Ranking
2024 - Legal500 in Corporate M&A, Real Estate and Construction
2022 - Legal500 in Dispute Resolution
2021 - Legal500 in Dispute Resolution
2019 - Legal500 in Corporate & M&A, Dispute resolution, EU & Competition, Technology, Media & Telecommunications
2019 - Chambers & Partners Europe in Corporate and Commercial
2019 - Chambers & Partners Global in Corporate and Commercial
2018 - Chambers & Partners Europe in Corporate and Commercial, Energy
2018 - Chambers & Partners Global in Corporate and Commercial
2017 - Chambers & Partners Europe in Corporate & Commercial, Technology, Media & Telecommunications
2017 - Chambers & Partners Global in Corporate and Commercial
2016 - Legal500 in Corporate Law and M&A
2016 - Chambers & Partners Europe in Corporate and Commercial, Energy, Technology, Media and Telecommunications
2016 - Chambers & Partners Global in Corporate and Commercial
2015 - Legal500 in Banking and Finance, Corporate and M&A, Litigation, EU & Competition, Energy including Natural Resources
2015 - Chambers & Partners Europe in Corporate and Commercial, Energy, Technology, Media and Telecommunications
2014 - Legal500 in Corporate & M&A, Dispute resolution, EU & Competition, Energy Projects (including Natural Resources), Technology, Media & Telecommunications
2013 - Legal500 in Corporate M&A, EU & Competition, Energy, including Natural Resources, Technology, Media & Telecommunications
Education
2004 - Media Law specialization, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University, USA
2003 - “Media ownership and its impact on media independence and pluralism in South East Europe and EU accession countries”, Bled, Slovenia
1997 - International Economic Cooperation, University for National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria
1995 - LLM Law Faculty, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
Career
2018
Industrial Property Professional Representative with EUIPO
2011
Media Law Lecturer in University for National and World Economy
2011
Industrial Property Representative at the Patent Office of the Republic of Bulgaria
2005
Expert at the Center for Law of the information and communication technologies (CLICT)
2004
Attorney-at-law, Managing Partner Ilieva Voutcheva & Co. Law Firm
2002
- 2009
Board of Directors Member New Television - First private channel
2002
- 2009
Participation in the working groups for amendment of the Radio and Television Act
1998
- 2002
Attorney-at-law, Managing Partner API Consult Ltd.
1997
- 1998
Sofia City Court Legal Trainee
Memberships
2013
Chairman of the Appeal Committee to the National Council for Self-regulation
2012
Member of the Appeal Committee to the National Council for Self-regulation
2010
Member of the Board of Directors of Globalaw
2009
- 2010
Member of the Ethics Commission of the National Self-regulation Council
1997
- Present
Member of Sofia Bar Association
Languages
Bulgarian,
English,
Russian