Ioana Apostolescu

Junior Associate

Junior Lawyer

LYNX Junior Associate specializing in dispute resolution, real estate, and employment law.

ioana.apostolescu@lynx.legal+40 737 026 091

SPECIALIZED

Trained across dispute resolution, real estate, and employment law, offering clients versatile support for commercial challenges from a single point of contact.

CONNECTED

Member of the Romanian Bar Association, ensuring clients receive advice grounded in current regulatory standards and professional ethics.

Practice Areas

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Dispute Resolution

Resolve high-stakes domestic and cross-border disputes with targeted strategies, hard-won arbitration expertise, and litigation strength tested across CEE.

Real Estate and Construction

Advance real estate and construction projects across CEE with commercial instinct and local knowledge from ...

Employment

Manage workforce strategy and risk with acclaimed employment law advice that balances commercial goals with the ...

Explore Ioana's professional background

Education

University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law (Law Degree)

Professional Memberships

Romanian Bar Association

Languages

Romanian
English

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Insights

Poland: LYNX becomes a patron of the Scandinavian‑Polish Chamber of Commerce (SPCC)

LYNX recognized as Leading Firm in Legal 500 2026 across Central and Eastern Europe

Poland: LYNX at the Ministry of Development and Technology’s expert seminar on artificial intelligence

Romania: Impediments to the Transfer of Shares in a Limited Liability Company

Poland: Success in a road tender worth nearly PLN 400 million

EU Parliament sets new rules for AI and copyright: What businesses need to know

BSJP advised Denmark's European Energy on EUR 53 mln wind farm project financing

Success before the National Appeals Chamber in the AI case

Double Recognition in the IFLR1000 Ranking

Das Pre-Pack-Verfahren – worauf beim Erwerb des Unternehmens eines Schuldners zu achten ist

Romania: ANRE updates the rules for grid connection and green certificates: legislative changes for a more coherent energy market

Czechia: Pay Transparency Directive

Czechia: Czech koruna bonds in light of a recent Constitutional Court ruling

Czechia: New Cyber Security Act: What does it mean for your business?

Czechia: Criteria for mandatory auditing following the amendment to the Accounting Act (from 1 January 2026)

Czechia: Publicly accessible road crossing private land

Lithuania: Transparency Directive. Question for employers: are you ready?

Czechia: Single-form monthly reporting: a revolution around the corner for (maybe) all employers

Czechia: Government bill proposes abolition of the withholding tax – these are some of the advantages and drawbacks

Czechia: Default interest capped at the principal: what are the implications for your debt?

Romania: Impediments to the Transfer of Shares in a Limited Liability Company

Hungary Expands State Pre-Emption Rights in Foreign Investment Transactions

Changes in the Supervisory Measures System in the Fifth Draft Amendment to the National Cybersecurity System Act

Changes in the Supervisory Measures System in the Fifth Draft Amendment to the National Cybersecurity System Act

Romania: The Draft Romanian Competition Council Order which was under Transparency Procedure, on the Assessment of Foreign, EU Direct Investments and New Investments

Czechia: Flexibility amendment to the Labor Code: What will change and how to prepare?

Czechia and Germany: News and statistics from German and Czech citizenship law

Czechia: Czech Law on Aliens and Law on Citizenship – Changes brought about by Lex Ukraine and the current jurisprudence of Czech courts

Czechia: On the VAT treatment of real property after the 2025 VAT Act amendment

Romania: MiFID II in Practice: When can an activity be considered investment advice?

Romania: Practical aspects regarding the applicability of the NIS2 Directive in Romania

Chambers and Partners 2025 ranking

Czechia: Income tax return 2024 – watch out for changes with respect to tax reliefs and allowances

Czechia: Tax-free benefits? Employee benefits in the area of health and leisure after 1 January 2025

Czechia: What has changed since the turn of the year under the amendment to the VAT Act?

Romania: ANRE Order No. 53/2024 – Regulations on Grid Capacity Allocation and Guarantee Obligations

We advised Douglas on the opening of its main distribution centre in Poland

Lithuania: Psychological work environment What homework must you do?

