in the taxation field, both as a consultant and within a multinational company.

She has worked for 6 years with Big4 companies covering projects ranging from international M&A, due diligences, transfer pricing, tax reviews gaining in-depth knowledge in all tax areas. She has also worked for the telecom company, Vodafone, holding the position of Tax&Treasury Manager where she gained also a client-oriented approach and implemented projects such tax aid scheme, VAT tax ruling, M&A transactions, activity migration to SSC and SAP implementation.

Mihaela has also worked in a smaller consultancy firm where she covered projects such as transfer pricing, tax reviews, tax optimizations for clients acting in IT, retail, real estate and she was in charge with budget and people management.

Anca Ghizdavu

Manager, Deloitte Romania

Anca is a certified tax advisor and a member of the Romanian Chamber of Tax Consultants. Anca also holds the Advanced Diploma in International Taxation (ADIT) certificate, issued by the UK Chartered Institute of Taxation, being qualified in international tax matters.

Anca is currently manager in the Corporate and International Tax team of Deloitte Romania, having expertize in multiple industries: financial services, life health and medical sciences, etc.

She has been involved in various projects such as complex tax consultancy for Romanian and non-resident companies, tax reviews, restructuring of business models, due-diligence projects, assistance during tax audits, as well as assistance for accessing the tax incentives available in Romania.

Anca graduated the Bucharest University of Economic Studies – Finance, Insurance, Banks and Capital Markets section and holds a Master’s degree in Financial Management and Capital Markets from the same institution.

Loredana Ilea

Senior Manager, Indirect Tax, Deloitte Romania

Loredana is a Senior Manager within the Tax Department of Deloitte Romania, specialized in VAT. Loredana has more than 8 years of experience in VAT, being involved in numerous projects for both local and multinational companies.

Loredana serves important players acting in various industries, with a special focus on the Life Science and Healthcare industry. Her activity focuses on a variety of projects, being involved in numerous projects of tax due-diligence, tax reviews, tax advisory, and assistance during VAT audits and VAT compliance, which helped her gain a broad knowledge.

Loredana is a certified tax advisor, member of the Romanian Chamber of Tax Consultants. She holds a master’s degree in Corporate Finance.

Ana Petrescu

Senior Manager, Direct Tax, Deloitte Romania

Ana is a Senior Manager in the Tax Department of Deloitte specialized in corporate tax matters. She advises both domestic and international clients and is highly experienced in the fields of taxation.

She has significant international tax consultancy experience, providing advice to a wide range of major clients with a particular focus on direct tax consultancy, international structuring of business portfolios, acquisitions and group restructurings, local corporate tax compliance, and also assistance during tax audits.

In terms of specialisation, Ana assisted mainly clients from real estate, oil & gas, renewable energy, telecommunications, media and technology, including software companies.

Ana holds a License Degree in Accounting & Management Information Systems and a Masters Degree in the same field. She is a member of the Romanian Chamber of Tax Consultants.

Andrea Grigoraș

Managing Associate, Reff & Associates | Deloitte Legal

Andrea Grigoras is a lawyer with more than 12 years of experience, focusing on competition law. Andrea is recognized for traditional competition assistance of clients regarding: (i) representation in front of the Romanian Competition Council and European Commission in matters concerning economic concentrations and investigations, (ii) implementing complex competition compliance programs, including delivery of trainings and presentations on various competition law-related topics, (iii) state aid related assistance in projects related to performance of private investor tests, (iv) competition assistance to companies for managing day-to-day business activity in compliance with antitrust legislation, including unfair competition.

Apart from traditional competition services, Andrea is involved in novelty subject of digitalization. Being close to e-commerce and payment services Directive PSD 2 Andrea supports banks and FinTechs to develop B2B solutions antitrust compliant. Recognized by Chambers and Partners as an Associate to watch due to the feedback received from clients since 2019.

Elena Răileanu

Senior Manager, Global Employer Services, Deloitte Romania

Elena is a Senior Manager in the Tax department of Deloitte Romania and has a significant experience in tax advisory, of more than 8 years. She is specialized in the taxation of salary income and private income. Elena was involved in in projects with different types of consultancy services for taxation of income obtained by individuals and proposals with respect to assignment structures for mobile employees, being involved also in structuring the remuneration package.

