Alexandru Bonea

Alexandru Bonea is a strategic investor and capital allocator in real estate, with a focus on residential, retail, and hospitality developments. His career combines entrepreneurial vision with hands-on execution, across both private and public markets.

As Co-Founder & CEO of Meta Estate Trust, Alexandru built one of the first real estate investment platforms in Romania — listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange and supported by a network of visionary entrepreneurs. Under his leadership, the company has invested over €35 million in 42 projects, completed 20 exits with IRRs between 12% and 42%, and since 2023, when he took over as CEO, carried out a full strategic restructuring: he reduced portfolio risks, repositioned the investment strategy, and restored the company to consistent profitability — with a net ROE of over 10% annually.

Before Meta, Alexandru built his operational experience across three key markets:

  • 🇷🇴 Romania – Coordinated the development of a premium villa residential complex in Corbeanca, as Head of Real Estate at Deltastudio Group
  • 🇵🇹 Portugal – Founded a value-add investment company focused on renovating and selling residential assets in Lisbon
  • 🇦🇪 UAE – Launched and led a trading company in Dubai, importing and distributing consumer goods globally

Biriș Goran was founded by a group of senior lawyers and associates from an international law firm in the spring of 2006 and offers a full range of legal services, with a particular focus on tax, litigation, real estate, competition law, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, energy, data protection and intellectual property, labor law and financing.

Biriș Goran that regularly advises a wide range of companies, from emerging to mid-size to multinationals across a variety of industry sectors, including real estate, fast moving consumer goods, banking and finance, private equity funds, retail, pharmaceuticals, energy, or construction materials.

Biriș Goran’s team comprises over 40 attorneys, including eight partners, with a blend of Western and local experience and foreign language skills. One of the partners is also licensed to practice in the US and most of the senior associates are educated, trained, or licensed in various European countries.

Biriș Goran’s practices are routinely listed as top tier practices in Romania by reputable legal directories such as Chambers Europe or Legal 500 and the key lawyers are largely recognized as leaders in their fields.

SEMA Real Estate is a real estate investor and developer with Romanian capital, with over 20 years of activity on the local market, supported by a team of professionals with extensive experience in planning, developing and managing large-scale real estate projects. SEMA Real Estate is developing two of the capital’s major urban reconversion projects: SEMA Parc – located on Splaiul Independentei – approx. 1,000,000 sqm GBA and The Light – located on Iuliu Maniu Boulevard, approx. 150,000 sqm GBA.

SEMA Real Estate has in its portfolio over 150,000 square meters (GLA) of office spaces and has delivered over 55,000 square meters of new class A buildings in the last four years, within the Sema Parc and The Light, through the three class A buildings – The Light One, London and Oslo.

Our mission is to transform and reshape the urban landscape in the central-western area of the capital, through the sustainable development of our projects.