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Kostadin Sirleshtov Takes Over as Managing Partner of CMS Bulgaria

Kostadin Sirleshtov Takes Over as Managing Partner of CMS Bulgaria

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CMS has announced that Kostadin Sirleshtov has taken over as Managing Partner of the firm’s Bulgarian office from David Butts, who is stepping down after almost ten years in the role and retiring from the CMS partnership.

Sirleshtov has been a leader of the Energy practice of CMS in Bulgaria for over 13 years and has been Head of the CMS Energy practice for Central and Eastern Europe since 2014. According to CMS, "his area of expertise spans across oil and gas, conventional power, underground resources, nuclear energy, electricity, renewables, infrastructure, projects, PPP, public procurement. He has advised on all offshore oil & gas production concessions in Bulgaria and was involved in all recent tenders in the sector. He has advised a multitude of energy clients on their oil & gas exploration and production activities in Bulgaria."

Butts moved to Europe from his native Canada in 2001 to join Hayhurst Robinson as a partner in Budapest and Sofia. Five years later, in January 2006, the firm merged with CMS McKenna.

CMS at a Glance

CMS Sofia is a full-service law firm, the largest international law firm in Bulgaria and one of the largest providers of legal services in the local market as a whole. The breadth and depth of our practice means that our lawyers are specialised, with a level of specialisation that few of our competitors can match.

CMS Sofia is the Bulgarian branch of CMS, a top ten global legal and tax services provider with over 5000 lawyers in 43 countries and 78 offices across the world.

CMS entered the Bulgarian market as one of the first internationally active law firms in 2005 and is now among the most respected legal advisors in the country. We have 7 partners, 4 counsel and over 30 lawyers in our office in Sofia.

Our legal experts, who are rooted in Bulgaria’s local culture, can also draw on years of experience in foreign countries and are at home in several legal systems at once. We know the particularities of the local market just as well as the needs of our clients and combine both to achieve optimum solutions. Our lawyers are Bulgarian qualified and we also have English qualified experts – all of them regularly working on cross-border mandates.

In our work, we focus on M&A, Energy, Projects and Construction, Banking and Finance, Real Estate, Media, IP and IT law, Tax, Employment law, Competition, Procurement and any kind of Dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation. What’s more, we also take care of the entire legal management of our clients’ projects.

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