Full Scope Legal Services in Bulgaria

Dinova Rusev & Partners Law Office

22 Emile de Laveleye Str.,
Sofia 1000
Bulgaria

+359 2 9434350

+359 2 9441508

www.drp-legal.com

Contact Anelia Dinova

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Law Firm Overview

Recognised as one of the leading firms in its jurisdiction, Dinova Rusev & Partners offers a results-driven and highly efficient service to some of world's leading companies. The firm, which combines the strength of its historic links to both national and international law firms with a highly motivated and talented team, has grown its business through an ethos that is based on an individual approach to each client. The ensuing professional relationships are built on trust and an unwavering desire to provide the most effective solutions.

Dinova Rusev & Partners became fully independent in April 2009 and continues to offer a full range of professional legal services to some of world's leading companies as well as those in Bulgaria. It has an established reputation among foreign investors in Bulgaria due to its longstanding track record of successes that include some of the largest and most complex transactions in the area. The firm maintains close relationships and collaborates with other law firms in South East Europe, the UK and West Europe.

With an established client base, the firm undertakes a broad range of cross border and domestic work ensuring its focus is always on the provision of expert legal advice tailored to meet clients' specific business needs. The expertise, commitment and enthusiasm of the team have helped to establish the firm as one of the top-tier law offices in the Bulgarian market.

Languages: English, German, French and Russian

Practice Areas

Additional Practice Areas: Carbon Trading, Public Procurement

Practice Areas Description

Dinova Rusev & Partners Law Office provides legal representation and services in the following areas of practice:

- Corporate and Commercial

The firm's dedicated company and commercial law experts have won recognition as trusted partners on a vast range of corporate and commercial transactions. Clients, who include multinationals investing in Bulgaria, local companies and corporations operating across a wide range of industry sectors, value the firm's sophistication and technical accuracy in its contractual drafting and negotiating abilities together with its strict adherence to corporate compliance matters.

- Finance and Capital Markets

The firm advises on all aspects of transactions in the Banking & Finance sector. The team offers expert advice to banks, lending institutions, corporations, investment funds, private and institutional borrowers. The firm's client base includes several of the leading banks and lending institutions operating in the Bulgarian market as well as private sector clients and foreign investors. The team represents clients in all types of capital markets work including listings and share capital increases as well as venture capital investments and public private partnerships. They can also handle all the compliance aspects of financial services and stock exchange regulations.

- Litigation and Dispute Resolution

The firm's litigation and arbitration practice has developed significantly over the past eighteen months and currently represents a fast growing part of the business. Dinova Rusev & Partners has represented clients in commercial, administrative and labour law disputes, proceedings before competition authorities and administrative bodies as well as in consumer protection disputes. The policy of applying negotiation and mediation techniques first (in order to avoid litigation and thus settle disputes with consequent cost savings for the client), has successfully resolved a number of potential litigation cases out of court. The litigation team is proud of its application of this solution focused approach to law suits, for example, a recent success involved the resolution of a complicated mezzanine finance dispute worth over EUR 3 million.

- M & A

The firm's mergers and acquisitions practice has always been one of Dinova Rusev & Partners core services. The current financial crisis has proved the firm's expertise in this area as it applies its extensive knowledge and experience in advisory work relating to restructuring whilst offering innovative solutions to the new challenges faced by clients in this uncertain economic climate.

- Real Estate and Construction

For the past four years, Dinova Rusev & Partners has advised and participated in most of the large-scale real estate transactions that have taken place in Bulgaria. The professionalism and insightful expertise of the real estate and construction team have ensured its recognition among clients like Assos Capital, the Fourlis group, Sisecam, Martinsa-Fadesa, the Bulgarian Real Estate Fund SPJSC and many others.

- Energy

The firm has one of the most advanced legal practices in the field of energy law. The energy team has extensive experience on all regulatory transactional and operational aspects of both conventional and alternative energy installations, power purchase agreements, grid connection, transmission lines and related legal issues. Dinova Rusev & Partners is one of the few law firms operating on the Bulgarian legal market that has full knowledge of all legal matters relating to the implementation of wind power plants. The firm has provided a complete set of legal services to the first operating wind power plant in Bulgaria ranging from the initial negotiations with the grid operator to the successful opening and operation of the plant.

- Environmental and Carbon Trading

The firm's energy team has extensive experience in providing services to both international and Bulgarian clients on environmental compliance, issuance of operational environmental permits and the resolution of environmental disputes with both NGOs and state bodies. The firm continuously provides advice relating to joint implementation projects under the Kyoto protocol, issues with carbon trading in Bulgaria and the implementation of EU legislation relating to climate change in Bulgaria. Dinova Rusev & Partners also advises clients on verificator's registration and agreements for the purchase of EU allowances.

- Labour

Dinova Rusev & Partners maintains long standing relations with a number of clients to whom it provides full scope legal services in all aspects of labour law including: employment contracts for all levels of personnel (regulatory framework, structuring of salaries & compensation schemes, employment & fringe benefits, minimum & alternative remuneration, business trips, stock option plans, residence permits); dismissal, redundancy &transfer (regulatory framework, individual & collective severance packages, post termination, workforce restructuring, non compete and confidentiality agreements); relationships with trade union & works councils; compliance with national and EU regulations; internal works regulations (codes of conduct, health & safety, ethical codes); litigation & arbitration: unfair dismissals, benefits, overtime payments, employee status, annual leave allowance & compensation, discrimination, sexual harassment; personal data protection issues related to employment etc. As part of the firm's advisory practice, it provides employment pre-litigation alternative dispute resolution services.

- Project Finance

Dinova Rusev & Partners advises private sector clients in project finance and PPP related matters. The firm's portfolio of PF transactions includes the related aspects of major M&A transactions as well as on-going projects for foreign investors with Bulgarian municipalities.

- EU, Competition & Regulatory Compliance

Along with advising clients on competition clearance for mergers, concentration and share purchases, Dinova Rusev & Partners has a fast growing practice in the fields of unfair competition and consumer protection compliance.

Partners

	Ms. Anelia Dinova Managing Partner Banking and Finance, Business and Industry, Construction Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Real Estate		Mr. Milen Rusev Partner Commercial Law, Competition Law, Contracts, Corporate Law, European Community Law
	Ms. Diana Valkova Partner Banking and Finance, Commercial Law, Corporate Finance, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions