Mag. Dr. Monika Hirsch, attorney-at-law

Monika Hirsch Monika Hirsch was working as associate and attorney-at-law in major international law firms with focus on commercial law in Vienna. In 2005 she went to Romania on her own where she took over a position as partner in an international consulting company. Already 2006 she founded her own law firm with 5 employees which was extended to 12 employees in the following years. Due to the economic situation and her personal life the structure of the law firm was changed. Since beginning of 2012 Monika Hirsch is in a partnership with Mag. Gizella Popescu and Mag. Raluca Marinescu – the SCPA Hirsch Popescu Marinescu law firm – with the unchanged headquarters in Casa Austria. View areas of expertise and contact details

Raluca Marinescu, attorney-at-law

Raluca Marinescu Raluca Marinescu is a qualified lawyer with over thirteen years of experience in law, practicing and advising clients in areas such as energy, environmental, commercial, as well as representing clients in various disputes arising in the conduct of business. Raluca has worked in cooperation with local and international law firms, where she focused on projects related to renewable energy, commercial law and construction law. In 2008, Raluca Marinescu joined the Bucharest branch of Niederhuber Hager Hirsch (NH) Law Office, first as a paralegal and then as a junior associate, after registration with the Romanian Bar Association, in the same year, 2008. As an expert in the energy field, she wrote several articles, following the process of legislative development, for the Romanian and EU energy market. Since 2011, we have developed a good cooperation with the Austrian Economics Chambers in Romania (Wirshaftskammer Oesterreicht) and the British Embassy in Romania. Since 2012, in the new registered SCP Hirsch Popescu Marinescu SCA the partnership was established between Monika Hirsch, Gizella Popescu and Raluca Marinescu. View areas of expertise and contact details

Georgiana Bălan, attorney-at-law

Georgiana Lazar Georgiana Bălan (formerly Lazăr) is a Senior Associate at SCPA “Hirsch Marinescu & Asociații”. Since joining our Law Firm in 2012, Georgiana was involved with big enthusiasm and interest in various projects such as constitution and transfer of companies, debts collection as well as in insolvency procedure. She is fluent in Romanian and English. View areas of expertise and contact details

Lavinia Puiu,  assistant manager

Lavinia started working with SCPA Hirsch Marinescu and Associates in 2019, when she was still a student at the Faculty of International Relations and Administration. Lavinia came with a good sense of organization that helped in making arrangements for the optimal running of SCPA’s business, even during the pandemic period managing to keep the back-office activity at the highest levels. View areas of expertise and contact details

Education

  • 2015 – 2016, National Institute for Training and Improvement of Lawyers, Bucharest, Romania
  • 2009-2013, “Nicolae Titulescu” University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law
  • 2010 – 2012, “Nicolae Titulescu” University of Bucharest, Master: Accounting Management, Audit and Accounting Expertise
  • 2007-2010 “Nicolae Titulescu” University of Bucharest, Faculty of Economics

Career

In 2012 she started working with the local office of the NH Group, SCP Hirsch Marinescu & Asociații SCA, where she holds the position of Senior Associate. She developed her career along with the development of SCPA starting her collaboration as Junior Associate in 2014 and developing with the experience accumulated within SCPA and currently being a collaborator on the project as Senior Associate in SCPA.

Relevant experience

Georgiana Bălan (formerly Lazăr) is a Senior Associate at SCPA “Hirsch Marinescu & Asociații”. Georgiana is a qualified lawyer, having graduated from the National Institute for the Training and Improvement of Lawyers and from the final exam of the Bucharest Bar Association in 2016. Since 2012, when she started working with our firm, Georgiana Bălan has been involved in complex projects in different areas. Her main activity, which he also prefers, is criminal law, with a particular emphasis on criminal litigation or settlement. Her expertise extends to questions of constitutionality, in particular violations of human rights with an emphasis on the right to a fair trial. It also deals with the establishment and transformation of companies. Moreover, he is the best person to liaise with the authorities outside proceedings to ensure proper representation of clients and their interests. Finally, Georgiana also deals with the representation of cases given by the Legal Assistance Service of the Bucharest Bar Association, carrying out case studies, verifications, filing the necessary forms, and pleading before the courts: appeals against execution, complaints against prison conditions, the combination of sentences and preventive measures. She is fluent in Romanian, and English.

The following areas provide a summary of Georgiana Bălan’s experience:

  • Criminal Law
  • Representation of clients in court – both civil and criminal
  • Law on Commercial Companies
  • Insolvency Procedure
  • Civil Law

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