Anca Băiţan

Partner

Anca Băiţan is an award-winning, EU qualified lawyer who assists international and domestic corporate clients in insolvency, bankruptcy and dispute resolution matters. Her expertise encompasses administrative and commercial disputes, before courts of law, arbitral tribunals as well as central and local authorities. As far as insolvency matters are concerned, Anca handles a wide range of services (including debt recovery, insolvency procedures, representation before courts, elaborating the strategy for the commencement of the insolvency procedure and through the reorganization procedure, etc.) on behalf of both creditors and debtors. Her practice has garnered the clients’ highest appreciation as well as an outstanding rate of success in very difficult cases. Anca holds an LL.M in Private Law awarded by one of the top Romanian universities and frequently authors dispute resolution and insolvency-related legal literature published in some of the most reputed international legal publications.

anca.baitan@mprpartners.com

Language fluency

Romanian, English, French, Spanish

Education

LL.M, Private Law, Bucharest University Law School (2013);
LL.B, Bucharest University Law School (2012).

Memberships

Bucharest Bar Association (Admitted 2013)

Awards & Recognition

Anca Băițan was recognized as the exclusive winner of the Restructuring & Insolvency category for Romania at Lexology Client Choice Awards 2022;
Panellist of the Second European Regional Round of the John H. Jackson Moot Court Competition organized by ELSA International (2022);
Presented with 'Certificate of Appreciation' for the contribution to The Global Indicators Group, published by World Bank (2022);
Insolvency, Litigation and Arbitration Award of Excellence, received at Finmedia’s Top Lawyers’ Gala (2021);
Presented with 'Certificate of Appreciation' for the contribution to 'Doing Business Guides', published by World Bank (2021);
Presented with ‘Certificate of Appreciation’ for the contribution to 'Doing Business 2021', published by World Bank Group (2021).

Client Feedback

"She is a very poised, knowledgeable and affirmative young lawyer. (…) I found her to be knowledgeable and well spoken, as well as impressive when describing her practice specialization in insolvency and corporate restructuring." - Source: Founding Partner of an important US based law firm;
"(...) thank you ever so much, as we wouldn’t have been here without your help." - Source: Legal manager of one of the most important IT&C integrators;
"Anca [Băițan] and Dana [Rădulescu] have handled our [debt recovery in insolvency] matter perfectly." - Source: President of a large US marine technology company (2021).

Publications

Insolvency – recent amendments, article, co-author, August 2020;
Copyright protection granted to computer programs, article, co-author, July 2020;
The implications of the measures related to the state of emergency in the insolvency procedure, article, co-author, 2020;
Restructuring and insolvency Navigator – Lexology – 2017 and 2018 chapters, contributor;
Well managed insolvencies usually make a difference, article published in Best Lawyers International magazine in 2017;
"Doing Business" 2018, a Guide of the World Bank, contributor 2017, 2018 and 2019 editions;
Litigation: Enforcement of foreign judgments in Romania, Lexology Navigator 2018 edition.

Highlights of Anca’s credentials throughout her practice include legal advice and representation to:

A large Romanian insurance company, with regards to the legal consequences triggered by its prospective insolvency;
An important logistics company, with regard to the acquisition of assets worth USD 34 million of one of the largest Romanian producers of thermal and electric power, undergoing insolvency proceedings;
A leading car rental services European company, in connection with the recovery of receivables in insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings;
An important investment company, in the acquisition of a Romanian company specialized in mining projects for extraction and processing of brucite and associated rocks, facing insolvency;
One of the most prominent industrial and business hubs in the northern region of Romania with foreign investments amounting to over EUR 13 million, in elaborating the strategy for the commencement of the insolvency procedure and through the reorganization procedure;
One of the largest and most important manufacturers of chemical products in Romania, in the acquisition of core business assets of a leading CEE chemicals’ producer, under the insolvency procedure;
A major German investment group, in the acquisition procedure of an insolvent Romanian textile producer, with international presence (over 60 countries);
One of the most important system integrators in the region, IT products producer and developer for major infrastructure and public impact projects in Romania, currently undergoing insolvency proceedings;
A major financial services provider in a large portfolio of debt recovery litigations concerning its financial services subsidiaries in Romania, where more than 50% are debt recoveries within the insolvency and restructuring proceedings;
The Romanian branch of the second largest Austrian construction company involved in major infrastructure projects in Romania, undergoing a secondary insolvency procedure (cross border insolvency).