Kinstellar

Anastasiya Bolkhovitinova

Antonia Mavrova

Partner, firm-wide Head of the Automotive and Industrials sector, head of Real Estate, Constriction and Planning, and co-head of Dispute Resolution in Sofia . Her real estate expertise includes investment, financing and acquisition, project development and property management. Antonia has advised some of the largest strategic investors in Bulgaria on compliance with the stringent local environmental regulations. She has strong expertise in real estate litigation, ensuring the appropriate dispute resolution mechanism and the best possible outcome. Antonia has also represented automobile manufacturers and suppliers on their market entries by structuring their investments and in various legal aspects.

Ardak Idayatova

Partner, Head of Infrastructure & PPP and Dispute Resolution

Ardak Idayatova

Atanas Mihaylov

Counsel and head of Tax and Restructuring & Insolvency in Sofia. Atanas Mihaylov also has vast experience in Real Estate & Construction and M&A & Corporate projects. Atanas has advised infrastructure clients and international real estate developers on all aspects of their projects, including land acquisition, zoning, planning, engineering, procurement and construction, insurance, permitting, operational agreements, project finance and regulatory matters. His transactional experience includes structuring real estate acquisitions and disposals and advising on the real estate, regulatory and tax aspects of share-purchase agreements, corporate reorganisations and joint ventures. He has also successfully advised clients on commercial litigation and arbitration matters.

Managing Partner

Barnabás Sági

Cătălin Graure

Claudia Popescu

Special Counsel

Cristina Stamboli

Csilla Andrékó

Managing Associate

Dániel Endre Nagy

Senior Associate

Danylo Volkovetskyi

Managing Associate

Senior Associate

Managing Partner and co-head of M&A, Corporate & Private Equity in Sofia. Diana advises international companies on their market entry and corporate matters, including implementation of changes in capital and corporate structures. She has led the local team on some of largest M&A deals in the Bulgarian financial services sector. She also has considerable experience in infrastructure projects, having advised the project sponsors of a large gas infrastructure project and, more recently, the investors in the Sofia airport concession.

Dominika Bajzáthov

Gábor Gelencsér

Managing Associate and head of IP, IT and Data Privacy in Sofia.

Iustinian Captariu

Iustinian Captariu is a Partner and the head of the local Energy & Natural Resources and Competition & State-Aid Practices. He focuses on energy & natural resources, environment and regulatory (including pharma regulatory), competition & state aid, infrastructure & projects, M&A, and joint ventures. He has an experience of over 14 years in advising clients on all aspects of energy law, including energy M&A, joint-ventures, reorganisations, licensing and regulatory matters, long term contracts, trading related issues and also public procurement procedures involving energy companies. He has significant experience acting for large companies in relation to the whole spectrum of competition law matters including cartels, dawn raids, abuse of dominant position, merger notifications, State aid etc.

Office Managing Partner

Managing Partner

Kármen Csenge Koller

Senior Associate

Katarina Živković

Managing Associate

Klára Štepánková

Kristina Pavlović

Managing Associate

Kristóf Ferenczi

Firm Managing Partner

Levente Hegedüs

Lívia Miklenčičová

Senior Associate

Associated Partner

Lukáš Ševčík

Managing Partner

Mădălina Perțe

Managing Associate

Magdalena Răducanu

Magdalena Raducanu is Special Counsel in the Bucharest office and the head of the local Banking and Finance practice. Magdalena has more than 20 years of experience in all aspects of banking and financing (projects, real estate and corporate finance) acting on behalf of both lenders and borrowers, and assisting well-reputed financial institutions on the local and international markets. She also has significant exposure to general corporate law.

Magdalena Lupoi

Mario Kijanović

Senior Associate

Managing Associate

Michal Forýtek

Milan Samardžić

Of Counsel and head of Telecommunications in Sofia

Mina Srećković

Managing Associate

Counsel, head of Energy and Natural Resources and co-head of Dispute Resolution in Sofia. He has rich experience advising local and international clients, including in the energy sector, on various legal aspects related to the development of complex projects, spatial planning development and construction, real estate investments, and corporate and cross-border commercial mattes. He specialises in national and European energy regulatory issues, energy policy and compliance matters. He also represents companies in litigation proceedings (commercial, civil and administrative) and in national and international arbitration.

