About
The firm: Wolf Theiss opened its first office in Vienna in 1957 and soon established a reputation as one of the region’s leading law firms. The firm has since grown into a multinational team of over 400 lawyers, making it one of the largest integrated law firms in the region. It has offices* in Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brussels, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Ukraine. This presence on the ground is one of the firm’s key strengths. It works in a fast-moving part of the world that requires deep local knowledge and experience. By combining expertise with a strong international network, the firm is well-placed to handle complex cross-border transactions with a high degree of speed and flexibility. Apart from its local offices in 13 CEE/SEE countries and a central European hub in Brussels, Wolf Theiss also offers extensive regional experience in other countries in the region, such as Kosovo, Montenegro and North Macedonia. *The firm has regulatory frameworks within which it needs to comply. So by ‘presence’, we mean a legal form that is in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations in that country. Areas of practice: Wolf Theiss’ full range of services covers financial services, competition and antitrust, compliance and investigations, corporate/mergers and acquisitions, employment law, energy and infrastructure, intellectual property and information technology, litigation and alternative dispute resolution, real estate and construction, regulatory and procurement, and tax. The firm’s dedicated practice teams provide in-depth specialist knowledge in their respective areas and collaborate closely to provide clients with seamless advice. Bulgaria: Wolf Theiss is a leading law firm in Bulgaria and CEE. It has significant strength in all areas of corporate and M&A, banking, project financing and capital markets, energy, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, ICT and financial services. Its lawyers in Sofia have worked on senior positions for leading industrial, banking and investment firms, have detailed knowledge of the political and business environment, and give practical legal support of the highest quality to a broad range of domestic and international clients. ### Languages - Bulgarian - English - French - Italian - Macedonian - Russian - Ukrainian ### Staffing Figures - 400 Number of lawyers - 25 at this office
Office locations
Sofia
Sofia
Wolf Theiss 55 Nikola Vaptsarov Blvd. 1407 Sofia Sofia Bulgaria
Practice areas
Lawyers in this office
Alexander Radichkov
Consultant. · Employment
Anna Rizova
Partner; specialised in Energy, Competition & Antitrust, Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions, Regulatory and Procurement, Real Estate, Dispute Resolution. · Corporate / M&A
Boryana Filimonova
Senior Associate. · Corporate / M&A
Hristina Dzhevlekova
Counsel, specialising in competition and employment law. · Employment
Jasmina Uzova
Senior Associate specialising in finance law, corporate law, tax law. · Banking & Finance
Katerina Kraeva
Partner, Wolf Theiss, since 2014, specialised in Banking & Finance, Corporate, Tax. Katerina advises lenders (senior and mezzanine) and borrowers on project finance, acquisition and asset based lending and restructuring. Her expertise covers regulatory issues in the financial sector - compliance, structuring, derivatives and commodities trading. · Banking & Finance
Katerina Novakova
Counsel specialising in Regulatory, Energy, Public Procurement Concessions and Environmental Law. Katerina has over ten years of experience in the gas sector, providing legal advice on the European and national regulatory framework in a wide spectrum of issues: gas distribution systems, retail gas supply, mining law, procurement law, as well as territory planning issues. · Energy
Kristian Yabalkarov
Senior Associate. · Corporate / M&A
Nikola Naydenov
Senior Associate. · Dispute Resolution
Oleg Temnikov
Partner, specialising in dispute resolution, and particularly in administrative litigations, civil and commercial litigations, insolvency cases and white collar crime cases, but also very active in energy law and regulatory compliance matters. · Dispute Resolution
Radena Tsvetanova
Consultant · Corporate / M&A
Radoslav Mikov
Partner, Wolf Theiss, since 2014; specialised in Energy, Sector Regulation, Public Procurement. Radoslav advises on energy matters, covering a wide spectrum of issues related to the regulatory framework: energy generation, public procurement, licensing and tariffs setting, connection to the energy networks, electricity or natural gas distribution, non-discriminatory compliance programmes and equal access to the grid issues, retail supply and electricity trade, as well as construction and project development matters. · Energy
Radosveta Kojuharova
Partner. Radosveta leads the local Real Estate practice in Sofia. She advises clients from a range of sectors throughout the development and realisation of large-scale projects. Radosveta has almost 20 years of top-level experience in the field. Her experience covers the entire property 'life-cycle' including legal due diligence, acquisitions and dispositions, construction, land use, planning and development, financing and joint venturing, investments, transaction structuring, lease contracts, mortgages, environmental aspects, etc. In addition, Radosveta has handled multiple planning and development projects in the logistics, office, and residential sectors, including some that dominate Sofia’s modern city landscape. Her role extends beyond the initial phases of planning and development, encompassing every step from land acquisition, through meticulous due diligence processes, to the drafting and finalizing of agreements. Her expertise also shines in her representation during negotiations, securing financing, and providing ongoing legal and strategic guidance. Radosveta’ s approach is characterized by her commitment to offering end-to-end legal and strategic support for every aspect of real estate and construction projects. Radosveta Kojuharova is also recognised by the market as a leading construction lawyer, one of the experts in the field. Her long-term relationship with many of her clients, has helped hone her skills in FIDIC agreements, structuring various types of projects and transactions, including multinational and cross-jurisdiction ones, establishing her as a key factor in some of the most notable elements of the Bulgarian and Sofia landscape. Having an expert understanding of both construction process and construction law she provides a wide range of services to anyone involved in any stage of a construction project. She assists her clients (owners, designers, architects, suppliers, contractors, and subcontractors) from planning to completion of a construction projects advising on all their construction-related needs, from the drafting of tender and project documentation to the resolution of disputes. A key strength of her practice is advising procurers and developers, considering market practice and bankability issues for construction contracts, as well as other related project documentation. · Real Estate
Richard Clegg
Partner, working throughout Central & Eastern Europe and South Eastern Europe. Richard has particular specialization and expertise across the regulated sectors, advising companies at board level on corporate and compliance matters, often in sensitive & strategic circumstances. His career experience includes advising on transaction, regulatory and compliance aspects of internationally significant infrastructure, telecom and energy matters. · Corporate / M&A
Staniella Todorova
Senior Associate. · Corporate / M&A
Yanitsa Radeva
Senior Associate. · Tax
Zhulieta Markova
Senior Associate. · Corporate / M&A