Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen opens its BUCHAREST Bucharest Business Park third regional office in Craiova 1A Bucharest-Ploiesti Road Entrance A, 4th Floor District 1, Bucharest 013681 Romania T +40 21 201 1200, +40 31 255 th Bucharest, February 18 , 2010 –Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston 3300 F +40 21 201 1210, +40 31 255 Petersen, Attorneys and Counselors (NNDKP) announced today the TIMISOARA official opening of its Craiova office. T +40 256 202 133 F +40 256 202 146 E [email protected] NNDKP’s Craiova office can provide the most varied legal assistance and tax BRASOVadvisory T +40 268 547 824 services in a consistent manner that is perfectly coordinated with and integratedF +40 to 268 the 547 822 Bucharest office from a qualitative and operational perspective. The local teamE [email protected] lawyers CRAIOVA was recruited, trained and selected such as to be able to respond to almost anyT +40 legal 351 228 000 assistance request submitted by the companies and authorities of Dolj county Fand +40 351 the 228 005 E [email protected] adjoining counties. The companies and authorities operating in the southern area of Romania will, therefore, continue to benefit from legal services at the same NNDKP standards. Since the need for the involvement of NNDKP’s Bucharest lawyers will be significantly reduced, the services will be more prompt and transportation costs related to such services will be eliminated.

The opening of NNDKP’s third regional office marks another step in the law firm’s implementation of its plan to extend throughout the country, which started five years ago with the opening of the Timişoara office, followed by the opening of another office in Braşov in 2007.

“The concern for the quality of services was an essential factor in the establishment of NNDKP’s local offices. The opening of an office in Craiova constitutes a fundamental strategic decision, intended to provide prompt and effective services to the clients located in Craiova and in the area of Oltenia. In order to maintain the same level of quality and efficiency, we put great effort and resources into organizing, training, supporting and coordinating a group of highly-qualified lawyers with significant experience in business law, who will respond to and manage, at a local level, all legal assistance requests received from clients. The lawyers in the Craiova office, like all lawyers in our regional offices, have undergone several months of training programs conducted at NNDKP’s Bucharest office for the purpose of assimilating and consolidating the values, principles and standards that distinguish NNDKP from the other firms on the legal service market”, states Manuela Nestor, one of NNDKP’s Managing Partners.

“NNDKP is one of the first top law firms that decided to invest resources in order to bring legal services closer to its clients; improving at the same time its capacity to relate to the local context and shaping its legal advice based on the relevant facts and commercial or administrative practices at local level. The group of lawyers that we trained for the Craiova office provides legal services in both Romanian and English and has deep insight into the local predominant industries, being able to provide solutions that are both legally sound and efficient from a commercial perspective”, states Mădălin Niculeasa, NNDKP partner and coordinator of NNDKP’s Craiova office.

About NNDKP:

Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen is a promoter of business law in Romania. The firm currently has a team comprised of 115 lawyers and 75 employees, operational offices in Bucharest, Timişoara, Braşov and Craiova and provides full-service legal advice to companies conducting their activity in Romania.

NNDKP started during the past years a consolidation process of its team, both at the partner and associate level and launched a legal entity specialized in tax advisory services (NNDKP Tax Advisory Services) and an alliance with Link Resource in the field of consultancy and execution for health-related services. At the same time, the firm continued the development and consolidation process of its intellectual property division, by attracting some of the most reputed experts in the field.

In 2009, NNKDP was declared by the reputed legal publication Chambers Europe “Law Firm of the Year 2009” in Romania and was ranked first in all practice areas researched in Romania by the most significant international specialized guides, Chambers & Partners, The European Legal 500 and IFLR 1000.

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