Bucharest counsel,
built for cross-border ambition.
Stratulat Albulescu joins the Global Indian Network. A full-service Romanian business law firm advising on the deals that move capital in and out of South-East Europe.
The reason why we picked Stratulat Albulescu is the implicit trust we have in their capabilities, and the wider opportunity presented in Romania.
- 60+Lawyers
- 11Partners
- 11Practice areas
- 12Core sectors
- 30+Business support staff
- 2011Founded in Bucharest
Who they are
Full-spectrum business law, without the blind spots
The Global Indian Network welcomes Stratulat Albulescu Attorneys at Law, a Romanian firm of more than sixty lawyers that has spent over a decade acting for the funds, founders and corporates doing business in and through Romania.
The firm was built around a single working principle: a deal-driven, founder-level relationship with every client it represents. That means partners on the file rather than behind it, and advice that reaches past the conventional edges of a legal opinion into the commercial question underneath.
Its lawyers work in Romanian, English, French, Spanish and German, advise on EU law as fluently as on domestic law, and run multi-jurisdictional mandates through a single partner-led point of contact. For members with interests across South-East Europe, the useful part is that combination of local knowledge of the courts and regulators with a genuinely international outlook.
- HeadquartersHerastrau Business Center, 30-32 Daniel Danielopolu St., 1st District, Bucharest
- Recognised byChambers Europe, Chambers Global, Legal 500, IFLR1000, Managing IP
- Working languagesRomanian, English, French, Spanish, German
- ReachA Romanian firm with an international partner network across 100+ jurisdictions
We advise our clients. We negotiate on behalf of our clients. We advocate for our clients.
Practice areas
Eleven practices, one team on every mandate
Transactions rarely stay inside a single discipline. The firm is organised so that corporate, real estate, competition, employment and litigation lawyers move onto a file as the deal requires it, without a hand-off and without a second scoping exercise.
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Banking & Finance
Syndicated lending, acquisition and project finance, structured and asset finance, for lenders and borrowers alike.
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Corporate & Commercial
From incorporation and day-to-day general counsel support through every stage of the commercial contract process.
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Dispute Resolution
Commercial, corporate, real estate and employment litigation, plus international arbitration including ICC and ICSID.
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Employment
Everyday HR matters through to restructuring, reorganisation, outsourcing and contested social security issues.
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White-Collar Crime
Financial and economic crime, internal fraud investigations, and crisis management when exposure becomes public.
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Projects & Energy
Conventional, nuclear and renewable generation, grid connection, and major infrastructure projects.
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Competition
EU and national antitrust, merger control, FDI screening and state aid for new entrants and incumbents.
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions and takeovers, handled end to end and on the deal's clock.
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Real Estate
Office, retail, residential, logistics, healthcare, education and data centres, from acquisition through to leasing.
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IP & Life Sciences
Commercialising, protecting and enforcing intellectual property across the full lifecycle of a rights portfolio.
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Public Procurement
Preparation, bidding, negotiation and implementation of procurement contracts, plus challenges when they go wrong.
Sector fluency
Twelve industries the firm knows from the inside
Sector knowledge is what shortens a diligence exercise. These are the industries where Stratulat Albulescu's teams already understand the regulator, the contract norms and the questions a buyer will ask before the data room opens.
- Agribusiness
- Automotive
- Defence
- Energy & Resources
- Entertainment
- Financial Services
- Infrastructure
- Insolvency & Restructuring
- Life Sciences & Health
- Real Estate
- Retail & Consumer
- Technology, Media & Telecom
Credentials
Work that speaks for itself
A selection of mandates the firm's teams have led in recent years across M&A, financing, energy, technology and real estate, for clients ranging from state-owned utilities to global private equity funds.
- Hidroelectrica
Advising Romania's electricity leader on its planned acquisition of CEZ Romania's assets.
- Renault Group
Advised on a 39,000 sq.m. Class A build-to-suit lease in Bucharest, the largest single-tenant office lease in Romania.
- Amphenol
Advised on the acquisition of a majority stake in GJM's automotive components business.
- SIBS
Advised the pan-European payment processor on acquiring the Romanian Wirecard companies.
- PitechPlus
Advised the IT company on the sale of the majority stake held by its founder to Webhelp SAS.
- Corporate Finance House
Advised the Middle Eastern investor on acquiring Day Tower, a 19,000 sq.m. Bucharest office building.
- Morphosis Capital
Advised the private equity fund on its investment in DocProcess, an EU-backed finance automation start-up.
- GapMinder
Advised the EU-backed venture fund on investments in nine leading Romanian technology start-ups.
- Resource Partners
Advised on the sale of World Class, Romania's leading fitness operator, to African Industries Group.
- First Property Group
Advised on the acquisition of Maestro Business Center, a Class A office building in Cluj-Napoca.
- British American Tobacco
Advised on a series of warehouse and multipurpose leases totalling around 45,000 sq.m.
- Vitruvian Partners
Advised Jac Travel Group on its add-on acquisition of Totalstay, a European hotel booking agency.
Client names appear as published in the firm's own credentials material.
The partnership
Eleven partners, each with a named practice
More than sixty lawyers and over thirty business support professionals sit behind the partnership. Each practice has an identified leader, which is what makes a partner-led point of contact something more than a promise on a brochure.
