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Public Sector

Overview

  • Representing Bulgarian Mezzanine Partners, a consortium of investment advisors, who were selected in a public procurement bid process awarded by Fund Manager of Financial Instruments in Bulgaria EAD (the fund manager of the Bulgarian Fund of Funds) to manage a mezzanine/growth private equity fund of €38.5 M of public resources from EU structural funds. She advised and acted on the structuring of the fund and the fund manager and in its negotiations with the contracting authority and represented the fund manager in the successful appeal of a decision of the contracting authority to replace the consortium as contractor.
  • Legal advice for a major foreign banking institution on the local law regulatory requirements relevant to various regulated financial and investment products and services offered by the bank and certain other institutions from its corporate group on a cross-border basis to clients in Bulgaria.
  • ECA Invest AD on the structuring and private placement of a venture capital fund under the name Empower Capital Fund II SCsp. The fund is registered and regulated under Luxembourg law and sponsored and advised by a Bulgarian team.
  • Eleven Bulgaria AD on the structuring and private placement of a venture capital fund under the name ELEVEN FUND III. The fund is regulated under Dutch law and passported as EuVeca fund and is the first fund sponsored by Bulgarian investment managers to obtain EuVeca passport and be marketed on a cross-border basis in EU.
  • Silverline Partners OOD, the fund manager, regarding legal advice through the public procurement process and negotiating the terms of the operational agreement (the public procurement contract), legal advice on the structuring of the fund and the fund manager and its negotiation with the contracting authority, representing the fund manager in its registration as alternative investment fund manager with the Bulgarian Financial Supervision Commission, successful appeal of a decision of the contracting authority to replace the consortium as contractor, representing the client the process of structuring and closing of the mezzanine/growth fund and providing ongoing legal advice on the fund management activities of the client.
  • Fund Manager of Financial Instruments in Bulgaria on the conformity of the documentation for participation in an open tender procedure with subject “Implementation of the Financial Instrument Acceleration and Initial Financing Fund II financed by Operational Program “Innovation and Competitiveness 2014-2020” with the applicable Bulgarian legislation.
  • Advised the European Parliament on convocation of a condominium general meeting as well as assistance with drafting of related condominium rules of internal order and procedure regarding the operation of the building where the European Parliaments’ Bulgarian headquarters are located.
  • The Bulgarian Government in relation to the privatisation of three thermal power plants in Bulgaria; the advisory work included among others due diligence of the target companies, part of which was review of public procurement procedures for coal supply.
  • Advises Ministry of Education and Science in relation to debt and asset restructuring and contemplated financing of a state-owned entity operating student leisure facilities.
  • Advised Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Bulgaria in relation to organizing of separate tenders of sales of electricity to industrial consumers on the whole sale market.
  • Entrusted by the Bulgarian financial market regulator Financial Supervision Commission to represent it in a total of 19 proceedings before the Supreme Administrative Court based on an appeal of IsaAudit Ltd. against the watchdog’s decision to remove it from the list of approved auditors to verify the assets of Bulgarian pension and insurance companies. DGKV achieved success at first instance court proceedings and now awaits ruling from the three-member panel of the Supreme Administrative Court.
  • Advised on EBRD financing for the Sofia Water Concession.
  • LOCKHEED MARTIN - MISSION SYSTEMS AND TRAINING in relation to Ministry of Defence public procurement tender.
  • NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION in relation to public tender of Bulgarian Air Traffic Services Authority in connection with a procedure on the development and modernization of BULATSA’s ground based equipment for provision of air-ground radio communications.
  • Advising Chariot Motors AD and Consortium Chariot Motors / Higer Bus Company Limited in relation to their participation in numerous domestic and international public procurement tenders for supply of electric buses, among which the successful bid for supply of electric buses to the capital city of Sofia.
  • Advised ERG Insaat Ticaret ve Sanayi AS, SSB Sauerwein & Schaefer Bau AG and Copenhagen Airports as one of the bidders for the Sofia Airport concession extensive tender process (approx. EUR 3.898 billion indicative project budget).
  • Advises GENERAL ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL INC. in relation to numerous public procurement procedures and European Structural Investment Funds aspects of tenders.
  • Patria Land Oy, Finland, in relation to the participation in a procurement procedure for the supply of 150 armoured military vehicles for the Bulgarian army (EUR 746 million indicative tender budget).
  • Eurocopter SAS in an open tender organised by the Ministry of Defense regarding the delivery of certain helicopters for the Bulgarian Army.