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Musat & Asociatii

MUŞAT & ASOCIAŢII is a leading, full-service Romanian law firm that provides ground breaking legal advisory services, restructuring and insolvency, and financial and tax related advice to leading international and national companies, governmental authorities and agencies, financial institutions and investment funds, across various industry sectors.

Counting 17 partners and over 100 highly experienced lawyers, insolvency practitioners, tax advisers, and other consultants, MUŞAT & ASOCIAŢII advises over 2500 high-profile clients. Many of the Fortune 500 US companies, as well as large EU corporations that invest or do business in Romania rely on MUŞAT & ASOCIAŢII for advice, as well as many of the most renowned and valued Romanian companies, including a third of the Top 100 and half of the Top 500 largest companies.

The firm offers advice in all areas of business law, including Mergers & Acquisitions / Privatisation, Litigation & Commercial Arbitrations, Banking & Finance, Energy & Natural Resources, IP & Competition, Corporate, Telecommunications & IT, Labour, Fiscal, Capital Markets, Real Estate, Environmental Law, PPP, Healthcare & Pharma, Insolvency & Restructuring, Shipping & Aviation, Insurance.

With a history that goes back more than 30 years to the beginning democracy in Romania, the firm is a pioneer in the business law industry and has advised on some of the biggest transactions for the local market at the time. 

In 2024, Musat & Asociatii received the Romania Firm of the Year award at the LMG Life Sciences EMEA Awards (London, May 16), an international recognition of our exceptional work in the field of life sciences.

In 2023, Mușat & Asociații was designated for the second consecutive year as the winner of the Eastern Europe Firm of the Year award at the LMG Life Sciences Awards EMEA 2023 gala, which took place on July 13 in London. LMG Life Sciences is one of the most prestigious legal guides that centralizes the most important law firms and lawyers active in the field of life sciences (biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, food supplements, food, cosmetics, etc.).

In 2022, Mușat & Asociații won the „Best Law Firm in M&A, Litigation and Pharma” awards, a distinction handed out by during the Romanian Legal Awards Gala, by the reputed publisher “Legal Marketing”. This was the third time when Mușat & Asociații won the trophy for the Mergers & Acquisitions practice area after 2020 and 2019, the year when Musat & Asociatii was designated the Romanian Law Firm of the Year.

Also in 2022, Mușat & Asociații was the winner of the award “Eastern Europe Law Firm of the Year” during the gala organized in London by LMG Life Sciences, one of the most prestigious international guides which awards the law firms and lawyers behind some of the most innovative and challenging projects in the EMEA, USA and Canada, together with its sister companies International Financial Law Review, Benchmark Litigation, Managing IP, Expert Guides și ITR.

In 2019, Mușat & Asociații won the “Law Firm of the Year in Romania” award, a distinction handed out by the “The Times Legal Innovation, as well as awards for the areas of practice: Mergers and Acquisitions/Privatization, Infrastructure and PPP/Public Procurement and Criminal Law.

In 2018, Mușat & Asociații was awarded by prestigious magazine, CEE Legal Matters, for the largest M&A Pharma transaction in Romania (Dr. Max acquisition of A&D Pharma group). Also in 2018, The Times legal Innovation granted awards for the areas of practice: Mergers and Acquisitions/Privatization, Infrastructure and PPP/Public Procurement and Criminal Law.

In 2016, Mușat & Asociații received the award for the largest transaction in the energy field, for assistance granted to Sterling Resources in the process of sale of operations in Romania to Carlyle International Energy Partners, as well as the award for the largest HORECA transaction for assisting Premier Capital in purchasing McDonald’s in Romania (awards granted by Ziarul Financiar, during the Attorney Gala).

In 2015, Mușat & Asociații won the “Law Firm of the Year in Romania” award, a distinction handed out annually by the reputed British publisher “The Lawyer”, and in 2013, Mușat & Asociații was appointed “Law Firm of the Year in Romania” by International Financial Law Review (IFLR), and this was the second time when the firm was granted this prestigious award, after the distinction received in 2011 (when Romania was included for the first time on the list of countries nominated for the International Financial Law Review (IFLR) awards).

Moreover, in 2012 Mușat & Asociații won the Gold Award for the “Best Law Firm in Central and Eastern Europe”, an accolade awarded by the 2012 International Legal Alliance Summit & Awards, and in 2011, the renowned publication Chambers Europe awarded the “Romanian Law Firm of the Year” trophy to Mușat & Asociații, the law firm with the best performance in Romania, during the “Chambers Europe Awards for Excellence 2011” gala.

MUŞAT & ASOCIAŢII is constantly recommended by foreign legal publications such as Chambers & Partners, Practical Law Company, International Financial Law Review, and Legal 500 as one of the leading law firms in Romania:

  • Chambers & Partners “Leading Firm 2024”
  • Legal 500 “Top Tier Firm 2024”
  • Legal 500 “Recommended Firm 2024”
  • “Regulatory Team of the Year” - PRIA Competition Gala 2023
  • “Eastern European Law Firm of the Year” – LMG Life Sciences Awards 2023
  • “Law Firm of the Year” – Financial Market Magazine Awards 2023
  • Ranked in Chambers & Partners as “2019 Leading Firm
  • Romanian Law Firm of the Year 2019“, The Times Legal Innovation Awards
  • Best Law Firm in M&A, Infrastructure and Criminal Law, 2019“, The Times Legal Innovation Awards
  • The 2018 The Times Award for Legal Innovation in an M&A transaction
  • Pharma Deal of the Year in Romania 2017” Award by CEE Legal Matters
  • Law Firm of the Year in Romania 2015” by The Lawyer
  • Top law firm in International Arbitration by Global Arbitration Review 2015
  • National Law firm of the Year 2013” by the International Financial Law Review (IFLR)
  • Gold Award” for “Best Central and Eastern Europe Law Firm 2012” by the International Legal Alliance Summit
  • National Law Firm of the Year 2011” by the International Financial Law Review (IFLR)
  • Chambers Europe Awards for Excellence “Romania Law Firm of the Year” 2011
  • Client Choice Award in Competition” by the International Law Office
  • Client Choice Award in Energy & Natural Resources” by International Law Office