About
Alina heads the Corporate & M&A department and the Energy practice at Filip & Company. She has extensive experience advising on some of the most significant transactions in Romania, including acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, financing projects and complex investments across a broad range of sectors, with a particular focus on energy and financial services.
Before joining Filip & Company, Alina worked for several years in the Bucharest and London offices of Linklaters and advised on projects spanning multiple jurisdictions.
Highlights of her activity include assisting:
- a leading Romanian asset manager, together with two prominent investment groups, in connection with a strategic investment in Romania’s leading fully Romanian-owned full-service airline;
- a global building materials group in connection with the divestment of its Romanian autoclaved aerated concrete business pursuant to commitments undertaken before the European Commission;
- Romania’s largest financial group in connection with a series of landmark acquisitions in the banking and financial services sector, including the EUR 347.5 million acquisition of a top-ten Romanian bank and its leasing and asset management businesses, the acquisition of pension funds and their management company through a combination of asset and share deals, as well as several other successful and contemplated banking acquisitions;
- a leading Moldovan bank in connection with the acquisition of a Romanian banking group’s Moldovan subsidiary and the subsequent acquisition of a major non-banking financial institution;
- a leading global investment management firm in connection with a financing of up to EUR 210 million granted to a group of companies holding, among other assets, non-performing loan portfolios in Romania;
- a major Romanian electricity company in connection with financing arrangements of up to RON 750 million contemplated in the context of the potential acquisition of an electricity distribution business, as well as several other potential acquisitions;
- an international infrastructure investor in connection with the acquisition of a photovoltaic project and a battery energy storage project in southern Romania, with a combined capacity exceeding 200 MW;
- a leading international financial institution on regulatory matters in connection with the financing of Units 3 and 4 of the Cernavodă nuclear power plant.
