Meet the newest member of our team – Paolina Slavkova

Paolina joined the KGK Law Firm team in November 2025. She is Head of Investments department at KGK. Paolina works in the field of commercial and corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital investments and startups. Meet here!

•  How long have you been part of the team?

I have been part of the KGK team since November 2025.

•  What does your work at the firm involve?

My work at the firm, as well as the sector I have been working in for the past several years, is generally in the field of corporate law, and more specifically venture capital investments in startup companies and beyond. Today this is an extremely dynamic field, and for me a very interesting and challenging one, often involving an international element, legal structures and institutions applicable in other legal systems, and often even more business than law.

• How does your working day at the office usually begin?

My working day starts later than standard office hours, and accordingly ends later as well. It starts very quietly and calmly, as I arrive at the office at a time when my colleagues are already immersed in their own working rhythm and the work process in the office has entered its natural flow. 

• Why did you choose to pursue a career in law?

Because it gives me a lot of added value on a personal level. I like feeling that I am part of a process of creation, which in working with startups and companies in the early stages of their development is exactly the case. Sometimes everything is still only at an idea level — there is not even a company yet, just people with ideas, with dreams they want to make come true, looking for ways to achieve them. I like knowing that through my work, which combines a wide range of assistance and support not only in the legal field but also in structuring the company, later the investment, and then the development of the business, I have contributed to the growth of something meaningful and big.

• The most interesting case you have worked on so far?

I cannot single out one specific deal as the most interesting. But there are certainly ones I will always remember as special — some because of the company’s business idea, some because of the people behind it (who, I assure you, are always amazing), others because of their complexity and the effort invested, followed by the sense of success and satisfaction from a job well done, and others because of the ease with which they happened. Still, I would say that working with companies focused on improving our quality of life — for example those producing special foods or products, developing methods or devices for monitoring our health and mental health, everything related to green innovations — is particularly interesting. And of course, everything related to pets and animals.

• What does Paolina like to do when she is not at work?

Continuing from my previous answer, this is exactly what I love most — spending time with my dog, outdoors or at home.

•  If you were not a lawyer, what do you think you would do?

I think about this a lot, not because I question my choice, but because I am looking for ways to develop myself and expand my sphere of impact. I believe that if we can help someone, we should always do it. For things in the physical world, solutions are often easier to find and implement. The battles we fight silently, most often in our own minds, almost always remain lost. I would develop a practice focused on personal development, self-knowledge and self-improvement, and almost certainly connected with a healthy lifestyle and nutrition.

•  What is the strangest thing that has happened to you in your practice?

I remember a deal where the client was so insecure and uncertain about his own decision to participate — not about the terms of the deal — that he refused to leave the office until we guaranteed that everything would be fine for him and his company in the future and that nothing would put him at risk. Which, of course, is never a guarantee that we as lawyers can give. No matter how well we have protected the client’s interests and business, factors such as unsuccessful management on their part, the political environment, and global events can have an impact in a way that cannot be foreseen or regulated in a contract or investment agreement at an earlier stage.

• Do you have a professional “trick” and would you share it with us?

I like to let people talk rather than asking questions myself. You learn more from their free narrative than from answers to guiding or clarifying questions. You often get information you did not even know existed, and it turns out to be essential.

•  What is your favourite cliché from movies and TV shows related to law ? Why is it so far from reality ?

It is the created image of the glossy world in which lawyers in movies work — meetings with always very important people, quickly made decisions, no reading or writing, constant business lunches and dinners, plenty of free time. Well, yes, they do exist in our reality too, somewhere among the ever-growing list of tasks for the day, the several unanswered phone calls, the fight with formatting the file that should have already been sent, together with the extra time needed for the special attention each client requires.

•  If you had to explain to a child in simple words what you do, what would you say?

The explanation I recently gave to a child was that I help people do what they want to do, in a way that is right and that happens for them in the best possible way.