Practice Areas
DGKV has one of the oldest and best recognized competition practices among Bulgarian law firms dating back to the adoption of the first Law on Protection of Competition in 1998. Nowadays our team is one of the largest and most accomplished in handling multiple investigations and proceedings. DGKV has developed a strong competition practice and has made a significant contribution to the development of laws and practices of the Bulgarian competition regulator – Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC);
Our experience spans for more than 30 years of advising many multinational and Bulgarian clients from various industries on all aspects of merger control, cartels, unfair competition matters, horizontal and vertical restraints on trade, abuse of dominant position and of superior bargaining position, industry specific regulations, distribution, agency, and marketing contracts, etc.;
Personal
Dessislava Iordanova is a Senior Associate at DGKV and one of the lawyers in the firm’s Competition & Antitrust and Intellectual Property practices.
Dessislava represents clients in Bulgarian courts and before Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition, Patent Office, Consumers Protection Commission, and pharmaceuticals-regulatory authority in antitrust proceedings; unfair-competition, trademark, and industrial-designs cases; consumer disputes; and regulatory matters. Prior to joining DGKV, she spent ten years as head of a unit at the Commission for Protection of Competition and eight years as a senior lawyer at two other well-known law firms.
She is a member of the Sofia Bar, a registered industrial-property attorney at the Bulgarian Patent Office, and on the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office’s list of professional representatives in trademark and design matters.
Education
EUIPO
European Trademark and Industrial Design Professional Representative
2010
Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski in cooperation with University of Nancy
LL.M. in EU Law
2010
Bulgarian Patent Office
Trademark and Industrial Design Professional Representative
2003
University of National and World Economy
LL.M.
1991 - 1996