Overview
Manuela Gornoviceanu heads the firm's criminal law department, with more than 25 years’ experience in litigation, mediation and arbitration.
She an all-around professional and ensures high-quality defence services with a multidisciplinary approach in all stages of a criminal trial and at all levels of the national judiciary system, including the High Court of Cassation and Justice and the Romanian Constitutional Court. Particularly, her background covers a wide range of cases involving corporate crime, corruption, occupational crime and money laundering, intellectual property crime, tax evasion and accounting law, crimes involving EU funds, public procurement and capital markets.
In addition, her expertise extends to fields such as European Union Law, human rights, tax law or public procurement in contentious and administrative disputes where she has defended her clients with petitions and written conclusions before international courts such as European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice.
Manuela Gornoviceanu is a regular speaker at various national conferences and author of numerous articles on litigation, criminal law and European law matters. She has also prepared and held interactive training sessions regarding the interpretation and application of anti-money laundering legislation, and provided her clients with in-depth procedures and policies in this regard.
Relevant Matters:
- Coordinator of the legal team which provided legal assistance and representation services in favour of one of the largest electricity distributors in Central and South-East Europe, before the courts in multiple criminal and civil cases;
- Coordinator of the legal team which provided legal assistance and representation services in favour of a leading food company in complex lawsuits concerned with corruption and tax evasion allegations investigated by the anticorruption authorities;
- Coordinator of the legal team which provided legal assistance and representation services for an international company active in manufacturing/chemicals on a criminal matter arising out from an intra-group payment of royalties for the use of certain trademarks;
- Coordinator of the legal team which provided legal assistance and representation services for a leading integrated steel and mining company in a criminal file dealing with tax evasion and abuse of social goods.