Managing Partners: - - Number of partners worldwide: 15
- Number of other lawyers worldwide: 100
- THE FIRM: Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen is one of the largest and most respected law firms in Romania, providing a full range of legal and advisory services. NNDKP is a founding member of The South East European Legal Group (SEE Legal), an organisation of leading independent law firms, as well as the exclusive Romanian member in Lex Mundi and World Services Group.
MAIN AREAS OF PRACTICE:
General Corporate: NNDKP provides legal assistance in connection with business incorporations, corporate governance, entity and group reorganisations and modifications to capital structure, including capital increases, debt-to-equity swaps and share transfers.
Privatisation: The firm has represented clients in connection with many of the country’s largest and most important privatisation transactions across a range of industries, including banking, energy, steel, telecommunications and consumer products.
Mergers & Acquisitions: The firm fully supports client’s business objectives at each stage of the transaction, including evaluation of initial opportunities and alternative approaches, assistance with transaction structuring and development of risk mitigation strategies.
Competition: Firmlawyers regularly assist clients in connection with a variety of competition and state aid matters, including investigations, economic concentrations, structuring of vertical and horizontal operations, allegations of abuse of dominant position, as well as state grants.
Banking & Finance: The firmassists borrowers with asset, corporate and project finance transactions and provides legal assistance covering a wide range of banking operations.
Securities & Capital Markets: The firm’s clients have closed many of the largest financing transactions in Romania, including project finance, revolving and term loans, trade finance, issuance of debt instruments, derivative transactions and public offerings with listings on Romanian and international exchanges.
Intellectual Property: NNDKP advises clients,among others, on the protection of IP portfolios, acquisition, development, implementation, integration, protection, use, licensing, financing, marketing and sale of technology. It has particular expertise dealing with counterfeiting and trademark infringement claims, as well as patent litigation.
Dispute Resolution: The Dispute Resolution Group has extensive experience representing clients in administrative proceedings, litigation, local and international arbitration. It has special expertise in the management of complex cases involving multiple claims and parties.
Real Estate: NNDKP professionals assist developers, property owners, lenders and investors in connection with a wide variety of real estate transactions, including greenfield investments, construction agreements, financing and related securities, leasing, exit structuring and dispute resolution.
Public Procurement/PPP: The firm’s team employs a wide variety of legal concepts to create stable and predictable contracts for transactions ranging from straightforward land concessions and supply agreements, to procurement arrangements in regulated industries and sophisticated public projects involving private sector financing and operation.
Taxation: NNDKP tax lawyers assist clients in a wide variety of legal matters, including corporate income tax, permanent establishment, transfer pricing issues, individual resident and non-resident taxation, VAT, withholding tax issues, beneficial ownership, application of treaties for the avoidance of double taxation, capital gains issues and the tax treatment of stock option plan grants.
Environmental Law: NNDKP develops contractual provisions, enforceable under Romanian law, to deal with environmental matters and minimise environmental risks and assist clients in dealing with environmental aspects when implementing projects in Romania.
Employment Law: The firm assists clients with individual and collective labour contracts, internal regulations and policies, confidentiality, restrictive covenants and non-compete agreements,management contracts, stock option plans and other benefits programmes, safety and health rules and regulations and with data protection implications in an employment context.
Immigration: The firm assists corporate clients with all their legal needs in connection with the relocation of foreign personnel to Romania, including advice on visa and work authorisation issues, related corporate issues and implementation of employment and secondment arrangements.
Energy: NNDKP has played a central role in virtually all of the major transactions in the Romanian energy sector. It is active in the privatisation and acquisition of energy companies, the financing of energy projects and the development and distribution of other natural resources.
Infrastructure: NNDKP has advised on nearly all major projects initiated so far in Romania for infrastructure design, financing, construction, rehabilitation, operation and maintenance. The firm’s team develops cost-effective solutions tailored to the specific needs of its clients, including evaluation of country-specific factors that shape commercial and financial arrangements for each project.
Telecommunications & Media: The firm has been involved in many of the largest transactions in the Romanian telecommunications field, advising clients on system procurement issues, placement on the domestic market of new equipments and technology, licensing and intellectual property registration.
Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare: The firm advises pharmaceutical and medical devices manufacturers and distributors, as well as healthcare service providers. Advice on matters relating to regulatory approvals, importation, packaging and labelling, marketing authorisation approval, as well as competition and corporate and operational structure.
Consumer Products: Clients include many large manufacturers, distributors and retailers. The firm regularly advises businesses in the consumer products field in connection with a wide variety of matters, including advertising and promotion, product labelling and marking, packaging, importation, distribution, franchising, licensing, as well as trademark and copyright protection.
Insurance: NNDKP advises insurers regarding the legal aspects of their insurance programs and products, corporate structure and regulatory matters. Lawyers have experience with issues that arise under a range of insurance products, including standard liability and first-party property policies, as well as matters relating to coverage disputes and claims.
LANGUAGES: English, French and Romanian.
Areas of Practice- M&A (incl Privatisation): 35%
Project, Corporate & Trade Finance: 35%
Regulatory (incl Telecom, Media & IT, Competition, Energy, Dispute Resolution, Real Estate, Intellectual Property): 30%