Salans sets up energy department

Salans, an international law firm, has announced the creation of a specialised energy department within its Bucharest office. The new department will be headed by Claudiu Munteanu-Jipescu, a lawyer with 8 years of experience in the energy field. Jipescu worked for Musat & Asociatii from 1998 till 2005. The local team of lawyers in the new department was involved in consultancy during a number of major privatisations such as those of Electrica and Distrigaz. Salans established its Bucharest office in 1997, and its number of lawyers went up from 14 to 20 in recent few years. The firm”s clients include local and international companies like AIG Lincoln, Baneasa Investments, Bank Austria Creditanstalt, Vienna Capital Partners and Europolis, HeidelbergCement, TIW, Gillette and Coca-Cola. ZF