Corporate & Commercial

Overview

We are a LEGAL 500 EMEA recognised tier-3 leading M&A, Capital Markets, and Securities law firm in Romania for global investors.

Mararu & Mararu SCA delivers tailored corporate and commercial legal services to foreign and domestic clients navigating Romania's dynamic market, ensuring compliance, risk mitigation, and strategic growth in sectors like aerospace, IT, energy, and manufacturing.

We safeguard strategic and commercial interests in complex negotiating formats, in competitive, highly technological industries for companies doing business in Romania, ensuring compliance and fostering sustainable growth.

Representative Work

Revised and negotiated subcontractor agreements for the Bucharest Fiber Optic Densification Project, ensuring regulatory compliance and cost efficiencies.
Complex corporate, employment & labor, real-estate, transfer pricing, cross-border agreements, safety & security etc. matters arising in the establishment, authorization and operation of Ericsson’s Global Support & Delivery Center (GSDC) in Bucharest.
Complex legal assistance and representation for Tata Consultancy Services, a major global outsourcing consulting services corporation, part of the Indian Tata Group, on various corporate matters and framework outsourcing/subcontractor agreements for software and telecommunications systems maintenance, support and development implicating legal advise concerning IPRs, banking, payroll tax & social contributions incidence, service level implications, corporate taxation, double taxation and other international taxation matters, VAT and profit repatriation, cross-border secondment of personnel etc.
Drafting legal opinions, negotiating with the Ministry of Information Technology and Communications, drafting legislation, preparing documentation and due diligence for regional state aid schemes for large investments of € 30M+ (investment aid, employment aid, training aid) for the Global Support and Delivery Center (GSDC) established by Ericsson Telecommunications Romania.
Public acquisition litigation between 3 major IT&C multinational corporations and the Ministry of Interior, for the annulment of the public procedure outcome awarding a €10M telecommunication systems, software, equipments, secrecy, communications protection and radio services supply contract within the 4th phase of Ministry of Interior’s voice-data network development.
Advising upon and drafting business outsourcing agreements (business services, technological solutions, client relations management, supply chains, IT infrastructure and software services) by BRD SocGen, Dacia-Renault, Arcellor Mittal and OMV-Petrom.
Assisted in personnel and technology outsourcing for Romania's largest landline telecom operator, including commutation department transfers.
Drafted and negotiated real-estate and industrial property sale agreements for foreign investors, optimizing tax structures under double taxation treaties.
Provided tender documentation review, due diligence and bid support for a Canadian investment bank's USD 266 million privatization bid in Romania's copper mining sector.
Won a court dispute for the annulment of the Ministry of Interior’s public acquisition procedure outcome, awarding our client, a major 3G-5G network equipment manufacturer and operator, a €10M telecommunication systems, software, equipments, security technology, communications protection and radio services supply contract against a major Austrian competitor and it's Romanian subsidiary (plaintiffs). The contract was awarded within the 4th phase of Ministry of Interior’s voice-data network development, the extension of the national electronic information signalling system organized by the Ministry of Economy and Finance - the Office for Payments and Contracting PHARE, part of the Schengen Facility Program.
Mararu & Mararu successfully represented a group of security companies representing almost 80% of the Romanian security industry (among which, for example, the Bidepa group of security companies, G4S Security and G4S Cash Services, Bronic Security, Nei Guard, UTI Systems, BGS Security, Dragon Star Protection, Scorseze Security International and others) organized in the largest security employers organization in Romania, the Security Employers Association (PSS), in a case versus the Romanian Government (the Secretary General) and the Ministry of Interior of Romania, for the annulment of the Government Decision 519 of 2004 for the establishment of the the model of security agents equipment, published in the Official Gazette of Romania 349/2004, saving over €10M in unwarranted costs for the Romanian security industry.
Tender documentation assessment, bid formation, service contract revision, negotiation and execution with Societatea Nationala de Radiocomunicatii-SRR.
Tender documentation assessment, bid formation, contract revision, negotiation and execution for fiber optic network development for Vodafone Romania S.A.
Tender documentation assessment, bid formation, contract revision, negotiation and execution for 2G and 3G layered architecture service system support service agreements for Cosmote Romania S.A.
