The partnership currently represents a major international investor in real estate in two interconnected litigations. The first one is for the compulsory conclusion of a definitive real estate purchase contract, based on a preliminary agreement for the acquisition of a real estate between our client and a local counterparty. The second litigation is for declaring a preceding real estate purchase contract […]
The Municipality of Sofia – the biggest city in the country – is our client in a complex dispute concerning three concession contracts for gathering and processing of city’s waste. The scopes of the contracts and the specifics of the performance obligations of the Municipality pose interesting questions about the applicability of the ordinary legal […]
Borislav Boyanov & Co. acts for several associations of companies (including the Association of the Research-based Pharmaceutical Manufacturers in Bulgaria (ARPharM), the Confederation of the Employers and Industrialists in Bulgaria, and the Association of the Traders in Electric Appliances and Audiovisual Equipment), which we represent in court-cases filed for the protection of the their members’ […]
Borislav Boyanov & Co.’s litigation team has been engaged in the defense of several companies belonging to one of the largest international tobacco products manufacturers in the first ever class action in Bulgaria. Class actions were effectively introduced in Bulgaria with the new Civil Procedure Code, which came into effect on March 1, 2008. Copyright […]
The firm has represented a variety of clients against bad-faith trademark registrations by third parties of their brands and trade names in Bulgaria. Currently, we are working for clients, including the Greek company Plaisio Computers SA in connection with the registration of their mark “Plaisio” by a third party in Bulgaria; Adidas (Reebok) in connection with the registration […]
We advise clients from different industries (pharmaceutical, distillers’, tobacco, information technology, and luxury goods, including clients such as Escada AG (Germany), LVMH Group (including Christian Dior, Zenith and others – France), Philip Morris (USA), The Coca-Cola Company (USA), Ford Motor Company (USA), Umarex (Germany), Diageo (UK), and others in protecting their IP rights and representing […]
In the period January 2010 – March 2010 the firm advised one of the largest French utility companies on its interest in acquiring the largest Bulgarian water supply company. The complex assistance provided by Borislav Boyanov & Co. covered various sectors of the law such as water supply and water price regulations, corporate, employment, real […]
The Firm advises and defends the interests of Alstom in court proceedings related to access to public information kept by TPP Maritza East 2. The case is pending before the Supreme Administrative Court.
We advised and assisted financing parties, inter alia, for the establishment and improvement of security interests for an aircraft with Bulgarian registration and related aircraft lease. These security interests were part of the collateral under the 2008 Aircraft Credit Facility with a value of up to USD 94,900,000. In 2010, with the consent of the […]
Kraft Foods Bulgaria, Cisco Systems, Procter & Gamble, Wizz Air, Motorola and many other international companies seek day to day advice on employment matters from Borislav Boyanov & Co.’s employment law professionals, including compliance with labor and labor safety regulations, working time structures, internal employment regulations, dismissals, employment litigation, labor permits and expatriation issues, transfer […]
The firm represented, one of the largest sub-metering groups in Germany, present also in Bulgaria, over an alleged prohibited agreements case under Art. 81 of the EC Treaty and Bulgarian competition law. The case was brought by the Bulgarian competition authority against all heat allocation services providers in the capital Sofia, and their mother companies […]