Cristiana I. STOICA

Founding Partner

tel. (+4021) 402.09.30
fax (+4021) 402.09.31
istoica@stoica-asociatii.ro

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Education
- Faculty of Law, Bucharest University, 1979;
- PhD. (Law of International Trade), Bucharest University, Magna cum laude, 2000;
- 1990: professional training in human rights at the Council of Europe, European Commission of Human Rights and at the International Institute for Human Rights – Strasbourg, France;
- 1994: International Academy of International Private Law from The Hague, Netherlands – professional training in international private law;
- 1998: Agency for International Capital Markets Development, SUA – professional training;
- 2007: EBRD – professional training in international financing.
Professional and academic experience
- Independent lawyer (1980–1995) and member of the Bucharest Bar, as co-founder of STOICA&ASOCIAȚII (since 1995);
- Founding Partner, STOICA & ASOCIAȚII: legal assistance and representation in dispute resolution, international and domestic arbitrations and coordinator of the advisory activities;
- Co-arbitrator in ICC Court proceedings; Presiding arbitrator and co-arbitrator at the Court of International Commercial Arbitration attached to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania;
- Associated Lecturer, Commercial law, company law and international private law (in French), at the International Faculty of Political and Administrative Sciences, Bucharest University (1992–2000);
- Associate Professor at the LLM Program on International Arbitration, Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest - Lectures on Comparative International Commercial Arbitration (in English, 2013 – today).
Affiliations and recommendations
- Member for Romania of the ICC Court (2018-2024);
- Member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR (since 2018) and member of ICC Croatia (since 2024);
- Member of the ICC Institute of Business Law (since 2020);
- Member of ICCA (since 2020);
- Member of the Governing Board of the Permanent Court of Arbitration of the Romanian-German Chamber of Industry (AHK Romania). Member in Romania of the British-Romanian Chamber of Commerce (BRCC) and of the Romanian-American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham);
- Member of International Wine Law Association (IWLA)-since 2013 and President of the European Section of IWLA (2015-2018);
- Past member of the International Union of Lawyers and of World Link for Law.
Publications
- Author of articles published in Romanian and abroad related to international private law, civil law and international arbitration (e.g., “ICC Bulletin”, “Lexoloxy Panoramic - Arbitration”, “Lexology Panoramic - Investment Treaty Arbitration”, “Romanian Arbitration Review”, “Revue internationale de droit prive”, “EBRD Law in transition”);
- Coauthor of the book „Arbitration in Romania: A Practitioner’s Guide”, 2016 edition, published by Kluwer Law International;
- Contributor to the Romanian section of the Global Wine Law, edited by International Wine Law Association.
Foreign languages
- English and French.

Relevant experience

Cristiana I. Stoica, member of Bucharest Bar, co-founding partner since 1995, renders legal assistance to international banks, multinational companies or diplomatic missions in Romania, as well to individual clients or corporations in civil and commercial cases, in construction, real estate, banking, M&A areas or international contracts. An important component of her activity is dedicated to international arbitration, for over 30 years, representing international or domestic clients in arbitrations or acting as arbitrator appointed at the Court of International Commercial Arbitration attached to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania (CCIR) and in ICC Court proceedings.

Cristiana acted as ICC Court member for Romania since 2018 until 2024 and is member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, of the ICC Business Law Institute and of ICCA.

In the academic field, she collaborates with the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest as associate professor, teaching Commercial law and international private law (from 1994 to 1998) and since 2013, conducting lectures on Comparative International Commercial Arbitration at the Master Program on “International Arbitration”.

She is a contributor to “Arbitration in Romania” (edited by Kluwer International in 2015), is the author in Romania of several articles on civil law and international arbitration and regularly participates to conferences on international arbitration in Romania or abroad.