Kinstellar's team in Sofia authored the Bulgarian chapter on Commercial Arbitration 2024, published by the Global Arbitration Review (GAR)....

RECENTLY THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS AND AMENDMENTS IN THE BULGARIAN LAW AND LEGAL PRACTICE.

During the past several years the Bulgarian Commission on Protection of Competition ("CPC") has devoted special attention to advertisements promising the "best product / service," the "lowest price" or the "highest quality."

Apart from the Civil Procedure Code, the Bill also amends and supplements the International Commercial Arbitration Act and the Consumers Protection Act.

The practice adopted by some banks in EU member states to structure financial collateral pledges as floating charges may result in invalidation of the pledges.

Absent adequate protection by law, the company's corporate documents must provide additional comfort and prevent abusive self-dealing.

In the dynamic landscape of 2023, Bulgaria underwent a remarkable metamorphosis in its insolvency proceedings due to game-changing amendments to the Commerce Law.

The unlikely victory of private owners over the big infrastructure projects in Bulgaria's Constitutional Court

October 2025 – On 1 August 2025, Bulgaria introduced significant changes to its arbitration law, the title of which is now the Arbitration Act.

The Bulgarian Parliament has recently adopted important amendments of the Law on International Commercial Arbitration (the "LICA") and of the Civil Procedure Code (the "CPC"), ...

International Arbitration Comparative Guide for the jurisdiction of Bulgaria, check out our comparative guides section to compare across multiple countries

On 1 July 2025, the provisions of the Civil Procedure Code (CPC) regulating the new provisions in Chapters Thirty-Six ‘Issuance of a Writ of Execution' and Thirty-Seven ‘Order for Payment Proceedings' came into force, after the original date was postponed by one year.