Contract law
Advantages
A competently comprised contract guarantees the best protection of your interests. At the same time usage of standard forms without proper legal analysis of their content can have unpleasant and expensive consequences. For instance, absence of an essential provision in a contract can result afterwards in loss of a contract. Furthermore, before signing of a contract proposed by your partner it is important to estimate its advantages and risks and propose necessary changes in a special document – protocol of differences. This will help to avoid unpleasant surprises, for example, about an unreasonably high penalty for an insignificant breach of the contract or about undesirable conditions for cancellation of the contract.
1. We make up contracts for any of your business activities, including bilingual foreign trade contracts (Russian – English, Russian – German).
2. Verification of business contracts suggested by your partners and/or making up of additions or changes to them.
What is it?
Verification of a contract means that our lawyer checks conformity of the contract with all necessary legal requirements. We do not directly evaluate the expediency and potential profits of the contract, however, we shall draw your attention to the disadvantageous and risky provisions of the document, will explain it in our written comments and suggest alternative provisions.
3. Legal support during negotiations with your business partners.
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Labour law
Why is it important?
It is more pleasant and significantly cheaper to check correctness of labour and personnel documentation of your company with the help of our specialists than during an official check of Ministry of Labour. Indeed offences against labour legislation can be very costly and entail a penalty of up to 300 base values (which equals approximately 4800 US dollars or 3000 euro). Moreover, incorrect determination of wage categories and salary accounting can distort the size of taxable profit. Furthermore, incorrectly composed documents will hinder the protection of your company’s interests in case of a conflict with an employee. For example, an incorrectly comprised order about disciplinary penalty, on the basis of which an employee has been fired, can entail restoration of the employee in the position if he challenges your decision in court. The court can also oblige the employer to pay money compensation to such employee in the size of his average salary for the period between the dismissal and restoration in the position.
1. Labour documentation audit – we analyse all documentation in the sphere of employer-employee relations and prepare written legal opinions on relevant issues.
2. Consultations for bringing labour documents in correspondence with the requirements of labour legislation.
3. Development and preparation of documents regulating employer-employee interaction, including establishing, changing and cessation of labour relations as well as bringing employees to account for nonfulfillment of their obligations or for damaging the employer’s property.
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Litigation and arbitration
Advantages
Professional legal advice will help you better protect your interests in court and significantly save time and energy needed for that. Special legal knowledge is needed to make up procedural documents in strict conformity with the specific requirements, effectively use procedural devices (counter-claims, legal motions etc) as well as to prevent unfair conduct of your opponents in court.
1. Preparation of complaints (claims) and/or counter-claims, other procedural documents for business disputes.
2. Representation in Economic courts of the Republic of Belarus, as well as in arbitration courts in the Republic of Belarus and abroad.
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Consultations
1. Consultations regarding procedure of acquiring licenses (special permits) to carry out certain activities.
Details
We provide you with information on procedure of acquiring licenses (special permits) for certain activities, in particular, information whether an activity is licensed, what public authority issues licenses, what requirements are to be fulfilled and what documents are to be filed. We can also prepare necessary documents needed to get a license if this requires legal knowledge.
2. Consultations regarding procedure of acquiring quality certificates (certificates of conformity), certificates of state hygienic registration.
3. Preparation of inquries to public authorities and state officials.
Why is it needed?
Unfortunately we now and then discover gaps or mismatches in legislation. In such situations the most reliable guiding line for a decision can be provided by a written clarification given by a public authority. We will help you compose a legally correct and adequate inquiry in order to find out the official position regarding provisions of certain legal acts.
4. Consultations regarding questions of civil, administrative, customs and tax law including written legal opinion.
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Legal assistance in registration and liquidation of business
Risks to consider
Our lawyers will advise you on the suitable legal form for your company considering the peculiarities of your business activities as well as warn you about hidden advantages and disadvantages of legal forms. For instance, not all founders of unitary enterprise realize that this is the least flexible legal form which offers few possibilities and requires big efforts for reorganization or sale of business. It is not less important to make up constitutive documents of a company precisely and in details stating the relations between the founders in order to avoid possible conflicts and fraud between them in the future when it is much more complicated to make changes or amendments to the constitutive documents without unanimous agreement.
1. Legal assistance in registration of companies of any legal form as well as in registration of individual entrepreneurs.
2. Legal assistance in reorganization (restructuring) of companies.
3. Legal assistance in liquidation of companies.
4. Consultaions on complicated issues of corporate law, legal assistance in solving corporate disputes.
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Legal services on subscriber basis
Lasting legal support of your business solving all day-to-day questions.
What does it include?
Legal services on subscriber basis mean that your business will be supported by a team of professional lawyers able to solve arising legal questions most effectively. Permanent legal support will help you get timely legal advice on consequences of important management decision and solve all day-to-day legal questions, as well as guarantee regular legal consultations on issues of contractual and labour law. Ordering legal services on subscriber basis you will not need to spend time to file orders for separate legal services and you will be sure to get professional legal advice at any time wheh you need it. At the same time you get a discount and pay only for the factual time spent for rendering services.
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Максим Знак
Надежда Знак
Анна Скородулина
Дмитрий Халимончик
Ольга Манкевич
Марина Калиновская
Ольга Демидчик
