Andrei Covaliu is a Managing Associate in the Bucharest office. He specialises in dispute resolution and further focuses on compliance, risk and sensitive investigations, public procurement and restructuring & insolvency.

Andrei is well-regarded for his skills as a litigator given that, in the last 8 years, he has dedicated all his time and energy in handling complex litigation cases and arbitration dispute, both domestically and internationally. 

Andrei is specialized in all type of dispute resolution proceedings civil and administrative in nature and  is further focused on compliance, risk and sensitive investigations and white-collar crime.

Andrei has therefore gained experience advising local and international companies on litigation matters in various areas and successfully represented clients before respective authorities and courts.

RECENT ENGAGEMENTS INCLUDE ADVISING

Dispute Resolution

• ROMANIAN BUSINESSMAN in more than 90 ongoing complex and high value civil, insolvency and criminal cases
• A RENOWNED GLOBAL AUTOMOTIVE SUPPLIER in a cross-border contractual dispute with 2 suppliers relating to breach of contractual clauses and defective products
• AN INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING SERVICES COMPANY in an ongoing criminal case involving fraud, embezzlement and forgery offences
• A LEADING AUTOMOTIVE PLAYER in two complex court cases concerning damages for a burned car
• A PUBLIC SECTOR IT SERVICE PROVIDER in contentious matters as well as liaising with the prosecution in complex white-collar crime cases concerning several projects in Romania

EDUCATION

• 2014 – 2015: University Nicolae Titulescu, Bucharest, Romania, LL.M. in Business Law
• 2010 – 2014: University Nicolae Titulescu, Bucharest, Romania, Faculty of Law, Bachelor of Law

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Romanian Union of Lawyers
• Bucharest Bar Association

LANGUAGES

Romanian, English, French