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The British publication Practical Law Company (PLC) Which lawyer? made a classification of the most highly performing law firms in Romania, a classification that gives Musat & Associates the highest mark on the local market in 11 of the 15 fields analyzed by the British experts (corporate/mergers & acquisitions, litigations/dispute resolution, real estate, constructions, capital markets, environment, private equity, restructuring and insolvency, taxes, telecom & media and outsourcing & IT), reads a press release.

According to the PLC Which Lawyer? research, next come the law firms NNDKP and Tuca, Zbarcea & Associates. In the classification made by PLC, the foreign firms working in Romania come as follows: CMS Cameron McKenna, 8th, Badea Clifford Chance, 11th, Schonherr, 16th, Wolf Theiss, 19th, RTPR Allen & Overy, 22nd, and White & Case, 27th.

Musat & Associates is one of the first law firms founded in Romania after January 1, 1990. Having 12 partners and more than 100 lawyers and counsellors, Musat & Associates offers consultancy services in all the sectors of the legal profession, including mergers & acquisitions, privatizations, banking law, energy and natural resources, competition, telecommunications & IT, taxation, capital markets, real estate, environment as well as commercial litigation and arbitration.

The portfolio of Musat & Associates includes more than 2,500 clients, big local and international corporations, from among which mention should be made of Enel SpA, Orange, PPF Investments, Rompetrol, European Investment Bank, RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland), ING Bank, Fortis Bank, KBC Bank, Raiffeisen Bank, OTP Bank, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithK line, Novartis, General Electric, General Motors, Intel, Oracle, AON, AT&T, Thyssen Krupp, Generali, Immoeast, Petrom, AFI Europe, Electrolux, SBS Broadcasting Corporation.

The reputation of Musat & Associates has recently been confirmed by the classifications made by the International Financial Law Review 1000, a legal guide specialized in finance and banking, which places the above-mentioned law firm first in all the four fields examined: mergers & acquisitions, banking law, capital market and project financing.