Andrei Petre

SENIOR ASSOCIATE

Mobile: +40 751 205 512
Direct line: +40 21 260 78 55
E-mail: andrei.petre@actlegal-bep.com

Andrei Petre is a next-gen Senior Associate highly specialized in the energy sector. He’s a commercially savvy lawyer whose standout expertise in energy regulatory law is only doubled by a strong focus on energy compliance and competition law which has enabled him to assist a wide array of leading international energy clients in top-tier files.

Andrei offers to-the-point advice to clients across the energy sector, ranging from power and gas supply, distribution to trading or renewables and e-Mobility and Electric Vehicle Infrastructure.

In competition law, his expertise includes representing clients before competition authorities, handling complex investigations and merger clearance, abuse of dominance, vertical restraints/horizontal agreements, state aid and unfair competition, and ensuring compliance with evolving competition regulations.

Practice Areas:

Bar Admissions • Affiliations & Memberships

Bucharest Bar Association

Education

  • PhD student Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, coord. Philipe Stoffel-Munck & PhD student University of Bucharest, coord. Corneliu Bîrsan (Subject: La distinction entre dommage et préjudice)
  • Master 2 Droit du Patrimoine Approfondi, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
  • Master I Droit européen et international des affaires, Collège juridique franco-roumain d’études européennes
  • Bachelor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest

Languages

  • Romanian
  • English
  • French
  • German

Specials

  • Andrei has a strong academic background and he is a seminary professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest, teaching Contract Law and Intellectual Property Law
  • Regular speaker at the Conferences organised by the Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest
  • Co-developer of one of the firm’s products – Simple Contracting: a tool by which we take cluttered dry contract clauses that make it difficult to identify key business terms and by using clause wording design, we re-engineer the wording of clauses to reflect the essence in the simplest and most straightforward manner possible. With layout design, we apply UX design principles to make contracts easy to read and to work with. Designed contracts help deals close faster.

Publications

  • Le droit commun du contrat de bail, study presented during -Sessions du groupe de travail entre l’Institut de recherche juridique de la sorbonne (Université Paris 1) et l’Université de Bucarest “Comparaison du droit français et du droit roumain des contrats spéciaux”
  • Daunele morale ale persoanei juridice, study to be published in the collective volume „In honorem Corneliu Bîrsan”, 2023;
  • Fapta ilicită lucrativă – o provocare a dreptului la începutul mileniului al III-lea, study published in the collective volume „In Memoriam Viorel Mihai Ciobanu – Dreptul procesual și dreptul substanțial la începutul mileniului al III-lea”, Ed. Universul Juridic, 2023;
  • Distincția dintre daună și prejudiciu în materie de răspundere pentru malpraxis medical, study presented at the National Conference „Medical malpraxis liability”, ed. 2021, and published in the collective volume „Răspunderea în cazurile de malpraxis medical”, Ed. Solomon, 2022;
  • Acquired distinctive character of a trademark, study presented at Trademarks Real Life / 24 martie 2022, written material currently being published;
  • A failed harmonization: the illicit lucrative wrongdoing in the field of trademarks, study presented at the „National Intellectual Property Conference”, ed. 2021 – written material currently being published;
  • Despre obligaţia implicită de informare – situaţia antreprenorilor care contribuie la aceeaşi finalitate economică, study published in the collective volume „In honorem Flavius Antoniu Baias. Aparenta in drept”, Ed. Hamangiu, 2021;
  • Utilizarea raportului economic în cadrul reparării daunelor economice, study presented and published in the conference volume „Conference of students, masters and doctoral students in law”, Ed. Universul Juridic, 2021;
  • Major changes and major fines in the energy field in 2020. What to expect in 2021?, published in Hotnews, 2021;
  • Secretul comercial – existenta unei obligatii implicite de confidentialitate, study presented at the „National Intellectual Property Conference”, ed. 2020 – written material currently being published;
  • Dreptul de suită: manifestarea drepturilor patrimoniale prin mijlocirea drepturilor nepatrimoniale, study presented at the „National Intellectual Property Conference”, ed. 2019 – written material currently being published;
  • Câteva considerații asupra naturii juridice a datelor cu caracter personal, Dreptul nr. 8/2018;
  • La distinction entre dommage et préjudice, study presented at Doctoriales Franco – Roumaines, ed. 2018.
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