Eugen Sarbu

Partner

Overview

Mr. drd. Eugen Sarbu has over 10 years of experience as a Romanian lawyer.
Mr. Sarbu is specialised in international arbitration, accumulating extensive experience throughout his career, especially in disputes in the field of construction law, financial-banking contracts and, in general, in disputes arising from commercial contracts and public procurement contracts.

In international arbitrations, Mr. Eugen Sarbu provided legal representation before the Arbitration Courts of various jurisdictions (Switzerland, France, Spain, England, Austria), both in the application and interpretation of Romanian law, as well as other private law systems, including the rules of commercial law regulated at the level of the European Union.
As an experienced Romanian lawyer, Mr. Eugen Sarbu represents clients in front of Romanian courts in all fields of business law: corporate, insolvency, contractual disputes, interim measures, recognition and enforcement of foreign awards etc.

In Public Procurement, he has strong technical skills and advises clients in drafting tenders and represents domestic and international bidders in disputes arising from public procurement awarding procedures.
Also, as a lawyer specialised in Romanian contract law, Mr. drd. Eugen Sarbu acts as part of international litigation teams, made up of lawyers and experts from multiple jurisdictions, in order to ensure representation in cross-border disputes.

Work Highlights

· Assistance and representation in an international arbitration conducted under the ICC Paris rules, in a dispute worth over €35 million, arising from a design and execution of works contract;
· Assistance and representation of a leading energy company in a consolidated procedure of 3 arbitration cases, totalising €50 million, conducted under Bucharest Court of International Arbitration;
· Represented a leading company in the heating installation and construction sector in an ICC arbitration, with the seat of arbitration in Geneva, involving claims in the amount of €9 million;
· Representing a Romanian company specialized in infrastructure contracts in a litigation of €30 millions representing supplementary works performed under Yellow FIDIC Contract (Design and Built);
· Representing companies specialized in photovoltaic energy in litigation cases regarding various legal matters of a €22 million project: permits and authorizations; banking operations for financing energy plants; disputes between joint venture associates; recovering payments from state energy companies;
· Representation of a public institution in a litigation regarding the validity of the construction permit for building an educational research centre valued at €10 million;
· Representation of a joint venture bidder in challenging an awarding decision in front of National Council for the Settlement of Complaints related to a public works contract valued at RON 71 million;
· Representation of a Romanian energy company in a case for recovering receivables of €23 million from an insolvent leasing company;
· Represented multiple international companies from USA, EU and outside the EU in recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards and judgments in Romania, including the establishment of precautionary measures to secure cashing in at the end of the exequatur procedure.

Publications and Events

· Legal conditions of unusual terms institution. 🔗
· Construction and execution of works contract. Contractual balance in the application of contractual remedies stage. 🔗
· The risk of occurance of an unforseen event while performing a contract for execution of works. 🔗
· Employer’s claims under FIDIC contracts; 🔗
· Lesion in contracts between professionals; 🔗
· Contractor’s claim under FIDIC contracts. 🔗
· Exequatur of foreign commercial arbitral awards in Romania 🔗

Memberships

> Member of Bucharest Bar
> Member of American Bar Association – International Law Section
> Member of Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA)

Education

> Ph. D. – Romanian Contract Law at Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest
> LL.M. – International Commercial Arbitration at Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest
> Degree in Law at Faculty of Law, Romanian-American University

Languages & Courses

> English, Spanish, Romanian
> ICC Rules of Arbitration within the ICC Academy

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