CMS

Banking and Finance; Finance, Corporate and M&A, Energy

Partner, CMS Sofia

Dimitar Zwiatkow is partner in the Banking & Finance practice in CMS Sofia. He is a Bulgarian attorney with more than 10 years of legal experience gained in leading law firms in Bulgaria and Germany and an in-depth knowledge of the banking sector. Dimitar is one of the preeminent advisers on banking M&A transactions and large-scale portfolio transactions. Among his clients are local and international banking and financial institutions and investment funds such as UniCredit Group, Hypo Alpe Adria Group, Erste Bank, Raiffeisen Bank, OTP Bank, B2Holding, IFC, etc. Dimitar focuses on real estate finance, regulatory banking matters, non-performing loans, acquisition finance, project finance, corporate lending, financial services and products, banking litigation.

Additionally, he is an expert in restructuring and litigation issues, payment systems and clearing, crypto currencies, mobile and contactless payment technologies.

He also advises clients in M&A transactions and has considerable expertise in corporate and tax law including representation in court, enforcement and insolvency proceedings. Having the international educational background, Dimitar has excellent expertise on advising small and mid-sized European companies in the field of corporate, commercial, employment and litigation matters.

Dimitar has also advised a number of clients on internal compliance and reporting issues. He has invaluable experience in dealing with various regulatory bodies, having communicated on a number of occasions with the Bulgarian Commission for Protection of Competition, the National Revenue Agency and the Bulgarian National Bank. He is further experienced in supporting clients in corporate forensic investigations, and thus has background in working with the prosecution authorities. He is dual qualified in Germany and Bulgaria.

In the area of Energy law his particular area of expertise is in renewables and projects, PPP and public procurement. Over the years, he has advised on renewables, combined heat and power (CHP), waste to energy and independent power projects. His clients include a wide range of energy suppliers from the fields of wind power, hydropower, biomass and photovoltaics. Dimitar consults on the construction and acquisition of power plants, testing and commissioning as well as environmental questions, network operation issues and strategic considerations in project management. He also represents clients before courts of law and arbitration.

Bulgarian, German, English

Member of the Bulgarian and Munich Bar Associations

Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany