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● September 2023 – see here the JURIDICE interview, Ioana Gelepu: “I want exactly what my clients want: my personal involvement in every detail of the disputes entrusted to me”

● October 2023 – the Law Office obtains a solution, issued by the National Council for the Settelment of Disputes (unappeald by any of the interested parties), annuling the contracting authority’s report designating the winning tenderers of a framework agreement for catering services with a total estimated value of approx. €26,8 million

● January 2024 – the High Court of Cassation and Justice has ruled definitively in favor of a well-known restaurant operator (represented by the Law Office), granting an unfair competition action and prohibiting acts such as the diverting of clients and activities carried out with the aim of obtaining, from the plaintiff’s suppliers, similar commercial terms to those practiced in relation to the latter

● March 2024 – the Law Office obtains a favorable final ruling on the trademark registration of a well-known player on the event catering market

● March 2024 – Ioana Gelepu`s activity is ranked by Chambers Europe Guide 2024

● March 2024 – see here the BIZLAWYER interview: How Ioana Gelepu The Office Litigation & Enforcement, a litigation boutique established in March last year, has evolved and what its landmark projects were | Ioana Gelepu, founder: “In the first year, I put into practice my craftsman’s dream: to strive for perfection in litigation”

● October 2024 – closing of the last file out of a package of 24 arising from a corporate conflict within a proeminent Romanian group active in the real estate sector (financial stake: €43 million for some cases, seeking annulment of various GMS decisions, and €33 million for the litigations on suspending – by means of an injunction – the GMS decisions). The litigations were closed based on an out of court settlement

● February 2025 – see here the BIZLAWYER interview: How Ioana Gelepu The Office Litigation & Enforcement evolved last year, a litigation boutique highlighted by international legal guides, and which projects required an extensive amount of legal analysis | Ioana Gelepu, founder: “I am pleased that I was able to be personally involved in every detail of the projects we manage, diverse enough to satisfy my unrelenting appetite for new challenges”

● February 2025 – contributor to Chambers Global Practice Guides Patent Litigation 2025

● March 2025 – see here the BIZLAWYER interview – Spring Interviews | Ioana Gelepu, founder and head of ‘Ioana Gelepu The Office Litigation & Enforcement’: “Knowledge, passion and dedication are not defined by gender”

● March 2025 – Ioana Gelepu`s activity is ranked by Chambers Europe Guide 2025

● December 2025 – the final resolution of a dispute that lasted for 5 years, in a favorable manner for the client, a well-known player on the European waste management market, concerning the validation of a garnishment, regarding debts owed by a territorial administrative unit to an intercommunity development association, up to the amount of approximately EUR 1.3 million

● December 2025 – see here MIRROR INTERVIEWS | On the making of a case, in conversation with Gianina Găvanescu, Head of Legal & Compliance at CBRE Romania, and Ioana Gelepu, founder of Ioana Gelepu The Office Litigation & Enforcement

● January 2026 – final resolution, by allowing the client’s claim for damages against a well-known Romanian design company, as a result of hidden defects in the documentation related to certain industrial equipment. The dispute lasted approximately 5 years and involved two expert assessments, as well as numerous issues of both a technical nature and relating to the contractor’s specific warranties

● February 2026 – the final resolution of a dispute, in favor of the client, which is part of a renowned group active in the industrial equipment manufacturing sector. The case originated from a contract for the demolition of an industrial platform and involved an impressive number of technical and legal issues specific to the dozens of constructions located on that site

● March 2026 – Ioana Gelepu`s activity is ranked by Chambers Europe Guide 2025

● April 2026 – see here ESSENTIAL INTERVIEWS | A conversation with Ioana Gelepu, founder of “Ioana Gelepu The Office Litigation & Enforcement”, about the success of a practice born out of passion and the refinement of a “luxury atelier” devoted to complex cases: “Three years ago, it was a dream; since then, it has become a certainty: litigation craftsmanship is what I want to do for the rest of my life.”