Legelata Law firm > Yerevan, Armenia > Firm Profile
Legelata Law firm Offices
BLUE BUSINESS CENTER, AREA 60
4/3 ARAM STREET
YEREVAN 0010
Armenia
Legelata Law firm > The Legal 500 Rankings
Armenia > Leading firms Tier 2
Legelata Law firm is perhaps best known for its banking and finance expertise, with a solid track record in assisting domestic and international financial institutions with regulatory and transactional matters. The firm is well versed in handling due diligence proceedings and advising companies on a range of corporate issues, tax, IP and competition matters pertaining to M&A deals. The department is also strong in assisting IT sector entities with a range of matters. The team is led by the triumvirate of managing partner Gor Margaryan, antitrust and competition expert Arthur Buduryan, and recently promoted partner Tigran Ghambaryan. Aleksandr Egibyan is singled out for his contributions. Anzhela Abrahamyan left the firm in June 2023.Practice head(s):
Gor Margaryan; Arthur Buduryan; Tigran Ghambaryan
Other key lawyers:
Key clients
LC Waikiki
Huawei Technologies
Samsung Group
Coca-Cola HBA
Egis Group
Lego Juris A/S
China Machinery Engineering
4u.am CJSC
Z&A Stores LLC (franchisee of Burberry, Armani, Ralph Lauren and other luxury brands in Armenia)
Alfa-Bank open joint stock company
PNB Banka AS of Latvia
Krka d.d.
Coinstats LLC
GlaxoSmithKline|Healthcare
Granite Management Services
American Centre for International Solidarity (Solidarity Centre)
Herbalife Nutrition, Ltd.
Ecosense LLC
CIS International School of Armenia
Work highlights
- Assisted Eurasian Development Bank with due diligence proceedings and negotiations pertaining to a subordinated loan agreement.
- Assisted the EBRD & RA joint fund for investments with due diligence of the target company subject to an acquisition.
- Advised PAUL: Boulangerie, Patisserie, Restaurant, and Salon de The on negotiations and drafting a franchise agreement.
Legelata Law firm > Firm Profile
Who we are: Legelata is a law firm with a rich history of connecting businesses with law across a range of industries in innovative and dynamic ways. Legelata provides solutions for businesses involved in banking and finance, trade and logistics, health and pharmaceutical, life sciences and biotechnology, information technologies and telecommunications. We advise on highly complex issues connected with mergers and acquisitions, competition and intellectual property, foreign investments, tax and corporate matters. Legelata represents clients in all issues relating to litigation and arbitration matters.
Our team is always motivated and willing to take on new challenges and any matter within a specific industry as well as providing expert advice throughout each specialized field. Our lawyers consistently outperform the expectations of our clients.
The firm’s human resources continue to grow, thus ensuring a specialized team able to deal with any specific matter. The practice has expanded over time and now covers all vital spheres of the society we live and work in. Our lawyers work collaboratively to provide the capabilities needed for innovative solutions to the challenges our clients face within their various disciplines.
Main Contacts
| Department | Name | Telephone | |
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| Banking & Finance law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Foreign investments, Corporate & Tax law, Litigation & Arbitration | Gor Margaryan | info@legelata.am | |
| Antitrust & Competition law, Commercial and Corporate law, Construction & Infrastructure law, Renewable Energy law, Health and Pharmaceutical law, Employment and Labor law | Arthur Buduryan | info@legelata.am | |
| Banking & Finance law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate & Tax law, Foreign Investments, Information Technologies & Telecommunications law | Aleksandr Egibyan | info@legelata.am | |
| Antitrust & Competition law, Commercial and Corporate law, Construction & Infrastructure law, Renewable Energy law, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare law, Employment and Labor law | Artyom Poghosyan | info@legelata.am | |
| Banking & Finance law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Foreign investments, Corporate & Tax law, Pharmaceutical law | Karen Chichoyan | info@legelata.am | |
| Commercial and Corporate law, Intellectual Property law, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare law, Employment and Labor law | Marina Maqyan | info@legelata.am | |
| Commercial and Corporate law, Intellectual Property law, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare law, Employment and Labor law | Emma Petrosyan | info@legelata.am | |
| Corporate and tax law, Civil law, Information Technologies & Telecommunications law, Litigation & Arbitration | Silvi Tovmasyan | info@legelata.am |
Lawyer Profiles
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Mr Arthur Buduryan | Partner at Legelata LLC | View Profile |
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Mr Karen Chichoyan | Associate at Legelata Law Firm | View Profile |
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Mr Aleksandr Egibyan | Senior Associate at Legelata Law Firm | View Profile |
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Miss Marina Maqyan | Associate at Legelata Law Firm | View Profile |
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Mr Gor Margaryan | Managing Partner at Legelata Law Firm | View Profile |
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Miss Emma Petrosyan | Associate at Legelata Law Firm | View Profile |
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Mr Artyom Poghosyan | Associate at Legelata Law Firm | View Profile |
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Miss Silvi Tovmasyan | Junior Associate at Legelata Law Firm | View Profile |
Staff Figures
Number of lawyers : 10Languages
Armenian English French Russian SpanishMemberships
The Lawyer Network European Business Association American Chamber of Commerce in Armenia German Business AssociationClient Testimonials
CLIENT: Ms. Goedele Van de Plas, Legal Counsel
COMPANY/FIRM: Legal Counsel Incofin Investment Management (Belgium)
TESTIMONIAL: “We are very pleased with assistance of Legalata. The team in Legelata has been very pro-active and available any time of the day working to meet the tight deadlines for regulatory permits. We are very satisfied with the competence and polished negotiation skills that Legelata contributed to the transaction”
CLIENT: Giorgi Dalalishvili
COMPANY/FIRM: Regional CEO LC Waikiki Retail AR LLC
TESTIMONIAL: “The direct and effective work of your company contributes to the improvement and development of our activities.
