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Andra Trantea LLM

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Andra's proactive, business-oriented mindset and genuine commitment to helping clients make her a trusted partner.
— Chambers Europe 2026
About

Andra has 19 years of experience advising domestic and international employers on transactional and non-transactional employment matters and related cross-practice issues. She has been a member of DLA Piper’s Romanian team since its establishment in 2008. Building on her background in Finance & Projects and transactional work, she advises clients across sectors including Technology and FinTech, Industrials, Life Sciences, and Media, Sport & Entertainment.

Andra advises on flexible working arrangements, working time and on-call arrangements, unlimited holiday schemes, disciplinary matters and workplace investigations, collective agreements, and negotiations with employee representative bodies. Her work also covers individual and collective workforce restructurings and employment disputes, including matters involving conflict-of-laws issues and wider employment implications.

Her transactional employment work includes outsourcing and rebadging programmes, the employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions, transfers of undertakings and employment matters arising from acqui-hire transactions.

Andra also focuses on intellectual property and data privacy in the employment context, employee talent protection and retention during business transformation and flexible working projects, whistleblower protection arrangements and policies, and regulatory matters relating to the provision of recruitment services.

Professional QualificationsAvocat registered with the Baroul Bucureşti

EXPERIENCE

  • Acting as go-to trusted advisor of a multinational conglomerate operating several prominent areas of business (including aerospace and performance materials and technology) for virtually all its complex employment matters, including employment litigation and industrial relations.
  • Advising a large FinTech company on specific employment and cross-practice projects, such as labour related analysis, updating employment documentation and measures for flexible-working, as well as employee litigation.
  • Advising the leading global provider of network test, monitoring and assurance solutions, on virtually all Romanian employment legal aspects, successfully hand-holding its Romanian journey ever since set-up and fully relying on our team’s matured expertise in the Technology sector, combined with our vast experience and breadth of practice areas (in particular, Tax and Intellectual Property).
  • Acting as trusted advisor for one of the world’s oldest stock exchanges on virtually all relevant Romanian employment law matters, ever since set-up of its Romanian operations and ranging from individual employment terms and conditions, to implementation of complex internal policies, including flexible work arrangements.
  • Acting as long-time trusted advisor of a global information technology, consulting and outsourcing company on employment matters, based on our extensive Technology sector knowledge and our deep understanding of their business-process-outsourcing model.
  • Advising one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies and with notable operations in Romania on employment sensitive work, as well as day-to-day matters, ranging from general implementation of employer internal policies to complex cross-border projects, factoring in our Life Sciences insight and exceptional synergies with our practices and DLA Piper offices.
  • Advising a key global pharmaceutical company, originally positioning itself as a leader in a new industry-specific model of Growth Pharma and with medical aesthetics and eye care as focus areas, on complex employment law matters, including transformative acquisitions impact on employment relationships – continuing to boost our Life Sciences sector knowledge.
  • Advising a fully owned Romanian company, prominently active in the Media, Sport & Entertainment sector and operating one of the key news web-sites in Romania – on significant employment matters, ranging from straightforward employment compliance matters (including working time arrangement), to more sensitive employment issues, including employment litigation.
  • Advising a global mass media and entertainment company on various employment matters, including complex advice on employment exit and regulatory matters related to benefits.
  • Advising a leading US news agency on various employment day-to-day matters triggered in the context of its Romanian operations, as well as complex advice on employment litigation.
Languages
  • Romanian
  • English
  • French

Awards

  • Next Generation Partner – Legal 500 EMEA, 2026, Ranked by Chambers Europe 2026
Education
  • French-Romanian Law College of European Studies of Bucharest, University Paris I, Pantheon, Sorbonne, Master in International and European Business Law, 2007
  • University of Bucharest, LL.B, 2006
  • French-Romanian Law College of European Studies of Bucharest, University Paris I, Pantheon, Sorbonne, LL.B., 2006

Prior Experience

  • May 2018 - to date: DLA Piper Romania, Counsel
  • May 2015 - April 2018: DLA Piper Romania, Senior Associate
  • May 2013 - April 2015: DLA Piper Romania, Managing Associate
  • November 2008 - April 2013: DLA Piper Bucharest, Associate
  • January 2007 - November 2008: Local law firm, Attorney-at-Law
  • July - September 2005: Local law firm, Summer Student
  • October - November 2004: Local law firm (with strong French component), Trainee Student
  • September 2004: Council of State – Paris, France, Legal Intern
  • April 2004: Correspondent law firm of international consultancy company), Trainee Student

Memberships And Affiliations

  • Member of the Bucharest Bar and the Romanian Union of Lawyers

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