BWSP Legal

BWSP Legal Attorneys at Law in CEE

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Contents:

About Us

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BWSP Belgrade

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BWSP Bucharest

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BWSP Budapest

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BWSP Sofia

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Practice Areas

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Languages

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BWSP LEGAL Attorneys at Law in Central and Eastern Europe

BWSP LEGAL is a powerful law firm partnership which gives you legal solutions and advice across Central and Eastern Europe. Operating out of four offices in the region, in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Serbia and with a number of language desks we are able to provide clients with top notch legal services in the region without the associated trouble of contacting a law firm in each jurisdiction.

With over three hundred and fifty lawyers practising in a number of practise areas with full language capabilities BWSP LEGAL offers seamless, full range legal services in Central and Eastern Europe. Our philosophy is to enable clients to appoint one law firm to handle their legal matters in the region. Our existing and future clients benefit from unified standard of legal services, greater depth, extended experience and local knowledge around jurisdictions in Central and Eastern Europe.

Bulgarian Desk

Diliana Ilieva

0035 9 2 981 4799

Hungarian Desk

Andrea Soos

0036 1 270 9900

Romanian Desk

Cristian Bogaru

0040 21 326 6053

English Desk

Nicholas Hammond

0040 21 326 6053

French Desk

Cristian Bogaru

0040 21 326 6053

German Desk

Arne Gobert

0036 1 270 9900

Russian Desk

Rossitsa Voutcheva

00359 2 981 4799

Serbian Desk

Nenad Milovanović

0038 1 113 031 227

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BWSP JMS LAW Belgrade, Serbia Telephone : + 381 11 30 31 227 / +381 11 30 31 228 Address : Tadeusa Koscuska 8, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia BWSP JMS Law Office was established in 1999 and it soon became one of the leading law offices in Serbia. Our history dates back in 1986, when our senior partner Mirko Jovanović initiated his law practice in Belgrade. Today, BWSP JMS has three senior partners with experience that extends over several decades (Mirko Jovanovic, Nenad Milovanovic, Aleksandar Simic) and a team of six attorneys and numerous external cooperates.

BWSP JMS is specialized in provision of legal services in the field of corporate and commercial law, and its reputation particularly relied on multiannual cooperation with foreign and domestic corporate clients. Our clients include public and private companies, government institutions, NGO’s, as well as leading international corporations.

Partners: Mirko Jovanović – Partner Nenad Milovanović – Partner Practice Areas: Commercial law Competition law & EU legislation Copyright law Corporate law Employment Intellectual Property law Litigation Mergers & Acquisitions Real estate Tax

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Mirko Jovanović, Partner E-mail: mirko.jovanovic@jmslaw.rs Languages: Serbian and English Mirko Jovanović has been a member of the Bar Council of Belgrade since 1985. He advises global, national and local clients on all aspects of Corporate and Commercial Law. Since 1990, he has been constantly providing professional services to bankruptcy and liquidation trustees, bankruptcy and liquidation councils, compulsory settlement trustees and other authorities in the bankruptcy and liquidation proceedings. His work in numerous contentious matters includes the provision of legal advice and opinions from the very creation of a case, prioritizing and providing principle guidelines for successful case preparation. Mr. Jovanović is the author of several studies published in the magazine "Legal Life" and visiting lecturer of the “Kopaonik” School of Natural Law. He has special interest and appropriate qualifications for the legal informatics, including pioneer author project "Basis of Legal Practice on PC".

Nenad Milovanović, Partner E-mail: nenad.milovanovic@jmslaw.rs Languages: Serbian and English Nenad Milovanović was admitted to Belgrade Bar Chamber in 1987.

His extensive experience in litigation comes from handling a large number of individual cases throughout the jurisdictions of former Yugoslavia. Mr. Milovanović is currently dealing with a broad spectrum of national and international cases before the High Court of Commerce, Supreme Court and Professional Disciplinary Tribunals.

As a member of the Fraud Network and the Antipiracy Association his areas of special interest are Business Investigations; Down Raid Procedures etc. He acted as a legal consultant to the Ministry of Culture and Serbian Film Centre in the legal drafting procedures.

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BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Bucharest, Romania Address: Nicolae Caramfil Street 61 B, 3rd floor, district 1, Bucharest, Romania Telephone: 021 326 60 53 BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates brings the experience of lawyers from different legal disciplines to provide a leading “full service” commercial law firm in Romania for foreign and Romanian clients. The transactions handled by the Firm range from assisting small and medium size enterprises to advising major multinational companies. The Firm’s lawyers have many years of combined legal experience in the United Kingdom, Romania, France and Switzerland.

