Youliana O Naoumova

Practice Areas

DGKV’s employment team excels as one of the few stand-alone employment law practices on the Bulgarian market.Our employment lawyers are heavily involved in providing legal field specific knowledge to our clients with a view to optimizing every aspect of their operations and strive to ensure that their specific employment needs are met in an ever-changing business world.Apart from their work in the practice, the lawyers involved in the Employment Law Practice Group derive unique benefit from the opportunity to be part of large transaction teams.DGKV’s exposure to a large number of projects and international experience has enabled employment lawyers to develop profound expertise in a great variety of employment law matters.Our employment and social security team has represented clients in the whole spectrum of employment law issues that may arise in the course of operations of an entity-in the individual as well as collective labour relations, including handling both individual and collective labour disputes, immigration and work permit requirements for expatriate employees.DGKV’s employment and social security team is often invited to contribute to renowned publications in the field and to lecture at international conferences on country-specific employment projects.DGKV's employment attorneys provide pro bono advice to educational institutions and Non-Governmental organizations.

Professional Memberships

Sofia Bar Association

International Bar Association

European Employment Lawyers Association - Bulgarian board member

Personal

Youliana Naoumova is a corporate Partner heading DGKV’s Employment practice group.

Youliana has abundant experience advising both Bulgarian and international clients on a wide spectrum of employment and social security matters. Her role frequently involves providing advice on sensitive employment issues related to the contracting of senior management and the structuring and implementing of individual and collective dismissals, employee transfer schemes, and leasing-of-personnel arrangements, as well as employment litigation. Youliana’s work on complex M&A transactions also includes managing comprehensive due- diligence investigations of employment relations and related issues. She regularly advises clients on the labor aspects of post-acquisition organizational restructurings. Youliana acts as principal employment counsel to companies in various industries, including manufacturing, technology, media, trade, and services. She also advises multinational clients on immigration and mobility aspects, and a significant part of her practice involves the optimization of employee-representation systems on a pan-European and domestic level.

Languages Spoken

English

German

Bulgarian (native)

Education