Foreign Investments

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.

Our services

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.

Comprehensive legal servicing

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.