The Firm fosters a collaborative culture that allows each lawyer to draw freely on the expertise and time of others to serve any client. We balance the two major legal disciplines, the Common Law and the Code Law with a thorough understanding of the law with an innovative and entrepreneurial spirit.

Partners: Nicholas Hammond – Senior Partner Cristian Bogaru – Managing Partner Petronela Ana – Partner Practice Areas: Arbitration Aviation and Transport Banking and finance Capital markets Commercial law Competition law & EU legislation Construction Corporate law Employment Energy, oil & gas law

Financial markets Insolvency Intellectual Property Law Litigation Mergers & Acquisitions PPP Real estate Restructuring Sport

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Nicholas Hammond, Senior Partner Email: nhammond@hbalaw.eu Languages: English, Romanian Nicholas Hammond advises clients in a wide spectrum of business sectors on corporate finance transactions, investment and mergers and tax planning. Nicholas Hammond has an extensive legal experience in the UK and Continental Europe and has first come to Romania in the early 90s to advise on some of the most important privatization cases of former Romanian state owned companies.

After spending several years in the local Romanian offices of major international law firms such as Taylor Wessing or Magic Circle Linklaters, he sets up Hammond Bogaru & Associates with Swiss legal adviser Cristian Bogaru, setting the ground for what was to become BWSP Hammond Bogaru, a powerful international law partnership operating in Central Europe.

Christian Bogaru, Managing Partner Email: cbogaru@hbalaw.eu Languages: Romanian, French, English, Italian Christian Bogaru has a broad experience advising Romanian and international clients on a wide variety of transactions and general corporate work, including private and public M&A, capital markets, private equity and venture capital investments, re-organisations and commercial agreements and also copyright issues and major employment legal issues across all principal economic sectors.

Christian Bogaru also advises public and private companies and large corporations on regulatory, energy, procurement and environmental aspects both in the traditional energy and utilities world as well as renewable energy projects such as photovoltaic, wind, biomass, biogas, power to gas and geothermal projects.

Petronela Ana, Partner Email: pana@hbalaw.eu Languages: Romanian, French, English, German, Italian Petronela joined the firm in 2009 having previously worked in a number of well-known law practises in Bucharest. Her field of experience is mainly litigation matters where she has acted for a number of major clients with success.

BWSP Gobert & Partners Budapest, Hungary Address: Andrássy út 10., Stern Palota, H-1061 Budapest, Hungary Telephone : +36 1 270 9900 BWSP Gobert & Partners Attorneys and Tax Advisors was founded in 2002. Currently our firm consists of 3 Partners and a number of 15 professionals of which five are dealing with tax and ten with legal services.

Our professionals offer legal support in many languages, including Hungarian, German, English, Russian, Ukrainian and French. The expertise areas of BWSP Gobert & Partners include but are not limited to corporate and commercial law, M&A, tax, labor, finance, data protection law as well as restructuring, property, litigation, IT and energy law.

We offer our current and potential Clients support from two major aspects – legal and tax, which is especially important for customers, seeking resolution of complex issues. Responding to the rapidly changing market needs, we propose flexible solutions at competitive and affordable prices.

Partners: Dr. Arne Gobert – Managing Partner Dr. Reka Ipacs – Partner Dr. Andrea Klara Soos – Labor & Litigation Partner Practice Areas: Banking and finance Commercial law Competition law & EU legislation Corporate law Employment Energy, oil & gas law Insolvency Intellectual Property Law

Litigation Media & Telecommunication Law Mergers & Acquisitions Real estate Restructuring Sport Tax

Dr. Arne Gobert, Managing Partner E-mail: arne.gobert@gfplegal.com Languages: German and English

Dr. Réka Ipacs, Partner E-mail: reka.ipacs@gfplegal.com Languages: Hungarian, English, German and Spanish

Dr. Andrea Klára Soós, Partner E-mail: andrea.soos@gfplegal.com Languages : Hungarian and English

BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Sofia, Bulgaria Address: 28, Hristo Botev Blvd., 4th floor, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria Telephone: +359 2 981 49 53 BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Law Firm is an independent, middle size law firm, active in the area of corporate and commercial law in Bulgaria and as BWSP in the Central and Eastern Europe. Although we are aiming at provision of full range legal services to our corporate clients we also have developed a particular expertise in the areas of M&A, media and telecommunications law, energy law with a focus on the renewable energy sources and real estate law, tax law and international tax structuring. Our clients are also one of the biggest producers and wholesalers in food industry in Bulgaria and Central and Eastern Europe, electronics production, a couple of local and foreign banks, etc.

BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Law Firm is to be noted because it unifies excellent lawyers and paralegal support staff bound by the idea of provision of client focused and partner led service. The highlights of the law firm are full range legal services of highest quality combined with the personal attitude of the attorneys, attention to details, proactiveness and understanding of different sectors of industry, substantial expertise in international transactions.

Partners: Diliana Ilieva – Managing Partner Rossitsa Voutcheva – Managing Partner Tamara Kovacheva – Partner Practice Areas: Arbitration Aviation and Transport Banking and finance Capital markets Commercial law Competition law & EU legislation Construction Copyright law Corporate law Employment Energy, oil & gas law

Financial markets Insolvency Intellectual Property Law Litigation Media & Telecommunication Law Mergers & Acquisitions PPP Real estate Restructuring Tax

Diliana Ilieva, Managing Partner E-mail: diliana.ilieva@ivlawfirm.com Languages: Bulgarian, English, Russian

Rossitsa Voutcheva, Managing Partner E-mail: rossitsa.voutcheva@ivlawfirm.com Languages: Bulgarian, English and Russian

Tamara Kovacheva, Partner E-mail: tamara.kovacheva@ivlawfirm.com Languages: Bulgarian, English

BWSP LEGAL PRACTICE AREAS Arbitration Petronela Ana, Partner - BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Diliana Ilieva, Partner – BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Rossitsa Voutcheva, Partner – BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Aviation and Transport Nicholas Hammond, Partner – BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Rossitsa Voutcheva, Partner – BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Banking and finance Nicholas Hammond, Partner – BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Rossitsa Voutcheva, Partner – BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Dilyana Ilieva, Partner – BSWP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Capital markets Nicholas Hammond, Partner – BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Rossitsa Voutcheva, Partner – BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Commercial law Dr Arne Gobert, Partner – BWSP Gobert & Partners Dr. Réka Ipacs, Partner – BWSP Gobert & Partners Dr. Andrea Klára Soós, Partner – BWSP Gobert & Partners Christian Bogaru, Partner - BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Nicholas Hammond, Partner – BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Diliana Ilieva, Partner – BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Rossitsa Voutcheva, Partner – BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Tamara Kovacheva, Partner - BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Mirko Jovanović, Partner – BWSP JMS Law Office

Nenad Milovanović, Partner - BWSP JMS Law Office Competition law & EU legislation Dr Arne Gobert, Partner – BWSP Gobert & Partners Nicholas Hammond, Partner – BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Rossitsa Voutcheva, Partner – BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Mirko Jovanović, Partner – BWSP JMS Law Office Construction Nicholas Hammond, Partner – BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Anton Uzunov, Partner - BSWP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Copyright law Nenad Milovanović, Partner - BWSP JMS Law Office Ivana Ružičić, Partner - BWSP JMS Law Office Christian Bogaru, Partner - BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Corporate law Nicholas Hammond, Partner – BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Cristian Bogaru, Partner - BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Dr Arne Gobert, Partner – BWSP Gobert & Partners Diliana Ilieva, Partner – BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Rossitsa Voutcheva, Partner – BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Mirko Jovanović, Partner – BWSP JMS Law Office Nenad Milovanović , Partner - BWSP JMS Law Office Employment Dr Arne Gobert, Partner – BWSP Gobert & Partners Cristian Bogaru, Partner - BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Petronela Ana, Partner - BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Diliana Ilieva, Partner – BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co

Energy, oil & gas law Dr Arne Gobert, Partner – BWSP Gobert & Partners Nicholas Hammond, Partner – BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Cristian Bogaru, Partner - BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Diliana Ilieva, Partner – BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Financial markets Nicholas Hammond, Partner – BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Rossitsa Voutcheva, Partner – BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Insolvency Cristian Bogaru, Partner - BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Rossitsa Voutcheva , Partner – BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Intellectual Property Law Dr. Andrea Klára Soós, Partner – BWSP Gobert & Partners Cristian Bogaru , Partner - BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Diliana Ilieva, Partner – BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Nenad Milovanović, Partner - BWSP JMS Law Office Mirko Jovanović, Partner – BWSP JMS Law Office Litigation Dr Arne Gobert, Partner – BWSP Gobert & Partners Dr. Réka Ipacs, Partner – BWSP Gobert & Partners Dr. Andrea Klára Soós, Partner – BWSP Gobert & Partners Cristian Bogaru, Partner - BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Petronela Ana, Partner - BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Diliana Ilieva, Partner – BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Rossitsa Voutcheva , Partner – BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Nenad Milovanović, Partner - BWSP JMS Law Office

