Attorney-at-law Petya Kolcheva

Managing Partner

pkolcheva@novelaw.eu

+359 899 99 60 06

Petya Kolcheva is one of the founders of Law Firm Kolcheva, Koev and Partners (formerly known as Novel Consult in the period 1994 – 2007) and its Managing Partner. Her practice involves mostly power, water supply and sanitation, telecommunications, general and specific requirements and legal aspects of infrastructure in Bulgaria, including price regulation, investment plans, real estate infrastructure, business requirements and permits, concessions, public-private partnerships.

restructuring deals of several big Bulgarian companies. Petya regularly advises bank lenders, investment banks, hedge funds, asset purchasers, and other investors in diverse projects. She has also advised the Bulgarian Government in regard to the establishment of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange, and participated in the project for supplementation of the Act for transformation and privatization of state-owned and municipal enterprises.

investors and advised the winning bidder of the Sofia Water Supply and Sanitation concession granted by the Municipality of Sofia first on the participation in the concession procedure and further on various post-concession matters for more than ten years. Her rich practice includes also advice on several public-private partnership projects between Bulgarian municipalities and foreign investors for investments in golf courses and holiday villages.

Graduate of the Faculty of Law at Sofia University St. Kiment Ohridski. Member of Sofia Bar since 1990. Member of the International Bar Association. Fluent in English and Russian.