BSCL - Key Persons
A Civil Engineer with 29 years professional experience as designer, construction manager and consultant. As Head of Logistics Department, Construction Manager, later Head of Tender and Contracts Department in the biggest steel structures contractor in Bulgaria Metalni Construczii for more than 10 years, she managed international contracts in Bulgaria, Israel, Serbia, Russia and Greece. From 1998 she started her career as consultant in the supervision of works under the first FIDIC contracts implemented in Bulgaria in Kozloduy NPP. In 2000 founded EQE Control and continued her career as Partner and Managing Director of EQE Control, company of ABS Group, licensed Bulgarian consultant for design and construction supervision. She has managed the licensed consulting services for the biggest project in Bulgaria: 600 MW TPP AES Galabovo, St Nikola Wind Park Kavarna 156 MW, 176 m high Europe Tower Sofia, Business Park Varna, 6 World Bank Cross-Border projects. She has 18 years FIDIC experience: preparation of tender documentation; Resident Engineer/ Engineer in nuclear safety/ waste management/ infrastructure EC financed projects; claims consultant; presently DAB. From 2013 she changed her position to Marketing Manager, in order to allocate more time to construction law, focusing on training, claims management and dispute resolution under FIDIC contracts.
Job Titles:
- Founder and Managing Partner of Ivanov & Partners
Dian Ivanov is a founder and Managing partner of Ivanov & Partners in 2004. He represents local and international clients including, corporates, private investors, financial institutions, government agencies, and start-ups on issues relating to real estate, construction, insurance, litigation, administrative law, and corporate law.
Job Titles:
- Civil Engineer, Professor at UACEG - Sofia
Prof. Dr. Eng. Fantina Rangelova was born in 1965 in the city of Sofia.
She completed her higher education at "Transport Construction" in 1988 at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy (UACEG).
In 2004, she obtained a Doctorate degree at the UACEG, Sofia on the topic "Effective constructive, technological and organizational solutions for the restoration and strengthening of buildings after earthquakes and natural disasters, and during reconstruction and modernization'.
She studied in post-graduate qualification in "Social Management" and "International Economic Relations" at UACEG.
During the period 1997-1988, she was a Visiting Researcher at Oregon State University, Oregon, USA.
She worked as a chief expert in the Executive Agency "Roads" at the Ministry of Defense and the Executive Agency "Military Clubs and Military Recreation" at the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Bulgaria.
Since 1995, she has been a visiting lecturer in the "Organization and Economics of Construction" department at the Faculty of Construction of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Since 2008, she has been an Associate Professor in the department, and since 2015 - a Professor. She teaches in the Faculties of Construction and Architecture of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in the disciplines "Construction Organization and Management", "Construction Economics", "Project Management Standards", "Management of Construction Investment Projects", "Risk Management in the Protection of Immovable Cultural Heritage", "Analysis and evaluation of a project for the management and protection of immovable cultural heritage", etc.
Education:
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Faculty of Law - Master of Law
Languages:
Bulgarian, English, German
Professional Experience:
Attorney-at-law at Tsvetkova Bebov Komarevski Law Firm
Martin Zahariev, Attotney-at-law, PhD, graduated with honors from Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Faculty of Law (LL.M.) in 2014. Together with his colleagues, he won first prize in the National Competition in Law of the European Union EUROPAEUS and was part of the Sofia University team that received an Honourable Mention for Werner Melis Award Best Memorandum for Respondent in Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot: the most prestigious competitions in the area of international commercial arbitration.
Martin Zahariev holds an educational and scientific degree "doctor''at the University of Library and Information Technology, Sofia. He is a representative for trademarks and design at the Patent Office of the Republic of Bulgaria. Martin Zahariev is an associate at Dimitrov, Petrov & Co. Law Firm, as well as an expert at the Law and Internet Foundation. He specializes in the areas of dispute resolution and international arbitration, personal data protection, employment law, life sciences regulation and intellectual property. He is the author of two monographs in the field of personal data protection - "Automated Profiling and Personal Data Protection. Analysis of GDPR" (2018) and "Data Protection in Commercial Arbitration: In the Light of GDPR"(2019), as well as of numerous articles and analysis in the field of commercial arbitration and commercial law, employment law and personal data protection. University lecturer at the University of Library Studies and Information Technologies and Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski in the disciplines related to ICT law, regime of information, basics of law and personal data protection.
