September 2026
The firm is ranked among only four recognized practices in Romania, with Ana-Maria Baciu named Highly Recommended.
BACIU PARTNERS and Ana-Maria Baciu have been recognized in the inaugural edition of Copyright 1000, the new international guide published jointly by World Trademark Review (WTR) and IAM.
BACIU PARTNERS is ranked as Recommended, placing it among only four law firms recognized for copyright work in Romania.
Ana-Maria Baciu is ranked Highly Recommended, the highest distinction awarded to individual practitioners. The Romanian chapter highlights 11 professionals in total, with only five receiving this top-tier ranking.
The research underlines the continued evolution of Romania’s copyright market, driven by the rapid development of the technology sector, digital services, and innovation-led businesses. It also points to a broader market shift: copyright is increasingly approached as a strategic commercial asset to be structured, licensed, and leveraged from an early stage, rather than solely as a right to be enforced.
In its assessment, Copyright 1000 notes that BACIU PARTNERS has developed a practice “at the intersection of innovation, media, and commercial strategy”, highlighting the team’s work across software, music, consumer brands, and design-led businesses.
Ana-Maria Baciu is described as “one of Romania’s leading IP practitioners”, combining a forward-looking practice with an active contribution to industry discussions on emerging copyright matters. The guide also highlights her work at the intersection of copyright, technology, and the digital economy, alongside recent high-stakes litigation concerning software copyright ownership in unsettled areas of Romanian law.
Copyright, as a distinct IP field, increasingly enters the conversation much earlier, starting when a product, platform, brand, or creative project is being developed, not just when a right needs to be enforced. This changes the entire paradigm regarding both the questions clients bring to us and our role as legal advisers. We deeply value this recognition because it reflects the work we have consistently built at the intersection of legal protection, technology, and commercial strategy, just as WTR and IAM have perfectly framed it – thank you!,
said Ana-Maria Baciu.
These Copyright 1000 results add to a series of distinctions secured by BACIU PARTNERS’ IP practice.
- The firm was named CEE IP Firm of the Year at the inaugural Legal 500 CEE Awards in October 2025, the first Romanian firm to receive this title
- in 2026, it was recognised as the sole Romanian firm ranked Band 1 for Intellectual Property & TMT by Chambers Europe, reconfirmed in Tier 1 for Intellectual Property by The Legal 500 EMEA, and named Romania Trademark Firm of the Year at the Managing IP EMEA Awards, alongside shortlist nominations for Romania Copyright & Design Firm of the Year and Romania Patent Firm of the Year.
The launch of Copyright 1000 marks the first dedicated global research by WTR and IAM into the firms and practitioners shaping copyright markets across key jurisdictions. The full rankings and methodology details are available (registration required) HERE.
Details about our award-winning Intellectual Property practice are available HERE.