Corporate

Corporate Law Advice

A company’s lifecycle must be well analysed from the beginning to minimise future growth obstacles. Our corporate lawyers sit with our clients through their choice of appropriate legal organisation, capital and company restructuring crossroads, spin-offs, upstream mergers, and liquidations. We accommodate our clients’ preferences for two-tiered management, degrees of shareholder control and advise on board members’ liability and business functions’ allocation. Our lawyers are experienced in structuring and implementing management buy-out procedures, share splits and employee stock purchase plans.

Corporate and Project Finance

We are native to the legal services in the finance field. Our team has strategised on and carried through various finance exercises for a range of companies from mid-size to large international players with complex upstream ownership structures. We have advised borrowers, lenders, guarantors and collateral providers. We frequently represent clients in project and/or leveraged financing transactions, refinancing and collateralisation endeavours.

Start-ups / Scale-ups

To advise start up and scale up companies it takes visionary and strategic thinking, a lot of experience and flexibility. This is where value for money and the ability to differentiate between must-have and nice-to-have truly matter. Some of our most experienced lawyers have a skillset of corporate, labour and IP expertise which new companies find particularly helpful and to the point. Bulgarian legal framework is silent on many aspects of the start-up culture which are being addressed elsewhere. This necessitates flexible and imaginative legal solutions which fit in the available statutory norms, yet allow entrepreneurship to unfold, raise capital, regroup, and hire talent more easily. Easily, putting a nascent idea on a track to grow into a thriving business endeavour is one of our most enjoyable tasks as corporate lawyers.

Investment Contracts

Business relationships, like the law, are a living thing. This diversity must be met with sufficient drafting flexibility: we write silent partnership and profit-sharing agreements of all kinds but are also experienced in structured/regulated forms like e.g. portfolio management or shareholders agreement.