Dimitrov, Petrov & Co

Real Estate Law & Foreign Investments Department

Partner

A partner with more than 20 years of professional experience, Alexander is leading the real estate and restructuring & insolvency teams of DPC and also heads the banking & finance practice of the firm. He is brilliant in structuring and negotiating project finance transactions, acquisition finance, restructuring and insolvency. He has tremendous experience in advising major real estate deals, as well as in acquisitions of companies with significant real estate portfolios. Recently, he advised big Israeli real estate investment fund in the acquisition of a top-notch hotel and seasonal properties in the winter resort of Bansko.

Alexander has also been engaged in litigation and arbitration proceedings in numerous commercial disputes. As a member of DPC’s legal team engaged by the Bulgarian National Bank, Alexander was involved in the insolvency procedure of the largest commercial bank in Bulgaria. He worked on the legal analysis of the credit portfolio of the bank and led to a successful outcome a number of lawsuits against the bank’s debtors. His expertise has been of essence for obtaining the first license for an investment firm, issued by the Bulgarian Financial Supervision Commission under the rules of the Directive on markets in financial instruments (MiFID II).

For more than seven years Alexander has been teaching Real Estate Law in Sofia University as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law. Alexander is deeply interested in Orthodox Christianity and holds a master’s degree in Theology.

Bulgarian, English, Russian

Member of Sofia Bar Association

Sofia University, Faculty of Law, (LL.M. 2004), Rector's Award for Excellence in Study;

October 2001 - January 2002, Course in American Business Law