About

Provided by Boyanov & Co.

The competition team of BOYANOV & Co. has extensive experience in the entire range of competition law services acting on a large number of cases in a wide range of industries.
Key industry strengths include:
•    Unrivalled experience and track-record in the local market of handling the merger clearance process for the highest value and complex acquisitions and divestments in the country;
•    Extensive involvement in complex anti-trust work at the level of the competition authority and the courts on a wide range of subjects, including both dominance, vertical and horizontal agreements and cartels;
•    Strong unfair competition practice before the competition authority and the courts on the entire range of unfair competition issues, including misleading and comparative advertising, promotions, dumping issues, etc.;
•    Extensive compliance experience providing day-to-day advice, trainings and dawn-raid response preparedness for a large number of clients across a wide range of industries. The firm has a dedicated dawn raids response team, which acts as a point of contact for a number of major multinationals and local clients;
•    Experience in a very wide range of industries and knowledge of industry-specific issues in the context of competition law;
•    Excellent working relationship with the competition authority for many years, which resulted in a number of joint business initiatives.

Chambers Review

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Competition/Antitrust - Bulgaria

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What the Team is Known For

Boyanov & Co maintains its position as one of the leading competition law firms in Bulgaria. It has a broad practice, representing clients in high-profile cartel damages actions, as well as advising on investigations into allegations of unfair competitive practices and abuse of economic dependence. Additionally, the law firm has strong activity in merger clearance filings. It is highly regarded by clients from the financial services and pharmaceutical industries. The team also assists clients with the competition law compliance aspects of distribution schemes.

Work Highlights

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  • Boyanov & Co assisted Villeroy & Boch with obtaining competition law approval for its proposed acquisition of Ideal Standard Group.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Peter Petrov
Head of Competition/Antitrust
Star Individuals

Peter Petrov remains an outstanding individual in the Bulgarian competition sphere, with notable strength in advising domestic and multinational clients on obtaining clearance for proposed mergers from the Bulgarian authorities. He also offers impressive activity defending clients in investigations into alleged abuses of dominance, misleading advertising claims and cartel damages actions.

Peter Petrov's amazing. He has dealt with very complex matters for us and has solved a number of issues for us. We count on him so much. I don't know what we would do without him.

When we have an issue we go to Peter Petrov and the level of support and advice is very thorough. He's one of the best if not the best in Bulgaria.

I like Peter Petrov's practical approach to antitrust matters. He has an in-house mindset, proposing mitigation plans, and is down to earth and understands the business very well.

Peter Petrov is an extremely knowledgeable, experienced and capable lawyer.

He is the best competition lawyer in the market, with very deep and sophisticated knowledge.

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Peter Petrov
Head of Competition/Antitrust
Star Individuals

Members

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Adriana Bakalova

Dr. Nikolay Kolev

Peter Petrov

Head of Department

Clients

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• AbbVie

• Agrion

• Apple

• Bulgaria Air

• EVN

• Fraport

• Jacobs Douwe Egberts

• Microsoft

• Novartis

• Philip Morris

• Procter & Gamble

• Samsung

• Siemens

Industries

Provided by Boyanov & Co.

• Aerospace & Defence

• Banks

• Commercial & Professional Services

• Consumer Product Manufacturing

• Energy

• Financial Services

• Food & Drink Producers

• Government

• Insurance

• Media

• Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences

• Private Clients / Individuals

• Real Estate

• Retail

• Technology, Hardware & Electronics

• Telecommunications

• Transportation

• Utilities