Romania: Practical aspects of implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/988 on general product safety

Poland: NIS2 Directive – identification of essential and important entities in capital groups under the new draft act

Czechia: A new Framework Agreement on the application of Article 16 of Regulation (EC) No. 883/2004 in cases of habitual cross-border telework – Opportunities to remain subject to the social security legislation at the employer’s registered place of business

Czechia: Minimum wage set to rise in 2025

Czechia: Cost-effective pre-trial debt recovery: a detailed step-by-step guidance

SLOVAKIA: IP SCAN – a professional audit of intellectual property for your business

Double success before the Public Procurement Court in the case regarding power supply systems for the LTE450 network of the PGE Group

Success before the Court of Competition and Consumer Protection

Czechia: On the upcoming amendment to the criminal regulations (autumn 2024)

EUDR: When will it take effect, who will be affected and how to prepare for the new obligations?

Romania: First measures for the development of offshore wind power plants in Romania

Lithuania: Is the development of advanced therapies in Lithuania being hampered by legal regulation?

Czechia: At long last, German and Czech citizenship for one of ‘Winton’s children’, more than 85 years later.

Czechia: Are owners of real property units entitled to an easement by necessity?

Czechia: Keep an eye on the creation of the zoning plan and updates to the same

Poland: NIS2 Directive – key assumptions and implementation status

Lithuania: NIS2 Cybersecurity: IS YOUR COMPANY PREPARED?

Romania: New Shrinkflation Regulations: Consumer Information Now Mandatory

NIS2 Directive in Poland: Assumptions and implementation status

Lithuania: posting third-country nationals from Switzerland

Romania: ANRE introduces new amendments applicable starting October 1

NIS 2 Directive: IS YOUR COMPANY PREPARED?

Romania: EU Artificial Intelligence Regulation: What companies need to know

Czechia: Managing directors – are you aware of your duties under the law? Do you discharge them properly?

Czechia: The eviction order – a revolution in the battle against delinquent tenants?

We advised Wechta FIZ on the sale of MOSTOSTAL WECHTA

Romania: The Impact of Law No. 214/2024 on the Use of Electronic Signatures and Modernization of Digital Processes in Romania

Romania: Legal Assistance for Global Cosmetic Brand’s Entry into Romanian Market

Romania: Latest Legislative Amendments on RO e-Transport: GEO 87/2004 and National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) and Romanian Customs Authority (AVR) Order 1337/1268/2024

Successful appeal in revocation of resolution on partnership conversion

Czechia: The legal practice of authentication of electronic signatures

Czechia: A few practical remarks on agreements on work carried out outside proper employment

Czechia: Changes to Czech and German Citizenship Law in 2024

Slovakia: Domain Name Dispute Resolution in Slovakia

Czechia: Digitalization of labor law: Electronic service of process by the employer

Czechia: A brief overview of Czech law of succession

Czechia: Tenant’s liability for flooded apartment as per a recent Supreme Court decision

Czechia: Vacation entitlement under the “DPP” and “DPČ” alternative working arrangements as of 1 January 2024

Lithuania: A ‘blocked account’, a more effective implementation of the subsistence requirements for immigrants

Advertising Real Time Bidding in the processing of personal data

Lithuania: Lithuanian Constitutional Court: regulation which prevents withdrawals from pension funds is unconstitutional

Romania: Sports betting and gambling advertising online

We advised Saab AB on the delivery of airborne early warning aircraft to the Polish Armed Forces

Ranking of Chambers and Partners 2024

Lithuania: Posting third-country nationals to Germany is complicated, but feasible

On the legal significance of emoticons

Czechia: Conflict of interest and disclosure duty as captured by Czech Supreme Court case law

Lithuania: permits process for Biomedical trials

Romania: Employers’ obligations deriving from the Methodology on Preventing and Combating Gender-based and Psychological Harassment in the Workplace

