Bulgaria Corporate, M&A, Investments and Finance Law Firm

Dobrev, Kinkin & Lyutskanov Law Firm

Main Office

8 Tzar Ivan Shishman Street
Sofia 1000
Bulgaria

+359 2 9803876

+359 2 9804261

www.lawfirm-bg.com

Contact Roumen Lyutskanov

Law Firm Overview

Dobrev, Kinkin & Lyutskanov Law Firm was founded in 1989. The company is constituted and operates in accordance with the Bar Act. Its office is located in Sofia and it has a network of associate firms in the main cities of Bulgaria.

Being one of the leading law firms in Bulgaria, it sees its mission in assisting its clients to achieve their business objectives successfully. Therefore, its fundamental principles and values are high professionalism, speed of work, cost effectiveness and keeping clients informed.

The understanding of the strategic goals of its clients and the knowledge of the business environment, coupled with the thorough legal expertise of its lawyers ensure the high quality of service the firm provides to its clients.

The firm's client base has a strong commercial focus and includes leading domestic and international companies in various economic sectors, such as machine building, electronics, banking, energy, trade and services. The firm makes all efforts to keep abreast with the current issues facing these sectors and its corporate clients respectively.

Year this Office was Established: 1989

Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish.

Practice Areas

Additional Practice Areas: Infrastructure Projects; Liquidation and Insolvency; Industrial Property Rights; Public Procurement and Administrative Procedures.

Practice Areas Description

Our legal services include:

- Banking and Finance

Our firm has substantial experience and practice in the field of banking law and finance. Our team provides legal service to many local and foreign banks and non-banking financial institutions with regard to the statutory requirements and regulatory arrangements for their operations within the territory of Bulgaria and prepares the related documentation required under the existing laws. The law firm has track-record as the consultant to banks and financial institutions in the lending of inter-bank and syndicated loans and in the establishment of inter-bank consortia. The experience of the firm in the sphere of banking law and finance has brought about the successful implementation of numerous projects in Bulgaria.

- Capital Markets

We have a long-standing experience in the legal services provided to companies traded on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange. The law firm offers advice its clients in the course of the primary and secondary public offering of securities, in their corporate governance, the holding of general meetings, the disclosure of information to the public, bids and shareholders’ proposals in accordance with the Public Offering of Securities Act.

We have rich experience also in advising banks and investment intermediaries in connection with their transactions with various types of financial instruments, including securities, options, futures, swaps, forward contracts, prices of quotas in the emissions trading scheme, as well as with the regulatory regime for the provision of investment services.

- Competition Law

Our firm has provided legal assistance and protects the rights of its clients ever since the introduction of the anti-trust legislation in the Republic of Bulgaria. Throughout this period, our team has gained substantial and successful experience in the enforcement of the EU and national legislation which is increasingly turning into standards of business conduct and practices.

- Corporate and Commercial Law

Ever since its establishment Dobrev, Kinkin & Lyutskanov Law Firm has focused on corporate law as a major sphere in which it offers thorough and diverse legal consultancy to its Bulgarian and foreign clients. The law firm has rich experience in the field of business planning, investment structuring and business development of its clients. Our lawyers have a track record of more than 20 years to prove that they are business-oriented, seeking solutions to implement the intentions and to protect the interests of their clients.

- Energy and Renewable Energy Sources

Our firm has been providing legal services in the field of energy law ever since the energy sector was liberalized in Bulgaria. We consult our clients in the course of their business activity in the following areas: power generation from conventional and renewable energy sources, including the related trade in electricity; connectivity, access and transmission of electricity; purchase of complete electricity transmission facilities; overall implementation of projects for the construction of new energy capacities, including equipment supply contracts.

- Environment and Natural Resources

The environmental legislation is relatively new in Bulgaria. In response to the global trends and for the purposes of providing full legal services to our business-oriented clients who invest in real estate, the energy sector, chemical engineering, environmentally clean technologies, projects based on renewable energy sources, energy efficiency and emissions trading to reduce greenhouse, Dobrev, Kinkin & Lyutskanov Law Firm has developed diverse practice in the field of environmental law.

We have rich experience in providing legal services to clients operating in the extraction and protection of natural resources. We consult our clients on the administrative procedures applied to the extraction of mineral water, underground mineral resources and natural gas, as well as on the related procedures for grating concession rights, renewal of terms, etc.

- Infrastructure Projects

Our firm is involved in the provision of legal services in the implementation of the highly topical projects for the rehabilitation and extension of the road infrastructure. Our clients are contractors building new motorway lots or rehabilitating existing roads in the national road network. The services we provide cover the legal aspects of the entire infrastructure process as follows:

. project financing (including EU and other structural funds);
. structuring of the participants in the project in the appropriate legal form;
. submission of bids (including those under the Public Procurement Act);
. execution of project implementation contracts;
. ongoing consultancy in the course of the project implementation.

- Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights

Our lawyers have substantial experience in the provision of legal services ensuring comprehensive protection of intellectual property rights. In this sphere, we register trademarks, industrial designs, inventions and utility models, we offer subsequent advice to our clients and legal representation in proceedings concerning IPR infringements. In the process of the preparation of due diligence reports in various projects which require consultation in various branches of law, our team provides timely advice to its clients on IPR issues in connection with existing and future rights of the client, as well as in view of preventing conflicts with earlier intellectual property rights of other persons. The law firm has rich experience in representing its clients in court when their intellectual property rights have been infringed.

