Mr Nikolai Gouginski > Djingov, Gouginski, Kyutchukov & Velichkov > Sofia, Bulgaria > Lawyer Profile

Djingov, Gouginski, Kyutchukov & Velichkov’s ‘market-leading practice’ boasts expertise across the entire banking and finance sector, including secured transactions and corporate financing, most recently in the energy and transport sectors, debt restructuring, securitisations, and sovereign bonds transactions, to name a few. Among the firm’s regular client base are national and international banks, asset managers, investment funds and financial institutions. Leading this practice are Nikolai Gouginski, who is well known for his expertise in cross-border lending and project finance, Georgi Tzvetkov and Kaloyan Krumov, who are both well versed in project and acquisition financing, as well as Gergana Monovska, who frequently covers regulatory mandates in the banking and finance and capital markets field.

At Djingov, Gouginski, Kyutchukov & Velichkov, the team has extensive experience across the entire spectrum of competition law, making it an advisor of choice for complex proceedings before the competition authorities, including on antitrust, abuse of dominant position, prohibited vertical and horizontal agreements and merger control proceedings. The team also handles many ongoing advisory mandates regarding clients’ promotional activities, new product launches and general competition compliance. Nikolai Gouginski, who handles proceedings before the authorities, namely antitrust, cartel investigations and unfair trade practices, while Violetta Kunze, who is adept at EU regulatory and competition advice, and together they lead the practice. Dessislava Iordanova has expertise in this area due to her previous experience working in the Bulgarian Commission for Protection of Competition.