Biography

Educational/ Current position / Professional Experience

Education:

• Ph.D. in Private International Law (magna cum laude), Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest (2017– 2021), with a thesis on “Conflict of laws in international arbitration’’;
• LL.M in International and European Law (magna cum laude), Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium (2010 –2011) with a thesis on “Public policy and the enforcement of international commercial arbitration awards and of foreign judgments: comparative analysis of English, French and German Laws”;
• LL.B Faculty of Law, “Nicolae Titulescu” University, Bucharest, Romania (2004 – 2009);
• BA in PR and Communication – specialization in Advertising, Faculty of Communication and Public Relations, National School of Political and Administrative Studies (SNSPA), Bucharest, Romania (2004 – 2008).

Bar admission:

• Member of the Bucharest Bar Association since January 2013.

Professional membership:

• FCIArb – Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London) and Panel Member of the Business Arbitration Scheme.
• Fellow of ACICA (Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration).
• Member of EAPIL (European Association of Private International Law).
• Member of Swiss Arbitration Association.
• Member of ICCA.

Professional history:

• Managing Partner, RC International Disputes, Bucharest, Romania, (July 2023 – present);
• Attorney-at-Law, Litigation & Arbitration, Mușat & Asociații, Bucharest, Romania (2012 – July 2023);
• Communication Assistant, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Bucharest (2008 – 2009);
• Internship, United Nations Information Center (UNIC), Bucharest, Romania (2007 – 2008). »

Arbitration Experience:

• Counsel in international arbitration cases under the following Institutional Rules: ICC, DIS, VIAC, IFTA, CICA-CCIR, and in 2 international ad hoc arbitration cases under UNCITRAL Rules. Counsel in domestic arbitration cases under CICA-CCIR Rules, and arbitration related litigation cases (recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards, annulment proceedings, as well as provisional and interim measures in support of arbitration).
• Tribunal secretary in international arbitration cases under VIAC Rules, ICC Rules and UNCITRAL Rules.
• The disputes handled as counsel and tribunal secretary derived mostly from FIDIC contracts, EFET contracts, software and technology related contracts, joint ventures agreements, and investment agreements.

Publications and Speaking Engagements

Publications (selection)

• Conflictul de legi in arbitrajul international (Conflict of laws in international arbitration), Ed. Universul Juridic, Bucuresti, 2022.
• Cadrul procedural adoptat de ICANN pentru rezolvarea disputelor privind numele de domenii ca sursa de inspiratie pentru procedurile arbitrale contemporane (The procedural framework adopted by ICANN for solving domain name disputes as a model for contemporary arbitral proceedings), in Ciprian Raul Romitan, Paul-George Buta, In Honorem Viorel Ros, Studii de drept privat si public, Ed. Hamangiu, Bucuresti, 2021, co-authored with Prof. Dr. Gheorghe Buta.
• International execution against Judgment Debtors, Thomson Reuters, 2020 and 2021, co-author of the chapter on Romanian jurisdiction.
• The Interplay Between Courts and Tribunals Assures Access to Justice (Chapter 4) in Leonardo Valladares Pacheco de Oliveira and Dr Sara Hourani (Eds.), Access to Justice in Arbitration: Concept, Context and Practice, Wolters Kluwer, Nov 1, 2020.
• Party Autonomy in Determining the Rules of Law Applicable in International Commercial Arbitration and its Limits derived from the New York Convention, Spain Arbitration Review, No. 34/2019.
• The Arbitral Tribunal’s Authority to Determine the Applicable Law in International Commercial Arbitration: Patterns and Trends, Tribuna Juridica, Vol. 9, nr. 1, martie 2019.
• Business and Human Rights: from Soft Law to Hard Law?, Tribuna Juridica (Juridical Tribune), Vol. 6, No. 2, December 2016.
• Public Policy and the Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards: Comparative Analysis of English, French and German Laws, Studii și cercetări juridice (Juridical Studies and Research), No. 1/2016.

Speaking engagements (selection)

• Lecturer at the workshop on the “Recognition of Non-EU Judgments in the EU Member States” held by EAPIL Young Research Network at the Permanent Bureau of the HCCH – Hague Conference on Private International Law, on 21 November 2024, with a presentation on the requirement of reciprocity for the recognition of non-EU judgments under Romanian law.
• Lecturer at the International Conference “The Energy Charter Treaty and Dispute Resolution Mechanisms”, Thessaloniki, 5 October 2024, organized by the International Hellenic University in collaboration with the University of Cyprus, under the auspices of ICC Hellas, with a presentation on “The Energy Charter Treaty before the European Court for Human Rights: energy disputes and human rights, friends or foes?”.
• Lecturer at the International Conference “Access to Justice and Arbitration”, London, 7 June 2019,
  organized by the School of Law at Royal Holloway, University of London and the School of Law at Middlesex University, with a paper on “Interplay between courts and tribunals assures access to justice”.
• Lecturer at the International Conference “60 Years of the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards. Key Issues and Future Challenges”, Loyola University Andalusia, 4-6 April 2018, Sevilla, organized by: Universidad Loyola Andalucia, UNCITRAL, Universidad Zaragoza, Club Espanol del Arbitraje, with a paper on “Party Autonomy in Determining the Rules of Law Applicable in International Commercial Arbitration and its Limits derived from the New York Convention”.
• Lecturer at the International Conference  »Perspectives of Business Law in the Third Millennium”, 16
  November 2018, organized by the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, with a paper on “The Arbitral Tribunal’s Authority to Determine the Applicable Law in International Commercial Arbitration: Patterns and
  Trends”.
• Lecturer at the international conference  »Perspectives of Business Law in the Third Millennium”, organized by the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, with a paper entitled ‘‘Business and Human Rights: from Soft Law to Hard Law?”, Bucharest, 25 November 2016.