Natalia Kirichenko

Partner, co-head of M&A, Corporate & Private Equity and firm-wide co-head of Employment & Labour Law. She advises both local and international clients on all aspects of employment law, delivering strategic guidance on all workplace issues, as well as on a wide range of commercial matters and corporate transactions such as M&A, reorganisations and market entry strategies. She also represents private equity and venture capital firms and other corporates on acquisitions, disposals and restructurings, as well as portfolio companies on all corporate matters. Nina is among the key advisers on the local corporate and employment aspects of large international transactions, including those of global IT companies with operations in Bulgaria.

Olena Kuchynska

Managing Partner

Olexander Martinenko

Special Counsel

Orsolya Staniszewski

Managing Associate

Remus Codreanu is a Partner with a broad experience in advising and representing Romanian and international companies on various types of areas such as: litigation & arbitration (he advised and represented Romanian and international companies in more than 900 litigation and arbitration cases), employment, public and administrative law, including public procurement, intellectual property law (especially, trademark and copyright’s law), insolvencies, media law and CRSI contentious matters. Remus also has extensive experience on PPP and procurement related matters, advising clients in all stages of processes – from pre-qualification and tender related preparation, selection and negotiation through to award or related disputes arising therefrom. He is nevertheless expert in employment-related matters since he has been actively involved in negotiations of collective labour contracts between employers and labour associations and represented numerous local companies before Romanian employment courts on a range of employment issues such as: labour agreements, dismissals of top and middle management employees.

Sherzod Yunusov

Counsel and head of Banking, Finance and Capital Markets in Sofia. He has advised some of the largest international and domestic banking and finance institutions on various transactional, regulatory and compliance matters applicable to their business in Bulgaria. Svilen’s expertise includes a wide spectrum of finance and investment issues such as: banks and financial institutions licensing, cross border financings, investment structuring, debt restructuring, security insolvency proceedings, capital market transactions and regulations. He also specialises in life sciences and healthcare, including marketing authorisation, production, distribution, pricing and reimbursement, pharmacovigilance, advertising and clinical trials.

Senior Associate

Theodor Artenie

Tax Advisor͵ Counsel

Tomáš Melišek

Victor Constantinescu

Victor Constantinescu is the Managing Partner of our Bucharest office and the Co-Head of the firm-wide real estate sector, with his remit extending across the entire C/SEE region. Victor focuses on all aspects of real estate transactions in the region for a range of international investment funds and local developers with over 15 years’ experience locally and regionally. His particular emphasis is on transactional work: acquisitions and sales of commercial real estate, as well as joint ventures, across all asset classes: retail, office, logistics, and agricultural. He has built a reputation for efficiency and commercial pragmatism in organizing and closing transactions and for building long-term relationships – skills that have earned him recognition as a top real estate practitioner for years in a row by major legal guides. Since joining the firm in 2017, Victor has already led transactions whose combined value well exceeds EUR 500 million.

Viliam Myšička

Managing Associate

Yerlan Akhmetov

Zhandaulet Sholanov

Zsuzsa Csiki is a Partner in our Bucharest office. She is the head of the local M&A and Corporate practice, also leading the capital markets, financial regulatory and technology, media & telecommunications practices. Zsuzsa has over 13 years of experience in advising renowned companies on local and cross-border transactions and corporate reorganisations. Her practice focuses on structuring and negotiating business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, reorganisations, private equity transactions, divestitures, business transfers, executive compensation and incentive equity arrangements or other general corporate matters. Zsuzsa’s expertise also includes working on capital markets and financial regulatory matters, guiding banks and other financial institutions through complex, international regulatory environments. Zsuzsa has advised on sophisticated mandates across many sectors with a strong focus on technology, media and telecommunications, where she personally handles matters as diverse as M&A, PE strategic investments, telecom acquisitions and related integrations, transfer of assets, GDPR implementation, contractual, consumer and compliance law aspects

Zsuzsa Andrékó

Managing Associate