On Tuesday, 22 November 2011, Clifford Chance Badea organised a roundtable themed "Using the Internet at the workplace" for representatives of major international and local corporates.
Mara Moga-Paler, Associate, Mihalea Mindru, Senior Associate Clifford Chance Badea and Anca Podoleanu, Executive Manager of HR Club led the discussions which focused on the rights and duties of employees as well as the risks to which employers are exposed and the specific data protection requirements in relation with the employees' use of social networks, e-mail and Internet. International case law and practical solutions were also presented.
The event was attended by representatives of corporates and banks such as ING Bank, UniCredit, BRD Societe Generale, Samsung, Siemens, Bergenbier, Cora, Colgate-Palmolive, Ernst & Young, Gebruder Weiss, JT International, Alpha Consult.
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Clifford Chance has been present in Romania since June 2006 when it joined Badea & Asociații, a Romanian local firm, founded by Daniel Badea and Nadia Badea in 2002. Owing to the success of the partnership, the two firms merged on 1 Mai 2009 and operate now as Clifford Chance Badea, being the only fully integrated Magic Circle firm in Romania.
The Bucharest office has 3 partners (Daniel Badea, Nadia Badea and Perry Zizzi) supported by an international team of 45 Romanian, American and Canadian fee earners. The office is part of the Central and Eastern European Region of Clifford Chance, which also runs offices in Istanbul, Moscow, Prague, Warsaw and Kyiv. The firm works on a regular basis and has strong relationships with law firms in Hungary, Bulgaria, Croatia, Moldova and Serbia, acting as an important hub for major transactions in the South East Europe.
Clifford Chance Badea is frequently involved in complex transactions such as syndicated loans, project finance, restructurings, Eurobonds and shares issues on international capital markets, derivatives, companies' acquisitions by strategic investors or private equity funds, infrastructure and motorway projects, real estate investments also having relevant expertise in every field of commercial law.
Badea Clifford Chance ranks first among law firms in Romania under the section of Banking & Finance in 2011 according to the most recent editions of Legal 500, IFLR1000 and Chambers and Partners.