Energy Lawyers, Law Firm in Sofia
7, Arsenalski Blvd., floor 1, app.1, Sofia, 1421
35-9296-SHOW,
Energy Lawyers is an informal Legal Advise Partnership between "Legal House Arshinkova and Koleva" Ltd. and "Chobanov Consult" Ltd. It has been established in 2000 aiming to joint and mutually to expand the knowledge and experience of the only presently available lawyers competent in the Energy and Energy Efficiency Act and secondary legislation resulting from it with possibly the most high experience in the field of energy, concessions and privatization.Energy Lawyers are specialized in legal consultancy and offer services of high quality. They provide legal assistance and advising energy companies, investors and other persons in the field of Energy Law and on various aspects of energy (electricity, heat, coal and natural gas sector), competition and regulation, Corporation and Commercial Law, Civil, Real and Administrative Law, investments in the field of the energy, privatization, concessions, non-profit organizations.Energy Lawyers are closely involved in drafting of new energy legislation and are the main authors of the Energy and Energy Efficiency Act, Act for amendment of the EEEA, Law on safety use of Nuclear Energy and Ordinances of their implementation, harmonization of energy legislation to the EU.The Energy Lawyers have significant experience in the main energy sectors and activities.The main goal of Energy Lawyers Partnership is to provide legal advises to investors for projects, financed by local or international institutions, to municipalities or governmental bodies in Bulgaria, as well as development of due diligence analyses, respective proposals for reasonable behavior following the requirements for reasonable risk of natural persons and legal entities in all aspects of law. It is our aim to provide the best and the proper legal service for the business of our clients.The principals of work of the jurists and the experience been gained permit us to undertake comprehensive projects, specific tasks of peculiar complexity, as well as to provide resolution of all arisen problems by the help of the partners or by engaging other experts.ALL of this is a guarantee for our success!We are able to provide entire legal services from the first till the last step of one project, including elaboration of detailed analysis of legal environment and specify peculiarities in which it will be implemented, to accompany these proposals with justified argumentation and all necessary documents, as permits, licenses, contracts, etc.The Energy Lawyers follow the policy of professionalism and strict legal-ethic principals either in their relations with the clients or in the relations with the other lawyers. We hope that, from the point of view of legal profession, one strong and of full value linking is possible only when it is based on the mutual trust, lapse of any conflict of interests and to the respect to the clients and other lawyers. The Partners of Energy Lawyers provide wide range of legal consultant services:1. Legal assistance and preparation of the documents for application to the State Energy Regulation Commission for granting permits and licenses for the purposes of activities in the energy sector:- permits for construction of generation capacities, heat transmission systems, gas transmission systems, natural gas storage facilities, direct power lines and gas pipelines, and for decommissioning of energy facilities;- licenses for electric power and/or heat generation, transmission of electric power, heat, and natural gas, distribution of electric power and natural gas, and for storage of natural gas;2. Legal opinions and assistance on preparation of commercial, civil and labor contracts, privatization and concession contracts;3. Consultant services to local and foreign entities regarding electric power purchase and investments in the thermal power plants and co-generation and Preparation of draft PPA;4. Legal assistance on tender procedures, concession procedures, privatization procedures;5. Legal consultant services regarding investments in:- energy sector, including legal analysis and assessments of the legal framework, feasibility study, design, construction and operation of the energy facilities and preparation of a contract for electric power purchasing;- use of the waters and water facilities, including legal analysis and assessments of the legal framework for granting concessions, permits, preparation of applications and other necessary documents, draft contracts, etc.;- energy efficiency field - establishment of ESCO companies, drafting of contracts for energy efficiency;6. Legal assistance on:- establishment of commercial companies (including joint ventures), wholly owned subsidiaries, branches and representative offices of foreign companies and registration of further changes related to the legal statute of the companies and others;- reconstruction and reorganization of commercial companies;7. Registrations and representation before all necessary Bulgarian authorities (Courts, Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, National Statistics Institute, National Social Security Institute etc.);8. Preparation on different legal opinions and consultation concerning draft of laws and secondary legislation;9. Preparation of different legal opinions and advises concerning reforms and restructuring in different domains of industry and monopoly enterprises;10. Drafting of General terms and conditions in the contracts for sale of electric power, heat and natural gas;11. Drafting of Consumer's Charter in energy sector;12. Consultant services to the private investors in the field of privatisation including organisation and management of privatisation projects, legal analysis and assessments, methods and techniques for privatisation, privatisation offers, conclusion of privatisation contracts, preferential and special conditions for participation.
practice areas
EnergyEnergy Regulation