Corina Bădiceanu LL.B.

Managing Associate
About

Corina is a lawyer skilled in intellectual property law, assisting a number of well-known clients in the intellectual property field, in various aspects related to trademark disputes, trademark counter fighting and co-existence, licensing agreements, copyright ownership, setting up software licensing contractual framework and securing intellectual property rights over the technology.

Corina is also very active in the media industry and the movie production field, particularly, providing assistance in connection to movie production as well as being involved in due diligence process in connection with chain of title over neighbouring rights (in particular, rights of singers and producers).

Corina also advises clients in all aspects related to the personal data protection field, including data protection compliance assessments, analysis of data flows for setting-up appropriate data transfer framework, drafting and reviewing documents (such as information notices, policies, legitimate impact assessments, data processing agreement) and setting-up documentation for websites (information notices and policies, cookies banner, cookies policies).

Lastly, Corina advises clients on data breaches, from analysis in connection to the need to notify or not data breaches to submitting data breaches to the Romanian Data Protection Authority and managing investigations from the Romanian Data Protection Authority, and handles complaints against fines imposed by the Romanian Data Protection Authority in front of the courts of law.

EXPERIENCE

  • Advised two entities of an international bank with a solid footprint in Romania impacted by a global data breach incident which took place in connection to their IT systems as regards regulatory notifications, filing of various criminal complaints as well as negotiation and management of the relation with the data processor involved in the incident.
  • Provided comprehensive intellectual property support in connection to a strategic partnership between a digital music company and a dance music company.
  • Advised an international manufacturer of branded chocolate and confectionery products in connection to a nationwide marketing campaign which involved, in particular, the use of several photographs depicting various Romanian well-known sites, buildings or symbols.
  • Advised an international brewing company affected by a major global cyber-attack perpetrated against it. The advice consisted of regulatory notifications, disaster recovery as well as incident response and risk mitigation.
  • Assisted a local games studio in connection to one of the largest exit-type transaction in the Romanian tech industry to date, from both an intellectual property and data protection perspective.
  • Advised a Romanian based investment platform specialized in sourcing, vetting, financing and scaling tech start-ups in connection to an European Union trademark dispute involving the alleged similarity of the client's trademark application with a presumably similar trademark.
Languages
  • Romanian
  • English
  • French
Education
  • College Juridique Franco-Roumain d'Etudes Europeenes, Master I - Droit International et Europeen des Affaires, 2012
  • College Juridique Franco-Roumain d'Etudes Europeenes, Licence en droit, 2011
  • University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law, Bachelor of Laws, 2011

Prior Experience

  • April 2021 – present: DLA Piper Romania, Managing Associate
  • August 2018 – April 2021: DLA Piper Romania, Associate
  • October 2017 – July 2018: local law firm, Associate
  • February 2014 – September 2017: local law firm, Junior Lawyer

Memberships And Affiliations

  • Member of the Bucharest Bar

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