Overview
Ioana Alexandru is a Senior Associate at Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații, with a strong focus on Litigation & Arbitration.
She advises and represents clients before courts of all levels across a broad spectrum of contentious matters, including commercial and civil disputes, administrative litigation, enforcement proceedings, insurance disputes and banking and consumer protection litigation, as well as proceedings for the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards.
Ioana is frequently involved in complex enforcement proceedings, acting for both creditors and debtors at all stages of enforcement, including challenges to enforcement, stays of enforcement, precautionary measures and challenges against enforcement measures instituted by the tax authorities, as well as in the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards, including ICSID arbitral awards.
Her administrative litigation experience encompasses proceedings for the suspension and annulment of administrative acts, as well as challenges to sanctions and other measures imposed by regulatory authorities, particularly consumer protection authorities.
Other areas of expertise are Banking & Finance, where she has developed strong industry expertise in matters involving banks, payment institutions, e-money institutions and insurers. She handled complex regulatory and consumer protection matters concerning credit institutions and payment service providers, a broad range of banking, financial services and insurance disputes, as well as major domestic and cross-border financing transactions.
Relevant Matters:
- Member of the team representing a Romanian mining company in administrative litigation concerning the extension of its mining concession licence, including in relation to a constitutional challenge and a request for a preliminary ruling from the CJEU raised by the claimant NGO.
- Member of the team representing a Romanian mining company and its majority shareholder in challenges to enforcement proceedings initiated by the Romanian tax authorities for approximately EUR 8.9 million pursuant to an ICSID arbitral award, including requests for a stay of enforcement and the annulment of enforcement measures and garnishment orders, in the context of a precautionary attachment over the shares held in the Romanian company.
- Member of the team representing a major Romanian bank in litigation brought by several claimants seeking approximately EUR 1.4 million.
- Member of the team representing a leading online marketplace provider in a range of contentious regulatory matters, including challenges to sanctions imposed by consumer protection authorities and related interim relief proceedings, matters concerning precautionary measures imposed by anti-fraud authorities in respect of goods held in the client’s custody, and debt recovery proceedings against a foreign payment services partner.
- Member of the team representing a Romanian guarantee insurer in a EUR 70,000 public procurement-related insurance dispute arising from performance bond policies issued in connection with IT supply contracts worth approximately EUR 700,000, as well as in related recovery proceedings.