Kalikova and Associates Law Firm

Kalikova and Associates Law Firm has vast experience advising and representing local and foreign companies and international organizations in a variety of legal matters relating to employment, migration, and personal data protection in the Kyrgyz Republic . In particular, we provide the following services:

- advising on various legal aspects of employment, migration and personal data protection in the Kyrgyz Republic;
- preparing legal opinions/memoranda/summaries on various legal aspects of employment, migration, and personal data protection in the Kyrgyz Republic;
- drafting or verifying compliance of employment contracts, financial liability agreements, employment policies and procedures, internal orders and other corporate bylaws; ;
- advising on and assisting with obtaining work permits for foreign employees;
- advising on and assisting with obtaining visas for foreign employees ;
- legal representation in employment disputes (at both pre-trial and trial stages in the courts of the Kyrgyz Republic).

Our firm continuously monitors legal developments and actively participates in legislative drafting undertakings.

Intellectual property is an emerging practice area at Kalikova & Associates (K&A). We have expertise in intellectual prorerties such as inventions, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks, brands, licenses, copyrights, know-how and good will.

K&A legal services include:

- obtaining patents;
- registering trademarks, and brand names;
- preparing applications and handling filings with the Kyrgyz Patent Office (Kyrgyzpatent) and with appropriate authorities of other countries;
- contesting patents, trademarks or brand names;
- licensing or assignment agreements and extending patents or certificates for trademarks.

K&A assists in detecting infringements of intellectual property rights within and outside the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic. K&A advises clients on protecting intellectual property rights from infringement and unfair competition. K&A attorneys counsel on copyright matters including registration of copyright objects with Kyrgyzpatent. K&A lawyers represent clients in connection with intellectual property disputes before courts and administrative bodies of the Kyrgyz Republic such as antimonopoly and customs authorities.

Kalikova & Associates (K&A) has extensive experience in legal representation of companies and individuals in the Kyrgyz courts. Lawyers of K&A are licensed litigators and arbitrators in the Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Kazakhstan. Our lawyers represent clients before all judicial bodies of the Kyrgyz Republic on a wide range of issues, such as: 
- enforcement of agreements;
- invalidation of transactions;
- recovery of damages caused by improper performance of obligations;
- recovery of contractual debts;
- foreclosure against pledged property;
- recovery of unjustly obtained property;
- elimination of impediments to use of property;
- adjudication of bankruptcy;
- invalidation of sale of debtors' property;
- early termination of registration due to non-use;
- recovery of dividends due to shareholders;
- invalidation of decisions to pay dividends;
- invalidation of corporate decisions and authority to issue powers of attorney and to sign for the company;
- protection of business reputation, dignity, honor and recovery of moral damages;
- invalidation of orders to remedy violations committed while carrying out licensable activities;
- contesting the legality of suspensions or revocations of licenses; - invalidation of acts of the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic, ministries and administrative agencies;
- invalidation of settlement agreements;
- contesting court rulings to renew judicial proceedings, to turn down statements of claim, to take actions to secure claims, including rulings to cancel actions to secure a claim.

K&A provides a full range of legal representation services including:

- preliminary assessment of judicial viewpoints of the case;
- issuing legal opinions (affidavits) on legal issues arising in the course of dispute resolution outside the Kyrgyz Republic;
- preparing statements of claims, objections to claims, all procedural documents (complaints filed with appellate, cassational and supervisory courts, application for re-consideration of cases based on newly discovered evidence, petitions, private complaints, etc.);
- legal representation before all judicial bodies;
- protection of interests in the execution of judgments (enforcement of judgments);
- representation of clients in non-judicial dispute resolution (courts of arbitration).

Kalikova & Associates law firm has vast experience in advising foreign and local companies in different industries on mergers and acquisitions, business structuring and restructuring. Our M&A lawyers offers the following services:

 - reviewing constitutive documents of companies intending to carry out a merger or an acquisition or other business restructuring for possible legal risks;
- where a transaction between the companies being restructured relates to purchasing or selling the shares or the interests in such companies, verifying whether a seller has legal title to these securities;
- assisting with the process of state registration of a new legal entity resulting from the merger, acquisition or reorganization;
- conducting a legal due diligence of the title documents for the property assets acquired in the course of the merger and/or acquisition.

Kalikova & Associates law firm has vast experience in advising foreign and local companies in different industries on mergers and acquisitions, business structuring and restructuring. Our M&A lawyers offers the following services:

 - reviewing constitutive documents of companies intending to carry out a merger or an acquisition or other business restructuring for possible legal risks;
- where a transaction between the companies being restructured relates to purchasing or selling the shares or the interests in such companies, verifying whether a seller has legal title to these securities;
- assisting with the process of state registration of a new legal entity resulting from the merger, acquisition or reorganization;
- conducting a legal due diligence of the title documents for the property assets acquired in the course of the merger and/or acquisition.