Klementina V. Pavlova

Klementina Pavlova joined Sands Anderson following her clerkship for The Honorable Paul M. Black in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Virginia. Klementina practices in the areas of litigation, finance, bankruptcy, and creditors’ rights. Her experience includes representing Chapter 7 trustees, creditors, including commercial banks, shopping center landlords, financial institutions and trade creditors. Klementina can assist you with adversary proceedings and contested matters, asset sales, claim objections, relief from stay actions, preference and fraudulent conveyance actions, plan confirmations, and secured lender claims. She can communicate complex ideas and develop a forward-thinking strategy to help you succeed and come out ahead. Klementina makes deals and, when negotiated solutions are not viable, she has the ability and experience to litigate aggressively.

She brings a global perspective to the firm and has a strong background in secured transactions, bankruptcy, and commercial litigation. Klementina has lived and worked in London, The Hague, Beijing, Los Angeles, and New York. Klementina was introduced to bankruptcy law when she worked as a legal advisor for the Bulgarian Mission to the United Nations in New York. In that capacity she assisted in drafting and presenting amendments to the Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency utilizing her fluency in the Bulgarian language.

While a student at the University of Richmond School of Law, Klementina was an intern for the Honorable Kevin R. Huennekens and the Honorable Keith L. Phillips in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and was honored with a Medal of Excellence from the American Bankruptcy Institute for her extensive work in bankruptcy law.