Mihaela Maravela

• Author at www.maravela.blog on international arbitration, domain names and trademarks
• The applicable law to the arbitration agreement and its relevance in enforcement proceedings, in Romanian Arbitration Journal, no. 1/2023
• Co-author of “Practical Insights on Anti-Suit Injunctions” and “Practical Insights on Anti-Arbitration Injunctions”, in Kluwer Arbitration Practice Plus, Joshua Karton, Simon Greenberg, Fan Yang (eds), Wolters Kluwer, 2021.
• Author of “Applicable Law in Domain Name Arbitrations”, in Romanian Arbitration Journal, no. 1/2021.
• Co-author of “Applicable Law to Arbitration Agreement and No Oral Modification Clause: Case Note on the Decision of the England and Wales Court of Appeal”, in Contemporary Asia Arbitration Journal (ESCI), (Vol. 13, No. 2), 2020.
• Co-author of “The new generic Internet domain names. Considerations from the practice of solving generic Internet domain name disputes under UDRP”, in the Romanian Journal of Intellectual Property Law no. 1/2017.
• Author of Chapter 7.02, “RO Domain Name Disputes in Romania” in: Arbitration in Romania, a Practitioner’s Guide, Crenguta Leaua and Flavius A. Baias (eds), Wolters Kluwer, 2016.
• Co-author of “Case law benchmarks on the defence of the personal name protected as trademark”, in the Romanian Journal of Intellectual Property Law no. 1/2014.
• Co-author of “Internet domain names”, in the Romanian Journal of Intellectual Property Law no. 1/2012.
• Co-author of “Trademarks for Medicine. Choice. Special conditions, relevant public”, in the Romanian Journal of Intellectual Property Law no. 2/2011.

• “Applicable law in the arbitration concerning Internet domain names”, CSDE: Conference Privat Arbitration in European context, ed. VII, 18 January 2023
• Virtual hearings in international arbitration – London, Bucharest, Brussels, Paris, at Arbitration Hour, universuljuridic.ro, 2020
• Reader during 2015-2020 at the LLM Programme “International Commercial Arbitration” organised by the Law School of the Bucharest University, with a lecture on Intellectual Property and Arbitration: UDRP disputes.
• Speaker at the International biennial conference, XI Edition, organised on 29 October 2016 by the Law School of the West University of Timisoara, with a presentation on: “New Internet domain names: looming of a new practice of solving UDRP disputes”.
• Speaker at the National Conference of commercial law, organised on 13 June 2015 by the Law School of Babeş-Bolyai University – Cluj, with a presentation on: “Considerations on sale of internet domain names”.
• Speaker at the International Conference: Modern trends in international commercial arbitration, organised on 7 September 2012 by the Law School of the Bucharest University, with a presentation on: “Internet domain names disputes and ADR; other ADR for intellectual property rights”.

Mihaela Maravela is founding partner of Maravela Mihaela Law Office, member of Maravela Codescu Buliga Attorneys at law, Romania (MCB Law).

Their team is comprised of highly talented dispute resolution lawyers having strong academic backgrounds and experience of plus 20 years in handling complex arbitrations under a variety of arbitration rules, both locally and internationally.

Many of the lawyers of MCB Law act also as arbitrators in arbitral proceedings which further adds to our strategic view of a case. Our lawyers are recognized as leading figures in the arbitration field and continuously work to enhance their academic background and experience in the field.

Services:

• Legal advice in pre-arbitration phases (ranging from managing disputes during the performance of contracts, amicable settlement, ADR, early evaluation and preparation of disputes).
• Counsel services in arbitration proceedings under a variety of arbitration rules (ICC – Paris, VIAC – Vienna, WIPO – Geneva, CICA – Bucharest).
• Counsel services on Romanian law issues to foreign law firms as co-counsel.
• Counsel services in arbitration-related Romanian state court proceedings in enforcement of arbitral awards or set-aside proceedings.
• Arbitrator services.
• Member of team of experts involved in international arbitration proceedings in respect of complex Romanian law issues.

Maravela Codescu Buliga Attorneys at law is founded in Romania by reputed and experienced lawyers with in-depth knowledge of the law, clever approach to business and tax matters and extensive experience in large transactions and complex cases.

We provide fully integrated advice both in transactional matters, substantive tax law and dispute resolution processes (court litigation, tax controversy and arbitration). Our consultancy experience gives us the necessary edge when preparing the strategy of court or arbitration cases. Likewise, our dispute resolution experience enables us to foresee the risks when negotiating transactions, as we help clients to anticipate and successfully address from the outset potential disputes and tax controversies that might arise. Our experience is further honed by acting as arbitrators in complex disputes arisen inter alia from large infrastructure projects.

We work for corporate clients from all commercial and industry sectors, governments, financial institutions. We provide them with high-quality, clear and highly responsive legal and tax advice.