Iulian Patrascanu

Iulian graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Bucharest in 1995. He is the founder of Fine Law – Patrascanu & Associates. Prior establishing the Firm, he was a Senior Manager with Ernst & Young Romania, from November 2001 to December 2005, Senior Legal Consultant for Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, PLLC in Bucharest, from June 1999 to November 2001. He also acted as a Legal Consultant for Taylor Joynson Garrett in Bucharest from November 1997 to June 1999. Iulian was a Principal Legal Adviser with the Bucharest Stock Exchange from December 1996 to November 1997 and a Legal Adviser with Fininvest SA from August 1994 to December 1996. He speaks English fluently.

Iulian has over 14 years’ experience advising local and multinational companies in Employment & Labour matters, Merger & Acquisition and Competition Council matters. Throughout his practice, Iulian was counsel to clients such as Ericsson, Unilever, Wipro Ltd, American Express Bank, Citibank, Romtelecom, Hewlett Packard, Impress France, British Telecom, Coca-Cola, Colgate Palmolive, Dubai Ports International, Mivan Kier, Globe Trade Center, Nutricia, Pfizer, Remco BV, Iberia Airlines, Cisco.

Iulian regularly advises large multinational companies in all areas of merger & acquisition and labour law, including advice in merger plans, transactional documentation, extensive due diligence (pre and post transactions), execution and termination of agreements with senior managers; collective bargaining agreements (drafting, negotiations; interpretations and implementation); employee benefit agreements (including drafting and implementation of stock-option plans); collective dismissals, reductions in force and plant closings He conducts compliance programs in relation to labour and personnel policies.

Iulian is the author of a number of articles in Romanian newspapers and journals dealing with commercial and employment-related matters.