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CMS Continues to Grow in Romania – Expanding Tax Services

by CMS Cameron McKenna January 27, 2015

CMS, a ‘Top 10’ global law firm, today announces that Roxana Popel has joined the Bucharest office as Head of Tax in Romania.

Gabriel Sidere, Managing Partner of CMS in Romania, comments: "This strategic move will enable CMS to meet growing client demand for support from us in the increasingly complex area of tax legislation and practice. Our clients require a seamless, multi-jurisdictional tax advisory service, whether on a stand-alone basis or as part of the full legal service offered by CMS. We are now even better-equipped to successfully meet our clients’ current and future business needs. This is an exciting time for CMS in Romania – we continue to build for the future and expand our offering in Romania.”

Roxana Popel joins CMS as Head of the Tax department in Romania after 15 years with PwC Romania. "I am very pleased to join CMS. CMS has an excellent reputation across Europe for tax advice and is the perfect platform for the next step in my career. We are committed to providing our clients with high quality, innovative tax solutions wherever they may need them,” comments Roxana Popel who has vast experience advising clients on a wide range of tax matters - domestic and international.

Gabriel Sidere, continues: “We are delighted to have attracted a highly talented senior tax specialist like Roxana who will further develop our tax planning and advice services in Romania. We want to congratulate Roxana on achieving this milestone and her continued success."

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NOTES TO EDITORS:

With 15 years’ experience, Roxana Popel is a senior tax specialist and Head of Tax in Romania at CMS. Roxana has broad experience in both Romanian and international corporate taxation, and provides tax planning and advisory services to both multinational and domestic clients in Romania and beyond. Her expertise covers a wide range of services, from advising on bespoke cross-border structuring to drafting and negotiating tax indemnities, as well as assessing the level of tax compliance with applicable legislation, identifying tax optimisation solutions, assisting with tax audits or reviews, and the tax aspects of due diligence. Roxana works with a large portfolio of clients across numerous industry sectors, with a particular focus on the Consumer Products and Retail, Agriculture, Manufacturing and Utilities sectors. Prior to joining CMS, Roxana was a Tax Director at PwC in Romania. During a nine-month secondment in the PwC Sydney office in Australia she further bolstered her international tax experience. Throughout her career Roxana has been actively involved in working groups in discussions with the Romanian Ministry of Finance and recommending updates to the tax legislation in Romania. Roxana is a licensed tax advisor and member of the Romanian Chamber of Certified Tax Consultants.


About CMS
CMS provides clients with specialist, business focused advice in law and tax matters. With our 3000 legal professionals across the world, working in sector-based teams and expert in project management, our focus is on our clients and fulfilling their objectives.

CMS is a full-service top 10 global law firm, based on the number of lawyers (Am Law 2013 Global 100). With 59 offices in 33 countries across the world, revenues totalled €842m in 2013. CMS acts for the majority of the DAX 30, a large number of the FT European 500 and a number of Fortune 500 companies.

CMS provides a wide range of expertise across 17 expert practice and sector areas including Banking and Finance, Commercial, Competition, Corporate, Dispute Resolution, Employment, Energy, Intellectual Property, Life Sciences/ Pharmaceuticals, Real Estate & Construction, Tax and TMT.

For more information, please visit www.cmslegal.com

CMS offices and associated offices: Aberdeen, Algiers, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Barcelona, Beijing, Belgrade, Berlin, Bratislava, Bristol, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Casablanca, Cologne, Dresden, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg, Istanbul, Kyiv, Leipzig, Lisbon, Ljubljana, London, Luxembourg, Lyon, Madrid, Mexico, Milan, Moscow, Munich, Muscat, Paris, Prague, Rio de Janeiro, Rome, Sarajevo, Seville, Shanghai, Sofia, Strasbourg, Stuttgart, Tirana, Utrecht, Vienna, Warsaw, Zagreb and Zurich.



For further information, please contact:

PRAIS Corporate Communications
Ionel Barbalau; E-mail : ionelbarbalau@prais.ro

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