Ioana has more than 10 years of experience in legal services, focusing on competition and antitrust matters. Her recent experience includes assisting clients in merger control proceedings, including commitments procedure, as well as foreign direct investment clearance procedures.
She is also involved in carrying out competition training programs and assisting and representing clients during dawn raids carried out by the Competition Council. Ioana assists clients on a regular basis in antitrust investigations, and also provides representation before the courts of law in subsequent administrative annulment and other ancillary claims.
Ioana has a dual formation, acting also as a dispute resolution lawyer, her experience including assisting and representing clients, in both in-court litigation and arbitration proceedings, in relation to administrative disputes, contractual disputes, employment disputes, as well as complex construction litigation in ICC arbitration proceedings.

In her recent practice, Ioana was involved in assisting clients in relation to both investigations carried out by the Romanian Competition Council and merger control proceedings in the real estate, retail market, finance and insurance, agriculture, pharma retail and production, food, as well as energy sectors.
In addition, Ioana has provided legal advice to clients and has been involved in complex due diligence exercises related to the review of competition law matters deriving from the transaction documentation, as well as the review of client and supplier contract, including distribution and agency agreements.

Bachelor's degree in Law, Romanian - University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law (2010)

Member of the Bucharest Bar Association (2010)

BAR Admission (2011)