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Visibility Rankings  | | #5 out of 234 lawyers in Sofia, Bulgaria | | #9,921 out of 892,905 total lawyers Overall |
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| Practice Areas | Banks and Banking; Commercial Transactions; Company Law; Company Acquisitions and Sales; Company Formation; Business Law; Corporate Finance; Corporate Law; Debt and Equity Finance; Cross Border Finance; Asset Based Finance; BOOT Projects; BOT Projects; Mergers and Acquisitions; Cross Border Mergers and Acquisitions; Demergers; Divestitures; Hostile Takeovers; Leveraged and Management Buyouts; International Mergers and Acquisitions; Leveraged Buyouts; Management Buyouts; Management Buy-Ins; Merger Reorganization; Mergers and Acquisitions Finance; Securities; Initial Public Offerings; Public Offerings; Private Placement; Share Purchase Agreements; Shareholder Agreements | | | Education | Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" (Master in Law, 1999); Columbia University School of Law (LL.M., 2006) | | | Admitted | 2000, Qualified in Bulgaria; 2007, New York | |
| Memberships | New York County, New York State and American Bar Associations. | | | Military | Junior Sergeant, Bulgarian Army, 1991 - 1993 | | | Languages | Bulgarian, English, Russian | | | Born | Elin Pelin, Bulgaria, November 2, 1972 | | | Biography | Associate, Penkov, Markov & Partners, 2007—. Visiting Lawyer, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, 2006-2007. Acting Counsul, General Practice Group, Bulgarian Consulate General in New York, 2002-2005. Chief Expert in European Law, General Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Bulgaria. | | | ISLN | 919612134 | | | Transactions | Represented Goldman, Sachs & Co, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, Bank of America Securities LLC and UBS Investment Bank, as underwriters, in the $500 million USG Corporation Common Stock offering on the New York Stock Exchange. Legal advice on the tender offer by Vornado Real Estate Investment Trust in the bid for Equity Office Properties, the world's largest office holder, in the world's largest leveraged and the biggest real estate buy-out. Legal advice on the financing and restructuring issues to Dubai Port World in the sale of its wholly owned subsidiaries P&O Ports North America and PORTS Insurance Company, Inc. to Ports America Holdings, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of AIG Global Investment Group. Legal advice to Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board in the $1.9 billion purchase of three marine container terminals in USA and Canada, including Global Terminal and Container Systems, Inc., Bayonne, New Jersey, from Orient Overseas (International Limited) of Hong Kong. Legal advice on bank regulatory issues to First National Bank of Pennsylvania. Legal advice to AT&T on securities registration statements and prospectus issues. Represented UBS Investment Bank, Merrill Lynch & Co, Citi, Morgan Stanley, Wachovia Securities, as underwriters, in the $500 million offering of 7.25% Trust Preferred Securities by Fifth Third Capital Trust V and Fifth Third Bankcorp on the New York Stock Exchange. Legal advice on the intellectual property issues to Flint Group and CVC Capital Partners in the acquisition of Day International Group. Legal advice to Goldman, Sachs & Co. in setting and closing up the subscription for its two private equity funds, Whitehall Street Global Real Estate Limited Partnership 2007 and Whitehall Parallel Real Estate Limited Partnership 2007, for a combined $4.8 billion of assets. Legal advice to D.S. Construction Limited of India and Israel Corporation in the $542 million purchase of operating power businesses in six Latin American Countries from Globeleq Limited. | |
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