Damyan is a leading banking and capital markets professional, focusing both on ECM and DCM transactions and bank lending projects.
Damyan is a Partner at Eversheds Sutherland in Bulgaria.
Damyan has been involved in banking and local and international capital markets transactions for more than 20 years.
Before joining the firm, Damyan worked with various institutions, including in a senior in-house role with one of Bulgaria’s major banks. During this period, Damyan provided legal assistance in many projects relevant to the external interbank funding granted to the bank by international and domestic creditors and IFIs, such as European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Financial Corporation, Bulgarian Development Bank, as well as has been instrumental in many capital markets projects.
Damyan has been involved in many capital markets transactions, advising multinational issuers and underwriters on matters related to the issuance of corporate bonds, covered bonds, hybrid instruments and regulatory bonds, IPOs, secondary offerings, tender offers, and other capital markets projects.
Damyan has been also instrumental in a number of bank lending transactions to corporates and other institutions, advising both lenders and borrowers.
Damyan also helps the firm’s clients in meeting the regulatory requirements related to investment services, asset management services, payment services, FinTech, crypto services and other financial sector related services, including on the requirements of MiFID II/MiFIR, EMIR, MiCA, UCITS IV and PSD2.
Damyan has been regularly involved in legislative drafting projects in Bulgaria and in the Republic of North Macedonia.
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Damyan has acted on some of the most recent capital markets transactions in Bulgaria, including IPOs, corporate bonds, regulatory bonds, covered bonds and government bonds issued by the Republic of Bulgaria.
Damyan is a seasoned lecturer on conferences focused on the financial sector, as well as seminars organized by the firm.
- Ranked in Banking & Finance in the last edition of Chambers & Partners
- Ranked in Banking, Finance and Capital Markets in the last edition of the Legal 500
- Ranked as Highly Regarded in Banking Capital markets: Debt and M&A in IFLR1000
Damyan is one of the firm’s representatives in the Legal Committee of the Bulgarian Association of Asset Management Companies.
Member of the Sofia Bar Association, 2016
- Master of Laws, University of National and World Economy, Sofia (Bulgaria)
- Bachelor of Economics, University of National and World Economy, Sofia (Bulgaria)