Her projects cover also tax review services, as well as advisory on tax incentives for employees who perform work activities on different industries (software development, research and development, incentives in the construction field).

Her professional experience covers different industries such as: manufacturing, retail and consumer, telecommunications and media, real estate. Her clients are multinational companies with international work force.

Andreea Șerban

Senior Managing Associate, Reff & Associates | Deloitte Legal

Andreea Șerban, Senior Managing Associate in the Banking & Finance practice of Reff & Associates | Deloitte Legal, has almost 10 years of professional experience and has acted as legal counsel in a full range of domestic and cross-border transactions in the financial services sector, where she often takes the leading role and coordinates multidisciplinary teams of advisors. Over time, she advised banks and investors in high-profile loan portfolio transactions on the Romanian market, with a face value aggregating over EUR7 billion, in the design of independent servicing platforms, as well as in the structuring and negotiation of Service Level Agreements. Additionally, she was involved in several M&A deals in the financial sector and she regularly advises credit institutions, e-money institutions and other entities operating in regulated industries on various regulatory and compliance matters, including in projects regarding payment services and digitalization.

Raluca Bontaș

Partner, Global Employer Services, Deloitte Romania

Raluca is a Partner with Deloitte Tax in Romania, leading the Global Employer Service line; coordinator of the practice dedicated to personal income tax and specialized in the tax issues related to financial services sector.

She has over 17 years of experience in the field of direct, local and cross-border taxation and has participated in several projects dedicated to different types of consultancy services for taxation of income obtained by individuals (salary income, remuneration plans, benefits in kind, social insurance, employee mobility, investments income and others) and human capital.

Raluca assists a diverse portfolio of clients operating in the energy and resources industry: natural gas and oil exploration and exploitation, gas and electricity distribution, wind energy production.

She holds a Bachelor Degree in Management received from the Bucharest University.

Alexandra Bunea-Oprișescu

Tax Director, Deloitte Romania

Alexandra has 11 years of experience in providing transfer pricing assistance to domestic and international clients operating in the financial service industry, as well as in the telecommunications, media, technology and manufacturing sectors. Alexandra’s areas of expertise are tax consultancy, transfer-pricing business restructuring, advance pricing arrangements, due-diligence and transfer pricing litigation. She is a certified tax consultant and holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics, postgraduate degree in accounting and taxation and an ADIT certificate in Transfer Pricing.

Bogdan Mărculeț

Senior Managing Associate, Reff & Associates | Deloitte Legal

Bogdan is Senior Managing Associate with Reff & Associates and serves clients primarily in Litigation practice. With more than 12 years of experience in dispute resolution, he is highly specialized in complex fiscal litigation cases concerning broad issues in the field of taxation.

Bogdan also successfully assisted and represented clients before courts of law with respect to administrative, employment, labor, real estate, infrastructure projects, consumer and commercial law and in various arbitration cases under the International Chamber of Commerce and International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes.

He is also a constant contributor to specialized legal publications, writing on numerous topics in the field of fiscal law, procedural law, international arbitration and energy.

Alexandra Smedoiu

Partner, Tax, Deloitte Romania

Alexandra is the Partner in charge with the corporate income tax practice of Deloitte Romania; she specializes in advising multinational companies and local entrepreneurs on local tax matters, as well as international tax structures. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Business and Economics and a Master’s Degree in International Project Management.

Alexandra was involved in a variety of international tax structuring projects, business reorganizations, mergers & acquisitions, corporate income tax consultancy projects, due diligences, transfer pricing reviews etc.

She is a regular speaker at business events, writer of specialty articles and expert opinions in local newspapers, as well as a trainer at numerous internal and external trainings on various tax topics. She was also extensively involved in advocacy matters related to tax legislation applicable to banks, investment funds and insurance companies.

Alexandra is a Chartered Financial Analyst© chart holder and a Vice-President of CFA Society Romania, a non-profit organization that reunites top professionals in the financial services industry. She is also a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT UK) and a member of the local Chamber of Tax Consultants.

Dan Bădin

Tax Partner, Deloitte Romania

Dan has over 20 years of professional experience, specializing in corporate and international taxation. He is actively involved in taxation advice on various aspects of investments in Romania, providing tax assistance to clients in the various industries. He has coordinated over the time numerous projects both locally and internationally.

Dan was involved in complex projects, his professional experience including a wide array of projects from assistance during complex transactions and tax audits, to assistance in group restructuring.

