Gheorghe Mușat

Gheorghe Mușat is one of the most experienced Romanian lawyers, being considered one of the “founding fathers” of business law in Romania.

Apart from heading the management committee and overseeing the direction of the firm, Mr. Muşat is constantly involved in the practice. He has been active for over 40 years and counts numerous successfully settled court cases heard before the Supreme Court of Justice and international arbitral tribunals.

Mr. Muşat has a wealth of experience of foreign investors’ issues in Romania, and a profound understanding of the market, as well as of the legal and business trends. He is one of the ‘market builders’ of the business law practice in Romania, being involved as team leader in a variety of high-profile merger and acquisition transactions, as well as in most of the major privatization deals in Romania, acting either on the side of the Romanian Government or on the private buyers’ side, most of them multinational corporations or large local companies.

He gathered unparalleled experience in Mergers and Acquisitions/Privatisation, Banking, Project and Corporate Finance, and Dispute Resolution (international and domestic arbitration included). Mr. Muşat is a frequent lecturer on restructuring, privatisation and mergers and acquisitions matters, as well as on other issues regarding doing business and foreign investments in Romania.

Practice areas

• Mergers & Acquisitions/Privatisations
• Banking & Finance
• Capital Markets & Securities
• Corporate & Commercial Law
• Litigation & Arbitration
• Criminal Law/White Collar Crime

Qualifications & Career

• Legal practice experience: 43 years
• Experience within Muşat & Asociaţii: 36 years
• Senior Partner: 2022 – to date
• Managing Partner: 1990 – 2021
• Individual practitioner: 1983 – 1990
• (1983) – Fully qualified lawyer, Bucharest Bar

Awards

• Ranked as Leading Lawyer, IFLR 1000, în 2015, 2018, 2019
• Ranked as Highly recommended Lawyer in Mergers & Acquisitions / Privatisation, Chambers Europe, în 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
• Expert Consultant, IFLR 1000, 2020, 2023

Appreciations

• “Gheorghe Musat is a great lawyer, one of the builders of the practice of business law in Romania, he is a real team leader, a strong personality and highly respected in the market.” Legal 500, 2020
• “Gheorghe Muşat is a leading figure in Romania’s legal market.” Legal 500, 2019
• Gheorghe Muşat “has a wealth of market knowledge and expertise in complex transactions”. Legal 500, 2017
• Gheorghe Mușat retains his reputation as a “strong figure, with tremendous experience of M&A deals” acquired over decades of wide-ranging activity in the Romanian transactional market. Chambers Europe, 2015