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Food & Beverages
12 lawyers
95 clients
Food & Beverages

Overview

We are extremely active in the Food & Beverages sector, with recent mandates including:

  • Advising Belgium’s Alpro on non-GMO labelling and health taxes in Bulgaria.
  • Assisting ADM (the Archer Daniels Midland Company) with Bulgarian merger-control filing related to its contemplated acquisition of the Schokinag group of companies, and providing advice on tax matters.
  • Advising Autogrill International S.p.A. on the establishment of a JV with a local restaurant chain.
  • Assisting Balkan Accession Fund on the acquisition of the local ice-cream producer Darko.
  • Providing Bella Bulgaria with ongoing legal support on general corporate, competition and compliance, financing, employment, and other matters.
  • Representing Bunge Global Innovation in multiple matters related to infringements of its patent rights.
  • Helping Burns, Philip & Company Pty Limited, a member of the Rank Group, purchase shares in Alcoa Packaging Bulgaria.
  • Assisting Caffe Nero Group Plc enforce its trademark.
  • Providing ongoing legal advice to Cargill Agricultura S.r.L. and its parent, Cargill International SE, and assisting both in litigation and arbitration proceedings.
  • Assisting Cribou Coffee Company, Inc. with trademark-portfolio-management issues.
  • Providing ongoing legal assistance to Carlsberg with its day-to-day operations.
  • Assisting Coffeeheaven Holdings Limited (part of the Costa group) with the sale of its Bulgarian business to Costa’s exclusive franchisee for Bulgaria, Coffee Life Ltd.
  • Providing Coca-Cola HBC Bulgaria with ongoing legal advice on various corporate and employment matters.
  • Assisting Costa Limited with trademark infringement matters.
  • Assisting Danone Group with the transfer of license agreements within its group.
  • Representing Deroni OOD, one of the largest Bulgarian producers of canned food, in administrative litigation involving allegations of unfair trading practices.
  • Advising and representing Domain Menada on IP matters.
  • Advising Froneri Bulgaria EOOD (a joint venture between Nestlé and British frozen-food producer R&R) on a wide spectrum of legal matters, including corporate law, general terms and conditions and contracts, and compliance with state regulations, among others.
  • Representing Heineken on trademark enforcement matters and advising it on commercial law matters.
  • Helping Heinz B.V. with the termination of its distribution agreement.
  • Advising Jacobs Douwe Egberts on a compatibility claim.
  • Representing Haribo GmbH & Co. KG before the Patent Office of the Republic of Bulgaria in its opposition to the registration of a conflicting trademark.
  • Providing advice to InBev Group and its Bulgarian subsidiary Kamenitza AD on data protection matters, the transfer and export of personal data, binding corporate rules, and e-Commerce matters.
  • Advising Intersnack BG on litigation and environmental issues.
  • Advising Irish Distillers Limited on conducting of a skill contest in Bulgaria.
  • Representing ItalFood Industry in a trademark-and-design conflict and in other unfair competition matters.
  • Representing Kaliakra AD and two other Bunge group companies in an antitrust investigation of alleged vertical price fixing involving the distribution of vegetable oils, and advising them on, among other things, the review and revision of their agreements with principal distributors.
  • Advising Kaliakra AD on its sale to Oliva AD – the largest grain trader and oilseeds crusher in Bulgaria – in a deal that included approximately 140,000 square meters of land and over 85 separate buildings, including both storage and production facilities, as well as hundreds of pieces of equipment.
  • Advising Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co LP on Bulgarian aspects of its acquisition of the margarine and spreads business of Unilever.
  • Providing on-going advice to Marie Brizard Wine & Spirits Distribution Bulgaria EOOD (the former Belvedere Capital Management OOD) and representing it in insolvency proceedings launched against two of its Bulgarian subsidiaries.
  • Advising Maxxium Bulgaria, a leading spirits & wines marketing and distribution company, on its management buyout and on other intellectual-property and litigation matters.
  • Assisting Menada Vineyards with dispute-resolution matters.
  • Advising Mondelez on advertising compliance.
  • Advising Monsanto International on corporate matters.
  • Assisting Puratos Group N.V. with unfair-solicitation matters.
  • Providing on-going legal advice to Quadrant Beverages AD (PepsiCo) on various corporate matters and on the potential transfer of its rights and obligations under a water concession.
  • Advising Red Bull on the compliance of its distribution agreement with Bulgarian law and on various intellectual property matters.
  • Representing SOLEN Cikolata Gida Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi on trademark-enforcement and infringement matters.
  • Providing ongoing legal advice to S.C. Star Foods E.M. S.R.L. with regard to its day-to-day operations.
  • Advising Takeaway.com N.V. on the contemplated downsizing of its Bulgarian operations.
  • Advising Tate & Lyle on commercial-law and employment law matters.
  • Advising Tymbark Maspex Romania SRL on its potential acquisition of Devin AD, a local market leader in bottled mineral water.
  • Providing ongoing advice to Thracia Soft Fruit on various legal matters, including intellectual-property matters.
  • Assisting Unilever with data-protection matters.
  • Helping Vinimpex EAD enforce its trademark.