- legal assistance and representation in the enforcement stage in front of the enforcement officer (drafting the request for enforcement and other specific requests – intervention in pending enforcement proceedings, delay, restriction or voluntary suspension of the enforcement proceedings, correspondence with the enforcement officer etc.);
- legal assistance and representation in front of the national courts in procedural incidents arising during enforcement proceedings (appeals against enforcement, claims for the validation of garnishment, claims for the provisional suspension of the enforcement proceedings etc.);
- offering legal advice with respect to the rights and obligations of the debtor, of the creditor or of any other participant in the insolvency proceedings;
- drafting specific documents and pleading on the bases thereof in front of the national courts, of the judicial administrator or liquidator or the creditors’ representative bodies (claims for commencement of the proceedings, claims for receivables, voting in front of the creditors’ assembly or of the creditors’ committee, claims for payment of current receivables, claims for lifting the suspension measures, claims for lifting the administration rights or for commencement of bankruptcy etc.);
- assistance with respect to drafting and submitting a reorganization plan;
- legal assistance and representation in front of the national courts in disputes specific to insolvency proceedings (claims for annulment of fraudulent acts, claims for liability of the management bodies etc.)
Examples of projects in which I was involved:
- representing one of the largest European banks in hundreds of procedural incidents arising during enforcement proceedings (appeals against enforcement, claims for the validation of garnishment etc.);
- representing one of the largest European banks in dozens of insolvency proceedings (both in main cases and in associated cases), including in front of the creditors’ representative bodies;
- assistance in the drafting of legal opinions on various aspects pertaining to insolvency under Romanian law (the effects of commencing and of closing the proceedings, the insolvent debtor’s legal capacity, the effects of confirming a reorganization plan etc.), to be subsequently used in international arbitration proceedings;
- representing a client in the energy sector in disputes regarding the insolvency of a major company owned by the Romanian state;
- assisting the legal representative of an insolvent IT company in a claim for liability directed against the former for causing the state of insolvency.