Our Staff
Our team includes two partners, ten associates and two support staff. Further on-call counsel are available for specific projects. Two of our partners share their time between Bulgaria and the UK with the remaining staff based out of Bulgaria.
Profiles are listed alphabetically by the surname of a Partner, Associate or key external Counsel
A-F
- Belobradova, Elisaveta
- Year of Qualification: 2001
- Specialist Areas: Private client, Property law, Litigation and Commercial law.
- Datzova, Bistra
- Year of Qualification: 1999
- Specialist Areas: Health Insurance, Pharmaceuticals, Medical law.
- Dimov, Dimitar
- Year of Qualification: 2002
- Specialist Areas: Real estate, Privatisation, M & A, Corporate, Commercial, Dispute Resolution.
G-L
- Giteva, Dilyana
- Year of Qualification: 1998
- Specialist Areas: Regulation, Employment, Family, Human Rights, Discrimination, Property
- Profile: Dilyana was a participant in a Public Interest Law programme at the Columbia University, NY and participated in drafting the first Bulgarian anti-discrimination statute. She is uniquely positioned to advise employers on adjusting to the new regime and has acted on behalf of claimants in bringing test cases to establish the limits of the new legislation in employment. Dilyana also deals with a considerable amount of property transactions and is one of NBLO's senior advisors in the field.
- Iordanova, Nadejda
- Year of Qualification: 1997
- Specialist Areas: Corporate and Commercial law, Public Procurement law, Regulation, Employment, Family law.
- Profile: Before joining New Balkans Law Office, Nadejda ran an ambitious and highly successful multi-year project for the United States government in Bulgaria. She has previous experience as a lawyer in Bulgaria and internationally, including time with a construction law Barristers' set and an international law firm in London.
J-M
- Marcheva, Deyana
- Year of Qualification: 2002
- Specialist areas: Corporate, M & A, real estate, tax
- Deyana has very strong negotiating, conferencing and dispute-resolution skills having recently acted for multinational financials and corporates, eg on lease and real estate acquisitions. She has extensive advisory experience domestically and internationally and her work crosses multiple jurisdictions. Prior to this, Deyana spent a year at Oxford University researching legal theory.
N-Q
- Pandov, Vasil
- Year of Qualification: 2001
- Specialist Areas: Litigation, Commercial Arbitration, Venture Capital, Corporate Governance, Privatisations.
- Peeva, Kalina
- Year of Qualification: 1997
- Specialist Areas: Private Client, Conveyancing and Real Estate, Planning and Zoning, Wills.
R-T
- Shoylev, Kamen
- Year of Qualification: N/A
- Specialist Areas: International Intellectual Property, company and corporate law, competition / anti-trust, issues related to the European Convention on Human Rights, cross-border taxation, banking and financial law.
- Stoyanov, Valentin
- Year of Qualification: 2005
- Specialist Areas: Banking and Finance, Corporate and commercial, Employment and Mergers and acquisitions.
- Prior to joining New Balkans Law Office, Valentin was involved in the development of Bulgarian banking regulation. More recently, he has been interested in listing regulations and the law relating to quoted public companies and has advised extensively in this area in addition to accepting an appointment as a non-executive director to a Sofia listed Bulgarian company in the energy sector. Valentin is a fluent German and English speaker.