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The firm

Michael Wilson & Partners, Ltd (MWP) is a full-service law practice and business consultancy with offices in both Baku and Almaty, covering Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the central Asian region and the Caucasus. MWP was established in Kazakhstan in 1998 and in Azerbaijan in 2003.

Combining years of collective experience in the CIS, MWP is ideally placed to provide legal services in a unique region where a cultural understanding and an appreciation of the local approach to legislation and business are vital to commercial success. Key personnel have been resident on a full-time basis for more than 15 years.

Today, MWP maintains its position as one of the region’s largest independent law firms, and is considered a key strategic partner to its clients in the mining and natural resources sectors, utilities, all aspects of foreign investment, joint ventures, financing, privatisations, restructuring, transportation, litigation, intellectual property, trade marks and general commercial law. The firm advises both foreign and domestic business clients, including some of the region’s largest and most strategically important investors.

Areas of practice

MWP is a unique Kazakhstani firm in today’s market, having some of the most experienced lawyers in their chosen fields on the staff and being able to boast over 90 combined years of legal experience within its team. Most of MWP’s people are bilingual and are most sensitive to and understanding of the business and cultural needs of the region and its industries.

Operating as a fully autonomous law firm, MWP’s focus is on Kazakhstan and the other central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union, including Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia. MWP offers a full range of commercial transactional services in the categories detailed above, with a strong emphasis on the corporate sector, with a wide range and depth of both international and domestic clients. The firm is an honoured legal adviser on Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan for the World Bank Group (Financial and Private Sector, Washington DC) in relation to Doing Business 2006-2012, its annual series of reports.

The firm is considered one of the regional leaders in the mining and natural resources sector, utilities, and all aspects of foreign investment, joint ventures, financing, privatisations, restructuring, transportation, litigation, intellectual property and general commercial law. Full information on Michael Wilson & Partners Ltd, its staff, track record and major completed and ongoing projects can be viewed on its website at: www.mwp.az.

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Languages
Azeri
Bengali
Bosnian
Bulgarian
Chinese (Mandarin)
Croatian
English
French
German
Kazakh
Kyrgyz
Russian
Serbian
Spanish
Turkish
Ukrainian

Other offices Almaty

Number of lawyers 15