Advocates.by

Advocates.by lawyers advise citizens, act as their representatives in court, other government agencies and before individuals on issues related to family relations, raising children, creation and termination of common property of spouses.

As part of providing legal assistance to citizens of Belarus and foreign citizens, Advocates.by lawyers advise clients on issues related to labor relations, including: issues related to the conclusion, execution and termination of individual and collective labor contracts, and also represent the interests of clients in resolving individual and collective labor disputes in the courts of Belarus, including: disputes related to changing the wording of dismissal, recovery of amounts due upon dismissal, average earnings for delay in final payment, delay in issuing a work book, etc.

As part of providing legal assistance to citizens of Belarus and foreign citizens, Advocates.by lawyers advise clients on issues related to the acquisition, change of rights to real estate, including: disputes over the division of real estate in kind, the establishment of easements, the pledge of real estate, as well as disputes related to the division of joint property of spouses, etc.

Advocates.by provides legal assistance in the field of creation and state registration of legal entities of various organizational and legal forms in the Republic of Belarus (limited liability companies, additional liability companies, joint-stock companies, unitary enterprises, production cooperatives, peasant (farming) households, consumer cooperatives, public associations, funds, institutions, associations and unions, etc.), including the preparation of constituent and other documents of commercial and non-profit organizations for their state registration; preparation of documents for opening representative offices of foreign legal entities; for opening branches and representative offices of Belarusian legal entities; legal support of transactions for the purchase and sale of shares (stocks) in business entities; legal support of transactions for the purchase and sale of enterprises as property complexes.

Advocates.by lawyers have extensive experience in legal support for the reorganization and liquidation of commercial and non-commercial organizations.

The advantages of legal assistance offered by Advocates.by are expressed not only in guarantees of compliance with attorney-client privilege, but also in the opportunity to represent the interests of our clients both in economic and arbitration (arbitration) courts of the Republic of Belarus, and in general courts in civil, criminal cases and cases of administrative offenses related to the implementation of entrepreneurial activities.

Advocates.by have experience in representing the interests of Belarusian and foreign clients in the execution of foreign arbitration and court decisions in the Republic of Belarus. In 2015, Advocates.by lawyers, who were part of the Law Firm "Terekh, Nevedovsky and Partners", were recommended by the international rating publication The Legal 500 Europe, Middle East & Africa as reliable legal consultants for providing legal assistance to foreign clients in resolving disputes in state and arbitration (arbitration) courts of the Republic of Belarus.

Advocates.by also represents clients in alternative dispute resolution methods, which clients often wish to resort to before applying to a competent court of any state or to international commercial arbitration specified by an arbitration agreement. In particular, Advocates.by lawyers can represent clients not only in the International Arbitration Court at the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, but also in the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, the Arbitration Court at the Polish Chamber of Commerce, the Vilnius Commercial Arbitration Court, the International Court of Arbitration at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris, the International Court of Arbitration in London (LCIA), the Arbitration Institute at the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), and other arbitration institutions.

Advocates.by lawyers provide legal assistance to business entities on all issues related to exclusive rights to the results of intellectual activity, including issues of the emergence and implementation of rights to a company name, rights to trademarks and service marks, rights to inventions, utility models, industrial designs, rights to protect undisclosed information from illegal use.

Advocates.by lawyers prepare license agreements, agreements on the creation and use of intellectual property, contracts for the development of computer software and other documents.

Advocates.by represents clients' interests in procedures for protecting intellectual property rights, including in the Judicial Collegium for Intellectual Property Cases of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus.

Advocates.by lawyers act as defenders and representatives of victims in bodies conducting criminal and administrative proceedings in various categories of cases, including:
1) disputes related to customs and tax offenses, including: cases related to the implementation of illegal entrepreneurial activities, evasion of tax and customs duties, illegal movement of goods across the customs border,
2) cases initiated in connection with the commission of official crimes and administrative offenses, including: cases related to theft of property through abuse of office, embezzlement or misappropriation, official negligence, giving or receiving bribes, etc. 
3) cases of harm caused by vehicles,
4) cases of crimes and offenses committed by minors,
5) cases related to the commission of crimes and offenses of the financial and budgetary and monetary systems, including Including: crimes in the banking and insurance sectors, cases of extortion of loans or subsidies, evasion of repayment of accounts payable, cases of production, storage or sale of counterfeit money or securities, etc.
6) cases related to the commission of crimes against public order and public morality, including: cases related to hooliganism, cruelty to animals, intentional destruction or damage to historical and cultural values ​​or material objects that have been assigned or may be assigned the status of historical and cultural value, etc.
7) cases related to violation of antitrust legislation, restriction of competition, illegal use of a competitor's business reputation.