He is a member of Sofia Bar Association and the International Moot Court Competitions Association. Speaks English and German.
Job Titles:
- Government Expert in the Law Directorate at the Council of Ministers
- Member of Blagoevgrad Bar Association
Mr. Metodi Baykushev is a partner at Dimitrov, Petrov & Co. Law Firm. His practice focuses on dispute resolution, public procurement and Construction Law. He currently heads the Litigation and Arbitration Practice Group and the Public Procurement Practice Group of the firm. Assistant professor in Civil Procedure Law at the South-West University "Neofit Rilski" in the period 2007 - 2008, guest lecturer at the American University in Bulgaria since 2008 and lecturer in training of State Bailiffs under the Civil Procedure Code. He is a member of the Sofia Bar Association, the International Bar Association, the AmCham Public Procurement and EU Advisory Committee, and the Arbitration Council at the KRIB Court of Arbitration.
Ms. Boyana Milcheva is a partner at Dimitrov, Petrov & Co. Law Firm. She joined the Law Firm in 2005 and now heads the Construction Law and Tax Law Practice Groups. She specializes in Construction Law, Real Estate Law, Tax Law and Corporate Law.
Boyana Milcheva has significant experience representing clients involved in major infrastructure projects financed by European cohesion and structural funds, as well as by government and private funds. She successfully supports clients in specific dispute resolution procedures under international construction contracts.
Ms. Milcheva is also actively engaged as a legal consultant in public-private partnerships and concessions, providing full scope interdisciplinary legal assistance.
She graduated from Sofia University, Faculty of Law (LL.M. 2002) and also completed two courses in American Business Law and American Institutional Law at Sofia University. In 2009 and 2010 she successfully completed the international postgraduate practice programmes in Mergers and Acquisitions and International Business Organisations of the International Bar Association and the College of Law of England and Wales.
Ms. Milcheva is a member of the Sofia Bar Association.
Nikolay Kolev, attorney at law, has completed a master's degree in law at the Faculty of Law of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" in 2013.
Nikolay Kolev is an associate in Dimitrov, Petrov & Co. Law Firm since 2015.
Currently he specializes mainly in the areas of real estate law, construction law, contract law, commercial law and litigation. He also has experience in the areas of ecology law, family and inheritance law.
During his practice he has acquired significant experience in providing legal services in every stage of the process of property acquisition - preliminary due diligence and risk analysis, preparation of contracts and transactions structuring, negotiations and representation. He also has experience in preparation of different types of contracts with regard to the construction process, property management and property acquisition.
He is a member of the Sofia Bar Association.
He is fluent in English and Russian and has some basic knowledge in German.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate in Dimitrov
Att. Pavlina Ivanova is Senior Associate in Dimitrov, Petrov & Co. Law Firm which she joined in 2006. She has graduated from Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Faculty of Law. Her current practice focuses on Real Estate law, Construction law, Commercial law, Intellectual Property law and litigation.
Pavlina has extensive experience in providing comprehensive legal services to domestic and foreign clients through the whole process of investment in real estates - legal analyses and due diligence, negotiations, acquisition, construction, renting and sale of buildings, in condominium relationships, etc. She has significant experience in preparation of different types of contracts and consultations on property acquisition, lease procedures and the full range of activities regarding the construction process and property management.
Pavlina Ivanova is a Trade Mark, Geographical Indications and Industrial Design Attorney at the Patent Office of the Republic of Bulgaria. Ms. Ivanova is a member of Sofia Bar Association.
Job Titles:
- Contract and Claim Manager under FIDIC Contract Conditions. Expert in Critical Path Method ( CPM ) and Delay Analysis
Job Titles:
- Managing Partner of the Law Firm "Penkova & Partners
Viktoria Penkova is the managing partner of the Law Firm "Penkova & Partners". He has over 30 years of legal experience. Since 1990, he is currently a lawyer from the Sofia Bar Association. From 2000 until now, he is the managing partner of the Law Firm "Penkova and Partners" (previously known as "Dyulgerova and Penkova").
Viktoria Penkova is an arbitrator at the FIDIC National Lists of Adjudicators at the Bulgarian Association of Architects and Consulting Engineers.