Ivan Tanev is a lawyer with over nine years of legal experience, focusing primarily on corporate and commercial law, M&A, contractual relations, regulatory compliance, and dispute resolution. He has been practicing as a lawyer since 2019 and is currently part of the team at the law firm "Sazdov and Petrov" – the Bulgarian office of the international legal network CEE Attorneys (https://ceeatt.com/), through which he also works on cross-border projects in Central and Eastern Europe.

He advises Bulgarian and international companies on corporate restructurings, acquisitions and transfers of shares, corporate governance, investments, commercial contracts, and complex regulatory issues. He has significant practical experience in procedural representation in civil, commercial, and administrative cases, including insolvency proceedings, enforcement proceedings, and disputes with regulatory authorities.

Among his representative projects are cross-border corporate reorganizations and M&A transactions, entry and restructuring of international trade and franchise models in the Bulgarian market, concentration proceedings and competition law issues, restructuring of labor relations, complex insolvency proceedings, as well as transactions and disputes in the field of real estate and construction.

He primarily works with corporate clients from the FMCG and retail sectors, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, industrial manufacturing, infrastructure and construction, technology, and telecommunications. His approach is oriented towards finding practically applicable solutions that combine legal certainty with the specific commercial goals of the client.

Master of Law, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", 2017. Lawyer, registered with the Burgas Bar Association since 2019. 

Holds a professional qualification as a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist from the International Compliance Association and additional training in legal technologies and the application of artificial intelligence in legal practice. Has completed specialized training in American contract law and intellectual property law, as well as CS50 for Lawyers: Computer Science for Lawyers from HarvardX.

Core areas of specialization: Corporate & M&A; Commercial Contracts; Litigation & Arbitration; Insolvency & Restructuring; Regulatory Compliance; Competition Law; Employment Law; Real Estate & Construction; Pharma & Healthcare; Public Procurement; Intellectual Property. The profile of CEE Attorneys explicitly mentions Corporate and M&A, Pharma & Healthcare, Litigation & Arbitration, Regulatory Compliance, Real Estate & Construction, Public Procurement, and Competition.