Mr Hristo Nihrizov > Dimitrov, Petrov & Co > Sofia, Bulgaria > Lawyer Profile

Mr Hristo Nihrizov

+35924214201 hristo.nihrizov@dpc.bg View profile

Work Department

Telecommunications and Media Law, Banking and Finance Law

Position

Partner

Career

Hristo is a partner at DPC and leads the Banking & Finance and TMT teams. He has an unmatched track record of pioneering projects requiring not only deep regulatory knowledge but also specific technology competences. Large multinational corporations from various industries rely on Hristo’s expertise in some regulated industries where compliance and restrictions mandate the need of careful structuring and launch of new products, marketing channels and business models. He specializes also in the areas of privacy and data protection, cybersecurity, payment services, technologies and innovations with impressive achievements both in the TMT and the banking areas.

Hristo has co-authored much of the current electronic communications’ regulatory framework of Bulgaria. Together with his team he provided full legal support and advice on a multi-million project for the deployment of the first and only commercial subsea fibre optic cable connecting the EU and the Caucasus region under the Black Sea. He has also advised several game-changing banking projects with serious impact on the payment systems in Bulgaria, among which assessing and curbing the consequences of the biggest bank insolvency in the country’s history.

Languages

English

Memberships

Member of the Sofia Bar Association;

Member of the International Bar Association;

Senior legal expert at the Center for the Law of Information and Communication Technologies (CLICT);

Member of ITech Law

Education

Sofia University, Faculty of Law (LL.M. 2005);

Course on the New Regulatory Framework in the Telecom Sector at the Center for European Programmes, American University in Bulgaria;

Summer programme on US Business Law held at the American Institute for Legal Education, University of Michigan, USA