Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații won the largest number of distinctions during the awards ceremony organized by AvocatNet.ro in recognition of team’s collective and individual efforts throughout the past year. A 10-member jury has designated Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații as the winner in the following award categories: “Law Firm of the Year – Finance & Banking” and “Law Firm of the Year – Energy”. Furthermore, Florentin Țuca and Alina Pintică were awarded “Managing Partner of the Year” and respectively “PR Professional of the Year” in the legal market.

Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații posted a slight drop in gross revenues from 22.7 million Euros in 2009 to 22.4 million Euros for 2010. Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații earned most of its revenues last year from energy and natural resources, corporate and M&A, and litigation and arbitration work, each contributing 25%. Throughout 2010, the firm also won various roles on high-profile projects, acting on behalf of a raft of international clients such as Rompetrol Rafinare – a member company of Rompetrol Group (owned by KazMunaiGaz, the leading Kazakh oil producer), Sofiprotéol/Saipol, and Gabriel Resources Ltd. / Roșia Montană Gold Corporation.

Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații has made a high-profile hire for its Bucharest office with the addition of Gabriela Anton, a Partner at Vilău & Mitel for the past 5 years. The move will see local independent Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații further strengthen its capabilities in Banking and Finance, as well as Mergers and Acquisitions.

Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații has promoted 8 lawyers to various roles, as part of the firm’s annual performance review taking place in November. All the appointments are effective from January 1st, 2011. The Romanian independent law firm has appointed six new Partners to strengthen the management team, thus bringing the total number of Partners to 21. It has also promoted five lawyers to Senior Associate. The firm’s six new partners are: Mihai Dudoiu, Ionuț Șerban, Christina Vlădescu, Ioana Gelepu, Silvana Ivan and Irina Moinescu specialising in finance/project finance, litigation and domestic arbitration, capital markets, corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, as well as energy. The five lawyers promoted to Senior Associate are Andreea Oprișan, Andreea Lisievici, Dan Cristea, Ciprian Timofte and Gabriela Costescu.

The Romanian independent law firm became the Best Employer in Romania in the Small and Medium Sized category (less than 250 employees) of the 2009/10 survey conducted by Monday Insight Consulting, strategic partner of Aon Hewitt. Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații came 1st in its category and stood out from the rest of the participating companies on almost every indicator. The results show that 90 % of the firm’s employees are engaged to delivering better business results and their level of satisfaction is 88%.