Alina Tace

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Romanian, English, French

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Alina is a partner at WH Simion & Partners in Bucharest. She is recognised as a “Rising Star” by Legal 500 since 2018.

Alina provides commercial advice on complex regulatory matters, focusing on gaming and gambling, intellectual property, technology, and media. Her expertise extends to anti-money laundering, general commercial and corporate law, consumer protection, advertising, and media. Alina’s passion for her work and her dedication to providing the best legal expertise to her clients is inspirational.

She has helped several international online gambling operators obtain licenses in Romania with her in-depth knowledge of all legal aspects related to the operation of gaming and gambling activities.

Her intellectual property law expertise has helped clients resolve IP rights and provided on IP transactions and portfolio management. Alina is licensed as a Trademarks, Designs, and Patents Attorney, and a licensed European Trademark and Design attorney with EUIPO.

Expertise

Alina Tace specialises in

Consumer Protection and Advertising

Dispute Resolution

Gaming & Gambling

Intellectual Property

Technology & Media

Career Highlights

Advising one of the global key players in the music publishing industry in a copyright related transaction involving the acquisition of a very large and diverse audio-video compositions and recordings portfolio from one of the oldest and most reputed Romanian publishers and producers

Assisting Southeast Asia’s first decacorn, the developer of an app for ride-hailing, food delivery and digital payment services on mobile devices, on all IP related matters regarding its strategic partnership with a leading provider of connected car and location-based software and services

Assisting the leading commercial broadcasting TV company in Romania in relation to the management of the company’s entire trademark portfolio and in connection to day-to-day matters relating to intellectual property rights, including (but not limited to) pre-filing clearance searches, prosecution strategies as well as monitoring services

Advising a leading company in the gaming industry in Romania on a significant transaction involving the transfer of its key assets (primarily consisting of player data)

Assisting a leading gambling company operating in Central & Eastern Europe with both online and land-based operations in Romania in a trademark litigation case

Assisting several gambling B2C operators, leading companies in the sports betting and online casino sectors, in securing their first Class 1 licenses for online gambling activities in Romania, advising both on regulatory compliance and market entry strategies

Assisting the Romanian market leader in slot machine gambling, a company operating in the industry for over 20 years, having more than 100 locations spread across the country, with its Anti-Money Laundering (AML) audit

Rankings

Legal 500 EMEA 2024: Leading Associate in TMT: Gambling Law

Legal 500 EMEA 2024: Leading Associate in Intellectual Property

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