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Areas of Practice: Securities, Financial Institutions, M&A, Corporate, Administrative, Taxation & Accountancy.

Professional Affiliations: Sofia Bar Association, International Bar Association Iordan N. Tchompalov has practiced almost exclusively in securities and corporate law area for nearly fifteen years. During half of that time Mr. Tchompalov worked at the Bulgarian Securities Commission’s legal department and in 2000 he was elected as a commissioner. After expiration of his term of office for two years Mr. Tchompalov was a USAID consultant on capital markets regulation. In 2003 he joined the law firm of Dimitrov and Todorova. Mr. Tchompalov has published many articles on securities and corporate law. He has significant contribution in drafting the 1999 Law on the Public Offering of Securities, the 2003 Law on the Special Purpose Investment Companies and the Securities Commission’s regulations. Mr. Tchompalov participated in drafting the 2004 Report on the Progress in Implementing in Bulgaria the White Paper on Corporate Governance in South East Europe, prepared under the auspices of OECD He has often lectured at capital market and corporate governance programs.

Mr. Tchompalov earned his master degree in law from the University of Sofia in 1991. He was awarded a postgraduate certificate in Financial Management from the Sofia University for National and World Economy in 1994. Mr. Tchompalov accomplished six months finance and investments program at the University of Wisconsin in 1999. During his work for the Securities Commission he has been trained on capital market regulation and policy issues in USA and UK.