Outsourcing of the commutation/switch and electrical supply departments of Romtelecom SA, Romania’s biggest landline telecomm operator by Ericsson Telecommunications Romania, implicating a transfer of personnel of 400 employees, property, lease, utilities and corporate/business/regulatory issues concerning 6 regional centers and over 60 of business locations throughout Romania.
Legal counsel, assistance, and representation in front of AVAS, the State Assets Agency, in connection with the annulment of a tender notice and correspondent state title against our client, involving an industrial park as collateral, valued €800,000.
Dispute resolution over a €1.4M financing and further investment for industrial equipment and production line facility.
Complex legal assistance and representation for Tata Consultancy Services, a major global outsourcing consulting services corporation, part of the Indian Tata Group, on various corporate matters and framework outsourcing/subcontractor agreements for software and telecommunications systems maintenance, support and development implicating legal advise concerning IPRs, banking, payroll tax & social contributions incidence, service level implications, corporate taxation, double taxation and other international taxation matters, VAT and profit repatriation, cross-border secondment of personnel etc.
Drafting legal opinions, negotiating with the Ministry of Information Technology and Communications, drafting legislation, preparing documentation and due diligence for regional state aid schemes for large investments of €30M+ (investment aid, employment aid, training aid) for the Global Support and Delivery Center (GSDC) established by Ericsson Telecommunications Romania.
Public acquisition litigation (Siemens Enterprise Communications Austria and Romania vs. the Ministry of Interior and Ericsson Telecommunications Romania, for the annulment of the public procedure outcome awarding a € 10 M telecommunication systems, software, equipments, secrecy, communications protection and radio services supply contract within the 4th phase of Ministry of Interior’s voice-data network development.
Advising upon and drafting business outsourcing agreements (business services, technological solutions, client relations management, supply chains, IT infrastructure and software services) by BRD SocGen, Dacia-Renault, Arcellor Mittal and OMV-Petrom, on behalf of our U.S. client, Computer Science Corporation (CSC), a multinational corporation that became the largest software company in the United States and the first software company to be listed on the American Stock Exchange.
Tender documentation assessment, bid formation, contract negotiation, revision and negotiation for various post-guarantee repair service agreements with Societatea Romana de Radiodifuziune - SRR.
Tender documentation assessment, bid formation, contract negotiation, revision and negotiation for supply of telecommunications equipments and accessories for Romtelecom SA.
Tender documentation assessment, bid formation, contract negotiation, revision and negotiation for radio relays repairs service agreements, various telecoms equipments and systems acquisitions, including under the Schengen Facility, by the Special Telecommunications Service -STS.
Tender documentation assessment, bid formation, contract revision, negotiation and execution for telecommunication equipments and systems acquisitions within the “Radio System for the Moldavian Border Guard and Customs Services Project”.
Tender documentation assessment, bid formation, contract revision, negotiation and execution for the SIS-SINS Signaling System Project within the Schengen Facility.
Various tender documentation assessment, bid formation and contract revision and negotiation for SAP service agreements with major industrial, energy and automotive companies in Romania.
Localized framework outsourcing agreements for a major Indian global consulting firm, adapting to Romanian commercial law for software maintenance and support.
CNSAS (the Romanian National Health Insurance House) e-Card, e-Prescription and Electronic Medical Records tender documentation assessment, bid formation and contract revision and negotiation
Advising Germany' s top global manufacturer of power tools, with the legal and regulatory requirements concerning packaging, safety standards, use instructions, fire and other warnings, producer's conformity, language or traceability requirements, dangerous substances, WEEE , PPE, CE and other marks and instructions.
Advising a US major automotive manufacturer on direct marketing and data protection.
Advising the US' top global powerhouse in sports apparel manufacturer on sports apparel, footwear and toys labelling, traceability, country of origin, safety, flammability and other warnings requirements, and on packaging requirements.
Advising one the biggest, oldest and most awarded Romanian wine producer on labelling requirements and on wine storage and transportation regulatory compliance.