Anca Buta Muşat has extensive experience in dealing with the whole range of competition issues, such as merger control and anti-competitive practices and conducts, having represented clients both before the European Commission and the Romanian Competition Council. Her track record includes advising on exclusivity arrangements, cartels, enforcement mechanisms employed by the competition authority, negotiations on remedies endorsing anti-trust approvals, compliance counselling (including trainings and dawn-raids simulations), as well as State aid-related issues and public services contracts. Over the years, Anca had an important role in structuring various types of agreements submitted for approval to the Competition Council and for securing individual exemptions.

Anca is also an IP-certified attorney and has built an impressive expertise in complex patent annulment cases, drafting and negotiating trademark and patent licensing/assigning agreements, franchise agreements, and advising clients on IP portfolio management and exploitation. She is one of Romania’s leading practitioners in Pharma & IP Law, being able to provide integrated legal assistance to major clients from this industry, taking into account the interface between pharma legislation and IP rights.

She has assisted clients in a wide variety of industries, including constructions, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, software, internet infrastructure, retail services, food, brewing, cosmetics, mass-media, banking, insurance & pensions.

Anca is constantly involved in promoting Competition Law initiatives, by means of public debates and position papers. She is an active member of the DLC Distribution Law Center, the first Pan-European platform for lawyers, practitioners and students, aiming to provide essential information on distribution and competition law matters, at both national and European levels.

Practice Areas & Work Department

Competition / Antitrust & State Aid

Healthcare / Pharma & Intellectual Property

Litigation & Arbitration

Education

Postgraduate Diploma in Competition from King’s College London (2006-2007)

M in Transnational Business Practice from the University of Salzburg/University of the Pacific (2004-2005)

Law Degree, University of Bucharest (2003)

Career

Experience within Muşat & Asociaţii: 19 years

Partner, Muşat & Asociaţii 2007 to date

Senior Associate, Muşat & Asociaţii 2003 – 2007

Languages

English

French

Greek

Romanian