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"The bnt Minsk office, established in 2007, forms part of bnt legal & tax, the multinational CEE law firm. The Minsk offices works closely with bnt offices in Vilnius, Tallinn and Riga, as well as with other bnt offices. Managing partner Alexander Ließem and the other partners, Frank Heemann..." read more

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Vlasova Mikhel & Partners Law Firm is a seven-partner full service firm that dominates the local legal market. Senior partner Lilia Vlasova and managing partner Konstantin Mikhel are respectively chair and deputy chair of the Belarusian Public Association of Commercial Lawyers. The firm represents state-owned and domestic companies and several major international clients, including Deutsche Bank, Alcatel, Dresdner Bank and Commerzbank.

Borovtsov & Salei benefits from an official cooperation agreement with Chadbourne & Parke LLP.. The firm is strong in corporate and real estate law, and name partners Valentin Borovtsov and Vassili Salei are highly rated within the market. Major clients include Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, EBRD, Lufthansa, Pfizer and Japan Tobacco International.

Founded by Igor Verkhovodko and Timour Sysouev, Businessconsult Law Firm now has five partners covering the full range of legal matters. The firm boasts an impressive range of international clients including Siemens, Bayer, British American Tobacco, Novo Norilsk and 
Tetra Pak.

Formerly known as BelJurbureau Attorneys at Law, the firm merged, in January 2009, with the major Ukrainian firm Magisters which also has an office in Russia. The full-service 12-lawyer office is headed by partners Anna Rusetskaya and Denis Turovets.

Austrian law firm CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati opened a two-lawyer office in Minsk in January 2008. A major highlight was advising Telekom Austria on its $2bn acquisition of Belarusian mobile company Velcom. Managing partner Sergei Makarchuk is recommended.

Managing partner Gennadiy Glinskiy is one of the key specialists at DICSA which acts for several major international clients, including Akzo Nobel, Ernst & Young and Eurolines.

Stepanovski, Papakul and Partners’s joint managing partners Valery Papakul and Alexander Stepanovski lead a quality firm that has strong relationships with firms in Russia, Ukraine and Germany. Clients include Procter & Gamble, Salcom and Arctica Air.

Baltic firm Sorainen opened in January 2008 and now has a three-partner office headed by Maksim Salahub. The full service office recently advised Bayer Healthcare on the acquisition of a pharmaceuticals business in the Baltics and Belarus.

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  • Formation of the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan

    Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan will adopt new unified customs tariff and non-tariff regulations from January 1, 2010, and the Customs Union (the “CU”) of the three countries of the Eurasian Economic Community (the “EurAsEC”) will become a reality. The CU Customs Code (the “Customs Code”) is expected to take effect from July 1, 2010 to regulate the resulting integral customs zone.
    - Baker & McKenzie

  • Belarus Amends its Investment Legislation

    On 6 August 2009, the President of the Republic of Belarus signed Decree No. 10 On the Creation of Additional Conditions for Investing in Belarus. An investment contract is one of the ways of investing in the Republic of Belarus and enables an investor to obtain State support for an investment project and a waiver of sovereign immunity from suits, cautionary judgments, and enforcement of judgments and/or arbitration awards. Decree No. 10 introduces a new procedure for entering into investment contracts. It allows investors to be granted preferences and privileges under investment contracts, in addition to those granted under existing legislation, and also regulates the privileges to be granted to investors automatically upon execution of investment contracts.
    - Baker & McKenzie

  • Belarus Trademark Law Amended

    On July 15, 2009 Belarus passed the Law on the Introduction of Amendments to the Law of Republic of Belarus on Trademarks and Service Marks, which comes into force on January 25, 2010. The rationale behind the amendments is to bring Belarusian law in line with European countries’ laws - to facilitate eventual accession of the country to the WTO, and also to reflect new developments in case law.
    - Baker & McKenzie

  • PARALLEL IMPORT: IMPORTANT COURT PRACTICE IN BELARUS

    In May and June of 2007 the Chamber of Intellectual Property Disputes of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus examined two similar disputes where Bacardi & Company Limited (Liechtenstein) (the plaintiff), the owner of the trademark “MARTINI”, and two Belarusian companies (the defendants), importing into the Republic of Belarus alcoholic beverages labeled with the said trademark acted as parties to the dispute in question
    - Magisters

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