Establishment, reorganisation & liquidation of companies, branches and representative offices

• Corporate structuring
  
  
• Assisting in establishing commercial and non-commercial legal entities in the form of limited liability partnerships, joint stock companies, branches and representative offices in Central Asia, including Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan
  
  
• Drafting all necessary foundation documents
  
  
• Advising on and assisting with the reorganisation, liquidation and bankruptcy procedures

Employment

• Consulting on labour issues
  
  
• Advising on and assisting with obtaining work permits for foreign employees
  
  
• Visa support
  
  
• Employment dispute resolution
  
  
• Analysis of existing and drafting employment agreements, collective employment agreements, financial liability agreements and confidentiality agreements compliant with each of Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan legislation
  
  
• Review of all HR documentation for compliance with Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan legislations
  
  
• Advising on application of incentives and disciplinary measures to employees
  
  
• Work health & safety
  
  
• Full support during audits by the labour authorities

Contracts

• Drafting and negotiating various kinds of contracts, including FIDIC-based, GAFTA-based contracts
  
  
• Checking contracts for compliance with Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan legislation

Mining & energy

• Advising on subsoil use regulations, procurement by subsoil users, pipelines
  
  
• Assisting with negotiations on,and compliance with, subsoil use contracts
  
  
• Advising and assisting with obtaining permissions and consents for acquisition of a share in a subsoil user
  
  
• Advising on environmental regulations
  
  
• Advising on licensing and permitting issues.

Dispute resolution

• Advising on tax/transfer pricing disputes and appeals
  
  
• Alternative dispute resolution, by mediation and pre-dispute settlement negotiations
   
• Civil and administrative litigation, litigation with state authorities
  
  
• International and domestic arbitrations
  
  
• Enforcement of judgments of courts and foreign arbitral awards
  
  
• Representation before tax authorities and in courts of law

Capital markets

• Advising on equity and equity-linked securities issues
  
  
• Advising on domestic and international offerings of debt securities, Islamic finance transactions, sovereign debt offerings 
  
  
• Advising on IPO on the Kazakhstan and foreign securities exchange markets
  
  
• Advising on licensing for professional activities on the securities, investment fund and insurance market
  
  
• Advising on regulation of brokers/dealers, investment funds, insurance companies and other professional participants of securities market
  
  
• Advising on ISDA Master Agreements and on structuring and marketing of derivative products
  
  
• Advising on the structured finance issues

Banking and Finance

• Bank lending and acquisition finance
  
  
• Banking regulation and capital adequacy
  
  
• Asset finance, real estate finance, trade finance and other types of finance
  
  
• Syndicated loans
  
  
• Bank restructuring and insolvency
  
  
• Islamic finance

Currency control

• Advising on currency regulation and currency control issues
  
  
• Assisting with registration or notification of currency transactions
  
  
• Structuring of foreign trade transactions

Forensics

• Fraud investigations
  
  
• Legal analysis and risk assessment of fraud
  
  
• Compliance review and assessment with both local laws/regulations and internal corporate policies/regulations
  
  
• Expert witness statements in disputes and litigation
  
  
• Remedies
  
  
  

Intellectual Property

• Registration of trademarks, patents (including plant varieties)
  
  
• Trademark clearance searches/ Patent and freedom to operate searches
  
  
• Copyright and related rights
  
  
• Renewal of trademark registrations and patent annuities
  
  
• Franchising
  
  
• Licensing and Assignments
  
  
• IP Due Diligence
  
  
• Domain names
  
  
• IP enforcement and litigation
  
  
• Unfair competition
  
  
• Anti-counterfeiting
  
  
• Parallel imports (grey market)