Elena Todorova > Schoenherr > Sofia, Bulgaria > Lawyer Profile

Schoenherr
ALABIN 56
1000 SOFIA
Bulgaria
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Work Department

Real Estate, Healthcare & Lifesciences, Food Law, Corporate and M&A

Position

Counsel

Career

Elena Todorova has been with Schoenherr since 2006. She heads the Healthcare and Life Sciences practice at the Sofia office and has partner-level experience guiding clients and dealing with EU and Bulgarian legislation.
She frequently advises EU-based and local companies on the regulatory aspects of their food and pharma businesses, as well as producers of medical devices, cosmetics, marketers of chemicals and related products, as well as feed business operators on the requirements of the domestic legislation and control.
Elena is author of numerous articles in the sphere of healthcare and life sciences and food law. Some of them are:

  • The newly amended Notice on Handling of Duplicate Marketing Authorisation Applications – during a pandemic, availability is all that matters
  • Development, controversy, stagnation? Trends and forecast for healthcare & life sciences in CEE
  • Bulgaria: How safe is it to advertise a product as “homemade”?
  • New Foodstuff Act in Bulgaria
  • Bulgaria: New Legislation in the Rose Cultivation Sector
  • The Effect of the New EU Medical Device Regulation on Bulgarian Legislation
  • How safe is it to advertise a product as “homemade”?
  • First legislative amendments introducing telemedicine/telehealth
  • Ready for the Cladogenesis of the traditional Healthcare?
  • The Yoghurt War – A Bulgarian Food Law Case
  • Junk Food – To Tax or not to Tax?
  • Is This Chicken That I Have, Or Is This Fish?
  • Bulgaria: healthcare & life sciences in a global pandemic
  • Bulgaria: Even in a state of emergency human rights must be respected!
  • E-healthcare and telehealth become vital to tackling COVID-19 in CEE
  • Growing cannabis in Bulgaria: Legal but still stigmatised
  • Bulgarian Courts and the Deepest Recesses of Marketing
  • Bulgaria: Proposal for EU Directive on unfair trading practices in business-to-business relationships in the food supply chain
  • Bulgaria has liberalised the legal requirements on mixtures containing 1,4-Butanediol and y-Butyrolactone
  • Bulgaria: Commission for Protection of Competition Takes a Negative View of COOL Bill
  • Bulgaria: Amendment to the pricing and reimbursements process for pharmaceuticals

Languages

Bulgarian, German, English

Memberships

Admitted to the Bar in Bulgaria

Education

Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia/Bulgaria (Master’s degree in Law 2000)

Lawyer Rankings

Bulgaria > Healthcare and life sciences

Schoenherr leverages its presence in Central and Eastern Europe to advise a variety of clients, including healthcare and pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers and retailers of cosmetics, detergents and food, on cross-border M&A transactions, corporate financing, regulatory issues and e-health, as well as day-to-day legal matters spanning a number of practice areas. Elena Todorova leads the team and frequently advises food and pharma companies on compliance with the regulatory framework.

Bulgaria > Real estate and construction

Schoenherr is well known for its full-service offering in relation to complex construction projects, including office, retail and industrial real estate and energy infrastructure or green projects. Further specialisms of the real estate team are advising on high-end real estate transactions and assisting investors entering the Bulgarian market with regulatory issues. Dimitar Vlaevsky and Elena Todorova jointly lead the team and are supported by Kristina Lyubenova.