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We provide legal advice on the most important areas of Azerbaijan (and, where relevant, International) law including the following:
Advising on investment law including incentives to foreign investments;
Full legal support (ranging from review and drafting the shareholders agreements, bylaws and other constituent documents through confidentiality and disclosure agreements and various statements) to organization, reorganization, corporate governance, liquidation, mergers and acquisitions of business entities including the listed companies;
Legal and tax advice (where relevant, in cooperation with legal and tax advisors in other jurisdictions) on optimization of cross-border group structures;
Legal support to maritime shipping (flag of vessels; port procedures; carriage of goods by vessels, RO-RO and containers), international and transit railway (including the regional railway transportation agreements) and pipeline transportation, and other logistics of midstream oil and dry cargo activities (transshipment and storage in terminals; warehousing; customs; transport documentation; risk transfers, etc.);
International trade agreements (INCOTERMS, letters of credit, etc.);
Full legal support to transactions relating to land and other real estate including sale and purchase and lease agreements, documentation on mortgage, rights of use, and other encumbrances;
Legal advice on the construction norms, standards and supervisory rules, licenses, permits and approvals before, during and after the physical construction; main project agreements and relating subcontracts, supply chain, project designs, etc.;
Taxation matters including tax optimization, review of tax clauses, structuring tax-efficient transactions, etc.;
Advising on customs clearance and customs tariffs;
Legal advice on oilfield services under the PSA’s;
Advice and representation on the copyright (including representation of the clients in copyright infringement cases), trademarks, patents and certification of medicinal products (handling a dossier);
Review and drafting of loan agreements, collateral agreements, bank guarantees, capital leasing agreements and other documentation relating to banking and microfinance, capital leasing;
Business litigation and arbitration including upon request of foreign law firms not present in Azerbaijan;
Drafting, review, and revision of sale and purchase, agency and other agreements, memoranda of understanding, letters of intent and similar transactional documents;
Legal advice on regulated tariffs and compliance with anti-monopoly laws;
Employment agreements, labor disputes including compensations and injuries;
Legal advice on the privatization of state-owned enterprises;
Consulting on the institutional (capacity-building) projects sponsored by international development organizations.
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- Structured and cross-border transactions
- Foreign investments
- Contracts
- Transportation
- Companies
- Trade and customs
- Corporate restructuring
- Finance and capital leasing
- Real Estate
- Taxation
- Construction
- Institutional (capacity- building) projects
- Business Litigation
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