Senior Associate

Eva Petrova

Head of Employment

Languages

Bulgarian
English

Eva Petrova is a senior associate in the Litigation, Arbitration, Insurance, Employment team and Head of the CMS Sofia Employment Law practice.

Eva regularly advises a large number of clients on various employment matters they face in their day-to-day activities and in M&A transactions. Eva has expert knowledge and experience on labour relations, company/employee policies & procedures, health and safety at work, wages and benefits, discrimination, leave, immigration, and staff restructuring, including in a cross-jurisdictional context.

She has assisted clients with ongoing corporate and commercial matters, data protection and other regulatory compliance matters. She is also part of the Media and IT law practice at CMS Sofia, dealing with non-contentions and regulatory matters.

Before joining CMS, Eva worked for ten years in the media sector, the last three years as part of the legal team of the Association of Bulgarian Radio and TV Broadcasters, ABBRO. Eva is a member of the Ethical Committee at the National Council for Self-Regulation in advertising, and an executive director of the National Council for Journalism Ethics.

Relevant experience

The world’s largest dedicated online grocery retailer on diversity and inclusion in the workplace, updating internal labour regulations, template employment documents, and on data protection; internal policies and regulations; electronic documents and signatures in an employment context and remote working.
One of the world's largest independent biotech companies on an overview of current Bulgarian labour legislation, analyses, and advice on the use of electronic systems in an employment context, the use of statutory leave, tracking working time, and on benefits and employee representation.
An American multinational, pharmaceutical, and medical technologies corporation on preparing employment related documents, representation on topics related to staff restructuring and on queries related to employee benefits, the processing of personal data in an employment context, and protection against dismissal.
An American publicly traded, multinational corporation on providing employment law advice and on reviewing and preparing documents concerning working time arrangements, remote work, and hybrid work models.
A global HR platform on a broad spectrum of employment matters, including the establishment of its business in Bulgaria as a temporary agency; Bulgarian employment legislation governing the temporary hiring of employees, the hiring of employees under regular and temporary employment contracts, posting employees abroad, and terminating employment; tax and social insurance; data protection; preparing employment documents, including internal labour regulations, specific policies and regulations required for employing temping agencies; template fixed-term and indefinite term employment contracts; template documents related to the termination of employment; and representation before state authorities.
The world's largest container shipping company on preparing documents related to overpayments and undue payments to employees, on restructuring-related issues, statutory requirements relating to internal employment documents, and statutory protection of certain categories of employees.
A number of businesses on the terms and conditions of employment and related tax and social insurance aspects; on collective bargaining agreements and their applicability to posted employees; on the regulatory regime governing staff leasing agencies and contractual relationships between staff leasing agencies and user undertakings as well as between staff leasing agencies and posted employees.

Memberships & Roles

Sofia Bar Association

Education

2009 - LL.M., Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”

Practice Areas

Employment, Labour & Pensions Intellectual Property

sectors

TMC - Technology, Media & Communications Data Protection Law

Insights

Global Reach