Procurement and PPP

We are recognized for delivering tangible added value to both the investor and public sectors, thanks to our understanding of sophisticated issues of project development and our negotiation skills, which make us stand out in the Romanian legal market.

Our practice encompasses:


  • public procurement proceedings
  • expropriation
  • public administration
  • commercial and financing contractual issues in the development of infrastructure projects
  • specific contract issues in a rapidly changing business environment
  • legal guidance and facilitation of the post-closing day-to-day implementation of contracts
  • resolution of contractual disputes


Our team’s knowledge and practical know-how are based on solid and extensive expertise in traditional public procurement and financing structures. The benefits of these pillars are enhanced by our up-to-date understanding of the ongoing developments, such as public-private partnership schemes, and our awareness of the legal and economic factors that can drive the success of our clients’ infrastructure projects.


In the context of the sophisticated existing projects and of the challenges triggered by the transnational participations to public procurement procedures, the collaboration with specialized lawyers in consultancy and litigation matters related to all stages prior to, during and post launching a public procurement procedure and up to signing a public contract, as well as in the implementation thereof, represents a “must” for the players on the market.

Our many years of experience with the EU and Romania’s rapidly evolving public procurement rules places us in a unique position to accurately interpret and resolve legal questions on behalf of our clients on both major projects and day to day procurement issues (either for bidders or contracting authorities).


We employ a wide variety of legal concepts and are knowledgeable with respect to all aspects of procurement rules, including the relevant EU directives, the European Commission’s policy in public procurement aspects in general, the field of utilities, defense procurement, offset and remedies in particular, as well as the case law of national courts and of the Court of Justice of the European Union.


We are known to be valued by clients for how we integrate our legal expertise, our capacity to understand the technical implications of each specific project and the multi-disciplinary experience to help them shape their operational objectives and transaction parameters into realistic business scenarios adapted to the restrictive public procurement rules, as well as for the ability to anticipate the often-changing demands and expectations thereof.


Our team has gained valuable capital of business-oriented thinking and acting for our clients performing their activity in different industries due to the involvement in the most important projects developed in Romania during the last years in various sectors, in terms of:


  • magnitude of projects (investment value, strategic importance, layout/affected areas) and
  • complexity of legal work (in many cases performed from the day one of the launch of the procedure and until the completed execution of the public procurement contract)
  • Thus, our one-of-a-kind team has handled a portfolio of projects mirroring the country’s development of major projects, being valued for providing creative solutions to complex legal issues and for the heavyweight practice, centered on:
  • supplies, services and works
  • road (motorways / national roads), railway and water treatment infrastructure
  • modernization of new port/airport facilities or expansion of existing port/airport facilities etc.

In a legal field where time is of the essence (given the short deadlines to be observed in different stages of the award procedures and in case of litigations), we understand and anticipate the needs of our clients (bidders and contracting authorities) and have the best resources to promptly address them in terms of integrated legal assistance during all stages of a public procurement procedure, both for consultancy and litigation matters.


This justifies the high level of client satisfaction with professional and service standards, emphasized by the rate of returning and multi-mandate clients.


We understand all aspects of procurement rules, as the multifaceted projects handled so far and the sensitive theoretical concepts developed in the field challenged our team members to overspecialize in different sectors of the public procurement domain, including niche sectors, all of them including:


  • classic public procurement
  • utilities
  • defense procurement and offset
  • framework agreements, electronic tenders
  • concessions
  • fulfillment of the selection and qualification criteria and of the technical specifications
  • challenges against the award documentation or against the procedure result / defense of the procedure result
  • claims for the suspension of the award procedures and/or of the public procurement contracts
  • contractual matters
  • case law of national bodies (National Council for Settlement of Disputes in Public Procurement (CNSC, the Romanian acronym) and competent courts) and of the Court of Justice of the European Union
  • active implication in the reforms of the legal framework, including in respect of the transposition into Romanian law of the 2014 directives in the public procurement field