Practice Expertise

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Dispute Resolution
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Areas of Practice

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Dispute Resolution
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Profile

Ciprian Paun has over 20 years of experience in the legal profession and is Co-Head of NNDKP Cluj-Napoca Office.
Ciprian guides clients through a broad range of transactional, commercial and operational matters, with a particular emphasis on the corporate and tax areas. On the corporate side, he brings his expertise in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, as well as other general corporate advisory matters, helping clients implement their business optimization plans, while in the tax area, he regularly assists clients in resolving a wide range of tax contentious matters.
Actively involved in academia, Ciprian has held various research and teaching positions in the areas of tax and business law at Plymouth State University (USA), Ecole de Management de Normandie (Caen and Le Havre France), Economic University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria), and University of Regensburg (Germany, University of Essen (Essen, Germany), University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law, West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Law and is currently Associate Professor, Ph.D., at the Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca.
He is a member of NNDKP Center of Excellence in Fiscal Disputes (CELF), and EATLP (European Association of Tax Law Professor), the most important legal associations of tax law professors in Europe.

Bar Admissions
Cluj County Bar

Education
Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Law, Law Degree
Westfaelische Wilhelms- Universitaet, Germany, Master Degree in European Law, graduated with Magna Cum Laude
Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Law, PhD. in Law
Babes Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Bachelor's degree from the Faculty of History and Philosophy
Babes Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Master of Arts in German Studies
Research assistant at the Austrian and International Fiscal Law Institute under the aegis of the Vienna University of Economics (Austria), being a beneficiary of an OMV Research Fellow Scholarship

Areas of Practice

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Dispute Resolution

Professional Career

Professional Associations
Associate Professor, Ph.D., at the Faculty of Economic Sciences at Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, teaching the courses Fiscal Law and Business Law (since 2002)
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest, teaching the courses Taxation of the Individual and European Fiscal Law within the Master's Degree in Fiscal Law program (2012-2018)
Associate Professor at the Plymouth State University (USA) teaching the course Legal Environment of International Business (2009-2012)
Associate Professor at cole de Management de Normandie (Caen-Le Havre), teaching the course EU Business Law (2015)
Guest professor at the University of Regensburg (Germany) ( 2013)



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