Andrei Petre

Andrei Petre

Andrei Petre is a Partner and co-head of the Competition, FDI & FSR and Energy & Natural Resources practices. He advises clients on regulatory approvals, complex commercial arrangements and investigations, with particular experience across the energy, retail, healthcare, manufacturing, agro and tech sectors. Andrei represents clients in dawn raids and antitrust investigations. He advises on domestic and multi-jurisdictional merger control, FDI and FSR screening, as well as the competition aspects of complex commercial and transactional arrangements. His practice also covers abuse of dominance, horizontal and vertical agreements, distribution and franchising, unfair competition and competition compliance. In addition, Andrei advises producers, suppliers, traders, aggregators, investors and project developers across the electricity and natural gas markets. His work covers the development, acquisition and operation of renewable energy and battery energy storage projects, including the structuring and negotiation of EPC, O&M, tolling, aggregation and optimisation agreements, physical and virtual PPAs and route-to-market arrangements. He also advises on energy licensing, market access, trading and regulatory compliance, including REMIT and EMIR/MiFID, and represents clients in investigations and proceedings before the Romanian energy regulator (ANRE).