Dan holds a Bachelor in Finance and Banking degree from the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest, Romania, and a post-graduate degree in Banking Management. He is also qualified as a tax consultant under Romanian law and is a member of International Fiscal Association. Currently serves as Co-Chair of the FIC Taxation Committee.

Irina Dimitriu

Partener, Reff & Associates | Deloitte Legal

Irina is the coordinating partner of the real estate practice of Reff & Associates.

With over 15 years of experience, she is highly experienced in the acquisition, financing and development of large real estate projects, having assisted both private Romanian and foreign clients. Her key areas of expertise include transaction structuring, energy & infrastructure developments, construction (including drafting FIDIC agreements and claims assessment), urbanism and permitting, as well as coordinating due diligence teams.

Irina is ranked tier 1 in real estate by the Legal 500 directory, which quotes client feedback about her as being „smart solution-finder”.

Chambers Europe provides that the market lauds her as "a very good real estate lawyer”.

Georgiana Singurel

Partner, Reff & Associates | Deloitte Legal

Georgiana is the coordinating partner of the corporate and M&A team of Reff & Associates with over 20 years of experience as attorney at law, member of the Bucharest Bar since October 1998 and part of Deloitte as of April 2001. Georgiana is specialized in M&A projects, including group reorganizations processes, commercial transactions, joint ventures and also in public procurement and concessions matters.

Georgiana has wide experience in M&A projects as she coordinates on a constant basis various projects on buy-side or sell-side, in various industries and fields such as manufacturing, pharma, retail and consumer business, from the initial structuring phase, going into the due diligence and then preparation, negotiation and execution of contractual documentation. She advices a large variety of international clients on all legal matters pertaining to their business in Romania, including corporate transactions, acquisitions and divestments. She is also experienced in group reorganizations processes.

Georgiana is leading the legal team of Reff & Associates specialized on public procurement and concessions projects. Since 2007 she has been continuously involved as a trainer and legal expert in various projects for strengthening the administrative capacities of authorities for implementing PPP and concession projects in Romania. Georgiana is a contributor to the drafting of a PPP Toolkit and a PPP Manual, transposed in the secondary legislation regarding the concessions of public works and services.

She has extensive experience in assisting clients on legal matters pertaining to various energy projects by providing numerous opinions on the legal framework and regulatory matters applicable in the energy field, representing clients in front of the national regulatory authority in various procedures and formalities as well as assisting them in the acquisition and development of power plants.

Georgiana has a Bachelor’s Degree in Law (University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law 1998), a Diploma specialization in Private Law (University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law 2000), a Diploma of completion of the Teacher Training Department, within The Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest 2002 and is a Certified IP counsel (2006).

Andrei Burz-Pînzaru

Partner, Reff & Associates | Deloitte Legal

Andrei has over 20 years advisory experience in Banking, Capital Markets and M&A Corporate Governance and legal risks management. He is Partner in Reff & Associates, the law office representing the global network of lawyers Deloitte Legal in Romania. Andrei is recommended by IFLR 1000 (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020) as a Leading Financial and Corporate Lawyer in Romania. His key areas of expertise include Banking & Capital Markets, FSI regulations, FSI M&A, Corporate Governance and Legal Risk Management.

Banking and regulatory experience: Worked on loan and security documentation in bilateral/ syndicated loans, LMBOs, debt restructuring & loan workouts, NPL deals (portfolios and single tickets) and securitization structures. Assisted financial supervisory authorities / market operators, banks, non-banking financial institutions, payment institutions, fund management companies, publicly traded companies on various regulatory matters in the financial services industry (CRD/CRR, EMIR, PSD, MIFID, MAD/MAR)

Capital Markets: local / cross-border stock option plans, securities/rights offerings, pre-IPO preparation, insider dealing and market manipulation cases and other securities law matters.

M&A: assisted buy-side/sell side in M&A deals in various industries with a particular focus on financial services industry (including banks, insurance companies, and non-banking financial institutions).

Corporate Governance and legal risks management: assisted entities operating in regulated/non-regulated industries on various legal risk management aspects (including compliance and corporate governance matters, legal risk management tools - prevention and compliance programs, dealing with white-collar crime risks - prevention and defense, etc.).

Florentina Munteanu

Partner, Reff & Associates | Deloitte Legal

Florentina is the partner coordinator of the competition law, employment law and insolvency law practices within Reff & Associates.

