In recent years, in an attempt to prevent and combat money laundering and terrorism financing, both the EU and the US have increased the number of restrictions in connection to businesses developed with designated persons or sanctioned countries. In view of the recent situation between Ukraine and Russia…
Volciuc-Ionescu confirmed as a leading firm by the 2015 Legal 500 EMEA
Since its creation as a spin-off of several lawyers led by the heads of the energy, finance and projects teams of a leading international law firm in December 2013, Volciuc-Ionescu has positioned itself as a leading Romanian independent law firm and, while still very young…
Amendments to Romanian capital markets secondary legislation – simplifying processes
Regulation No. 3/2015 of the Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority amending and supplementing Regulation No. 1/2006 on issuers and capital markets operations and Regulation No. 6/2009 on the exercise of certain rights of shareholders in the general meetings of shareholders of public companies…
Financing trans-European energy infrastructure – the Connecting Europe Facility – call for proposals launched
On 4 March 2015 the European Commission opened the annual call for proposals (Call) under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) to help finance key trans-European energy infrastructure projects. CEF is a multi-annual funding programme set up to finance improvements in Europe’s transport…