Georgiev, Todorov & Co

Corporate and Commercial, Dispute Resolution

Senior Partner

Main practice areas: Corporate and Commercial Law, Banking and Finance, Insurance Law, Real Estate and Construction

Arno Mamasyan joined Georgiev, Todorov & Co. Law Offices in 1996. He is a senior partner and specializes in Civil Litigation and Arbitration, Corporate and Commercial Law, Property Law, and Privatisation. He graduated from Sofia University, Faculty of Law. Prior to joining the law firm, he was the chief privatisation expert in the Ministry of Industry (currently Ministry of Economy) from 1993 to 1994. He has drafted a legal opinion for the legal status of the privatization in Bulgaria for the catalogue “Center for International Legal Studies”.

His practice includes participation in projects of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), European Stability Mechanism, and the Bulgarian Telecommunication Company. He was a legal adviser of Sofia Municipality for the project for issuing eurobonds and prepared the due diligence report in relation to the privatization of Pharmachim Holding.

Arno has successfully advised clients in various fields, such as Gazprom, on their investment in a local company (Topenergy), as well as on their licensing regime, their gas imports and exports. He has also consulted clients such as Dundee Precious Metals, Chelopech Mining, AG Capital, Bulgarian Stock Exchange, Road Infrastructure Agency, International Asset Bank, Forton International, and many others. He has represented DSK Bank and AstraZeneca in various cases, as well as ENEL for the large project for the construction of the Thermal Power Plant Maritza East 3.

He is the current legal advisor of both private and public enterprises. In the field of corporate and commercial law, Arno consults Grand Energy Distribution, Heating Power Plants Ruse and Maritza 3, Black Peak Capital, Galchev Engineering, Borica, Ciela, and Hill Clinic. He is also the leading litigator in high profile matters for the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Aurubis, Asarel Medet, Kornikom, Advance Properties, and Balkam Group.

He is listed in the Register of Industrial Property Representatives for Inventions, Utility Models and Trademarks.

Arno Mamasyan is an arbitrator in the court of Arbitration with the Confederation of Employers and Industrialists in Bulgaria (CEIB) since 2017.

He is fluent in English and his native Bulgarian.

Sofia Bar Association

Sofia University, Faculty of Law