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Jenia Dimitrova

Head of Real Estate

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Jenia Dimitrova is a partner at CMS Sofia. She is a Bulgarian-qualified lawyer who heads the Real Estate and Construction Practice.

Throughout her long career at CMS, Jenia has specifically focused on real estate, zoning, and construction matters. She is an experienced legal adviser who assists clients from various industries on real estate matters in the office, retail, industrial and residential segments. Her competences and experience cover commercial real estate transactions; real estate and zoning due diligence; drafting and negotiating lease agreements, including built-to-suit leases; and warranty and indemnity insurance. She is experienced in the preparation and negotiation of design, development, and construction contracts, including FIDIC-based contracts.

Before joining CMS, she was the chief legal counsel at HeidelbergCement operations in Bulgaria. She has also worked as an in-house lawyer for WorleyParsons, where she was responsible for negotiating and monitoring the performance of contracts with the company’s subcontractors for Akkuyu NPP (Turkey) project.

In 2014 she was awarded a CMS CEE “Excellent Client Service” Award.

Awards & Recognitions

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"Jenia Dimitrova was always prompt in replying. Her advice was always comprehensive, comprehensible, and commercial. I thought that Jenia was always willing to go the extra mile.”

General Counsel
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"Jenia Dimitrova is a very dedicated professional and is always providing us with very in-depth legal analyses. To me, she is the leading expert in the legal aspects of real estate in Bulgaria due to the versatility of her skills and competences that are not matched by any other lawyers I have met."

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"The lawyers on the team are extremely diligent, flexible in their reactions, and attentive to details. They are transparent when it comes to risks, and they are understanding of the client’s business and business needs."

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"The real estate team in Sofia is highly professional and very experienced with the local business and court practices in the area of Real Estate and construction."

Legal 500

Relevant experience

CTP:
- on the acquisition of a property in Bulgaria under a sale-and-lease-back transaction;
- on the acquisition of land with an aggregate area of c. 140,000 sq. m. and over ten logistics buildings in Sofia, which was the largest real estate transaction on the market for 2022.
EKO Bulgaria, part of Hellenic Petroleum Group, the largest industrial and trade corporation in Greece, on the sale of EKO Bulgaria’s idle real estate assets in Sofia and Varna and on the expansion of EKO’s gas station network.
Cordeel Bulgaria:
- on drafting and negotiating a built-to-suit lease agreement and all other transaction documentation for a logistics and office development in Sofia;
- on the sale of the above mixed-use logistics and office development to CTP. The acquisition was structured as a share deal involving the shares in Cordeel’s subsidiary Sofcor Logistics EOOD.
Trans Vision on the letting of its mixed-use retail and office developments in Plovdiv: Via Park North and Via Park South.
A large insurance company on the contemplated title insurance on the largest telecoms deal in Bulgaria.
A major Greek bank on the sale of its portfolio of assets in Bulgaria.
ING Bank N.V. – Sofia Branch, Cargill, OMV and Result XS, among many others, on leasing their office premises in Sofia

Publications

The future of real estate: Investors turn their attention to data centres and avoid office spaces (Capital, August 2023, in Bulgarian).
CMS: The CEE real estate private rented sector expected to attract investors (Capital, May 2023, in Bulgarian).
ESG and construction companies – 10 steps to success (Capital, February 2022, in Bulgarian).
CMS: How the European real estate investment market changed in the year of the pandemic (Capital, August 2021, in Bulgarian).
CMS: How the crisis is changing the real estate sector (Capital, October 2020, in Bulgarian).

Memberships & Roles

Sofia Bar Association

Awards & Rankings

Ranked for Real Estate, Chambers & Partners Europe, 2023.
Next generation partner for Real estate and construction, Legal 500, 2023.

Education

2000 – LL. M., Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”

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Further reading

Bulgaria: State Ownership Act amended and supplemented

CEE Property Today (Issue 3)

CMS European Real Estate Deal Point Study 2017

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