WH Simion & Partners

WH Simion & Partners is a strategic alliance between Bucharest-based Simion & Partners and WH Partners, a front-running law firm in TMT and digital industries. This partnership enhances our ability to deliver comprehensive legal solutions by combining international reach with local insight, and by providing the knowledge, resources, and experience necessary to handle complex transactions and dispute resolution.

We are a law firm focused on highly regulated industries, advising on licensing, corporate and commercial matters, intellectual property, competition, tax, employment, and real estate. Known for our work in strategic IP protection and regulatory matters, we support clients in gaming, technology, financial services, and other sectors where compliance drives business success.

Our Intellectual Property practice is recognised by leading legal and IP publications and trusted by both Romanian and international clients for its efficiency and results. Our client portfolio includes global players in telecom and media, leading software corporations, iGaming operators, and international law firms.

The practice is led by Cosmina Maria Simion, a dual-qualified lawyer and trademark attorney recognised as both a Trade Mark IP Star and Copyright IP Star, with extensive experience in transactional and regulatory IP matters.

Alina Tace, recognised as a Notable Practitioner, brings deep expertise in IP strategy, enforcement, and transactions. She is dual-qualified as a Romanian and European trademark and design attorney and also ranked as a Next Generation Partner by Legal 500 EMEA. Petruș Partene, ranked as a Rising Star, contributes strong technical and data protection expertise, supporting the firm’s integrated approach to technology and regulatory matters.

Key practice areas: 

Copyright Copyright & related rights, Designs, Intellectual property, Intellectual property (contentious),
Intellectual property (prosecution), IP transactions, Trade mark Trade mark (contentious), Trade mark (prosecution)

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1. Cosmina Maria Simion - Intellectual property - cosmina.simion@whsimionpartners.ro; 

• Assisted a leading real estate developer and investor known for its large scale projects in Romania in defending its position in a complet and precedent - setting intellectual property dispute concerning an alleged trademark infringement.
• Representing a leading technology distributor in a multi-million intellectual property LCIA
  arbitrateon involving the alleged breach of an exclusive software licensing agreement for appropriate a gamification platform. 
• Advised a major international client on the full transactional framework for acquiring a Romanian trademark and domain name that had been identifie d as conflicti ng with the brand intende d for market launch. 

      2. Alina Tace - Intellect ual property - alina.ta ce@whsimionpartners.ro 

• Assisted a non- profit organization active in the cultural and creative industries, with the registration of a national figurative trademark before the Romani an State Office for Inventio ns and Tradem arks (OSIM).
• Advised a prominent international sports publication on the structuring and protection of its intellectual property rights in connection with its market entry and operational expansion in Romania.
• Advising a leading technology distributor on a comple x, high- value software licensing transaction involving an exclusive distribution framework for a proprietary gamification platform.  

      3. Petrus Partene - Intellect ual propert - petrus.p artene@ whsimio npartne rs.ro

• Assisted a non- profit organization active in the cultural and creative industries, with the registration of a national figurative trademark before the Romanian State Office for Inventions and Trademarks(OSIM).
• Advised a prominent international sports publication on the structuring and protection of its intellectual property rights in connection with its market entry and operational expansion in Romania.
• Advising a leading technology distributor on a complete x, high- value software licensing transaction involving an exclusive distribution framework for a proprietary gamification platform.

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