Lithuania: 2024 bringing new changes to the Law on Construction

We helped Kapsch Telematic Services secure a public contract

A judgment whereby the Altona jury court on 7 November 1935 convicted a stateless Jew of “attempted racial defilement” has finally been annulled – after precisely 88 years

Czechia: Key concepts in the new Building Act with relevance for the permitting process

Czechia: Employee sick-leave insurance and more stringent rules for so-called ‘agreements on the completion of a job’ (DPP)

We helped JSK Architekci to win a tender for the design of air traffic control tower of CPK airport

Czechia: Must foreign legal entities which are based in the EU establish a branch in the Czech Republic in order to be able to register a trade?

Czechia: Make sure to observe the duty to publish financial statements via the Collection of Deeds

Czechia: 7 pieces of advice regarding inheritance and succession

Czechia: Amendment to the Labor Code comes into force as of 1 October 2023

We advised Iberfruta Muerza on the acquisition of Stovit Group

BSJP | bnt advised Ericsson Sp. z o.o. on the acquisition of two public contracts from PGE for the mission critical LTE450 power network

Romania: Electronic signatures have become mandatory for public authorities in Romania

BSJP | bnt advised Saab Kockums AB on the contract for the delivery of ships to the Polish Navy

Czechia: EU seeks the establishment of gender balance on company boards

European certificates of succession (ECS) in German and Czech practice: real-life consequences of the ECJ decision C-354/21

Romania: Legislative news on construction, territorial planning and administrative disputes

Romania: Guidelines on unfair commercial practices in food and agriculture sector

Romania: Digitalisation of the healthcare system in the European Union – Trojan horse or new stage of the digital revolution?

Romania: 2022’s Black Friday under review

Czechia: A new understanding regarding the moderation of contractual penalties

Czechia: Working conditions for employees who take care of minors, within the context of the 2023 amendment to the Labor Code

Lithuania: Sale of medicines by online pharmacy

BSJP advised DB Schenker in construction of a transshipment terminal in Szczecin

Romania: Online pharmacy in Romania

Online pharmacy in Hungary

Vander Elst-Visa for cross-border services for Ukrainian refugees under temporary protection EU

Hungary – Guidelines from Hungary’s Curia on employer’s timesheets

Lithuania: new restrictions on cash payments

Romania: Substantial amendments to the Romanian Labour Code

Belarus: new bans on foreign investors from unfriendly countries

Romania: What you need to know about the latest amendments to GEO 196/2005 on the Environmental Fund by the adoption of GEO 125/2022

Presumptions and fictions of law in private-law contracts

Only employee’s knowledge of fraudulent activities – attribution?

Lithuania: Non-payment of wages the most common reason for labour disputes

Taking stock one year after the effectiveness of a new right to self-declare as a German citizen and of the right to naturalization on grounds of restitution – more than 20000 applications have been submitted to the Federal Office of Administration (BVA)

Romania: Smoking harms regardless of advertising regulations

Lithuania: Amendments to the Labour Code enter into force in stages

Lithuania: Gamechanger for cross-border employee leasing?

Czechia: „Lex Ukraine“ has been amended (by Act No. 175/2022, on the temporary protection status for Ukrainian refugees) – but many questions remain unanswered

Success of BSJP before the public procurement court in a significant case for the market regarding validity of a tender guarantee

BSJP advised on the sale of a majority stake in No Fluff Jobs to Ringier Axel Springer Polska

Romania: Force Majeure and Hardship – a parallel between the two exceptions to the binding force of the contracts

Online GmbH incorporation possible in Germany as of 01 August 2022

Belarus: ban on selling shares (stakes) in Belarusian companies by investors

Lithuania: Workation within the EU vs. Social Insurance – It gets complex

Czechia: Road tax changes in 2022

Romania: Employment agreement or mandate (management) agreement?

Public procurement procedures in Hungary: force majeure due to war

New Act on Medical Devices

Cryptocurrencies and taxes in the Czech Republic – a brief overview of the implications for legal entities and natural persons

Do employees in Czechia have third-party liability for damage?

