Practice areas

  • Dispute resolution
  • Insolvency, Restructuring and Bankruptcies
    (including cross-border insolvency)
  • Banking, Finance and Capital Markets
  • Real estate and Construction
  • Employment and Labour Law
  • Family Law
  • Administrative & Public Law

About me

Monica Timofte is a senior lawyer, litigator, with over 17 years of experience in representing clients before the Romanian courts.

Monica gained extensive experience in litigation by working as a senior lawyer for 8 years in one of the largest law firms in Romania.

Monica is specialized in complex litigation such as: contractual and commercial disputes, insolvency proceedings, real estate disputes, disputes governed by, special legislation on the reconstitution of property rights, administrative and tax disputes, labor law disputes and enforcement proceedings.

Monica also has extensive experience with international clients and cross-border cases.

After graduating from the university, she attended postgraduate courses in European law at the University of Paris XII, and then worked in reputable law firms from Romania and abroad.

Languages

  • French, English

Memberships

  • Bucharest Bar Association

Education

  • Ecole de Formation du Barreau de Paris – International internship organized by the Paris Bar (2009)
  • National Institute for the Training and Development of Lawyers – Bucharest (2006/2007)
  • E.S.S. European lawyer – Paris XII University, Faculty of Law (2003/2004) (Diploma of specialized higher education: community business law, competition law, human rights, international trade, company law, comparative commercial law)
  • MASTER – Community institutions and regulations – (ERASMUS Student – Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj Napoca/Paris XII University) (2002/2003)
  • Law degree – Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (1998/2002)