Areas of expertise
Legal advice across the issues that shape modern business — from corporate structuring to international arbitration.
Project Management
→Investment and development projects fail on legal grounds more often than on technical ones: an unobtained permit, a land right…
Water Supply
→Water is a limited resource in Uzbekistan, and rights to it are allocated and supervised by the state. For any enterprise whose…
Agricultural Industry
→Agricultural enterprises operate under a body of legislation that governs not only how they trade but what they may do with the…
Corporate Law
→Company formation and share transactions in Uzbekistan are procedurally straightforward. The difficulty lies elsewhere: in how…
Construction Law
→Construction projects generate disputes about delay, defects and payment with some regularity. Whether those disputes are…
Criminal Law
→In matters affecting business, the decisive stage is usually the earliest one — the period before charges are brought, when the…
Tax Law
→Tax consequences attach to most commercial decisions, and they are rarely the first thing considered. A transaction structured…
Customs and Trade
→Most customs difficulties originate in three decisions: the classification code declared, the customs value stated, and the…
Banking and Finance
→Financing arrangements turn on two questions: whether the security is enforceable in the jurisdiction where the assets are, and…
Sanctions and Compliance
→A company with no connection to a sanctioning state may still be affected by its measures, through the currency in which it…
Arbitration and ADR
→Parties to a cross-border contract frequently prefer arbitration to litigation in either party’s national courts. That preference…
Litigation
→Most commercial disputes are resolved without a hearing. They are resolved on the strength of the position a party can…
Sports Law
→Sport is governed by two systems at once: the law of the state, and the regulations of the federations and governing bodies of…
Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Fintech
→Uzbekistan regulates crypto-asset activity through a licensing regime administered by the National Agency for Perspective…
Capital Markets
→Raising capital through an issue of securities imposes disclosure obligations on the issuer that continue long after the funds…
Intellectual Property
→Rights in intellectual property are territorial. A trade mark registered abroad confers no protection in Uzbekistan, and a mark…
Family Law
→Family matters are conducted under the Family Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and where they involve property held abroad…
Legal Due Diligence
→Due diligence exists to answer two questions: what is actually being acquired, and what liabilities come with it. A report that…
Labor Law
→Employment legislation in Uzbekistan is protective of the employee, and the procedural requirements governing dismissal are…
Bankruptcy
→Insolvency rarely arrives without warning. The options available to a debtor and the recoveries available to a creditor both…
Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare
→Medicines and medical devices are regulated from development through to advertising, and the requirements applicable to their…
Education Law
→Educational organisations operate under licensing and accreditation requirements, and are subject to obligations towards students…
Environmental Law
→Environmental requirements affect industrial and construction projects at the point where they are most expensive to remedy —…