Djingov, Gouginski, Kyutchukov & Velichkov

Intellectual Property, Pharma & Healthcare, Media, Entertainment & Sports, Employment & Mobility

Partner

Kalina Tchakarova is a Partner at DGKV, where she heads the firm’s Intellectual Property and Pharma & Healthcare practices and co-heads the firm’s Media, Entertainment and Sports practice.  Her areas of expertise also include contract law, employment, M&A and general corporate law. Kalina has extensive experience dealing with all types of matters for the pharma industry, including M&A, incorporations, distribution, and product launch, as well as with decommercialization, regulatory issues, advertisements, clinical trials, relations with HCPs and HCOs, employment, public-procurement procedures, and appeals of regulatory decisions.

Kalina, who launched DGKV’s Intellectual Property practice and built it into one of the best in the country, has been a leading intellectual-property-law practitioner for more than 20 years, and regularly helps clients develop strategies to secure adequate and enforceable brand and design protection. She has extensive experience in filing, prosecuting, opposing, cancelling, and revoking trademarks, conducting intellectual-property due diligence and audit exercises, and in advising on in-kind contribution of IP rights, on IP-focused M&A deals, and on the drafting, negotiating, and registering of licensing and pledge agreements, as well as undertaking enforcement actions and providing strategic counselling in settlement negotiations. Kalina represents clients before the Bulgarian Patent Office, courts of law, and customs and other administrative authorities with trademark-related competences. On the copyright front Kalina advises on the validity of copyrights, assists in enforcement actions, conducts due diligence in complex transactions involving software acquisition, drafts settlement agreements between authors, employers/assignors, and acquirors, and drafts all types of contracts focusing on copyright objects, including but not limited to software, works of design, works of literature, and technical inventions.

English, Bulgarian

Sofia Bar Association International Bar Association International Trademark Association MARQUES European Employment Lawyers Association

Regional Seminar "Specific Aspects of the Community Trademark System for Professional Representatives of Candidate Countries," OAMI (2001) Amsterdam-Leiden-Columbia Summer Program in American Law, Leiden, the Netherlands (2000) General Course on Intellectual Property, WIPO (1999) Bulgarian Patent Office (Professional Certificate, Training and Examination for Industrial Property Agents, 1999) Central European University in co-operation with Cordozo Law School (Certificate, Law of the International Business Transactions, 1999) University of Sofia, Faculty of Law (LL.M., 1997)