- Insurance Law, Maritime Law and Transport

We operate actively in the field of legal services in transportation and insurance. We assist our clients with consultancy, participation in negotiations and drawing up of contracts. Maritime law is an important aspect of our activities. Our practices include consultations on the conclusion and implementation of maritime transportation contracts, claims, litigation, as well as arrest of vessels.

- Labor Law and Social Security Law

The activities of Dobrev, Kinkin & Lyutskanov in this sphere focus on the legal consultancy and assistance to employers and employees with regard to labour relations, while ensuring protection of their rights and interests in the best possible way in accordance with their expectations.

- Liquidation and Insolvency

The services which Dobrev, Kinkin & Lyutskanov Law Firm provides to its clients include the cases of termination of the activities of their companies. The lawyers working in the law firm assist the clients in the cashing in of the available assets of the company, the settlement of its public debts and its relations with business counterparts, the allocation of the assets among the partners or shareholders and the de-registration of the company. The law firm offers highly qualified assistance in the liquidation procedure as laid down in the existing legislation.

Dobrev, Kinkin & Lyutskanov Law Firm is specialized in the provision of legal services in insolvency procedures. The law firm has a specialized unit to provide legal representation and advice to Bulgarian and foreign natural and legal persons when they take part in an insolvency procedure, regardless of the capacity they have in the procedure. Lawyers of the law firm have been registered as receivers in the list of receivers approved by the Ministry of Justice. Insolvency issues have recently become quite topical because of the growing number of insolvent undertakings against the backdrop of the global financial and economic crisis. Dobrev, Kinkin & Lyutskanov Law Firm consults insolvent undertakings and their creditors.

- Litigation

We provide highly qualified legal defense of its Bulgarian and foreign clients before all Bulgarian courts, as well as domestic and international arbitration tribunals. As well as consultancy in the field of commercial and civil law, the law firm offers comprehensive legal defense throughout the whole process, including the pre-trial phase, the litigation at all judicial instances in Bulgaria and national and international arbitration.

- Public Procurement and Administrative Procedures

We provide legal advice and represents its clients in public procurement procedures. The experience of the team is based on the large number of cases brought to the Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) to appeal against decisions of the contracting authorities in awarding public procurement contracts and the subsequent representation before the Supreme Administrative Court. The law firm provides assistance and consultancy in the preparation of the documents required for participation in public procurement tenders, as well as follow-up legal advice with regard to the options for challenging decisions of the contracting authority.

- Real Estate. Urban Planning and Construction Works

We have a long-standing track record and successful experience in real estate, urban planning and construction works. We give advice to our clients in the process of acquiring real estate in Bulgaria and in the subsequent implementation of investment projects in the field of hotel management and tourism, golf courses, office and commercial buildings, industrial construction works, and renewable energy projects.

- Tax Law

Our firm has gained substantial experience in the provision of tax advice to its clients as an integral part of the successful implementation of their business intentions. Being business-oriented lawyers, we advise our clients on all tax issues pertaining to their activities, as well as on all taxation matters which occur in the course of the implementation of a project or in cases assigned to the firm. More specifically, our consultancy covers the tax aspects and issues related to ongoing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, business operations and their tax treatment and also corporate activities.

Partners

	Mr. Theodor Bojinov Lawyer Alternative Dispute Resolution, Construction Law, Contracts, Mediation, Real Estate		Mr. Grozdan Dobrev Lawyer Capital Markets, Commercial Law, Competition Law, Corporate Law, Intellectual Property
	Mr. Vladimir Kinkin Lawyer Commercial Law, Competition Law, Corporate Law, Insolvency, Tax		Mr. Roumen Lyutskanov Lawyer Admiralty and Maritime, Banking and Finance, Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Energy
	Ms. Adriana Nacheva Lawyer Banking and Finance, Commercial Law, Construction Law, Corporate Law, Energy

Associates

	Ms. Vanya Angelova Lawyer Litigation		Ms. Nicole Atanasova Lawyer Capital Markets, Commercial Law, Corporate Law
	Ms. Silviya Dimova Lawyer Administrative Law, Commercial Law, Competition Law, Corporate Finance, Corporate Law		Ms. Mariya Endreva Lawyer Construction Law, Energy, Real Estate, Tax, Infrastructure Projects
	Ms. Katerina Gramatikova Lawyer Banking and Finance, Competition Law, Environmental and Natural Resources, Energy and Renewable Energy Sources, Public Procurement and Administrative Procedures		Mr. Yassen Hristev Lawyer Commercial Law, Competition Law, Corporate Law, Insolvency, Intellectual Property
	Ms. Gergana Ilieva Lawyer Construction Law, Labor, Litigation, Real Estate, Infrastructure Projects		Ms. Vyara Ivanova Lawyer Capital Markets, Commercial Law, Construction Law, Corporate Law, Insolvency
	Ms. Daniela Petkova Lawyer Banking and Finance, Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Insolvency, Labor		Mr. Nikolay Radev Lawyer Banking and Finance, Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Insolvency, Litigation
	Ms. Irina Sotirova Lawyer Commercial Law, Competition Law, Construction Law, Corporate Law, Intellectual Property		Ms. Silviya Spasova Lawyer Banking and Finance, Insolvency, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Tax
	Mr. Mihail Stankov Lawyer Admiralty and Maritime, Banking and Finance, Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Insolvency		Ms. Tsvetelina Stoilova-Valkanova Lawyer Admiralty and Maritime, Banking and Finance, Commercial Law, Construction Law, Corporate Law
	Ms. Siyana Veleva Lawyer Commercial Law, Construction Law, Corporate Law, Energy, Environmental and Natural Resources		Ms. Valentina Yonova Lawyer Admiralty and Maritime, Construction Law, Insurance, Litigation, Real Estate