Gabriel Zbârcea

Gabriel Zbârcea is Managing Partner at Țuca Zbarcea & Asociații. Together with Florentin Țuca, he oversees the management of the firm while also being actively involved in aspects of client relationship and client development.

Gabriel has extensive expertise in mergers and acquisitions, energy and natural gas law, military procurement programs, and energy security projects in Romania and the Republic of Moldova. He has acted as a trusted advisor to leading Romanian and multinational companies, with significant experience advising clients based in the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany. Gabriel has successfully assisted with international joint ventures and corporate restructuring, as well as the development of large-scale investments such as major greenfield projects in the renewables, oil, gas, mining and steel sectors. He has also acted as a co-ordinator in the privatization of State-owned enterprises, including the first privatization deals taking place in Romania in the area of electricity, oil and gas. 

In addition to his legal background, Gabriel honed his skills and talents in the public sector in his capacity as State Counsellor to the Prime Minister of Romania, as well as President of the Romanian Privatization Agency (the Authority for State Assets Recovery - AVAS). 

He is a regular speaker on topics related to the legal framework applicable to investments and author of articles on real estate, mergers and acquisitions, banking, oil and gas. A former President of the Students' League of the University of Bucharest and a Secretary General of the European Law Students’ Association (ELSA) Romania, Gabriel is actively involved in numerous youth mentoring programs designed to empower the next generations of lawyers. 

Gabriel is a licensed FIFA Football Agent. He is fluent in English.

Relevant Matters:

• Co-coordinator of the legal team assisting Austria’s largest steel producer in the development of a massive greenfield project in South-Eastern Romania, following investments worth up to EUR 7,000,000,000.     
• Co-coordinator of the legal team assisting in a EUR 375,000,000 acquisition of the minority shareholding owned by Fondul Proprietatea (the national Property Fund) and Electrica in two local subsidiaries of the biggest electricity producer in the Czech Republic.
• Coordinator of the legal team retained by the biggest electricity producer in the Czech Republic (including its Romanian electricity distribution subsidiary) with relation to the applicable unbundling requirements set by the domestic and EU-law in the areas of corporate and energy law, as well as in the regulatory field.