We are grateful for the conscientious approach and look forward to further cooperation.”
CLIENT: Maggie Cheung, Partner
COMPANY/FIRM: Mayer Brown
TESTIMONIAL: “Legelata are experienced, professional and very responsive. Their team I worked with is also dedicated and reliable. I have enjoyed working with Legelata and would recommend them to others looking for legal service in Armenia.
We look forward to the next opportunity to work with Legelata.
– Partner at Leading International Law Firm”
CLIENT: Michael Hanna, Associate
COMPANY/FIRM: Kirkland and Ellis LLP
TESTIMONIAL: “Legelata’s team has been invaluable in providing practical and solution oriented legal advice on anti-trust, intellectual property and other various issues within the frames of the multi-jurisdictional acquisition. They have been very proactive and easy to communicate with.”
Legal Developments
Antitrust Compliance Program: Benefits of implementation
28th March 2023 The general rule is that if an economic entity (hereinafter: Undertaking) performs a business activity within the country, it shall comply with the rules and regulations governing the respective activities. Antitrust laws are designed to promote fair competition and prevent anti-competitive practices that have the ability to harm consumers, limit market innovation and, as an ultimate result, harm competition itself. In simple words, antitrust compliance is meant to ensure that Undertaking’s actions and practices do not infringe on applicable competition/antitrust laws and regulations. Compliance includes avoiding activities such as price fixing, market allocation, bid rigging, monopolisation, disclosure of market strategy, price strategy, etc.COVID-19 -an excuse not to perform contractual obligations?
24th March 2020Covid-19 has been declared as pandemic by WHO. The pandemic has caused the global markets tumble and triggered massive government intervention for saving the economy as the economic activity sharply fell and panic spurred in financial markets. Many businesses now face situations where it is much more onerous or near to impossible to perform their obligations vis a vis their employees, but more importantly their counterparts and contractors.
Armenia: Prevention of Leadership Duality
3rd March 2020 When attempting to create corporations that safeguard the interests of shareholders, many companies implement a two-tier corporate hierarchy. At the first level is the board of directors: elected by the shareholders and on the second tier is the upper management: hired by the board. The one-tier board provides a better understanding of the operational issues at board level and clearer direction; nevertheless, it can simultaneously be hard for other board members to challenge a powerful Chief executive Director (CEO) who is also the Chairman of the Board (Chair).M&A: Share acquisition of IT companies – tax it or pass it?
13th December 2019Expansion of the business places the manager in front of the classical choice – grow organically or make an acquisition? Once the acquisition is decided to proceed upon and all other strategic considerations are satisfied, a business should decide whether the acquisition should proceed by acquiring assets or shares of a specific business.
Armenia intends to extend tax exemptions for IT industry
22nd June 2018IT industry in Armenia has seen a dramatic growth for the last few years. The industry size in 2017 has reached 765,1 million USD versus 559,1 million USD in 2015 which represents around 37% growth like for like (National Statistical Service of Armenia 2015, 2016, 2017).
Mergers and Acquisitions: Exceptions of exercise of pre-emptive rights in Armenia
22nd June 2018Mergers and acqusitions in the banking industry has been buoyant for the past couple of years in Armenia. This activity has been fuelled by the regulatory requirements for increase of the charter capital of the banks due to the desire of the regulator, the Central Bank of Armenia, to see larger and predictable players in the market easy to supervise. This has been coupled with the increasing interests of international players and investors towards the robust banking sector or Armenia which has offered stable exchange rates and much higher interest on debt and equity compared to that of developed markets such as Western Europe, North America and Middle East.
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