About Us

Our understanding of the specificity of the business environment the client lives in and of the main features of its industry are crucial in achieving the effect sought by the client.

We are friends.

We are dealmakers.

Many years of practice taught us that law, particularly business law, is not an end in itself, but only a tool for shaping what the client needs.

Our view is that in order to be an effective business lawyer one must understand the real needs of the client and know how to use the legal tools to put those needs in the right legal shape.

Our understanding of the specificity of the business environment the client lives in and of the main features of its industry are crucial in achieving the effect sought by the client. We teamed together various backgrounds from literary to technical for attaining such understanding.

Domestic and international clients represented by Rizoiu & Poenaru get now the legal support from a team of seven lawyers.

The team is constantly increasing in both professional dimension and expertise, by granting legal assistance and representation to its clients in the major areas of business law practice.

The team created by the lawyers Radu Rizoiu, Lucian Poenaru and Ioana Ochi together with Raluca Zatropa, certified translator, is now known as Rizoiu & Poenaru. We are friends. We are dealmakers.

Credentials

The Romanian Academy awarded Professor Dr. Radu Rizoiu “Simion Bărnuțiu” Award – Legal Sciences for his monograph on “Civil guarantees”.
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Professor Dr. Radu Rizoiu participated as a speaker at the fourth edition of the NATIONAL BANKING LAW FORUM, with the theme “The disruptive impact of emerging technologies on the banking system”.
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Issue 2/2022 of the Romanian Journal of Private Law appeared – “The future of research in private law” – and Mihaela Gherghe is among the co-authors with the article entitled “The finality of final provisions or the impact of boilerplate clauses on the contract”.
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Lucian Poenaru published at the C.H. Beck ed. The book “Copyright protection under criminal law”. The book deals with the issues related to the criminal liability for the infringement of copyright and contains, among others, analysis concerning plagiarism, piracy, databases and computer programs protection.
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Radu Rizoiu published the second volume of the case-law books: Hypothecs over movable assets. This volume is dedicated to Legal characters of the hypothecs over movable assets. Commented jurisprudence with references to the New Civil Code and it was published by Universul Juridic in July 2012.
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Radu Rizoiu published the first volume of the case-law books: Hypothecs over movable assets. This volume is dedicated to The priority of the State Treasury and it was published by Universul Juridic on March 2012.
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Radu Rizoiu, Lucian Poenaru and Raluca Zatropa authored the Romanian-English business law dictionary, published at Monitorul Oficial on March 2012.
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“Radu Rizoiu is a well respected practitioner in the market. “He’s a great guy,” one rival partner says.” IFLR1000

“Radu Rizoiu is considered a promising up-and-comer by the market”, Chambers Europe Banking & Finance, 2011.

Radu Rizoiu was included in the second edition of Best Lawyers in Romania in the practice areas of Banking and Finance and Corporate, 2012.

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