Employment
– Start of operations;
– Employment agreements;
– Internal employment policies and procedures;
– Assistance with registration as an employer with the National Revenue Agency;
– Agreements with key employees;
– Employees benefit and incentives plans and share schemes;
– Setting up and relations with trade unions and employees representative bodies;
– Reorganisations, restructurings, transfers and mobility;
– Terminations, redundancies and mass layoffs;
– Internal employment audit and trainings;
– Disciplinary procedures;
– Anti-discrimination internal procedures and policies;
– Whistleblowing procedures and policies;
– Employment litigation;
– Electronic exchange of documents;
– Hiring students and foreigners;
– Home office;
– Employment due diligence;
– Anti-competition and confidentiality clauses in employment agreements.
Corporate and M&A
– Starting a business in Bulgaria and assisting start-ups;
– Corporate governance;
– Assistance through all stages of a M&A deal;
– Share-purchase agreements review and drafting;
– Signing and closing coordination, post-closing coordination;
– Corporate reorganisations, mergers and spin-offs;
– Insolvency and liquidation.
Competition and Antitrust
– Merger notifications;
– Advice on merger control requirements in Bulgaria;
– Advice on antitrust matters, including with regard to marketing promotions and
campaigns;
– Legal representation before the Bulgarian Commission for Protection of Competition;
– Competition due diligence;
– Review and advice on selective and exclusive distribution agreements.
Consumer Protection
– Advice on marketing promotions and campaigns from a consumer protection legislation point of
view;
– Legal representation before the Bulgarian Consumer Protection Commission;
– Advice on communication and relations with customers.
Contracts and Negotiations
– Assistance with drafting and negotiating various types of contracts with different
subject matters, including influencer marketing agreements, preliminary contracts,
lease agreements, agreements with contractors, etc.
Starting a business in Bulgaria and corporate governance requirements
– This training is designed to give start-ups and companies that would like to establish a
presence in Bulgaria a general notion of the process of starting a business in Bulgaria and
what are the corporate governance requirements of Bulgarian laws. It covers among others
practical insights and advice on the different types of companies, registration requirements,
obtaining licenses, reporting obligations, relations with management bodies, distributors and
customers, general overview of the requirements of the Bulgarian competition and antitrust
and consumer protection laws, etc.
Introduction to Bulgarian employment law
– This training is suitable for start-ups and companies establishing a presence in Bulgaria and
covers, among others, types of employment agreements, entering into an employment
agreement, specific clauses to be included into an employment agreement, labour records
and documents, internal labour policies and procedures, obligations of the employer, types of
working time, basic and additional employment remunerations, holidays and rests, relations
with employees representative bodies and trade unions, termination of employment
agreements, inspections by the Labour Inspectorate, etc.
Compliance with Bulgarian employment law
– This training is suitable for HR teams and is tailored in accordance with their specific needs. It
may cover among others good practices, novelties in the legislation, electronic labour
records, disciplinary procedures, anti-discrimination internal policies and procedures,
whistleblowing internal policies and reporting channels, relations with employees
representative bodies, practical advice on termination procedures and requirements for
termination documentation of the Bulgarian Labour Code, relations with contractors, drafting
offers to candidates, electronic exchange of documents with employees, using algorithms to
track employees’ working time, etc.
Competition and antitrust and consumer protection compliance
– This training is suitable for companies with an established presence in Bulgaria. It provides an
in-depth overview of the requirements of the Bulgarian competition and antitrust and
consumer protection laws. The training is tailored in accordance with the client’s specific
needs, but may cover price fixing, relations and communication with competitors, customers,
distributors and trade associations, selective and exclusive distribution agreements,
procedures before the Bulgarian Competition Protection Commission, merger filings,
conducting promotion and marketing campaigns, providing discounts, rebates, bonuses and
complementary products, relevant practice of the Bulgarian Competition Protection
Commission and the European Commission, etc.