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Ionut Chisar
Senior Associate

Ionut Chisar

Languages
  • Romanian
  • English

Ionut Chisar is a senior associate in the Criminal Defence Department at CMS Romania, specialising in white-collar crime. He provides strategic, client-focused advice for both individuals and corporate clients at every stage of criminal proceedings, delivering legal solutions tailored to the specific challenges of each case.

His expertise covers a broad spectrum of criminal offences, including fraud, financial crimes, cybercrime, corruption, work-related offences, money laundering, and organised crime. He advises on criminal matters connected to business activities across diverse sectors such as healthcare, banking, energy, construction, gas, transport, waste management, IT, and food supply. In addition, Ionut counsels clients on regulatory and compliance issues involving health and safety, workplace incidents, arson, and industrial hazards.

Ionut has successfully handled complex cases, defending the interests of people accused of committing criminal offenses and injured parties alike, offering legal counselling, preparing and implementing defence strategies.
 

Publications

  • 2025 - Maintaining a person in a state of error during the conclusion or execution of contracts - AUBD Forum Juridic no. 1/2025.
  • 2024 - The role of the European Anti-Fraud Office and of the Anti-Fraud Department in criminal proceedings and the evidentiary value of the outcome of their investigative work - Romanian Yearbook of White-Collar & Corporate Crime, Universul Juridic.
  • 2023 - The applicability of late payment penalties provided by the Tax Procedure Code when settling the civil side of criminal proceedings - Romanian Yearbook of White-Collar & Corporate Crime, Universul Juridic
  • 2022 - Manslaughter due to professional negligence, the unconstitutionality of the phrase “as a result of non-compliance with the measures prescribed for exercise of a profession or craft or for the performance of a certain activity” by reference to the mandatory jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court, www.juridice.ro     
  • 2020 - Considerations regarding the extension of the right to drive in the context of the state of emergency, www.juridice.ro 
  • 2018 - Introduction of drugs into the country for personal use – controversial issues, Law Magazine no. 8/2018
  • 2018 - The current situation of the main ammendments to the Criminal Code after the recent intervention of the Constitutional Court, www.juridice.ro (co-author)

Memberships & Roles

  • Bucharest Bar Association.
  • Romanian Association of Penal Sciences.
  • Romanian Association of Criminal Business Law.

Education

  • 2016 – LLM in Criminal Sciences, Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest, Romania.
  • 2015 - LLB, Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest, Romania.

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