Liria Poenaru

Liria is the Partner and Head of the Real Estate Banking Division at SPVS including the departments of Real Estate & Projects and Banking & Financing.

13 Years of experience

Liria is an attorney-at-law at the Bucharest Bar with an experience of over 13 years in the Real Estate domain, with a high edgy specialization on property restitution claims. She is one of the most acknowledged and renowned lawyers at national level, in Romania, on restitution of properties abusively taken-over by the Communist regime.

She has profound knowledge and practice on representing clients in the administrative procedures in front of town halls and ANRP as well as in court cases of restitution based on Law no. 10/2001, Law no. 18/1991 and Law no. 165/2013.

She has a multidisciplinary integrative perspective of the Banking and Finance industry, having previously worked within three of the most important banking institutions in Romania.

Banking dispute resolution

Liria is a pioneer in the banking dispute resolution having won the first precedent case in Romania, Tomescu vs. OTP Bank, in a file involving abusive provisions in banking contracts and consumer protection legislation, in a credit contract for the calculation of the variable interest in CHF currency.

She has a strong practice in assisting clients in disputes and settlement procedures on consumer protection legislation and banking and financial contracts.
Her portfolio of clients includes banks, non-banking financial institutions as well as investment funds which operate in Romania. 

Education

Law Bachelor’s Degree - 1999 - 2003
Law School, University of Babes-Bolyai

Master of Criminal Science and Forensics (LL.M.) (Stiinte penale si criminalistica) - 2003 - 2004
Law School, University of Babes-Bolyai and Faculty of Economic Sciences

Master of Exterior Commerce (LL.M.) (Comerț exterior) - 2006 - 2007
Faculty of Economic Sciences and Business Administration, University of Babes-Bolyai and Faculty of Economic Sciences (Facultatea de științe economice și gestiune a afacerilor)

Areas of expertise:

Real estate and Projects, Banking and taxation, Administrative and contentious, Dispute resolution.

Languages

Romanian, English

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