Corporate and commercial mandates, from formation to exit.
Company formation and share transactions in Uzbekistan are procedurally straightforward. The difficulty lies elsewhere: in how the constitutional documents allocate control between shareholders, how a deadlock is resolved, on what terms a participant may exit, and what the tax and regulatory consequences of a chosen structure will be. Disputes between shareholders usually originate in documents that did not address these questions when the relationship was still amicable.
Digests Global Law Firm advises foreign and domestic investors on establishing and operating legal entities in Uzbekistan, including limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, representative offices and branches of foreign legal entities.
Our corporate practice covers:
- Incorporation, charter capital formation, and state registration of legal entities
- Drafting charters, founders’ agreements and shareholder agreements, including provisions on governance, deadlock, pre-emption rights and exit
- Acquisitions and disposals of participatory interests and shares, and the related regulatory approvals
- Reorganisations — merger, accession, division, separation and transformation
- Joint ventures between foreign and local participants
- Corporate governance, general meetings, and the duties of directors and executive bodies
- Shareholder and participant disputes, including the challenge of corporate decisions
We draft transaction documents with the sources of future disagreement in mind, so that if a dispute does arise, the client’s position on it is already recorded.
Key services
- Company formation and licensing
- Shareholder and joint venture agreements
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Privatisation and state asset transactions
- Corporate governance and board advice
- Reorganisations and group restructuring
- Share and asset purchase documentation
- Corporate approvals and regulatory filings
- Shareholder disputes and derivative claims