Florentina has over 16 years of experience in assisting clients in various industries on compliance issues, such as: state aid, the compliance of a company's activity with competition law, day-to-day assistance, in considering the contracts concluded with the business partners, namely the analysis of risks associated with vertical agreements, risks associated with horizontal agreements, including risks associated with affiliation to professional business associates, cartels in public tenders, management by the company`s management and employees of dawn raids of the competition authority, as well as assistance and representation within the investigations of the Competition Council.

Florentina serves a significant number of clients on day-to-day employment matters as well as on more sensitive and complex aspects like transfer of employees in the context of transfer of undertakings, stock options plans or non-discrimination matters.

Florentina participated in multiple courses in the field of competition law, covering a variety of issues in the field, namely state aid, anti-competitive agreements, abuse of a dominant position, etc. At the same time, Florentina presented, as a lecturer at several local and international conferences and events and held courses in competition law at the Romanian Banking Institute.

Florentina is a member of the Bucharest Bar since 2003 and is recognized as a reputable practitioner by the International Legal Directory Legal 500.

Ramona Țariuc

Director, Indirect Tax, Deloitte Romania

Ramona Țariuc has more than 13 years of experience in tax consultancy which was gained within Deloitte. She specialized on indirect taxes, specifically, VAT. She temporarily worked in the Brussels Deloitte office where she was involved in international projects for various companies.

Currently she is coordinating the VAT compliance team, focusing on how to streamline the processes on VAT reporting, reduce the time spent on recurrent tasks and maintain a high level of quality.

Since early beginning, Ramona was involved in setting up the VAT compliance department and in developing innovative solutions for streamlining the processes. D.Tax, the app used in preparing the VAT reports and VAT. InstantScan, the app used for bulk verification of the VAT IDs in various repositories are amongst the applications in which she was involved.

Her portfolio of clients includes companies from all fields of activity, both local and international ones, active on the Romanian market. The services rendered range from assistance with the VAT registration, VAT compliance, VAT refund claims and audits to assistance with the VAT deregistration.

Ramona has graduated from the Faculty of Business Administration – Academy of Economic Studies and she holds a master at the same faculty. She is a member of the Chamber of Tax Advisors since 2013.

Adrian Teampău

Director, Indirect Tax, Deloitte Romania

Adrian is a Director within the Indirect Tax Department of Deloitte Romania, specialized in consultancy on VAT and environmental taxes as well as tax technology.

Adrian is active in advisory field for over 14 years, delivering various tax projects for multinational companies in manufacturing, automotive, real estate, pharma, retail and consumer goods.

Currently, Adrian focuses on development and delivery of services on environmental matters such as environmental taxes. He also focused on developing IT applications that automate tax processes with the aim of increasing tax efficiency and reducing tax risks.

Adrian is a member of the working groups of FIC and AmCham Romania, discussing and proposing draft legislation on tax matters. Adrian has a diploma in Economics with the Romanian-American University and is a member of the Romanian Chamber of Tax Advisors.

Vlad Boeriu

Partner-in-Charge, Tax & Legal, Deloitte Romania

Vlad is a professional with over 15 years of experience in tax consultancy, being one of Deloitte's most important specialists in this sector, with significant international exposure. Vlad Boeriu joined Deloitte in 2004 as a Tax Consultant and has gone through all the ranks up to Partner-in-Charge.

He is currently the Partner-in-Charge of the Tax & Legal practice.

Vlad assisted clients in numerous tax audits, appeals and litigations, as well as in other proceedings before tax authorities such as binding ruling, obtaining tax incentives, etc.

With extensive experience, he has assisted large international and multinational companies with tax consultancy services and tax reporting services, in areas such as pharmaceuticals and health, technology, energy, FMCG, retail, etc.

He is recognized as ”Highly regarded in Indirect Tax” and ”Highly regarded in Tax Controversy” by the International Tax Review.

He is also a member of the Chamber of Tax Advisors in Romania, tax expert - independent or expert party for different courts of justice and arbitration.

Vlad Boeriu is a graduate of International Business, holds a Masters in Tax Law and has attended MBA courses at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Raluca Bâldea

Partner, Indirect Tax, Deloitte Romania

Raluca is a Partner within the Indirect Tax Department of Deloitte Romania, specialized in VAT.

