We are committed to protecting the personal information that we collect, use and disclose in the course of providing legal services and operating our law firm, in accordance with all applicable regulatory requirements, including applicable privacy legislation, and consistent with our professional obligations. As practicing lawyers, we have professional and ethical obligations to maintain information we have received within our client relationships in confidence.

This Privacy Policy sets out how we collect, use, and disclose the personal information of our clients, other individuals and our web site visitors.

We may update our Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes to our privacy practices.  We encourage you to periodically review this page to ensure you are familiar with those changes. We will indicate at the top of this privacy policy when it was most recently updated.

If you have any questions, complaints or comments about this privacy policy or the manner in which we or our service providers treat your personal information, or to request access to our collection of your personal information, please contact us at: [email protected]

Personal information

Personal information means information about an identifiable individual. In general, personal information does not include business contact information that we use to contact you in your business capacity, including your name, title or position, business, telephone or facsimile number.

Collection of personal information

We collect personal information directly from individuals. We also collect personal information through automatic means through our Website.

Personal information we collect and use

The primary purpose of collecting personal data  is for providing our clients with professional legal services and representation, including for the following purposes:

  • to establish and manage client relationships, provide legal advice, perform legal services, fulfil legal duties (including Know Your Client obligations), and avoid legal conflicts of interest;
  • to share personal information with third parties for the purpose of providing legal services in the context of legal proceedings, including conducting litigation, mediations or other proceedings. Such third parties may include opposing parties, parties in interest, opposing, foreign and other counsel and advisors, witnesses, courts, adjudicators, arbitrators, other decision-makers and experts;
  • to represent clients in the context of business transactions involving the exchange or disclosure of personal information, including by purchase, sale, lease, merger, arrangement or any other type of acquisition, disposition, public offering, securitization, investment, financing or other transaction;
  • to establish and maintain commercial relationships with clients, suppliers and other third parties, including to issue invoices, administer accounts, collect and process payments, evaluate credit standing, and to fulfil contractual obligations;
  • to contact and communicate with clients and other individuals for the purpose of conducting market research, and evaluating client service and satisfaction;
  • to maintain, develop and manage our information systems, such as file transfer, document management, knowledge-management, and precedent systems and databases;
  • to detect and protect against error, negligence, breach of contract, fraud, theft and other illegal activity, and where necessary to meet our insurance requirements;
  • to develop and manage our business and operations; and to comply with, applicable legal or regulatory requirements or provisions.

We keep records of the work performed and services provided by us in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements and professional standards. These records may include personal information.

We may ask you to update your personal information, contact information or preferences from time to time. Clients are encouraged to contact the lead lawyer on their file to update the personal information we maintain in our client files.

We do not collect, use or disclose personal information without consent unless authorized or required by law to do so.

Sharing of personal information

Legal services: We may share personal information with third parties for the purpose of providing legal services such as in the context of legal proceedings, including conducting litigation, arbitrations, mediations or other proceedings. Such third parties may include opposing parties, parties in interest, opposing, foreign and other counsel and advisors, witnesses, courts, adjudicators, arbitrators, other decision-makers and experts.

Service Providers: We rely on agents and contractors to assist us with the provision of our services, including: hosting our data; providing billing support; document storage; software support; sending our communications; conducting background checks; and facilitating secure file transfers.

We provide our service providers with access to your personal information as  necessary for them to provide services to us. We require our service providers to protect the confidentiality and security of personal information and our service providers are not authorized to use personal information for other purposes.

Legal Requirements: We or our third-party service providers may disclose personal information in response to a search warrant or other legally valid inquiry or order, to other organizations in the case of investigating a breach of an agreement or contravention of law or detecting, suppressing or preventing fraud, or as otherwise required or permitted by applicable Romanian law.

Cookies:  Our Website uses a technology called “cookies”. A cookie is a tiny element of data that our Website sends to a user’s browser, which may then be stored on the user’s hard drive so that we can recognize the user’s computer or device when they return. Other similar files such as clear GIFs, web beacons and pixel tags work in the same way and we use the word ‘cookie’ in this policy to refer to all files that collect information in this way. You may set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie or to not accept certain cookies. However, if you decide not to accept cookies from our Website, you may not be able to take advantage of all of the Website features. For more information about the use of cookies and your choices, please click on the cookie icon located on the footer of our web page.