Filipov & Beleva Law Firm provides legal assistance at every stage of implementing foreign investments in Bulgaria.

Our team consists of highly qualified specialists, enabling us to offer a wide range of legal services and to find the most appropriate solutions for the individual needs of each client.

You can rely on our expert assistance and support for:

• Performing valuations and legal analyses (due diligence) of commercial companies and their assets—real estate, receivables, intellectual-property rights (trademarks, patents, know-how) and others;
• Registration of commercial companies—single-member limited liability companies, limited liability companies and joint-stock companies;
• Establishment of branches, trade representative offices and subsidiaries of foreign companies;
• Entry of changes in commercial companies—capital increases or reductions, change of seat and registered office address and others;
• Transformation and reorganisation of commercial companies (including share and stock acquisitions, mergers, amalgamations, spin-offs and divisions);
• Transfer of commercial enterprises;
• Structuring and conclusion of various types of commercial transactions and participation in negotiations.

The comprehensive legal servicing of our corporate clients also includes the following services:

• Drafting of commercial agreements—contracts for commercial sale, distribution, franchising, leasing, assignment of receivables, commission contracts, licence agreements, know-how agreements and others;
• Creation of collateral for commercial transactions—special non-possessory pledges over machinery and equipment, receivables, securities, equity interests and commercial enterprises, mortgages over real estate and promissory notes;
• Preparation of the requisite documents for procurists, commercial attorneys-in-fact and assistants, commercial representatives and intermediaries;
• Audit of corporate processes and procedures related to personal data protection;
• Staff training and drafting of all requisite documents—policies, rules, registers, notices, templates—to align corporate activity with the GDPR;
• Provision of a specialized external Data Protection Officer service for commercial companies;
• Drafting of all requisite documents under the Measures Against Money Laundering Act—internal rules, training plans, instructions and others—as well as staff training to recognise suspicious operations, transactions and clients;
• Registration of the beneficial owner in the Commercial Register under the Measures Against Money Laundering Act, including the appointment of a contact person;
• Legal advice and representation before administrative authorities in connection with the issuance of work permits and temporary or permanent residence for foreign nationals in the Republic of Bulgaria;
• Legal protection and assistance before various administrative and regulatory bodies—the National Revenue Agency, the Commission on Protection of Competition, the Commission for Personal Data Protection, municipal authorities and others;
• Participation in commercial negotiations and out-of-court settlement of commercial disputes;
• Legal assistance and representation in proceedings in commercial litigation.