Law firm Art Legal (Belarus) provides legal services within subscription services, offering optimal formats and conditions of cooperation depending on field of activity, size of the business and the company’s needs.
Subscription services usually include comprehensive consulting on the company’s ongoing activities (contractual work, labor issues, corporate law, pre-trial debt settlement and other issues).
Law firm Art Legal (Belarus) provides business management services to the client, acting as a management company. This service is in demand at initial and transitional stages of business, as well as in absence of a company’s CEO in various industries (IT, trade companies).
The management company’s services usually include exercising the powers of the company’s director to represent interests with third parties, signing contracts and other transactions, general verification of transactions for local policies, close interaction with accounting and other departments.
Working in such formats, each client is assigned a manager who oversees the project and interacts with the responsible persons of the client 24/7.
Legal advice in isolation from tax aspects is incomplete. Art Legal experts know and understand the tax components of transactions and clients’ businesses and, in addition to general tax issues, provide highly specialized advice.
To provide highly qualified assistance to its clients, the Art Legal team closely cooperates with specialized tax experts in Belarus and abroad (auditors, tax consultants).
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Banking and Finance is one of the core field of expertise in Art Legal. Considering that no successful project can do without funding, our experts try to do their best to ensure that clients get the desired result.
Art Legal experts have extensive experience in supporting clients of various levels – from start-ups to banks, investment funds and international financial institutions (including IFC, EBRD, China Development Bank). As well as experience in supporting projects aimed to access foreign financing markets and to interact with underwriters (IPO).
We offer advice on currency and tax law issues.
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The effective choice of corporate structure is one of the features that distinguishes successful companies from companies that have failed. Art Legal pays attention to this aspect, because an inconvenient corporate structure or a conflict between shareholders/key company’s management can be costly in future.
In addition to corporate law and governance, the Art Legal team has extensive experience in supporting M&A transactions, including those involving foreign individuals and companies, comprehensively advising and managing mergers and acquisitions (M&A) projects.
If the project requires involvement of foreign law or advice, we cooperate with partners in various jurisdictions (including the USA, England, China, Cyprus, Poland, Portugal, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, UAE, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey, Hungary, and Serbia).
We support investment projects; assist in obtaining status of a resident of the Hi-Tech Park and other special legal regimes.
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Intellectual property (IP) is one of the company’s core assets, the value of which has grown rapidly due to the global economy smartization.
For the effective use and protection of this asset, Art Legal lawyers conduct an audit of the company’s IP facilities, draft documents on transfer of IP rights, including pledge agreements, take measures to protect IP rights within the company, and build protection in relations with partners and customers.
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People are the core of success of any business.
Art Legal experts will help to formalize relations with employees and top management, taking into account the interests of all parties and client’s desires.
We advise on general labor issues, including employment of foreign citizens in Belarus.
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Despite the innovation era, real estate is still one of the most liquid assets being an effective and clear instrument for investing.
Advising various real estate transactions (purchase and sale, contribution to the capital, lease, mortgage, construction of buildings (greenfield project)) with participation of both residents and non-resident companies, Art Legal experts provide a high level of services for the best usage of real estate objects in commercial turnover.
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A significant industry for both the Belarusian market and the global economy. Its importance is so high that it will not be long before many issues (including legal ones) can be solved by artificial intelligence. Before that happens, Art Legal experts share their experience to help technology companies, from startups to market leaders.
Among the services offered by the Art Legal team:
- drafting basic documents for launching a startup (relations between founders, project team, structuring IP rights, etc.);
- documents for the activities of established IT companies;
- support of investment transactions, legal due diligence, development the transaction structure for investments and other issues.
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If finance is not only the goal of the client’s activity, but also the essence and process, then at Art Legal we assist to increase them.
We advise classic banking institutions and non-credit financial institutions (insurance, leasing and forex companies), fintech companies and payment systems.
Art Legal experts assist in understanding rigorous Belarusian financial and currency legislation, structuring financing transactions, and gaining insights into legal use of traditional securities, derivatives and cryptocurrencies.
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It has become quite difficult to imagine traditional trading without a website, mobile application or social medias (eg. Instagram).
Taking this into account, the role of legal assistance has also changed.
In addition to the traditional type of legal services (advice on foreign trade contracts, interaction with foreign customers, dealers, etc.), Art Legal also offers legal services for e-commerce (support for the launch and operation of marketplaces, development of Terms of Conditions, Privacy Policy and other).
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Recent events have once again reminded all of us about the importance of health.
To support this sector, the Art Legal team advises medical companies and representative offices on regulatory issues related to turnover of medicines, medical devices and equipment, incl. on advertising, customs, antimonopoly legislation, and assists with contracts with distributors, trading companies and representatives of pharmaceutical companies as well.
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