Separate teams from Tsvetkova Bebov Komarevski have advised both EnduroSat and Freigeist Capital on the latter's investment into the former. Lacore Rechtsanwalte was German counsel to Freigeist Capital. 

We decided to lighten the mood this time around by asking our Law Firm Marketing experts from across the region a non-law-firm related question: “What did you most want to be when you were little?”

Over the past few years CMS advised the OTP Bank Group on an extensive series of acquisitions across Bulgaria, Moldova, and former Yugoslavia. This series of separate deals was shortlisted for CEE Legal Matters’ CEE Deal of the Year in each of the countries involved, actually winning the 2018 Deal of the Year for Bulgaria and the 2019 Deal of the Year Award for Montenegro. We reached out to Eva Talmacsi, who led CMS’s multi-jurisdictional team, to learn more about the firm’s impressive work on OTP’s behalf.

Boyanov & Co has successfully represented Organic Land Corporation EOOD, a Bulgarian subsidiary of Tradin Organic B.V., in litigation against an unidentified company operating in the agricultural business. 

Dimitrov, Petrov & Co. has advised Team.blue on its acquisition of the Bulgarian web hosting company SuperHosting. The Vladimirov Kiskinov law firm advised SuperHosting on the deal.

Iliana Byanova, the former Chief Legal and Compliance Officer at the First Investment Bank, has joined Sopharma Trading as its Chief Legal, Risk, and Compliance Officer in Sofia.

DLA Piper and Bulgaria's Sabev & Partners law firm have advised the Government of Bulgaria on the concession agreement and the tender procedure for the Sofia Airport in Bulgaria. As previously reported, Kinstellar advised the winning SOF Connect Consortium, which was led by Meridiam and included Munich Airport and Strabag.

Eurolex Bulgaria and CMS have advised Trace Group Holding and Balkantel — both members of the Plovdiv Railway Project Consortium — on their successful participation in a tender for a EUR 45 million railway public procurement project in Bulgaria.

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Georgiev, Todorov & Co. has successfully represented Sofia's Acibadem City Clinic Multidisciplinary Hospital for Active Treatment Tokuda EAD in a claim against Bulgaria's National Health Insurance Fund for payment for medical care provided by the hospital to health-insured persons above the limits set by the NHIF.

Former Dimitrov, Tchompalov & Todorova partner Katya Todorova has joined CMS Sofia as Head of Capital Markets.

Kinstellar has advised OTP Bank and its Bulgarian subsidiary, DSK Bank, on a EUR 25 million loan provided to Balkan Business Center AD for the construction and operation of the Balkan Business Center office complex in Sofia.

DGKV has advised Bulgarian start-up Nasekomo on the investment into the company of EUR 4 million from VC funds Morningside Hill and New Vision 3 backed by the Fund of Funds in Bulgaria.

Dimitrov, Petrov & Co. has assisted with the spin-off of CETIN Bulgaria from PPF Telenor.

Boyanov & Co. has advised the Valea Foundation on the acquisition of a minority capital package in FIB Bank.

Kinstellar has advised Silversmith Capital Partners, a Boston-based growth equity firm, on Appfire’s acquisition of Botron Software, a Bulgaria-based provider of tools that enable enterprise-level change and configuration management within the Jira software platform.

After operating under the brands Andersen Tax, Andersen Legal, and Andersen Tax & Legal, the member firms of Andersen Global in Europe, will now operate under a single brand: "Andersen".

The team of Georgiev, Todorov & Co. Law Offices is constantly monitoring the measures to deal with the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic in the country. Our legal adviser Vili Datsov prepared detailed information in connection with the latest amendments to the Value Added Tax Act.