Andrada Popescu is a Senior Associate in the Bucharest office focusing on employment and labour law matters.

Andrada has experience advising both international and local clients across a wide range of industry sectors, including IT, media & telecommunications, automotive and pharmaceuticals, on a broad spectrum of individual and collective employment law matters.

Her expertise encompasses providing guidance on daily employment law issues as well as assisting and representing clients in complex employment-related matters such as individual and collective dismissal procedures, TUPE, disciplinary procedures, internal policies and collective labour negotiations and agreements, discrimination, harassment and mobbing issues, cross-border secondments and immigration-related situations, and health and safety regulations.

RECENT ENGAGEMENTS INCLUDE ADVISING*

Employment & Labour Law

• SIAD ROMANIA on a complex redundancy procedure involving the removal of several positions held by key employees, as well on as various other specific employment matters such as temporary assignment of employees abroad in a war zone and labour health and safety aspects related to a work accident
• AN ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY COMPANY on a complex and highly sensitive case involving the disciplinary investigation of several employees as well as other employment matters such as implementing internal regulations and group policies and mutual termination agreements
• A GLOBAL LEADING MANUFACTURER FOR THE AEROSPACE INDUSTRY on a complex matter concerning an HR audit involving the assessment of all employment-related documents and procedures applicable within the company, as well as on the implementation of the whistleblowing platform and compliance procedures
• A GLOBAL LEADER IN CONNECTED CAR TECHNOLOGY on a sensitive redundancy procedure as well as on day-to day employment and immigration matters, including assistance for obtaining the relevant documents for non-EU employees to work in Romania
• A MAJOR CLOTHING COMPANY on day-to-day employment matters, including on complex mandates such as collective negotiations and managing a potential conflict with the employees’ representatives and conducting negotiations during the set-up of a partnership between a public professional school and the client for the practical training of students

*Experience prior to joining Kinstellar.

EDUCATION

• 2015: University of Bucharest, Romania, Master’s degree in Employment Law
• 2014: University of Bucharest, Romania, Bachelor of Law

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

Bucharest Bar Association

LANGUAGES

Romanian, English