About
Yoana is practicing as attorney-at-law. Yoana has focused her legal career on the areas of Intellectual property, Competition law, Data protection and Contract law. Her daily work involves cases where a variety of industries are involved, such as media and new technology, creative industries, Pharma etc.
Yoana has international experience both in studies and practice.
Studying in three different countries gave her the opportunity to develop and to enrich both linguistic and cultural skills but also to improve her orientation in new environments.
Working at internationally recognized law firm such as Cameron McKenna (Paris) where she was dealing with competition law cases, brought her an experience of quality but also client approach and interaction skills.
Yoana has extensive experience with team and project management, covering different legal fields and industries.
Yoana has innate curiosity about recent developments across legal fields, and she is interested in particular in the legal protection of intellectual property assets.
Work history
Attorney-at-law - Sabev & Partners law firm - January 2013 - present
Legal Project Coordinator - Bulgarian National Bank
Legal Trainee - CMS Cameron McKenna Paris
Trainee - Deloitte Bulgaria
Education and qualifications
Education:
Queen Mary University of London - LLM Intellectual Property
Université Paris - Sud (Paris XI) - Master 2 European and Competition law
Université Robert Schuman, Strasbourg - Master 1 European and International law
Università di Bologna (Erasmus exchange program)
Université Robert Schuman, Strasbourg - Bachelor' s degree
Qualifications & courses:
Represented Sabev & Partners at a seminar organized by the ICC Bulgaria on the Franchising Model Contract (Lecturer: Marco Hero, Certified Franchise Executive, PF&P Munich);
Represented Sabev & Partners at the 58th UIA Congress in Florence, Italy which main theme was “Legal protection of Law, Fashion and Art”;
Participated in a two-week seminar on trademarks organized by WIPO in cooperation with the USPTO (WIPO Advanced Summer School on Trademarks, Washington D.C., (2013);
Participation in the jointly organized by University of Strasbourg and University of Tunisia on the "Free movement of people" seminar which took place in Tunisia (2009);
Participation in the jointly organized by Università di Bologna, King`s College London and University of Strasbourg seminar on the “The protection of human rights in Europe” seminar which took place in Bertinoro, Italy.
Publications
Domains & Domain Names, Getting the Deal Through/Law Business Research Ltd., London (in co-autorship)
