Corporate and Commercial law

Our corporate practice is at the heart of our firm’s activities. Our corporate lawyers are involved in many of our industry sector groups where they are able to combine detailed industry knowledge with their core legal skills. Examples of these industries include construction and engineering; telecommunications; media and technology /TMT/; financial institutions; energy and natural resources; chemicals; retail; transport.

Our extensive expertise enables us to meet the highest needs and requirements of foreign and local investors starting to do business in Bulgaria. We have assisted both foreign and local clients in the establishing and management of companies in Bulgaria.

Our lawyers provide high quality legal advice and services related to:

• Incorporation of companies and other corporate structures

• Establishing of subsidiaries, branch offices or joint ventures

• All necessary registrations with competent authorities

• Corporate reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions

• Transfers of shares

• Transfers of assets and commercial enterprises

• Outsourcing

• Acting as Corporate Counsel – negotiations, drafting and reviewing contracts

• Acting as Company Secretary

• Day-by-day business law advice related to all activities of our clients

• Management contracts

• Specialist legal services with respect to all types of commercial transactions and contracts

• Acting as Business advisor

Mergers & Acquisitions work represents a significant part of our activities. Our corporate lawyers are leaders in M&A, specializing in large, complex cross-border transactions.

Joint ventures are important to business. They have become an important strategic option for many companies, particularly those operating internationally. These transactions are a significant part of our corporate practice – for a wide range of clients and in a wide range of industry sectors. They include full-scale mergers of existing businesses; infrastructure project joint ventures; joint ventures as a way of entry into emerging markets.