News – Sofia
House of Ukrainian Friends
The Immediate Past-Chairman and current Vice-Chairman of BRCC, Neil McGregor is an Ambassador of the House of the Ukrainian Friends (Services 3 — House of Ukrainian Friends) which is a group of Romanians and friends of Romania who have known and trusted one another for over two decades. House of Ukrainian Friends’ is a facility […]
Yet another year McGregor & Partners proud sponsor of cycling in Bulgaria!
Yet another year McGregor & Partners proud sponsor of cycling in Bulgaria!
Special thanks to Doltcini team for the perfect organisation of “Vitosha Climb 2020” and “Criterium: “Sofia South Park”!
Looking forward for the rest of the season!
Bulgaria-the Next Business Destination
McGregor&Partners is delighted to support and sponsor the event Bulgaria-Your Next Business Destination, on Thursday, 9 of May 2019, at the V7 Start Up Studio in Bucharest where Bulgarian and Romanian business people will discuss about building bridges with ecommerce and how Balkans is a market with great potential.
McGregor & Partners assisted Unilever Bulgaria for the successful completion of the acquistion of sole control over Denny ice cream business owned by Sladoledena Fabrika
Sofia, December, 2018: The acquistion of sole control of Unilever Bulgaria over Denny ice cream business owned by Sladoledena Fabrika was announced on 3 December 2018. Background of the transaction: Incorporated in 1993, Sladoledena Fabrika OOD produces in its factory in Veliko Tarnovo region and distributes though its distribution channels ice creams under the well-known […]
State Aid clearance
State Aid Clearance for the Bulgarian Renewable Feed-in-tariff McGregor & Partners has represented Bulgarian renewable energy producers in their Complaint in 2014 to the European Commission for alleged unlawful state aid resulted from the 20 % levy on the preferential purchase prices of wind and photovoltaic projects being discriminatory vis-a-vis other renewable producers and producers […]
Our associate earned a master degree in finance
McGregor & Partners is pleased to announce that Petar Kulenski, associate in the Firm’s Sofia office, has graduated with a master degree in finance at the University for National and World Economy in Sofia. Petar has successfully defended his dissertation titled: ‘Concession of public state property’. The particular knowledge in finance, combined with his experience […]
Cases for reimbursement of access fees
McGregor & Partners successfully continues to lead court cases in Bulgaria for reimbursement of the access fee paid on the basis of the annulled Decision C-33/14.09.2012 of State Energy and Water Regulation Commission. On April 28, 2016 the Supreme Cassation Court decided on a case lead by McGregor and Partners by which ordered an electricity […]
McGregor and Partners presented the new Data Protection Rules and the Privacy Shield to AmCham Members
At the recent AmCham Quality Management Committee meeting in Sofia Asya Vladimirova and Dessislava Galabova gave a presentation on topic “Business will face challenges regarding data protection – new EU Regulation and Privacy Shield”. The focus was on how the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and EU-US Privacy Shield will impact the […]
McGregor & Partners delivered Unilever Bulgaria Competition Training
On 11-12 February 2016 in Plovdiv Julian Spassov delivered the annual in-house Unilever Bulgaria Competition Training covering the general competition rules focused mainly on pricing, rebates, negotiations with clients, promotional activities and other sales conditions. A lot of practical issues from the daily business activity of the company were considered and discussed with Julian Spassov […]
Our partner earned an LLM in Intellectual Property & Information Law from KCL
McGregor & Partners is pleased to announce that Asya Vladimirova, partner in the Firm’s Sofia office, has graduated with the degree of Master of Laws (LLM) in Intellectual Property & Information Law at King’s College London. Asya has received distinction for her dissertation titled: ‘Study of some copyright issues relating to the digital transmission under […]
Grounds for new claims from Renewable energy producers
Recouping the losses from the 20 % fee With the final provisions of the Law on the State Budget of Republic of Bulgaria for 2014, amendments in the Law on Renewable Energy Sources (“LRES”) were adopted. A new Section V of Chapter IV was introduced which provided the payment of 20% fee for wind and […]