Paula Corban-Pelin

Paula Corban-Pelin is a corporate M&A lawyer with more than 20 years of experience advising local and international corporations on M&A transaction in sectors such as energy, financial services (including insurance) or agribusiness. She is an energy expert advising on all aspects of energy projects from acquisition to financing, regulatory and licensing aspects.

She is appreciated by the most sophisticated clients for her thorough understanding of the energy sector and of the challenges that the clients face and for delivering practical, focused, pro-active and innovative sector advise.

An efficient and focused negotiator, Paula coordinates complex domestic and cross border transactions and has brought to a successful conclusion a considerable number of deals.

She regularly advises on renewable energy projects in all stages of the respective projects from acquisition through development until commissioning and operation. Clients includes major corporations but also local companies. Recently, she successfully advised one of the main power and natural gas suppliers on a dispute with the regulator in the energy field on alleged market manipulation under REMIT, a complex matter on natural gas trading on centralized markets.

She is one of the few lawyers having capabilities on nuclear power regulatory aspects having advised on the Cernavoda nuclear power plant units 3 and 4 project.