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The Middle East today is a region of rapid business and investment opportunities. Growing trade, active development of new markets and infrastructure create favorable conditions for entering the MENA region. Local companies are eager to engage in business with Russia, creating opportunities for establishing long-term partnerships.

BGP Litigation provides comprehensive legal support to its clients in the MENA region, as well as to companies from the UAE and other Middle Eastern countries operating in Russia. Our services include dispute resolution, asset structuring, corporate law, and taxation.


Services
For businesses
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  • Drafting partnership agreements and transaction support
  • Company registration and administration (mainland and free zones)
  • Legal and tax counselling services
  • Assistance with opening bank accounts
  • Identifying and creating local partnerships
  • Financial restructuring, insolvency and bankruptcy
  • Dispute resolution
  • International arbitration
  • Construction, property transactions and dispute resolution
  • International trade, sanctions and export controls
  • Crisis management
  • Debt recovery
  • Mergers and acquisitions support
  • Joint ventures
  • Private equity and venture capital
  • Investment structuring
  • Tax and corporate structuring
  • Employment dispute resolution and court representation
  • Trade mark, design and patent availability searches
  • Comprehensive intellectual property due diligence, auditing and asset management
For private clients
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  • Structuring asset ownership in the UAE and globally
  • Establishing funds, trusts, holding companies and family offices
  • Assisting with obtaining UAE residence for families
  • Tax counselling services
  • Family and inheritance planning
  • Representing heirs in inheritance matters in the UAE
  • Assistance with opening bank accounts
  • Dispute resolution
  • Real estate transaction support
  • Arranging powers of attorney for asset management

We advised:

A Leading Private Equity Fund Focused on Russia, the CIS and the Middle East

in developing a strategy to expand its presence in the Middle East, including selection of jurisdictions for investment and management company incorporation, assessment of potential risks, consolidation of registration requirements and implementation of the chosen strategy

A Venture Fund

on the specifics of employment, potential risks and ways of mitigating them under UAE law, including full legal support for the company's administrative processes in a free economic zone

A Major Recruitment Agency

in connection with preparation of a legal opinion on labour law issues and the process for obtaining a work permit and residence permit in the UAE

A Major Private Equity Fund

in relation to entering the UAE market, including choosing the place of incorporation, analysing tax implications and immigration issues for founders and employees, and opening a local bank account for the company

A Major Investor

in connection with a comprehensive risk analysis of a long-term commercial lease with a major UAE property developer

A Major IT Solutions Provider

in the field of risk management and anti-fraud services in connection with establishment of a holding company for management restructuring, including support for acquisition of shares in a company in Singapore to consolidate the founders' interests in a holding company in the UAE

A Major Russian Furniture Supplier and Manufacturer

on entering the Middle East market, including full support in setting up a management and trading company in the UAE and preparing a legal opinion on the client's scenarios for entry onto the Saudi Arabian market

A Major Investment and Communications Holding from a CIS Country

in connection with a comprehensive risk analysis of a long-term commercial lease with a major UAE property developer, including development of a risk mitigation strategy taking into account the existing practice of entering into such agreements

A Private Client

on investing in real estate in the UAE to obtain ten-year residence, including analysing residence types and conditions

An Ultra-High Net Worth Private Client

in connection with developing a strategy for registering a professional participant - asset management company in the UAE (ADGM, DIFC), Oman and funds in these jurisdictions for qualified investors

Team

Alexander Golikov
Partner, partner committee member, attorney — Tax Advise and Disputes
Timur Unarokov
Partner, partner committee member — M&A and Corporate Restructuring
Sergey Morozov
Partner — Cross-border disputes, Sanctions law and compliance
Vladislav Rikov
Partner — Transport and Asset Finance

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