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Nikolai Gouginski

Work Department

Banking and Finance Practice Group; Competition Practice Group, Project Finance Practice Group.

Position

Partner

Career

Nikolai Gouginski is a Partner at DGKV, heading the Competition & Antitrust practice and co-heading the Banking & Finance practice. Nikolai has developed a strong competition and antitrust practice advising and representing clients in investigations and proceedings brought before the Bulgarian Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC), relating to merger control, horizontal and vertical restraints on trade, abuse of dominant position, and unfair-trade practices, among other things. He has been in charge of and brought to a successful end a number of landmark competition cases in Bulgaria, and as a key partner in the firm’s Banking & Finance practice, he focuses on cross-border lending and project finance, and his telling record of client success stories confirms his meticulous and comprehensive structuring and transaction advice.

Languages

Bulgarian, English

Memberships

Sofia Bar Association International Bar Association American Bar Association Union Internationale des Avocats

Education

The George Washington University, National Law Center, Washington, DC (LL.M. in International and Comparative Law, With Highest Honors, 1999) University of Sofia, Faculty of Law (LL.M., 1995)

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