ELL Partnership

"ELL Partnership" offers clients in all economic sectors innovative, added-value solutions that strengthen their competitive position in the market. The Partnership assists and defends clients’ interests in proceedings with the EU and Armenian competition authorities. Moreover, the Firm advises Armenian and international companies on defence in cases of competition, concentrations, government aid and general European Community Law issues, including investigations and conflicts with the authorities and in Armenian and European courts.

Intangible assets are becoming an increasingly important factor affecting capitalization of companies and their competitive success. For sustainable development under current conditions, along with efficiently structuring its production process and distribution network, engaging qualified personnel and implementing innovation, a company needs to structure and manage its intellectual property portfolio. In coping with this task, priority is given to remedies that help protect intellectual property. With a view to assisting our clients, we offer a truly comprehensive range of IP services. One of the key distinguishing features of ELL is that it has an IP team working in Yerevan. ELL specializes in supporting comprehensive and large-scale consulting projects and providing continued support to major companies operating in Armenia. One of ELL’s priorities is to provide services in relation to high-stake/risk IP disputes. The ELL IP practice includes specialists, patent attorneys, consultants, as well as lawyers with extensive experience of litigation.

One of the important fields of practice is the protection of Human Rights and representation of our clients before the European Court of Human Rights. We have gone deep in this practice and expended the framework of our clients that include not only the Armenian citizens but also citizens of all High contracting Parties of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Furthermore, the practice in this field includes also providing various legal opinions on different legal instruments on Human Rights:

• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
• International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights,
• Conventions on the Rights of Child,
• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,
• other international instruments.

The ELL Partnership's team of Labor & Employment today is one of the strongest in Armenia. Since 2011, the lawyers of our company represent the interests of both employers and employees during negotiations, out-of-court dispute resolution processes, court cases, provide legal representation, provide advice on any issue. Our many years of experience advising and acting for major foreign investors, multinational corporations and big Armenian employers on all labor matters mean that individual members of the group can specialize in the particular aspects of labor law most in demand: pension legislation, relations with trades unions, out-staffing and immigration legislation.

We advise clients on any labor law issues that might arise in their daily business, perform due diligence of the company’s employment paperwork in order to identify and minimize potential risks, make recommendations for optimal application of the labor legislation rules considering the client’s specific sphere of business, and provide support for major comprehensive projects.

Litigation is the legal practice area most commonly and traditionally associated with lawyers. Coupled with the fact that court proceeding are understood to be the top of the pyramid of any legal dispute this means that litigation practice in one of the lawyers most important tasks. Our Litigation & Arbitration practice area advises on civil and commercial disputes. We create multidisciplinary teams so that, in addition to leading specialists in litigation and arbitration, every client benefits from the expertise of lawyers from relevant practice areas. Our aim is to offer our clients added value in every negotiation, claim and arbitration. It is one of our main goals to understand the specific characteristics of the sectors in which our clients operate, be it banking, finance, energy, infrastructures, construction, real estate, consumer goods to name but a few. In determining the strategy to be adopted in a dispute, we use this specialist knowledge to ensure the needs and concerns of our clients are paramount, an approach which affords us a competitive advantage valued at both an international and domestic level.

ELL Partnership's primary Litigation & Arbitration services include the following:

• with respect to corporate and commercial law, litigation arising from relationships within corporations, claims relating to the liability of corporate directors and claims arising from contracts entered into by corporations, particularly distribution and agency agreements,
• all aspects of civil law, including liability under contract and in tort, claims arising from insurance contracts, real estate law, construction law, family law, debt collection, insolvency and both national and international testamentary and succession matters.
• adversarial administrative proceedings,
• administrative proceedings before all types of government bodies, particularly claims against administrative agencies based on breaches of civil law and social welfare issues,
• environmental issues arising under civil law, administrative law and criminal law,
• new technologies, particularly data protection,
• execution of foreign judgments,
• insolvency proceedings,
• appeals of all types, even before the Supreme Court,
• national and international arbitration.

The firm's International Arbitration group is assisting clients with complex, cross-border dispute resolution. Our International Arbitration team can quickly and efficiently assemble experienced and knowledgeable teams to provide global service on arbitration involving international commercial and investment disputes. ELL has a practice in investment treaty arbitration, as well as in international commercial arbitration. ELL has also practices in the “investor-state” disputes before the ICSID. ELL’s lawyers regularly serve as mediator in many disputes.

The Real Estate area has a team of lawyers with extensive experience in the real estate and construction sectors, both State-owned and private. We provide legal advice to individuals, companies and institutions with interests in a real estate and construction sectors, on town planning, the environment, taxation, contracts, finances, litigation and labor. Our lawyers are highly specialized, which allows us to offer a quality services and to form, when needed, multi-disciplinary work teams made up of lawyers from each of the above areas.

ELL handles all aspects of real estate transactions in virtually all major real estate sectors. This includes offices, hotels, warehouse and distribution facilities, large-scale residential developments and infrastructure projects. Our clients include many institutions, international developers, banks, private equity houses and multinational corporations.

Today’s increasingly complex global real estate markets require law firms to provide a unique blend of real estate, M&A, finance, corporate and commercial advice in a rapidly changing legal environment, which is often multi-jurisdictional in nature. To do this successfully requires combining cross-border legal expertise with practical local experience, which is the foundation of ELL practice and dedicated real estate sector groups.

ELL provides the following services:

• buy and sell real estate works contracts residential and commercial leases,
• sale and lease back operations,
• real estate due diligence. real estate barter. real estate income tax,
• condominiums.

ELL is advising on telecommunications, media and technology. Our knowledge of state-of-the-art technology, innovations and trends are keys to providing our clients with the best possible service. We often work with experts from other sectors (technical engineers and economists) to provide a comprehensive service, which includes legal consulting on:

• sector regulations and representation in proceedings with public authorities, as well as Armenia and international sector associations,
• disputes, examining all possible solutions (extrajudicial transactions, regulator participation, ADR, legal proceedings and arbitration),
• competition law and legal proceedings with the competition defense authorities in Armenia and judicial appeals,
• advice on contracts, such as telecommunication services, wholesaler agreements, software licenses, outsourcing and producer agreements, e-commerce and data protection Industrial and intellectual property issues,
• commercial advertising over audio-visual mediums,
• contracts for radio and television program production and for obtaining broadcasting rights,
• corporate finance, as well as mergers and acquisitions.