Andronic and Partners and Melnic | Bercu, working with Eversheds Sutherland, have advised the founders and selling shareholders of Planable on the sale of the company to SE Ranking. BPV Grigorescu Stefanica, Gladei & Partners, and Jizdan & Partners, working with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, advised SE Ranking.
SE Ranking, backed by Camber Partners, is a Palo Alto–based SEO platform.
According to Melnic | Bercu, Planable, launched in Chisinau in 2016, provides a social media collaboration platform used by over 7,000 agencies and in-house teams to plan, approve, and analyze content across nine networks.
The Melnic | Bercu team included Partner Vlad Bercu and Junior Associate Sorin Chirita.
The Andronic and Partners team included Managing Partner Ana Maria Andronic, Partner Vlad Druta, Counsel Bianca Alexandra Chera, Senior Associates Andrei Konya and Diana Ciobanu, Associate Stefan Lupascu, and Junior Associate Anca Nicoleta Calugaru.
The Gladei & Partners team included Partner Iulian Pasatii, Senior Associate Natalia Siretanu, and Junior Associate Mihaela Darie.
The BPV Grigorescu Stefanica team included Managing Partner Catalin Grigorescu, Partner Cristina de Jonge, Managing Associate Laura Popa, Senior Associates Denisa Kopandi, Antonia Coman, and Roxana Daskalu, and Associates Tania Adam and Diana Ciubotaru.
The Jizdan & Partners team included Managing Partner Andrei Jizdan and Tax, Accounting & Legal Projects Manager Ecaterina Verbeniuc.