Media & Telecommunication Law Dr Arne Gobert, Partner – BWSP Gobert & Partners Diliana Ilieva, Partner – BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Mergers & Acquisitions Dr Arne Gobert, Partner – BWSP Gobert & Partners Dr. Réka Ipacs, Partner – BWSP Gobert & Partners Nicholas Hammond, Partner – BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Cristian Bogaru, Partner - BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Diliana Ilieva, Partner – BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Rossitsa Voutcheva, Partner – BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Tamara Kovacheva, Partner - BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Nenad Milovanović, Partner - BWSP JMS Law Office PPP Nicholas Hammond, Partner - BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Dilyana Kondeva, Partner – BSWP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Real estate Dr Arne Gobert, Partner – BWSP Gobert & Partners Dr. Réka Ipacs, Partner – BWSP Gobert & Partners Nicholas Hammond, Partner - BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Rossitsa Voutcheva, Partner – BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Restructuring Dr. Réka Ipacs, Partner – BWSP Gobert & Partners Nicholas Hammond, Partner - BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Donika Ilieva, Partner - BSWP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Sport Dr Arne Gobert, Partner – BWSP Gobert & Partners Nicholas Hammond, Partner - BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates

Tax Dr Arne Gobert, Partner – BWSP Gobert & Partners Dr. Réka Ipacs, Partner – BWSP Gobert & Partners Dr. Andrea Klára Soós, Partner – BWSP Gobert & Partners Nicholas Hammond, Partner – BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Diliana Ilieva, Partner – BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Rossitsa Voutcheva, Partner – BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Tamara Kovacheva, Partner - BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Nenad Milovanović, Partner - BWSP JMS Law Office

Languages, other than English Bulgarian Diliana Ilieva – BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Rossitsa Voutcheva - BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Tamara Kovacheva - BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Chinese Dr. Vilma Hasuly – BWSP Gobert & Partners French Dr. Zsófia Zóka-Ujhelyi – BWSP Gobert & Partners Dr. Peter Meszaros – BWSP Gobert & Partners Cristian Bogaru - BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Petronela Ana - BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Andra Jegan (Oprea) - BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Laura Sarghiuta - BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Mariana Cernat - BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Anca Tiron - BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Diavena Kalcheva - BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Dilyan Nachev - BSWP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co

German Dr Arne Gobert – BWSP Gobert & Partners Dr. Réka Ipacs – BWSP Gobert & Partners Dr. Barbara Erika Gál – BWSP Gobert & Partners Dr. Péter Rostás – BWSP Gobert & Partners Dr. Peter Meszaros – BWSP Gobert & Partners Cristian Bogaru - BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates

Diavena Kalcheva - BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Peter Mihaylov - BSWP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Hungarian Dr Arne Gobert – BWSP Gobert & Partners Dr. Réka Ipacs – BWSP Gobert & Partners Dr. Andrea Klára Soós – BWSP Gobert & Partners Italian Dr. Zsófia Zóka-Ujhelyi – BWSP Gobert & Partners Emese Papp- BWSP Gobert & Partners Cristian Bogaru - BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Sebastian Simon - BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates

Romanian Nicholas Hammond – BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Cristian Bogaru - BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Petronela Ana - BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates Russian Dr. Miriam Bukovics – BWSP Gobert & Partners Dr. Vilma Hasuly – BWSP Gobert & Partners Diliana Ilieva – BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Rossitsa Voutcheva - BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Diavena Kalcheva - BWSP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Dilyana Kondeva – BSWP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Peter Mihaylov - BSWP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Dilyan Nachev - BSWP Ilieva Voutcheva & Co Ukrainian Dr. Vilma Hasuly – BWSP Gobert & Partners

Serbian Mirko Jovanović – BWSP JMS Law Office Nenad Milovanović - BWSP JMS Law Office Spanish Dr. Réka Ipacs – BWSP Gobert & Partners Dr. Nora Marinescu – BWSP Gobert & Partners Dr. Peter Meszaros – BWSP Gobert & Partners Mariana Cernat - BWSP Hammond Bogaru & Associates

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