Zamfirescu Racoti Vasile & Partners

Zamfirescu Racoți Vasile & Partners (ZRVP) boasts 28 years of experience in the legal sector, with a complete service and expertise across all industries and practice areas, providing legal assistance services in the areas of litigation and arbitration, as well as business law, insolvency, criminal law and tax consultancy.

Solid expertise in 19 main practice areas: The firm is specialized in business law in the broadest sense, covering major commercial and industrial activities in Romania and connected markets. We are one of the few law firms in Romania with the expertise and resources to cover any type of mandate in any industry and practice area. Over the years we have advised more than 3000 corporate clients, state institutions, authorities, and individuals in multi-billion-euro projects. A team of 66 lawyers and 34 staff members work together, in a joint effort to provide clients with outstanding legal services and to achieve exceptional, creative, pragmatic, prompt and cost-efficient results.

The Best European Litigation Team (The Lawyer European Awards), dispute resolution being a key practice of our firm. We have been leading international legal rankings for over 18 years, dispute resolution, restructuring & insolvency and white-collar crime being our core strengths. The dispute resolution team of ZRVP has been distinguished in 2019 with this outstanding award following the firm’s impressive arbitration David vs Goliath win against Chevron. The judges said: “The merits of the case strikes’ a chord that other disputes lawyers should bear in mind.” We have a strong record of achieving successful outcomes for our clients and the resources to handle dispute resolution cases of all types: a complete dispute resolution service, a team of 45 experienced litigators and arbitrators with broad commercial and civil experience.

Best ESG Initiative of a European law firm, as awarded by The Lawyer: The pro bono project Colectiv was considered by the international jury as the initiative with the highest social impact carried out by a law firm in Europe in 2022.

A sophisticated and long-established business law practice with strong departments acknowledged at national and international level - ZRVP has been involved since 1995 in large-scale projects in different industries, assisting multinational and national companies as well as state institutions and authorities in complex projects in various practice areas, and is recognized for its expertise in mergers and acquisitions, privatization, energy and environmental law, project finance, labour law, competition law, capital markets, real estate law, public procurement, intellectual property.

Multidisciplinary teams - We bring in-depth legal experience in various areas and provide holistic assistance in every project through the knowledge and expertise of cross-practice industry teams.