Clifford Chance

TechDigital, Commercial Transactions & Outsourcing

Dessislava Savova leads our Tech Group in Europe, and is head of the Tech//Digital team in Paris.

Dessislava specialises in all areas of tech and commercial law, including technology and platform regulations, AI, data privacy and data governance, cybersecurity, commercial contracts and cooperations, joint ventures, e-commerce and consumer law. She leads Clifford Chance’s AI group.

Dessi is a highly regarded commentator on AI issues in the mainstream press including BBC, CNBC and Reuters. She also speaks on AI issues at a range of events including for the International Bar Association, World Litigation Forum and City & Financial.

She is a lecturer at Sciences Po (Ecole de Droit) and the University of Versailles Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines on Tech & Data Law.

Joined Clifford Chance Paris 2000

Secondment to Clifford Chance London 2000

Seconded to the legal department of EADS 2001

Partner since 2011

English, Russian, Czech, Bulgarian and French

University Kliment Ohridsky Sofia (DEUG de droit) 1993

University Robert Schuman of Strasbourg (Maîtrise de droit des affaires et Certificat de droit européen) 1998

University of Strasbourg (Master's Degree in Business Law - Post-Master's qualification in Business Law DESS - DJCE) 1998

Centre de Formation Professionnelle des Avocats d'Alsace à Strasbourg 1999

Admitted as an avocat in Paris 2000