Nicola Costea

Managing Associate

Phone+40 372 377 800

Practice Areas

  • Litigation and dispute resolution

Biography

Nicola is a particularly versatile litigation lawyer with nearly a decade of experience in top-tier law firms, focusing on complex, high-stakes disputes across regulated industries. His practice spans commercial litigation, administrative disputes, intellectual property, employment law, consumer protection, and insolvency. Nicola’s expertise covers both courtroom representation and strategic advisory work, assisting and representing multinational corporations in contentious matters involving significant legal and regulatory complexity.

Notable achievements

Nicola has substantial experience in complex commercial litigation, having represented multinational clients in a broad array of contractual disputes involving supply chain disruptions, breach of commercial agreements, non-performance and delayed execution, warranty and liability claims, as well as tort-based actions and recovery of high-value receivables, often in proceedings with cross-border elements, technical expert involvement, or parallel insolvency components.

In the field of administrative contentious matters, Nicola has represented clients in a wide range of litigation involving national tax and regulatory authorities, including disputes concerning tax matters, public procurement, and sector-specific administrative sanctions. He has defended corporate clients in proceedings involving key Romanian institutions, including ANAF, ANPC, CNSC, ITM, and CNCD.

His litigation portfolio also includes intellectual property disputes, covering trademark invalidation, revocation, and counterfeiting, patent disputes, as well as preliminary injunctions for emergency measures and evidentiary preservation strategies.

Nicola has also represented clients in a broad spectrum of consumer protection litigation involving national regulatory authority, with matters spanning advertising compliance, misleading commercial practices, product labeling and safety and unfair contract terms.

In addition, Nicola has handled complex employment disputes related to dismissals, class actions, compensation claims, and discrimination allegations, as well as internal investigations involving sensitive workplace matters. His broader litigation practice extends to insurance recovery actions, enforcement of domestic and foreign judgments, and contentious insolvency proceedings.

Nicola’s clients operate across a diverse range of sectors, including retail and consumer goods, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, medical technology, automotive and industrial manufacturing, energy infrastructure and services, agricultural commodities and trading platforms, construction products and building systems, IT and enterprise software, electronics and consumer technology, residential improvement and design solutions, as well as infrastructure engineering.

Education & Bar Admission

Bachelor’s degree in Law – University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law (2016)

Master of Laws in Civil and Commercial Law – University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law (2017)

Bucharest Bar Admission (2016)