Even long-term leases can be cancelled in the Czech Republic

The rules for Ukrainian refugees in EU countries

Romania: Amendments concerning consumer rights in contracts for sale of goods

Every insurance company in Europe should keep an eye on this GDPR case

A new CJEU ruling on immigration policy

UBO Update: Lithuanian transparency register starts work after a two-year delay. What needs to be known?

BSJP advised ARICOMA Group on the takeover of Clearcode

Favourable rules on signing financial statements in Poland

Children saved by Sir Nicholas Winton are not entitled to a Czech or Slovak passport – though they may claim a German one!

Intrastat reports in the Czech Republic have become less burdensome as of 1 January 2022

Minimum wage in the Czech Republic in 2022 and its impact on welfare benefits and social security contributions

Lithuania: What management decisions may require the approval of the general meeting?

Romania: Visas for digital nomads in Romania

Yearly Tax Return – Deadline under the Act on Corporate Taxation

Romania: New tax offence in Romania

Lithuania: Wage payment in cash no longer possible

Tax legislation changes in Belarus

What are the consequences (in the Czech Republic) of late wage payments via cashless transfer?

Posting of third-country nationals from Lithuania to Germany

Belarus: Law on data protection

Romania: Salvage of construction works executed without planning permission

Changes to the Aliens Residence Act and to the Czech Personal ID Cards Act

Paternity leave in the Czech Republic has just been doubled

ROMANIA: The adoption in the first Chamber of the Parliament of the law project on management of pharmaceutical waste from the population

Establishing a central register of ultimate beneficial owners in Hungary

Establishing a central register of ultimate beneficial owners in Hungary

BSJP advises Saab AB on the delivery of combat training systems and services to Poland

Court decision protects phone data from police access

German Federal Labour Court ruling will make it more difficult for nursing staff from Poland and other CEE countries to work in Germany

Liberalization of the German Citizenship Act comes into force

Czech government approves tax allowance for children for 2021

Implementation of the EU-restructuring directive in Lithuania

New rental law in Latvia to renew the relationship between tenants and landlords

BSJP advises French group Alliando on the acquisition of Bayleg

Acquisition in Slovak Real Estate Law – NEW RULES!

Electronic breakthrough in the Polish National Court Register

Changes in currency regulation and control law in Belarus

BSJP delivers expert reports on EMS in Germany and Poland

BSJP advised on the sale of a 108 MW onshore wind project portfolio in Poland

Removal of a court-appointed liquidator on grounds other than dereliction of duty

Clear rules for lobbying in Estonia

New possibilities for Jewish émigrés from Germany and Austria, new obstacles for those from former Czechoslovakia

New Belarus Company Law: debt-to-equity is now possible for everyone

Life&Science news: Green light for purchase and sale of CBD products in Slovakia

Lithuania: Remote notary services become possible

Crowdfunding in Lithuania: in the wake of Regulation 2020/1503

Changes in Latvian Labour Law to enhance posted workers’ rights

Romania: Clarifications in the light of new rules on sale of agricultural land located outside built-up areas

Apostilles have been discontinued in the entire EU for two years according to Regulation (EU) 2016/1191

Romania: Significant steps for the reduction of business environment bureaucracy

Romania: Electronic Archiving

Abolition of so-called super-gross wage in the Czech Republic may raise take-home pay by several hundred or thousand crowns

Czech emigrants and their descendants will have it easier to (re-)acquire Czech citizenship

Austrian citizenship is easy to acquire for Austrian emigrants and their descendants; for German citizenship, the situation is not as straightforward, though some progress has been made

Employment of professional drivers in Germany

Should work in the same position for the same employer pay the same salary, regardless of whether the employee lives and works in Prague, in a large regional city, or in a tiny backwater?

Romania: New barriers for purchasing agricultural land

Change of mobile network operator in the Czech Republic now free of charge and immediately

Romania: Discounted sales. Loss sales. Legal implications.

