Depth in key fields
We specialise in immigration, corporate law, litigation and real estate transactions.
About us
How we think, how we work and what we have done for clients from Bulgaria and abroad.
The firm
Borderless Legal is a Sofia-based law firm. Companies, entrepreneurs, investors and private individuals, Bulgarian and foreign, come to us for legal and consulting help.
Bulgarian law is broad, and we work across much of it. Our core is corporate and commercial law, tax structuring, real estate, contracts, litigation and representation, investment and cross-border matters.
Our clients include Bulgarian companies and individuals, and also foreigners who want to invest, run a business, buy property or settle in Bulgaria.
A legal opinion is not where our work stops. We first find out what the client wants to achieve, then point out the legal and practical risks, and then propose a solution that works and fits the client's business and personal goals.
Areas of practice
Company and commercial law
Companies and entrepreneurs turn to us when they set up, run, grow or restructure a business.
We help clients pick and build a suitable corporate structure. We also deal with partner and shareholder relations, transfers of shares and stakes, changes of management, raising or reducing capital, reorganisations, and the continuing corporate work that follows.
We prepare, negotiate and carry out commercial contracts and complex business deals too. The aim is a legal structure that matches how the client really plans to run the business.
Taxes and structuring
Tax planning belongs in any properly structured business.
Our advice covers the tax effects of different business models and transactions, how activities are structured, cross-border operations, how functions and risks are shared between related parties, and other questions that bear directly on the business's economic efficiency.
When it helps, we work alongside tax and accounting specialists. That way the legal and tax structures are looked at together.
Contracts and obligations
A good share of what we do each day is about a business's contracts with counterparties, investors, suppliers, clients and partners.
We draft and review contracts and advise during negotiations. We also assess what follows in law from non-performance, late performance, termination, penalties, damages and other kinds of contractual and non-contractual liability.
If a dispute breaks out, we look for an outcome that protects the client's real economic interest as well as their formal rights.
Property and real estate
Bulgarian and foreign clients get our legal help when they buy, sell or invest in real estate.
We analyse title and property documents, check for encumbrances and other legal risks, and advise on how the transaction should be structured and on its terms.
We also work on preliminary contracts, sale and purchase agreements, construction and investment projects, and disputes about title or about whether contractual obligations were performed.
Disputes and court work
Our lawyers act for clients in civil, commercial and administrative courts, and in dealings with the competent state authorities.
Disputes we take on arise from contracts, claims, breach, penalties and damages, trading relationships, real property and other civil or commercial law issues.
We look at a dispute from more than one side: which procedural remedies exist, but also what it will cost, how long it will take and what the client really needs.
Investing and starting a business in Bulgaria
We plan and carry out investments and business projects in Bulgaria together with foreign investors and entrepreneurs.
Typical tasks: selecting a corporate structure, incorporating a company, drafting contracts, setting up banking, tax structuring, acquiring assets, buying real estate, and handling the other legal issues of entering the Bulgarian market.
If a project means foreign nationals have to settle in Bulgaria, we also give legal help with visa, immigration and citizenship procedures.
Visas, residence and citizenship
We assist foreigners with visas, residence and work permits, family reunification and the acquisition of Bulgarian citizenship, and with any other procedure governed by Bulgarian migration and citizenship legislation.
Cross-border work
Our clients come from many jurisdictions, and their matters often have corporate, tax, investment and immigration sides all at once.
Knowing Bulgarian law is only part of it. We also have to grasp how the whole international transaction or business relationship is put together, and coordinate its different legal and practical parts.
Frequently we act as the foreign client's legal contact in Bulgaria, from first research and structuring, through carrying out the project, to the legal support afterwards.
How we think
We think legal advice has to be accurate and practical, arrive on time, and be understandable to the person receiving it.
Citing a large number of statutory provisions does not make a lawyer valuable. What counts is understanding the problem, weighing the risk and turning the legal options into a concrete strategy.
That is why "What does the law say?" is not the only question we ask. We put equal weight on a second one: "What is the most sensible solution for the client in this particular situation?"
Professional ethics and confidentiality are standards we keep high.
Borderless Legal — legal expertise for businesses and individuals in Bulgaria.
Our people
Boris Nikolaev Iliev
Attorney-at-Law · Founder of Borderless Legal · Member of the Sofia Bar Association
Adv. Boris Iliev is the founder of Borderless Legal. A lawyer, he gained his professional experience at established law firms in Sofia. His work spans tax law, real estate, litigation in civil and administrative matters, corporate and commercial law, and lawful migration together with Bulgarian citizenship.
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His clients, Bulgarian and foreign companies, investors and individuals, ask him about incorporating and restructuring companies, share capital and ownership changes, corporate governance, contract drafting and review, and delivering investment projects in Bulgaria.
Foreign nationals and entrepreneurs rely on Adv. Iliev's extensive practical experience in obtaining visas and residence permits, gaining access to the labour market, registering trade representative offices, reuniting families, and acquiring Bulgarian citizenship by origin and by naturalisation.
Other parts of his practice: advising on real estate transactions and title due diligence, acquisitions, sales and partition of properties, and contract matters tied to construction works.
Adv. Iliev pairs careful legal analysis with a practical focus on results. Beyond the legal side of a matter, he weighs the economic and practical consequences of each possible solution, so that the structure he proposes serves the client's goals and interests as well as possible.
Our people
Ivelin Uskov
Attorney-at-Law · Member of the Sofia Bar Association
Adv. Ivelin Uskov belongs to the Sofia Bar Association and has practical experience of civil and procedural law. Mainly, he handles judicial debt collection, defends debtors in disputes over consumer and payday loan agreements, and advises on real estate.
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Adv. Uskov has practical experience in proceedings to establish and collect monetary claims, covering order-for-payment and ordinary civil proceedings, and in representing creditors as well as debtors. In defending debtors against payday-loan companies, he looks at the contract, how much is claimed and on what basis, the interest, fees and penalties charged, and whether the collection steps taken were lawful.
Real estate is another part of his work: property transactions, title due diligence, checking ownership documents, sale and preliminary contracts, and disputes about rights in real estate.
Adv. Uskov's procedural work rests on a close study of facts and evidence and a clear, effective strategy for protecting the client. He looks for a practical way to end the dispute, taking account of legal grounds and risks and of what it may cost the client financially and practically.
Areas of practice
- Collecting debts through the courts
- Defending debtors in disputes with payday-loan companies
- Order-for-payment and ordinary civil proceedings
- Disputes in civil and commercial law
- Real estate and property transactions
- Due diligence on title and review of ownership documents
- Drafting and reviewing contracts and preliminary contracts
- Representation in court
Why us
Reasons to choose us
Used to international clients
Foreign clients' needs are familiar to us, and we work with them in Bulgarian and English.
Advice for your case
No two clients are alike. Our advice is individual and fitted to the situation at hand.
Open and easy to reach
Communication is simple, replies are quick, and the terms are clear throughout the work.
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