Borislav is the Founding and Managing Partner of BOYANOV & Co. Over the years, Borislav has played a significant role in legal, diplomatic, and business initiatives across the region.

He has been admitted to the Sofia Bar Association in 1984 and in 1990 established BOYANOV&Co. He is Founder and Chair of the Legal Development Foundation (1999-) and Founder and Co-Chair of the Balkan Legal Forum (2000-). Borislav has been a registered Patent and Trademark Attorney since 1998, and a European Patent and Trademark Attorney since 2002. He also served as an Arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration of the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for International and Comparative Law at the Center for American and International Law in Dallas since 1994.

In the international legal community, Borislav has held various roles within the International Bar Association, including Representative for Bulgaria (1989-1994), member of the Council, Vice-Chair and Co-Chair of the East European Forum, member of its Advisory Board (1996-2019), Member of the Council of the Law Firm Management Committee (2022-2024) and its Advisory Board (2025-2026), among others.

He has long been involved in regional legal cooperation as Founder and First Chair of the South East Europe Legal Group (SEE Legal) in 2003 and has served as Honorary Chair and acting Co-Chair since 2006. In 2023 he established the Three Seas Legal Alliance.

Borislav is the Honorary Consul of Malta in Bulgaria since 2000, holding the title Honorary General Consul since 2018 and is an Officer of the Order of Merits of Malta. He was member of the Board of directors of the World Association of Consuls Associations (FICAC - 2023-2024). He is the Co-Founder of the Bulgarian Spirit Diplomatic Society (2024). Since 2016 he has served as President of the Bulgarian Honorary Consuls Association.

Borislav has been also Chair of the Maltese Bulgarian Business Chamber (since 2018), Honorary Chair of the Indian Bulgarian Business Chamber (since 2021), and previously held the position of Founder and Chairman of the Indian Bulgarian Business Chamber (2015-2020). In 2015, he also co-founded the British Bulgarian Business Chamber. He served as a Board Member and President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria (2003-2009), and was also a Board Member of the Confederation of Industrialists and Employers in Bulgaria (2006-2008), and Deputy President of the Bulgarian Investment and Business Association (2003-2006).

Borislav is a member of the Sofia Bar Association, the Bulgarian Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Association of Honorary Consuls in Bulgaria, and the Bulgarian Spirit Diplomatic Society.

Bar Admissions
admitted, 1984, Sofia, Bulgaria

Education
Legal Faculty of Sofia University (LLM), class rank: first of class of 500 (1982); Academy of American and International Law, The Center for American and International Law (formerly The Southwestern Legal Foundation), Dallas, USA (1990)

Significant Accomplishments
1984 - Attorney at Law, Sofia Bar Association
1986 - 1987 Lecturer Civil Law - Sofia, Economic University
1988 - 1990 Deputy Chairman - Specialized Bureau of Business Law, Sofia Bar Association
1990 - Founder and Managing Partner of Borislav Boyanov & Co.
1994 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of AIG Insurance and Reinsurance Company AD
1998 - Registered Patent and Trademark Attorney
2000 - Honorary Consul for Malta in Bulgaria
2002 - European Patent and Trademark Attorney
2002 - Arbitrator with the Court of Arbitration of the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
2002 - 2005 Honorary Advisor to the Minister of Justice on International Legal Relations
2003 - 2005 first Chairperson of SEE Legal (The South East Europe Legal Group)
2003 - Honorary Chairperson of SEE Legal (The South East Europe Legal Group)


Professional Associations
Sofia Bar Association; Bulgarian Bar Association (1984 - );
International Bar Association, Senior Vice Chair of the European Forum (1994-2004), Co-Chair of the European Forum (2004 - ) and country representative;
Brussels Dutch Bar, registered on the List of Foreign Lawyers;
American Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria - President, Member of the Board of Directors;
Confederation of Employers and Industrialists in Bulgaria, Board Member (2004 - );
Center for American and International Law, Dallas, TX - member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for International and Comparative Law;
British Balkan Legal Foundation - Co-Founder and Director;
Balkan Legal Forum - Founder and Chairman;
British Bulgarian Legal Association - Honorary Member;
Center for International Legal Studies - Austria - Honorary Member;
Legal Development Foundation - Chairman;
Bulgarian Business Leaders Forum

• The 10th edition of the Balkan Legal Forum in Vienna - A Great Success

  By Borislav Boyanov |July 2018

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