Leges Advokat Law Firm

Corporate Law

Leges Advokat is a premier law firm in Uzbekistan advising on corporate law and assisting with corporate law related issues. It has a wide range of clients, from some of the world's largest corporations to growing and start-up businesses. Our very experienced team of lawyers has an outstanding record of advising on mergers and acquisitions, takeovers, corporate re-organizations, corporate governance and company secretarial.

We constantly deal with large-scale projects involving multiple jurisdictions, and also provide day-to-day support to our clients with their operations.

Our commitment to managing the projects sets us apart from other local law firms. We consistently deliver high quality legal services and aim to provide the most valuable and transparent corporate legal assistance available.

Our lawyers understand local corporate issues and customs, we have many years of experience on the ground, and we can quickly identify new approaches and develop new products if needed.

Besides advising on the most complex, strategic projects for our clients, we also advise on many smaller-scale transactions. Flexibility, diversity and responsiveness are the cornerstones of our team.

Our corporate practice covers the full array of legal areas related to setting up, conducting and dissolving a business, including:

• Registration of legal entities in Uzbekistan, including joint-ventures and wholly owned subsidiaries
• Corporate counseling
• Corporate governance
• Mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, and joint ventures
• Regulatory compliance
• Shareholder financing, commercial lending and institutional finance
• Intellectual property and technology
• Voluntary liquidation, bankruptcy, re-organizations and restructurings.

Insolvency and Bankruptcy

In providing our legal services in the area of Insolvency and Bankruptcy we serve a broad range of clients, including lenders (secured and unsecured), borrowers, debtors, creditors, share and equity holders, asset purchasers, landlords, receivers, and other interested parties.

Our clients comprise companies in almost every industry, including financial services, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, health care, telecom, construction, engineering, and real estate.

Leges Advokat’s Insolvency and Bankruptcy practice offers solutions to clients by combining the firm’s experience in bankruptcy law with its expertise in related areas like secured transactions, mergers and acquisitions, asset-based lending, real estate and intellectual property. The firm’s primary focus and competencies include corporate reorganizations, judicial and out-of-court insolvencies and restructurings, debtor - creditor relations and bankruptcy, including representing clients and litigating matters related to all of the above in the courts of Uzbekistan.

Our experience on both the creditor and debtor side allows us to identify and understand all aspects of a problem and to structure innovative, informed and practical solutions to best protect and advance our clients’ interests.

In addition to the legal services provided to the clients in the area of Insolvency and Bankruptcy, Leges Advokat also provides advice and assists in litigating issues that are often associated with defaulting borrowers, complex debt issues, and lender liability.

Labor and Employment

Leges Advokat’s Labor and Employment practice involves the representation of management in all areas of labor and employment law. Our lawyers counsel local and international clients across a broad spectrum of industries, including oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, technology, manufacturing, transportation, financial services, banking, and construction.

We provide our practical advice to employers in Uzbekistan regarding all aspects of the employment relationship, ranging from hiring, disciplinary practices and employment termination, compensation practices, confidentiality concerns, protection of goodwill and proprietary information of employers. We combine in-depth legal knowledge of Uzbekistan’s labor laws with focused, practical experience to help managers make sound judgments while reducing our clients’ potential exposure.

Lawyers of Leges Advokat have extensive employment litigation experience in all major employment law issues, including wrongful termination, wrongful disciplinary actions, employment contract and employee benefits claims, salary and benefits disputes and enforcement of confidentiality obligations. Our experience includes both defending class actions and cases filed by individual plaintiffs.

We can also assist the clients in drafting employment contracts, employer’s internal rules and policies, management orders and instructions, and can effectively represent employers in negotiating collective bargaining agreements.

Our lawyers have deep and intimate knowledge of the nuances of employing foreign citizens in Uzbekistan. In addition, we can provide our assistance in obtaining work permits for foreign specialists employed by Uzbek companies.

Litigation and Arbitration

Leges Advokat is the premier business litigation firm in Uzbekistan. Our reputation as trial lawyers is well known.  Our work includes virtually every type of business dispute, from disputes arising out of contractual relations to patent and copyright litigation, disputes between companies and Uzbek state authorities, real estate title defense, antitrust and employment litigation.

We have established excellent relationship with international law firms and are constantly hired as local law experts in international arbitration involving Uzbekistan related parties or assets. We represent companies and other entities in a broad spectrum of business disputes encompassing many industries, including banking, pharmaceutical, leasing, real estate, construction, insurance and high technology.

When facing a local or international commercial dispute, charges from state authorities, or a single-plaintiff lawsuit, clients entrust their largest and most sensitive matters to Leges Advokat – our lawyers can and do cover almost any area of Uzbek law.

Our goal is to find the best solution to our clients’ needs and problems, based on our deep understanding of the law and legal practice. Thanks to aggressive and effective advocacy skills, our team has prevailed in a number of trials and resolved many conflicts through alternative dispute resolution or settlement. We successfully help our clients make the right moves at every stage of the litigation process.

Real Estate

Our team is the most experienced in Uzbekistan in the area of real estate law representing not only worldwide multinational corporations, but also a number of foreign governments in the full range of important and relevant matters, including real estate transactions, leasing, financing, mortgage, litigation, financing and tax issues.

Leges Advokat is widely acknowledged for its thorough knowledge and excellent understanding of both Uzbek law and practice regarding the real estate transactions in Uzbekistan. 

We regularly handle deals involving immovable property, including: acquisitions and disposals; property development; leasing, renovation and construction; commercial, industrial and residential properties; enforcement of judicial awards and foreclosures; reorganization transactions; real estate financing and lending secured by mortgage; and real estate litigation.

Our significant experience in handling large, complex transactions enables us to develop innovative real estate transaction structures to help our clients meet their objectives.

Areas of Focus

• Acquisitions/Disposals
• Corporate Real Estate
• Cross-border Transactions
• Real Estate Development/Construction
• Lending and Financing
• Leasing
• Environmental Matters
• Real Estate Investment Funds
• Foreclosures and Enforcement of Judicial Awards.