Gheorghe Buta

Practice Areas

With 45 years of experience, both as magistrate and attorney-at-law, PhD. Gheorghe Buta is specialized in handling disputes and national and international commercial arbitrations.

PhD. Gheorghe Buta is one of the most famous attorney-at-law in Romania who, over the years, has assisted the most important local and international players, from a diverse sectors of activity, in the most well-known and complex litigations and arbitrations from Romania, with a special emphasis on commercial, civil and administrative disputes, insolvency and enforcement procedures, public acquisitions claims, debt recovery, large-scale tax litigations initiated against the control authorities in respect of VAT matter, income tax and other taxes, European or Union judicial procedures for regulating or establishing good practices in national law, etc., to list only a few of his areas of expertise.

Career

PhD. Buta is also an arbitrator at the Court of International Commercial Arbitration attached to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania and the International Arbitration Courts in Vienna and Paris. Twice a member of the Superior Council of Magistracy, in 2007 he was nominated by the Romanian Government as a candidate of the Romanian State for the position of judge at the European Court of Human Rights.

Professional Memberships

Member of the Bucharest Bar

Member, Academy of Legal Sciences of Romania

Member of the Board of Directors and Vice-President (since 2017) of the Union of Jurists of Romania

Founding member and member of the Board of Directors of the Romanian Institute of Commercial Law

Member of the Scientific Reviewers Committee of the journal "Legal Studies and Research", Institute of Legal Research "Acad. Andrei Radulescu" of the Romanian Academy

Member of the Editorial Board of the Romanian Journal of Commercial Law

Member of the editorial board of the "Romanian Journal of Jurisprudence"

Member of the Commissions for defending doctoral theses at the Institute of Legal Research "Acad. Andrei Radulescu" of the Romanian Academy, University of Craiova, Academy of Economic Sciences Bucharest, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca.

Education

Industry Sector Expertise

Litigation and Arbitration

Prevention, Compliance and Business Criminal Law

Civil and corporate law

Insolvency and Restructuring