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Lavinia Gheorghe is the former Chief Risk Officer of Depozitarul Central S.A. – a Romanian unique financial market infrastructure, nowadays acting as independent advisor (attorney at law) on risks related matters for it.

In Depozitarul Central, her main task was to coordinate and implemente the risk management function and other risk related projects, according to European legal framework and delegated regulations issued in this respect, being part of the EU working group involved in the EU drafting legislation process.

Achieving more than 20 years expertise in the capital market (since 1997), Lavinia activated as head of Surveillance Department in Financial Supervisory Authority (former Romanian National Securities Commission) and as Head of Compliance and Risk Management Department for the international brokerage company KBC Securities Romania – local division of KBC N.V. – Belgium.

Graduated from the Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest, the Faculty of Finance, Insurance, Banking and Stock Exchanges and “Nicolae Titulescu” University, The Faculty of Law, Mrs. Lavinia Gheorghe is member of Romanian Bar Association. Also, also she completed a Master Degree in Business Law at “Bucharest Academy of Economics” and various courses and specializations in important institutions, such as Institute of Risk Management – London, being an active member of several working groups of the European Central Securities Depositories Association (Policy WG, Risk Management WG and Compliance WG) and International Securities Services Association (Recovery, Resolution and Resilience – RRR, Domestic CSDs).

Mrs. Lavinia Gheorghe has been involved in different major projects, providing legal advice and solutions, according to local and/or European regulatory framework related to:

-         GDPR implementation or harmonization of the companies’ internal legal framework, for major local companies, including specific gap analyzes and assessments;

-         advisory on specific AML aspects related to criminal files on money laundering, corruption, tax evasion, “white - collar” crimes;

-         risk management, assessment and implementation of specific tools, rules and procedures including business continuity, recovery and resolution, winding–down and restructuring;

-         drafting and implementing the EU financial regulatory frame for financial infrastructures, being member of an EU specialized organization’s policy and risk management working groups;

-         implementation of the AML RO framework through specific rules and procedures, preventive measures for important capital market entities;

-         Advisory activities on legal, technical and financial aspects regarding EU and international laws applicable to the RO capital market (including the post-trading environment, advisory related to capital adequacy prudential rules, operational risk);

-         Advisory activities related to the implementation and harmonization of internal procedural framework with the MIFID directive, EU Market Abuse Regulation and Directive (form financial markets), relevant directives for issuers, asset management companies and UCITS, closed-end investment funds, financial instruments;

-         Advisory activities for various large privately held companies (listed on BSE) related to financial instruments issuance, IPOs, corporate events.