Victoria Penkova

Victoria Penkova is the Founder and Managing Partner of Penkova & Partners, with over 30 years of experience in corporate, commercial, real estate, construction, and employment law. She is widely recognised for her strategic legal counsel, particularly in FIDIC contracts, infrastructure projects, M&A transactions, and complex dispute resolution.

Victoria has a strong track record in employment law, advising corporate clients on hiring strategies, employment contracts, dismissals, workplace policies, and whistleblowing compliance.

An experienced litigator, Victoria represents clients in commercial, administrative, and arbitral proceedings, with a particular focus on construction (including FIDIC contracts) and tax disputes. She is a Dispute Adjudicator on the FIDIC National List at BACEA, Co-Founder and Chair of the Bulgarian Society of Construction Law (BSCL), and a member of the Council of the European Society of Construction Law (ESCL).

Victoria is actively engaged in legal scholarship and training, lecturing on construction law and FIDIC contracts at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering, and Geodesy in Sofia. Fluent in English and Russian, she advises both domestic and international clients on their most complex legal matters.

Sofia Bar Association

Victoria is a contributor to the Chambers & Partners Construction Law and Practice and Construction Trends and Developments Guides for 2023 and 2024, Chambers & Partners Employment Law and Practice and Employment Trends and Developments Guides for 2024 and Lexology Index Panoramic Labor and Employment Guide for 2024.

Victoria Penkova is author of the following chapters – “Standard and framework forms of construction contracts”, “Increase in the amounts due under the construction contract" and "Time for completion. Delay. Suspension and resumption of construction works” from the Construction Law Handbook, 2021, “Sibi” Edition