🔷Svetoslav Ivanov is a partner at New Balkans Law Office and co-leads the firm’s disputes team. He acts as counsel in a variety of international arbitrations and as the senior litigation specialist at the firm in Bulgaria.

🔷Svetoslav has 12 years of experience in arbitration and over 26 in litigation, having served as counsel for multiple high-profile clients in commercial proceedings; as General Counsel to the national totalizer (a gaming business) and having advised multiple energy and resources companies. He has acted in disputes before the competition authorities; consumer authorities and tax authorities.

🔷Svetoslav has acted as counsel in a variety of international (VIAC, ICC, SCC) and Bulgarian institutional arbitrations involving international clients.

🔷As Bulgaria has an economic trajectory similar to Armenia, his experience in Bulgaria is highly transferable to Armenian-focused disputes.

🔷In his practice as counsel, Svetoslav is seen by both clients and opponents as pragmatic, strategic and commercial, qualities he brings across to arbitration.