Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații and Grayling (one of the largest communication and public affairs consultancies in the world) launch the first private information and analysis portal, offering politics, economy and legislation related commentaries and data - www.padigest.ro

Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații is looking to recruit 3rd year and 4th year students of the Faculty of Law. Launched under the "Your Career Is Not In Crisis This Summer" label, the firm's annual student recruitment program is coordinated by Cornel Popa, Partner at Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații. The summer internship program provides young students with the opportunity to integrate a dedicated team of lawyers and get an invaluable in-sight perspective on the firm`s legal advisory practice.

The Lawyer magazine has revealed the winners of The Lawyer European Awards 2014 at a ceremony held in London on February 20th. The list has also just been made public on www.thelawyer.com and includes Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații as a winner of the "Law Firm of the Year: Romania" award.

Global Arbitration Review (GAR), a publication launched in 2006 and which is currently "recognised as the leading resource on international arbitration news and community intelligence", has recently revealed its lists of winners at a ceremony held in Paris on February 12th. An article published on www.globalarbitrationreview.com says that Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații has won a GAR Award in the Boutique/Regional Practice that impressed category. According to the GAR editors, "The GAR team picked Romanian outfit Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații as the winner, on the back of its work successfully defending the Romanian government in a string of ICSID cases, as co-counsel with the likes of Freshfields and White & Case. Partner Cornel Popa collected the trophy on behalf of his firm".

Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații has made up three partners as part of a 13-strong promotion round. Cristian Radu, Vlad Cercel and Dragoș Apostol have joined the firm’s partnership ranks, bringing the total number of Partners to 24. The firm separately made up 10 lawyers to the role of Managing Associate or Senior Associate across its real estate, dispute resolution, energy, IP and corporate/M&A practice groups. The appointments are effective from January 1st, 2014.