Răzvan Alexandru Olaru

A signature is only worth what the person behind it carries. My·Counsel is not a faceless tool — behind every engagement is a named, dual-qualified lawyer who stands personally accountable for the judgment and the sign-off.

I am a commercial lawyer dual-qualified as a Romanian avocat and a solicitor of England & Wales (non-practising), with over twelve years across cross-border Romania–UK–EU work. Day to day I lead, structure, draft and negotiate the agreements that carry technology businesses — MSAs, SaaS and cloud, outsourcing and systems integration, licensing, SOWs and SLAs, and data-transfer terms — and advise international, multi-entity groups on corporate, M&A and governance.

That formation was built deliberately across both legal worlds: an LL.M. in financial, corporate and commercial law from the LSE; a first-class joint degree in English and French law from Nottingham (top 5% of the cohort); an Erasmus year in French law at Toulouse; and an LL.B. from the University of Bucharest read concurrently — continental and common law learned in parallel, not translated after the fact.

It became a career across three houses: banking, finance and corporate work at NNDKP, Romania’s largest firm; business and corporate law at Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații; and, since 2017, PIM Associates, where I am a Managing Associate — across IT&C, insurance, public procurement, corporate, real estate and litigation, pleading included. Along the way I have steered real-estate and corporate transactions of roughly €100 million to completion and, as one of a two-person team with the firm’s partner, designed a new insurance product calibrated to the EU’s expanded Product Liability Directive (Directive (EU) 2024/2853) — turning fresh, untested law into a compliant, marketable product.

The thread is the boundary itself. Romania is in the EU, so every entry into it from outside the Union is a seam — a non-EU business stepping into the single market, where a whole stack of European law switches on at once. I work that seam, with Romania as the gateway and English law — which still governs a vast share of the world’s commercial contracts — as the common-law side I am qualified on, holding a current, working command of the EU digital rulebook: the GDPR, DORA, the AI Act, NIS2, the Data Act, the DSA and the GPSR. A comparative study of the fiducia and the English trust is in progress as doctoral research.

My·Counsel is that experience making an informed transition: still a lawyer’s practice — judgment, accountability, a signature — but conceptualised and delivered through the current framework, with gold-standard playbooks distilled from the work, deterministic search grounding the most advanced public models, and an expert human eye on everything that carries my name. The method is public — how we use AI.