Foreign investments
„ARTIS LEGAL” Law Office provides highly qualified and comprehensive legal services in the implementation and realization of foreign investments in Bulgaria.
The ongoing and long-term legal services which we provide, guarantee our clients security, stability and competitiveness in the implementation of foreign investments.
We provide expert legal assistance for foreign investments by means of the following legal services:
- Consultation on the economic, social and political conditions affecting the specific foreign investment;
- Analysis of the legal and tax aspects of the particular investment;
- Registration of companies – Sole Trader Ltd., Ltd. and JSC;
- Registration of changes in the circumstances of commercial companies;
- Registration of commercial representative offices of foreign companies;
- Registration of branches and subsidiaries of foreign companies;
- Transfer of commercial companies, company shares and shares;
- Transformation of companies – acquisitions, mergers, separation and division;
- Transactions with commercial enterprises – acquisition, transformation, purchase and sale of commercial enterprises;
- Performing evaluations and legal analyses of commercial enterprises and their assets – real estate, receivables, rights under contracts, etc.;
- Preparation and legal assistance for various types of commercial contracts in all sectors of the economy: real estate, commercial sales, financial and operational leasing, franchising, construction, construction contracts, transport, manufacturing, rent, supplies, commissions and distribution contracts, intermediary contracts, credit agreements, cash loan, among others.
- Legal assistance for banking contracts and other financial transactions with banks and non-banking financial institutions;
- Incorporation of collateral and guarantees under commercial and civil contracts: registration of mortgages on real estate, special pledges on receivables and movable property, pledges on company shares, pledges of commercial enterprises, etc.;
- Comprehensive legal services in all types of real estate transactions, including:
- Research and legal analysis of the right of ownership and the material rights status of real estate;
- Representation in negotiations on real estate transactions;
- Checking for encumbrances on real estate, property and bond rights of third parties;
- Preparation of preliminary contracts and notary deeds for all types of real estate transactions;
- Legal assistance for the provision of all documents necessary for the valid acquisition of the right of ownership over real estate;
- Representation and comprehensive legal services for the successful completion of real estate transactions;
- Legal assistance in procedures following the acquisition of the right of ownership to real estate: Registry Agency, Geodesy Agency, Cartography and Cadastre Agency, the National Revenue Agency, among others.;
- Legal assistance and representation in procedures related to construction;
- Preparation of preliminary and final construction contracts;
- Legal assistance for issuing the requisite construction acts and protocols, for performing administrative procedures related to construction and entrepreneurial activity;
- Legal assistance in relations with state and administrative authorities for the issuing of administrative acts, licenses, permits, certificates, acts and other documents in connection with licensing and permit regimes for certain types of activities;
- Procedural representation to state ministries, departments and municipal authorities, Customs Administration, Commission for Protection of Competition, Commission for Consumer Protection, Employment Agency and other bodies of the state and municipal administration;
- Legal assistance and representation before the state authorities for issuing work permits to foreign citizens;
- Legal assistance and representation before the state authorities for acquiring long-term and permanent residence for foreign citizens in the Republic of Bulgaria;
- Legal assistance and representation before the state authorities in acquiring a permanent residence permit in the Republic of Bulgaria on the grounds of an investment;
- Legal assistance and representation before the state authorities in acquiring Bulgarian citizenship on the grounds of investment;
- Legal assistance for the issuing, amendment and termination of employment and civil contracts with employees of commercial companies;
- Consultations and legal representation before the court in labour disputes regarding termination of employment contracts with employees;
- Litigation and legal protection in the initiation of lawsuits for the collection of claims before all judicial tiers, arbitration courts and special courts;
- Procedural representation and legal protection in the following cases: initiating and conducting enforcement proceedings regarding court enforcement officers; collection of receivables; full investigation of the property status of the debtor; imposing foreclosures on real estate; imposing distraints on bank accounts, receivables and wages; imposing distraints on shares of commercial companies; and public sale of real estate, among others.;
- Legal assistance in the dissolution and liquidation of commercial companies;
- Procedural representation in insolvency proceedings of commercial companies;
- Consultations on tax matters related to the activity of commercial companies; consultations on the avoidance of double taxation;
- Provision of legal services in connection with the taxation of commercial companies and representation before the tax administration;
- Representation in negotiations for out-of-court settlement of commercial disputes, mediation;
- Commercial representation and legal protection in commercial, civil and tax disputes before all judicial tiers, special courts and arbitration court;
- Ongoing subscription for legal services to corporate clients.