The ‘great team of professionals’ at CMS have extensive experience reviewing and drafting tender documentation, handling public procurement procedures and bid processes, advising on the construction and purchase of facilities and handling environmental compliance advice. Renewable energy projects, particularly solar power plants, upstream oil and gas, nuclear as well as transport are among the teams’ specialisms. The practice is jointly led by Kostadin Sirleshtov, who is well versed in energy, oil and gas and infrastructure projects, and Dimitar Zwiatkow, who expertise lies in project financing, regulatory compliance, corporate and energy matters.
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‘A great team of professionals, with extensive expertise in the oil and gas industry, provides very prompt and client-oriented advice. CMS Bulgaria has also expertise with submitting force majeure applications with the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.’
‘Kostadin Sirleshtov - exquisite professional, extensive expertise in the oil and gas sector, very client-oriented, provides valuable insight of the practice of the relevant authorities; Denitsa Dudevska - high quality professional, very knowledgeable in the oil and gas legislation, provides high standard legal advice and very promptly.’
Key clients
- YGY Industries
- Chint / Astronergy
- Škoda Transportation and Škoda Vagonka
- OMV Petrom
- GREEN SOURCE
- Masdar Taaleri Generation
- Toshiba Corporation
- Green Solar Energy
- EuroAtlantic
- Solar Park Trakiya
Work highlights
- Advising Vier Gas Transport GmbH on in the preparation, application and bid processes of a public procurement procedure held by the Bulgaria-Greece gas interconnector company –ICGB AD.
- Advised Czech Consortium Škoda Transportation and Škoda Vagonka in their successful participation in a public procurement procedure held by Metropolitan Sofia.
- Advising Green Source on the development of a 500 MW solar project in Bulgaria.
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Practice head
Kostadin Sirleshtov; Dimitar Zwiatkow
Other key lawyers
Borislava Piperkova; Diyan Georgiev; Denitsa Dudevska