- SSSilviu StratulatManaging Partner · Head of Corporate & M&A
- AAAndrei AlbulescuPartner · Head of Employment
- AKAna Maria KusakPartner · Intellectual Property, Consumer Protection, Competition
- CHCristina Hriscu ManPartner · Head of Venture Capital
- BCBogdan CimbruPartner · Head of White-Collar Crime
- MIManuela IurascuPartner · Real Estate
- ASAndreea SerbanPartner · M&A, Financial Services Regulation
- CSCostin SanduPartner · TMT, Data Privacy and Cybersecurity
- LIDr. Luiza IonescuPartner · Head of Energy and Infrastructure
- ANAndreea NedeloiuPartner · Head of Banking and Finance
- OBOana BucsaPartner · Competition, FDI and State Aid
Counsel and senior team: Roxana Catea (Of Counsel, Dispute Resolution) · Elena Stan (Intellectual Property and TMT) · Alexandru Ciacoi (Dispute Resolution) · Mugurel Tataru (Dispute Resolution) · Catalin Roman (Employment) · Victor Iacob (Competition, FDI and State Aid) · Alexandru Ulici (Managing Associate, Corporate/M&A) · Daiana Assoum (Managing Associate, Real Estate)
In focus
The lawyer who built the firm
Silviu Stratulat founded Stratulat Albulescu in 2011 and has taken it from a small start-up to one of the more visible names on the Romanian legal market. He leads the Corporate and M&A practice and heads the firm's M&A department, advising on mergers, acquisitions and private fundraisings with a particular concentration in technology, pharmaceuticals, life sciences and financial services.
His corporate work runs across public takeovers, domestic and cross-border acquisitions, corporate reorganisations and joint ventures, and he regularly acts for management teams on buyouts and the equity arrangements that follow when they roll into private equity structures. He is a recognised name in late-stage venture and early-stage private equity across Europe and the emerging markets.
On the real estate side he acts for investors, developers, lenders and occupiers, from the disposal of shopping centres and office buildings to the acquisition of undeveloped landmark plots in central Bucharest. That experience was shaped by work with funds including AEW Europe, First Property Group, Futureal and the Reuben Brothers.
Funds and corporates he has represented include Resource Partners, The Rohatyn Group, GapMinder, Catalyst, Innova Capital, Vitruvian Partners, Enterprise Investors, Morphosis Capital, Encora Digital, Gemini Solutions, Vodafone, SIBS, TAROM, Thoughtworks and the Romanian Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalisation.
Chambers and Partners has ranked him among Romania's corporate and M&A lawyers, noting the quality of results he delivers through a negotiation; clients quoted in the directory describe him as commercially minded and quick to surface the issue nobody else had thought of.
- 2015PhD candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest. Trust under Romanian Law, supervised by Prof. V. Stoica
- 2008LL.M. in Business Law, Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest
- 2005Master in European Law and Policy, De Haagse Hogeschool, the Netherlands
- 2004LL.B., Faculty of Law, Nicolae Titulescu University, Bucharest; BSc Economics, Academy of Economic Studies
He has also completed a post-executive programme at Harvard Law School.
- Advised the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalisation on the merger between Orange Romania and Orange Romania Communications.
- Advised SIBS on the acquisition of the Wirecard companies in Romania: Wirecard Romania, Romcard and Supercard Solutions & Services.
- Advised Resource Partners on the sale of World Class, Romania's leading fitness operator, to African Industries Group.
- Advised US-based Kiteworks on the acquisition of 123FormBuilder, a secure web forms and workflow platform.
- Advised Druid on a USD 15 million Series A, at the time the largest Romanian funding round of the year.
- Advised Groupe Renault and Automobile Dacia on the largest single-tenant office lease ever signed in Romania.
The opportunity
Why this membership matters
Romania is one of the European Union's larger consumer markets and, increasingly, the place where regional deals in technology, energy, logistics and real estate are actually executed. For Global Indian Network members looking at South-East Europe, the constraint is rarely appetite. It is finding counsel who can read the regulator and the room at the same time.
Stratulat Albulescu's membership gives that access a name. The firm already acts for American, Western European, Middle Eastern and Asian investors entering the market, and runs the Romanian leg of multi-jurisdictional transactions for firms abroad. For members with operations in the EU, or plans to acquire into it, that is a working bridge rather than a directory listing.
It runs in both directions. Romanian founders and funds increasingly look east and south for capital and customers, and the diaspora network the GIN convenes is exactly the set of decision-makers they need to meet.
- Chambers & PartnersEurope and Global editions
- The Legal 500Ranked practices and lawyers
- IFLR1000Financial and corporate
- IP STARSManaging IP
- WTR 1000Trade mark practice
Ranked by leading legal directories continuously from 2016 through 2026.
Connect
Doing business in Romania?
Whether you are entering the market, acquiring into the EU, or need Romanian counsel on a transaction already in motion, the Global Indian Network can make the introduction.
- OfficeHerastrau Business Center, 30-32 Daniel Danielopolu St., 1st District, Bucharest 014134, Romania
- Phone+40 (21) 316 87 49
- Emailoffice@saa.ro
- Websaa.ro
- LinkedIn/company/stratulat-albulescu
Stratulat Albulescu Attorneys at Law is a Romanian law firm headquartered in Bucharest. Firm figures, practice descriptions and mandate credentials on this page are drawn from material supplied by the firm and from its published profiles. Nothing here is legal advice.
