Dan Mihai

Dan Mihai is the founding member of Mihai & Co Business Lawyers, a medium-sized independent full-service business law firm based in Bucharest, Romania and a member of the Bucharest Bar Association since 2000.

Dan has a wide experience in providing legal advice and his main areas of expertise are sport law, corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, commercial litigation.

Dan has a wide experience as Arbitrator, being appointed in prestigious national or international bodies in relation with sport arbitration or commercial arbitration. In this respect, he has been appointed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne at the end of 2024 as arbitrator on general list and also, he has been appointed by Sport Resolutions’ Panel of Arbitrators and Mediators for international causes since 2021. On national level he has been a member of the Commission of Appeal on Preventing and Combating Doping in Sport since Nov 2022;  Dan has been member of the Disciplinary Panel of the Romanian Tennis Federation between 2022-2024 and also between 2019-2022 acted as a Member of the Appeal Panel of the Romanian Handball Federation, and has participated in over 80 appeals. As for commercial arbitration, In July 2023, Dan has been selected as a member of the EODID Athens Mediation &Arbitration Organisation and he acts as Arbitrator for the Permanent Court of Arbitration within AHK Romania since December 2021.

Dan regularly participates as speaker at conferences and seminars open to the public or specialists, on matters such as sport law, commercial law, labour law and GDPR.

Dan is currently the Secretary General of Proteus – an international network of law firms and also a  Member of “REX Sport” (www.rexsport.org) since 2022.