Particularly in Energy, Raluca focuses on both Oil & Gas and Electricity sector. Raluca has gathered an extensive experience in assisting local and multinational companies in projects: tax structuring and optimization, tax due diligence, tax advisory, tax reviews or tax litigations, as well as tax representation

Currently Raluca is the coordinator for Kuwait Petroleum on its tax compliance and tax advisory activities in more than 24 Central Europe and non-Central Europe countries. Raluca is a chartered tax advisor, member of the Romanian Chamber of Tax Consultants and tax expert registered at National Courts. She holds a BA in Business Administration from the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest.

Mihaela Popescu-Ichim

Director, Corporate and International Tax, Deloitte Romania

Mihaela is Director in the Corporate and International Tax department of Deloitte with more than 10-years of activity as tax advisor.

Mihaela has extensive experience in advising clients in domestic and international corporate income tax matters, withholding taxes and local taxes. Her expertise relates in particular to deal/business structuring transactions, tax reviews, due diligence, international tax structuring, M&A and dispute resolution.

Along the years, Mihaela has serviced a wide portfolio of domestic and international clients, primarily in the real estate, IT&C, energy and financial services sectors. Mihaela holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and Banking as well as a Bachelor’s Degree in Law. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst chart holder and a member of the local Chamber of Tax Consultants.

Bogdan Barbu

Tax Partner, Transfer Pricing, Deloitte Romania

Bogdan is a Partner in the Tax Department of Deloitte specialized in Transfer Pricing and International Taxation and the leader of the “Industrial Products and Construction” sector in Deloitte Romania.

Working with Deloitte since 2008 and having been part of numerous tax consultancy projects, Bogdan has valuable experience in providing tax services particularly in the area of transfer pricing to private organizations, part of Romanian or multinational groups of companies.

He is a regular speaker at events, author of specialty articles, as well as a trainer at numerous internal and external trainings on various tax topics. He is also involved in matters related to tax legislation applicable to transfer pricing.

Bogdan holds a License Degree in International Business and a Master’s Degree in the Management of International Business. He also holds a Transfer Pricing Certificate awarded by the Chartered Institute of Taxation in London and is a chartered certified tax advisor, member of the Romanian Chamber of Tax Consultants.

Ciprian Gavriliu

Partner, Transfer Pricing, Deloitte Romania

Ciprian is a Partner in the tax practice of Deloitte Romania, having more than 15 years of experience in Romania tax law. Ciprian is the leader of Transfer Pricing practice in Deloitte Romania.

He has participated to numerous projects regarding international taxation and has assisted various Romanian or international private organizations to identify and manage successfully tax issues, especially the ones regarding transfer pricing.

He has experience is several industries such as Automotive, Manufacturing, Retail, Telecommunications, Media and Technology, Financial Services Industry, Real Estate, Life Science & Healthcare and Energy & Resources.

Ciprian is a member of Romanian Chamber of Tax Advisors, member of the Romanian Chamber of the Chartered and Certified Accountants and member of the Romanian Chamber of Financial Auditors.

He has written numerous articles in the field, he is a frequent guest of many events, and debates regarding international taxation, especially, transfer pricing. In addition, he is directly involved in discussion with the Romanian authorities about changes in the tax legislation through American Chamber of Commerce and Foreign Investment Council. He is active in the business leaders’ community as well as in the Romania university environment by organizing dedicated events and seminars.

Mihnea Galgoțiu-Săraru

Partner, Head of Dispute Resolution, Reff & Associates | Deloitte Legal

Mihnea is Partner with Reff & Associates and heads our dispute resolution department. He gathered more than 11 years of experience in business law in leading Romanian law firms, after graduating summa cum laude from the most prestigious Romanian law school.

Mihnea successfully coordinated large litigation teams in numerous high-profile cases regarding real estate, competition, energy, telecom, media, administrative, constitutional, construction, privatization, IP, employment or sport matters. He also managed virtually all types of debt recovery projects, from foreclosure to insolvency cases. In addition to his expertise in national dispute resolution cases, Mihnea also has extensive experience in international arbitration proceedings, as well as in multi-jurisdictional litigation projects.

Prior to joining our team, Mihnea acted was one of the Partners and coordinators of the litigation practice at a leading Romanian law firm. He is also a constant contributor with articles to legal and business publications.