Corporate and M&A

For over three decades, BOYANOV & Co. has been consistently recognised as a leader in corporate law and mergers and acquisitions, offering innovative and comprehensive legal services tailored to the evolving needs of the corporate world. We have played a pivotal role in setting up, developing, privatising, and acquiring businesses that contribute significantly to Bulgaria’s GDP, employing thousands and generating billions of Euros in revenue.

Corporate Services

We provide a wide spectrum of legal services for businesses, including:

• Tax-efficient and business-conscious vehicles and corporate structuring advice
• Shareholder relationship structuring, financing, and exit strategy assistance
• Comprehensive incorporation process support, including regulatory filings and operational licenses
• Employment, immigration, and relocation matters, alongside asset acquisition guidance
• Expertise in winding up defunct entities, branches, or representative offices

Diverse Experience:

• We have expertise in a wide range of business vehicles, from standard companies to complex regulated entities like banks and insurance companies, ensuring tailored solutions that meet clients’ specific needs.

Corporate Advisory Roles:

• We act as corporate counsel to numerous businesses, including banks and manufacturing companies, ensuring the protection of shareholder interests and smooth corporate operations.

Reorganisations:

• We boast a track record of managing some of Bulgaria’s most complex corporate reorganisations, including the creation of the first Bulgarian megabank and the first and only transborder merger of a licensed asset management company.

M&A Services

Our M&A practice is a recognised market leader. With deep legal knowledge, ingenuity, and over three decades of experience advising on many of the most significant M&A deals in Bulgaria, we offer clients workable solutions tailored to their business needs and strategies.

Our flexibility, combined with the competence and skills of our team, allows us to assemble the right legal teams to handle M&A transactions smoothly and efficiently, regardless of size, structure, or deadline.

We have represented sellers and purchasers, private clients and governmental entities, multinational conglomerates, and individual business people in a variety of M&A deals.

The vast majority of our clients are world-renowned business names from all industry sectors.

Our M&A services cover all stages of an M&A process:

• Term Sheet Drafting and Negotiations: We assist our clients in understanding the legal and regulatory framework of the business they are interested in, discussing options, opportunities, risks, and pitfalls.
• Legal Due Diligence: This stage helps us and the client understand the major elements of the deal, including the need for representations and warranties, the form of the deal, and the guarantees to be provided. Our firm is experienced in analysing Bulgarian entities of all sizes and can rapidly assemble teams to analyse major corporate structures within the shortest possible periods.
• Agreeing on the Form of the Deal: Whether it’s share deals, asset deals, transfers of ongoing concerns, setting up SPVs, or mergers by way of acquisition, our corporate team has successfully tested and implemented various acquisition forms.
• Negotiation of Contractual Documentation: Our team’s experience is a valuable addition to any negotiation team. Our lawyers are capable of handling large volumes of multilingual contractual documentation to ensure the efficiency of the negotiation process.
• Concentration and Regulatory Authorizations: We are well-versed in the requirements of various Bulgarian regulatory bodies and ensure that the process proceeds without unnecessary delays or hurdles.
• Closing and Transfer of Control: Our team pays special attention to the closing mechanics and procedures to secure the valid and indisputable transfer of title and control, receipt of payment, and release of the seller’s representatives from management bodies.
• Post-Closing Services: Following the closing of the M&A deal, we often take on the role of general legal adviser to the target.