Costin Botnarenco is an associate lawyer with experience in consultancy work, commercial and civil litigation since 2016 as a lawyer. His main focus is on Corporate, Commercial law, Mergers and Acquisitions, civil and commercial litigation. He also has experience in criminal defense, labour law, competition law, Gambling law, Real Estate and Immigration law and he has been advising clients, mostly companies in all of the above mentioned fields of law. He has been involved in a number of international projects of acquisitions and business transfers in the Information and Technology sector dealing with large corporations starting with the Due Diligence process until the final purchase. He has been advising these clients both on the corporate and commercial law and on the labour, aspects generated by the transfer of employees according to law 67/2006.
His experience on the consultancy work also consists of different matters related to the current activity of corporations, including drafting of and amending articles of association, memoranda, resolutions; incorporation and registration of companies, branches of foreign companies, legal assistance in commercial transactions, negotiation and drafting of commercial contracts. With a long track record of company incorporation's and corporate changes in companies he is an expert in this field. His involvement with Real Estate consists in drafting and amending lease agreements and free lease agreements and also drafting sale-purchase agreements for immovable assets.
His experience consists of other consultancy projects such as obtaining gaming licenses and authorisations for companies to act as temporary work agents. Part of his consultancy work consists of advising international clients and obtaining for their employee’s non-EU residents work permits in Romania.
His litigation experience consists of commercial litigation mostly between international corporations and Romanian based companies on different matters.
As part of civil litigation Costin is lead counsel in assisting an international company specialised in obtaining flight compensations according to Regulation (CE) 261/2004 and has successfully settled a large number of claims against airlines.
He is fluent in English and has a good understanding of French.
Expertise
has experience in the following areas:
Administrative and public law, Administrative law (general), Civil law, Commercial, Commercial (general), Company set-up / secretarial, construction and infrastructure, Corporate, Corporate (general), Due diligence, Employee benefits and incentives, Employment (personal), Employment / labour (general), Employment / labour law and pensions, EU law and policy, Family / matrimonial, Immigration, M&A deals (mid-market), M&A deals (small / domestic), Pensions, Personal / private client, Police, Real estate, Real estate (general), Real estate deals (small), Small claims / disputes (personal), Trusts and estates
Industries
has previously helped clients in the following industries: