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Dana Para

Senior Associate

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Dana is a senior associate in the litigation team of Eversheds Sutherland’s Bucharest office, specialising in commercial dispute resolution.

As a senior associate in the dispute resolution team of Eversheds Sutherland’s Bucharest office, Dana has comprehensive experience working on a mix of high value domestic and cross-border disputes, for some of our key domestic and international clients in the industrial engineering, automotive and manufacturing industries.

Dana has a broad litigation practice mostly related to contract and tort law, assisting and representing clients before domestic courts in various cases relevant for multiple industries (consumer products, competition, industrials, real Estate, intellectual property. Dana also represents clients in matters pertaining to private international law.

In the area of arbitration, Dana assisted clients in proceedings particularly under the ICC and the Rules of the Court of International Commercial Arbitration of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania.

Among Dana's most relevant litigation files there can be mentioned:

  • representing the second largest telecom services provider in the country in an EUR 30 million contractual liability litigation carried against one of the largest real estate investors on the Romanian market
  • successfully defending a multinational automotive manufacturer in an aggressive EUR 50 million unfair competition case carried out by a former dealer
  • successfully representing a major international engineering design firm in an EUR 10 million ICC arbitration brought against the state railway carrier in Romania for contract breaches
  • devising the defense strategy in a EUR 5 million CICA arbitration case carried out by a top tier manufacturer of lightweight cast components
  • successfully representing the leading car manufacturer in Romania in an EUR 6,5 administrative case carried against the Environmental Fund Administration concerning a CO₂ certificates (tax) liability case
  • managing an EUR 2 million case portfolio concerning the factual misappropriation of plots of land that entailed representing the clients before domestic courts and the Romanian Constitutional Court, as well as taking an incidental procedural matter to the European Court of Human Rights
  • assisting a leading private security and protection company in the process of challenging a joint venture on the cash services market and representing the company in the ensuing administrative litigation
  • LLB, The University of Bucharest Law School, Bucharest, 2012 – 2016
  • LLB, The Franco-Rumanian College of European Studies, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Bucharest, 2012 – 2015
  • LLM in Law and Governance of International and European Affairs, Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne, Bucharest, 2021 – 2022
Dana Para

Senior Associate

Dana Para

Senior Associate

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