Jan Demeyere

Jan Demeyere, Architect and Co-founder of SPEEDWELL, graduated with honors in 1991 from Sint-Lucas Ghent University in Belgium, specializing in urban planning. He brings over 20 years of experience in the international construction and real estate market, with more than 15 years spent in Romania. In 2014, Jan Demeyere partnered with Didier Balcaen to establish SPEEDWELL Real Estate Development, a company dedicated to creating projects that enhance the quality of life in communities. To achieve this goal, Jan is actively involved in every stage of the process, working closely with the in-house architectural team to ensure each building is unique, aesthetically pleasing, sustainable, and designed with the community’s needs in mind. Although he designs as an architect, Jan thinks like a developer, a perspective evident in all his successfully delivered projects.

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.