Dariana is a Senior Associate in our Financial Services team specializing in banking regulatory matters with a particular focus on payment services.

She has extensive experience in assisting clients with securing authorization for payment institutions from the National Bank of Romania.

Dariana is also involved in financing and insurance-related matters including due diligence procedures and provides strategic legal support to banks, credit institutions, and non-banking financial institutions.

Authorization of Token Payment Services (part of the Koç Group – the largest industrial and service conglomerate in Turkey by revenue, exports, number of employees, and market capitalization on the Istanbul Stock Exchange) as a payment institution before the National Bank of Romania.

This was the first authorization granted under the new regulatory framework allowing a payment institution in Romania to carry out payment operations both online and at physical locations.

Bachelor’s Degree in Law, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law (2021)

Master’s Degree in Public International Law and European Human Rights Law, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law (2022)

National Institute for Training of Attorneys at Law, Bucharest (2024)

BAR Admission: April 2022

Member of the Bucharest Bar Association (2022)

Member of the Romanian Union of Lawyers (2022)