All our best. All the time. No exceptions. No excuses.

Only by giving our best efforts in all that we endeavor can we hope to live a life without regret and maximize our potential. Whether in practice or action, complete effort is mark of a champion.

Raluca Curelea
Constantin Benclinov
Nicoleta State
Raluca CURELEA
Partner
Raluca is a Managing Partner at B&A and has a wide experience in corporate and commercial law, real estate, civil law as well as in domestic and international arbitration and labor law
She also coordinated many joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions in various economic sectors.
In the same time Raluca has advised many international companies regarding their integration on the Romanian market, the reorganization or restructuring of their businesses.
During her career Raluca was in charge with litigation procedures in progress at Arbitration Court of the International Chamber of Commerce – Paris and she is an expert in international arbitral procedures under UNCITRAL, ICC Paris Rules. At the moment she offers her counseling for the Court of Arbitration attached to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Bucharest concerning privatization cases. Since 2003 she is also Arbitrator at Willem C. Vis International Arbitration Commercial Moot” – Vienna.
Raluca graduated at Bucharest University Law School – Bucharest on 1998. In 2001 she also graduated from the Romanian-French Business Law Institute organized by the University of Pantheon I Sorbonne – Paris in collaboration with the Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest. In the same she achieved a scholarship at the International Institute of Human Rights – Strasbourg on 2001 and a scholarship at the International Faculty of Comparative Law – Strasbourg on 2002.
Raluca is a member of the Bucharest Bar, of the French-Romanian Chamber of Commerce and of the International Bar Association (IBA). She speaks French, Enghlish and Spanish fluently.
Co-organizer of the Bucharest St. Patrick Parade and Fancy Ball from March 16 – 2014.
Constantin BENCLINOV
Partner
Constantin Benclinov is a coordinating partner at B&A and has a wide expertise in domestic and international arbitration, mergers & acquisitions as well as in project finance, concessions and other forms of PPP projects.
He has also coordinated numerous projects regarding domestic and international commercial law, notably in the fields covering commercial and competition contracts.
Furthermore, along his career, Constantin has represented many clients before the International Arbitration Court or in International Ad-Hoc Arbitration Cases in several files settled under Romanian or International Law (Unidroit Principle).
He is highly skilled in representing and advising international clients on issues concerning various economic sectors such as: financial, agriculture, green energy and real-estate.
Along the time, Constantin’s extensive experience has been used in many important mergers and PPP’s projects or in negotiating and concluding several international commercial contracts for international and domestic clients.
He is member of the Bucharest Bar.
Nicoleta State
Nicoleta has joined B&A in 2008 as assistant manager and since 2010 is office manager in charge of Administration and HR matters.
She is specialized in Managerial Communication, Secretariat and Applied Information Technology, degree obtained from the Bucharest University. In the same time she holds a degree in Degree in HR Management and Communication from the National School of Political and Administrative Sciences.
At B& A Nicoleta coordinates the administrative team, organises and supervises all the organizational activities in order to ensure the proper functioning of the firm , including payroll and accounting matters.
She is also fulfilling HR and PR tasks and is fluent in English and French.

The ability to focus your mind and silence the outside distractions is what differentiates the average from the great, the great from the exceptional.

Andra Stan
Mihai Jugaru
Elisa Cristea
Andra Stan
Andra STAN has joined the B&A team in October 2017. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the Bucharest University. Andra is member of the Bucharest Bar since October 2017 and she is a junior lawyer at B&A, her activity covering corporate and employment law fields.
Hers activity comprises drafting corporate contracts, legislative updates documentation as well as any other specific documents, in order to provide to our clients legal advice tailored to each stage of a company’s life, starting from its set-up, to the various corporate transformations it may suffer or even to its dissolution and liquidation.
She is fluent in English and French.
Mihai Jugaru
Mihai Jugaru has joined the B&A team in April 2014. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the University of IASI and he holds a Master degree in Business Law. Member of the Bucharest Bar since March 2013, he is an associate lawyer at B&A, whose expertise covers civil, employment, insolvency and intellectual property law fields.
Also, his activity is focused on real estate issues and he is also dealing with corporate and commercial matters.
Mihai Jugaru drafts legal opinions and legislative updates documentation and prepares specific documents, in order to provide to our clients legal advices.
Mihai Jugaru is fluent in English.

Every member of our team serves a purpose, without which we are weaker.
Every role must be appreciated, developed, and leveraged.

Roxana Goicea
Andrei Torok
Ana Maria Mahu

There is no shortcut to excellence. Practice and hard work are the forerunners to the rewards of success.
We learned to love perfect practice as much as the game.