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  • About
  • Experience

The arena of commercial disputes is becoming increasingly difficult to navigate. This may be attributed to expansion of cross-border trade and business, enhanced regulatory scrutiny, rapidly changing legal requirements and a shift towards a strict and complex regulatory framework. The more complex the disputes become, the more is at stake for the businesses. Regardless of the nature of disputes, we put the best efforts to bring these disputes to an effective resolution and are focused on providing solutions that are practical and commercially suitable.

We believe that compliance and risk management is a key to avoiding protracted and disruptive litigation. Our team of experienced litigators therefore helps businesses in proactively exposing the risks of and offering practical and commercial solutions as to its minimization. Preventing the disputes from arising can help the organizations and individuals save lots of resources and time, especially when the stakes are high. But once the disputes do arise, our group of lawyers, working as a team, guides the matters through from initiation to effective and final resolution and steer the clients throughout the process by assisting them in making informed and timely decisions.

We have represented clients before courts of all instances, from courts of first instance to the highest court of appeals and cassation. A hallmark of our approach is a keen understanding of the client’s business objectives. Our litigation strategy is tailored to the size of the matter, the client’s potential exposure, and the significance of the case to the client. We engage lawyers specialized in antitrust, tax, intellectual property to provide integrated solutions that would leverage the position of our clients.

We have been entrusted some of the most significant disputes with an enormous impact by some of the largest and sophisticated players in the market, including leading financial institutions, large corporations, state-owned entities and local industry leaders. Our team of professional litigators handled complex commercial, intellectual property, labor, tax, antitrust disputes spanning an array of industries.

No risk of dispute may be completely eliminated – but when a dispute arises or a litigation challenge is imminent, we ensure that our clients are equipped with the best knowledge and expertise and have a complete picture of the situation, which helps them make informed decisions to reach an effective and timely resolution.

Currently acting as a counsel for a leading local provider of a data center and traffic exchange in a high-profile multimillion-dollar tax dispute related to an alleged tax liability from international traffic exchange between authorized operating agencies, pending before the trial court;

Currently counselling a local drilling company in an alleged wrongful termination dispute arising out of the violation of the company’s safety and workplace regulations, pending in the Baku Court of Appeals;

Currently acting for a large local company in settlement of a dispute related to a lease of commercial premises;

Currently representing one of the largest state-owned entities in connection with the termination of an employee for a gross misconduct, pending before the Supreme Court;

Acting as a counsel for an oil-gas company in a complex labor dispute involving claims by an employee seeking hundred thousands of manats in damages for the company’s alleged breach of commitments under the employment contract;

Represented one of the largest national telecommunication companies before the Supreme Court in a complex multimillion-dollar lawsuit related to contractual interconnection rates; 

Counselled one of the largest internet service providers appearing before the State Antimonopoly Service in an antitrust dispute stemming from its contemplated reconstruction works and renovation of its equipment, followed by litigation before a trial court and court of appeals;

Represented an industry-leading construction company in the proceedings against a state authority arising from the latter’s refusal to grant proprietary documentation to its large real-estate complex comprising residential and non-residential buildings. We were successful in forcing the state authority to issue the documentation acknowledging the proprietary rights of our client;

Represented a leading oil-gas company before the Supreme Court in two complex IP disputes related to an infringement and unauthorized use of its trademarks;

Represented one of the largest energy service companies of the Caucasus in pre-trial negotiations in connection with a dispute originating from unconformity of goods, followed by favorable settlement for the client;

Represented a client in a family dispute in relation to distribution of marital property situated in foreign countries;

Represented an international logistics company in a large labor dispute alleging wrongful termination where we negotiated and secured a full and final settlement in favor of our client;

Represented a local major publishing house in negotiations in connection with a dispute related to an erroneously assigned ISBN, followed by successful settlement;

Represented a leading local winemaking company in a successful lawsuit related to the recovery of damages sought in connection with fundamental breaches of representations made in a USD 25-million sale of assets agreement;

Successfully negotiated a dispute arising from a letter of credit and purchase agreement of equipment from a foreign manufacturing company;

Represented a leading local food & beverage company in a several hundred thousand lawsuit involving State Social Security Fund’s allegations that social security payments were improperly withheld. We reached a successful resolution of the dispute and obtained a ruling dismissing the claims, fines and penalties imposed by the said authority;

Assisted and acted as a local counsel for a leading publishing company on recovery of debts from a Chinese manufacturer;

Assisted a foreign financial leasing company in devising a strategy for recovery of the debts related to the purchase of agricultural machinery by a local counterpart in Azerbaijan.

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