Petkov Law Firm provides a wide range of services to businesses and individuals, including advice in the following practice areas:
Administrative Law- Representation before state and municipal authorities.
- Advice, assistance and representation in proceedings for the issuance of individual administrative acts, including licenses, permits, registrations, certificates.
- Preparation of documents and representation in tenders and procedures for assigning of public procurements.
- Advice and protection against unlawful administrative actions and omissions.
Contract Law
- Consultations, representation and participation in negotiations, drafting various types of contracts.
- Legal advice and assistance regarding cancellation or termination of contracts.
- Representation in negotiations for our-of-court settlement of contractual disputes, drafting out-of-court agreements.
Corporate & Commercial Law
- Advice on choosing legal form of company incorporation.
- A new company establishment and registration. Establishment of branches and trade representative offices.
- Structural changes, transformation of the companies.
- Mergers and Acquisitions.
- Legal services for companies, partnerships and sole traders – partnership agreements, share purchase contracts, contracts for management, employment contracts and other documents related to the business activity of the company.
- Tax issues – corporate income tax, capital gains tax, double taxation and tax planning. VAT registration.
- Commercial transaction – consultations, representation and participation in negotiations, drafting various types of commercial contracts.
- Dispute resolution and out-of-court settlements.
- Liquidation.
- Insolvency.
Employment & Social Security
- Legal assistance in the conclusion, amendment and termination of employment agreements.
- Collective employment agreements.
- Consultations on hiring Bulgarian or foreign workers.
- Legal advice, participation in negotiations and intermediation between employers and workers and their representatives for out-of-court settlement of labor disputes.
- Social security and health insurance.
Litigation & Arbitration
- Preliminary assessment of the facts and evidences, gathering information and preparing the necessary documentation.
- Legal advice and representation in real estate disputes, contractual disputes, corporate and commercial disputes, employment disputes.
- Administrative and tax litigation.
- Representation before state courts and courts of arbitration.
- Appeals.
Real Estate & Construction
- Construction – planning, requirements, procedures.
- Legal advice and consultations, participation in negotiations, drafting contracts between contractors, builders, architects, consultants.
- Representation before individuals and legal entities, municipal and state authorities in the process of real estate purchase and sale, tax registration, registrations in the BULSTAT Register and the Cadastre agency.
- Real estate ownership investigation.
- Drafting and negotiating preliminary and final contracts for purchase and sale of real estate.
- Drafting and negotiating contracts for maintenance and management of real estate, rental contracts.
- Legal assistance with condo fees, construction litigation and condominium homeowners association disputes, review of contracts for association management, loans, and construction; and general legal advice on interpretation, enforcement and modification of condominium governing documents.
Tax Law
- Legal advice on tax matters – corporate income tax, VAT, taxation of securities transactions, capital gains tax, tax optimization and avoidance of double taxation, customs procedures.
- Representation before the state and local tax authorities.
- Appeals against rulings of the tax authorities.
Following are some of the other areas of law we deal with:
- Banking Law
- Debt Collection
- Energy & Natural Resources
- Transportation Law