Pre-emption right for share deals – company must provide information to municipality

Lithuanian Supreme Court rules on dismissal by employer

Practice of restitution of German citizenship pursuant of the Basic Law unconstitutional for decades

CJEU confirms ban on free samples of prescription-only medicines to pharmacists

Stricter rules for Lithuanian P2B platforms from July 2020

Romania: Enforcing bank guarantee letter on failure to pay rent during the state of emergency

On the status of the Lithuanian UBO register – companies already have obligations

Frozen Lithuanian “Cepelinai” with Polish potatoes

Current information on bankruptcy and restructuring law

Proposed stricter Act on Czech Citizenship – increased demand on foreigners to prove their clean criminal record

“Injury without Fault”: Lithuania strengthens patient rights Part 2

“Injury without Fault”: Lithuania strengthens patient rights Part 1

The new Czech Real Estate Brokerage Act has finally been adopted

Another limited deductibility of exceeding borrowing costs in Czechia

Lithuanian startup mentality against strict alcohol laws – this might now come to an end

Abortion law in Poland – Conscience clause prevents legal abortions

German UG can operate as a “Holding”

Abortion law in Lithuania – Liberal law is constantly at stake

Consequences of ineffective managing director contracts in Germany

PPK in Poland – voluntary or obligatory for companies?

Lithuania: New thresholds for tax-free daily allowances on business trips

Ultimate Beneficial Owners Register in Poland

Green light for reprocessing single-use medical devices in the EU?

The fight for European Certificates of Succession continues in Olomouc and Luxembourg

Slovakia: Agreement on employee wage deductions – employer as hostage?

Bulgaria introduces a unified electronic system for tourist information

No residence in Germany? Or in the Czech Republic?

Naturalization for descendants of Nazi persecution victims pursuant to Art. 116 (2) of Germany’s Basic Law

Czech meal allowance

Meet our expert at the upcoming IBA Annual Conference in Seoul

New rules for replica ID cards

The German car toll violates European law

ECJ: A1 also for non-EU citizens

(Partial) abolition of the apostille legalization duty

Posting of employees to Hungary

New rules for garage parking spaces in residential buildings

New rules on personal files in Poland

Doctor appointments during working hours

News in issuing a tax document from a received advance payment

Keeping payroll records

Tax obligations, rules and regulations affecting Airbnb short-term rentals

Shredding (and archiving) of financial accounting records at companies

Notarial deeds with direct enforceability clause and their pitfalls

Launch of Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) medicines registration procedure

Online sales of Rx-medicinal products

Legal framework for blockchain technology in Belarus

De facto manager liability

Ban on Sunday trading not for banks? Katarzyna Domańska-Mołdawa for Bankier.pl

Public procurement of foreign medical devices in Belarus

Extension of recourse liability in the B2B area

Transparency register imposes new obligations on legal entities and trust funds

Call-out service under new Labour Code

Failure of attempt to impose further restrictions on cash payments

Business Registers Interconnection System – BRIS

Ban on sleeping in truck cabins

Allowances for doubtful accounts

Renovation of Kemeri sanatorium

Belarus in global exchange of tax information

VAT on intra-community deliveries of goods

Standard maintenance and minor repairs in connection with the use of apartments

Sanitary and hygienic examination of foreign-made products

(Im)possibility of contractual limitation of damages under Slovak law

Payment and repayment of shareholders loans and capital surplus

Estonia’s new Building Code enters into force in July

Security deposit for rental apartments

The peculiarities and benefits of SICAV

Interest-free loans

Cash Pooling, the Czech Way

New regulations on statutory warranty and contractual guarantee as of December 2014

Common minimum wage in Germany

Severance pay upon termination of employment

EU funding vs. VAT deduction

What to do with the statutory reserve?

Restrictions on application of contractual penalty clause

New indemnity rules

Legal entities as managing directors or board members

New rules for VAT deduction

Judicial reform in Belarus

The Income Tax Act after 1 January 2014

Changes regarding purchase of agricultural land in Latvia

What is “usufructuary lease”?

English translation of all Estonian laws available online

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