Răzvan Nicolae Popescu

Răzvan Nicolae Popescu – Founder and partner in ” Dumitru, Popescu and Associates “

Răzvan is a member of the Bucharest Bar Association ( www.baroul-bucuresti.ro ) and is affiliated to the National Union of Romanian Bars ( U.N.B.R. ) ( www.unbr.ro ).

Education and training

Răzvan’s theoretical training covers both legal and technical fields, having graduated from several educational establishments: National Institute for the Training and Further Training of Lawyers – title of lecturer in personal data protection, National Institute for the Training and Further Training of Lawyers – title of permanent lawyer, National Institute for the Training and Further Training of Lawyers – title of trainee lawyer, National Institute of Magistracy – auditor of justice, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology – optoelectronics master student, Spiru Haret University, Faculty of Law – graduate, Polytechnic University, Faculty of Engineering in Foreign Languages – diploma engineer.

Professional experience

Răzvan’s professional activity in the legal field, accumulated in more than 12 years of practice, encompasses diverse and complex areas of Romanian law, both from the perspective of trials before Romanian courts and from the perspective of advising multiple national and international companies.

In the area of civil law, the majority of the civil law institutions were involved: actions for land claims, actions for partition, actions for partition, actions for a declaration of absolute nullity of alienation deeds / title deeds, actions for the settlement of inheritances, actions for the dismantling of illegally erected buildings, etc., while the consultancy work concerned legal opinions on the legal situation of real estate, the establishment of the history of property rights, the negotiation of civil contracts, etc.

In the field of retrocession, proceedings and lawsuits have concerned the vast majority of the remedial normative acts: retrocession in kind of real estate under Law no. 10/2001, obtaining compensation under Law no. 10/2001 and Law no. 165/2013, retrocession in kind of land with forest vegetation under Law no. 1/2000, actions to declare the absolute nullity of property titles issued under Law no. 18/1991; obtaining compensation granted under Law no. 290/2003; obtaining compensation for apartments purchased under Law no. 112/1995, etc.

In the field of commercial law, lawsuits have covered all aspects of the life of a company: actions for the annulment of AGM resolutions, actions for the suspension of the effects of AGM resolutions, interventions for blocking the registration of entries in the commercial register, actions in opposition, actions for the exclusion of a shareholder from a company, actions for authorising the withdrawal of a shareholder from a company and obtaining the sums relating to the withdrawal, actions for the dissolution of a company, actions for a declaration of nullity of company acts, while the consultancy work concerned both the internal dimension of companies (contracts with employees, confidentiality agreements, etc.) and their external dimension (framework contracts with suppliers, customer contracts, negotiations, etc.).

In the area of personal data protection, the activities concerned both legal advice to personal data controllers (companies from various branches of the economy) and: identification of personal data and establishment of their traceability, drafting of data processing policies and information notes, establishment of internal procedures on how an operator can enforce the rights exercised by data subjects, establishment of data confidentiality and security procedures, drafting of operator-operator / joint operator / operator-processor agreements, drafting of data processing registers, advice on various issues related to video, audio and geolocation monitoring systems, etc, as well as advice to data subjects through activities such as: legal assistance and representation of data subjects both in relation to the competent authority in the field, the controllers and the national courts, etc.

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