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Kinstellar and CMS Advise on Sale of ex-Alpha Bank Headquarters in Sofia

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Kinstellar has advised Peter Mitev and Big Orange Foundation on the joint venture with Raycho Raychev and Endurosat for the acquisition of a 17,000-square-meter office building in Sofia from Alpha Bank. CMS advised Alpha Bank on the sale of its former headquarters. Yonev Valkov Nenov reportedly advised Raycho Raychev and Endurosat.

Peter Mitev is the co-founder and former CEO of Chaos Group, a computer graphics technology company.

Raycho Raychev is the founder and CEO of Endurosat satellite company.

According to Kinstellar, “the building is strategic for Endurosat's vision for the development of the space sector and will be used for space research and other key operations. The acquisition of the building, formerly the headquarters of Alpha Bank, is the largest office transaction on the Bulgarian real estate market for the year 2024 to date.”

The Kinstellar team included Managing Partner Diana Dimova, Partner Antonia Mavrova, Counsels Svilen Issaev and Atanas Mihaylov, and Senior Associate Denitsa Kuzeva.

The CMS team included Partner Jenia Dimitrova, Senior Associates Katya Todorova and Yana Antonova, and Associates Emil Karasanov and Reni Yanakieva.

CMS at a Glance

CMS Sofia is a full-service law firm, the largest international law firm in Bulgaria and one of the largest providers of legal services in the local market as a whole. The breadth and depth of our practice means that our lawyers are specialised, with a level of specialisation that few of our competitors can match.

CMS Sofia is the Bulgarian branch of CMS, a top ten global legal and tax services provider with over 5000 lawyers in 43 countries and 78 offices across the world.

CMS entered the Bulgarian market as one of the first internationally active law firms in 2005 and is now among the most respected legal advisors in the country. We have 7 partners, 4 counsel and over 30 lawyers in our office in Sofia.

Our legal experts, who are rooted in Bulgaria’s local culture, can also draw on years of experience in foreign countries and are at home in several legal systems at once. We know the particularities of the local market just as well as the needs of our clients and combine both to achieve optimum solutions. Our lawyers are Bulgarian qualified and we also have English qualified experts – all of them regularly working on cross-border mandates.

In our work, we focus on M&A, Energy, Projects and Construction, Banking and Finance, Real Estate, Media, IP and IT law, Tax, Employment law, Competition, Procurement and any kind of Dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation. What’s more, we also take care of the entire legal management of our clients’ projects.

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