Martin Zahariev

Bio

Prof. Martin Zahariev, PhD, is a partner at Dimitrov, Petrov & Co. (DPC) Law Firm, Bulgaria, and leads the Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Breaches, Intellectual Property, and Life Sciences departments.Martin is one of the youngest professors in Bulgaria and a regular lecturer at the University of Library Studies and Information Technologies and Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” in various disciplines related to the regime of information, personal data and fundamentals of law and a guest lecturer on personal data protection at Stockholm University in Sweden, the American University in Bulgaria, Plovdiv University “Paisii Hilendarski and Burgas Free University.

Martin is the author of three monographs on GDPR, two textbooks on the information regime and more than 70 publications on privacy and ICT, employment law, commercial law and dispute resolution. He is a co-author of the International Encyclopaedia of Laws series book: Cyber Law, ‘Bulgaria’, published by Kluwer Law International in 2022. He is a member of the editorial/advisory boards of the prestigious journals “Labor and Insurance TITA” and “European Patent Litigation in Practice (EPLP)”, the latter published by Wolters Kluwer.

He is a member of the Sofia Bar Association, Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group (PTMG) and DPC representative in IT IP Law Group Europe. He is recommended for his expertise in TMT, data, and IP by prestigious international legal guides such as Lexology Index, Chambers Europe, Legal 500, IP Stars, and WTR1000.