Georgi Valentinov Georgiev, PhD

Georgi Valentinov Georgiev, PhD is an experienced litigation lawyer with more than ten years of professional expertise in court and arbitration proceedings. He is expert witness in international arbitration proceedings before the Arbitration Court of the Swiss Chamber of Commerce and other. He is currently advising as local counsel a major US law firm in proceedings before the London Court of International Arbitration. He has an impressive success rate in administrative proceedings as well. He is also а full-time assistant professor in corporate and commercial law at the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”.Among Georgiev & Kolev’s clients are Metro Cash and Carry Bulgaria which the firm successfully represented, appealing a fine in the amount of approx. EUR 7.7 million imposed by the Commission for the Protection of Competition. Following that success, the mobile operator Telenor Bulgaria turned to Georgiev & Kolev with a case with interest of EUR 2.5 million. These victories paved the way for Georgiev & Kolev to the league of the big law firms in litigation. The law firm also successfully represented one of the major players on the Bulgarian pharmaceutical market before the Commission for the Protection of Competition in order to obtain permissions for concentration on the retail market of medicinal products.
Since 2016 Georgi has been a member of an insolvency workgroup at the City University, London, and Cross-Border Corporate Insolvency & Commercial Law (CI&CL) Group, London, which is conducting international research on insolvency issues in over 30 countries around the world