K&P Law Firm > Yerevan, Armenia > Firm Profile

K&P Law Firm
18/1 VARDANANTS STR
3RD FLOOR
YEREVAN 0010
Armenia

Armenia > Leading firms Tier 1

K&P Law Firm has an established track record in handling regulatory and transactional matters. Under the leadership of Tatul Khudatyan and Vardan Stepanyan, the firm has a strong offering in commercial law, corporate and M&A, banking and finance and real estate, and is equally adept at assisting clients from the energy and mining sectors. Khudatyan is regularly instructed by clients in real estate and banking transactions, and corporate and finance expert Stepanyan focuses on M&A, securities, corporate finance, competition and tax law issues. Other key practitioners include Zhanna Harutyunyan, commercial law specialist Ani Nargizyan and Gayane Virabyan, who represents Armenian and international clients in cross-border M&A deals, reorganisations, and corporate governance issues.

Practice head(s):

Tatul Khudatyan; Vardan Stepanyan

Testimonials

‘We are very content by the level of service that we receive from K&P, a team of dedicated lawyers, who address complex legal issues in a new and developing regulatory environment with great flexibility and with a contribution of their previous solid experience of legal services.’

‘Vardan Stepanyan is the driving intellectual lead of the team highly responsible for all the team’s effective and business oriented advice. He has thorough knowledge of the financial services market with a focus on Armenia-specific advice. Ani Nargizyan manages, organizes and communicates all tasks in a timely and responsible manner. She is truly devoted to her job and it has a good effect on our cooperation. We really appreciate her hard work.’

‘K&P Law Firm does a fantastic job developing and executing successful strategies. It has a very knowledgeable team, a strong structure and close relationships with clients. The team has exceptional expertise and excellent business understanding. ’

‘Vardan Stepanyan proved himself as very sharp and professional expert. Vardan is an excellent practitioner who combines a sharp intellect with limitless energy. He always gives constructive advice, with solid alternative options along the way.’

‘We are very satisfied with the high quality services they have provided us since the beginning. K&P is a very organised and responsible team of young, knowledgeable and energy driven associates and highly professional, experienced partners who can resolve even the hardest issues in the best of the client’s interests.’

‘Our cooperation with Tatul Khudatyan proves that he is a real guru in the field of law. His comprehensive knowledge of the Armenian market and deal structures gives us confidence in our daily business activities and comprehensive business deals. He is a great negotiator and thoroughly represents our interests on all levels of negotiations both with private and public institutions due to his grasp of the mentality and business culture of the region.’

‘Gayane Virabyan is a gifted communicator and we have benefited from her professional skills and amiable attitude a lot. She provides everyday aid in a daily business operations. ’

Key clients

“MGA – Development” LLC

Summit Partners

“SEVRUGIAN” Cultural foundation

“INCORE” CJSC.

Mastercard

Siemens AG (and other Siemens Group companies)

Areg Energia LLC

Tavitian Vineyards LLC

LMS LLC

Sartex LLC

Noy Invest Group LLC

Computron Industries Establishment

Sovrano LLC (Group of Associated companies)

Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)

C-Quadrat Ampega Asset Management Armenia LLC

Majid Al Futtaim AM LLC (MAF operating Carrefour brand)

Research Center of Maternal and Child Health

Elite Group LLC

Work highlights

  • Assisted “SEVRUGIAN” with its establishment and incorporation in Armenia.
  • Advised Mastercard on potential business operations in Armenia pertaining to money transfer services, including advising on data privacy, anti-money laundering, currency control, cryptocurrencies and payment settlement services.

The firm: K&P Law Firm (formerly Karakhanyan and Partners Law Firm LLC) is an established law firm with over ten years of legal expertise recognised for independent and quality legal services mainly to corporate clients, international/regional development institutions as well as foreign and local investors on a wide range of issues. Founded in 2004 as a full-service law firm with both litigation and corporate consulting teams, it has since transitioned to a corporate legal practice. In 2009 a subsidiary company ‘K&P Law Firm’ LLC was incorporated in Kiev, Ukraine, which has made a sharp success in its efforts of being established in the Ukraine legal market.

Today K&P is a successful law firm with multilingual, motivated and highly qualified attorneys and legal advisors who work together to provide comprehensive, highly reliable and cost-effective legal services, resources, specialists and expertise to help protect and further business interests of the companies operating or aiming to invest in Armenia. The team work with some of the worlds most respected and well-established finance institutions and foreign lenders, banks, as well as foreign direct investors and other entities and provide advice on the largest transactions on the market.

K&P primarily focuses its activities on corporate legal practice. The firm is providing innovative and service-oriented legal solutions for various legal matters in different areas of corporate activity, business transactions and public policy.

Areas of practice: The firm provides a broad range of services to clients in all major industry sectors, including banking and finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate and commercial law, competition, real estate, and insurance, where the team has developed a high level of expertise and is able to offer premium and at the same time competitive legal services. Practice areas include capital markets, finance, corporate, dispute resolution and risk management, energy (including renewables), intellectual property rights, real estate, tax, pensions and employment. K&P specialists have remarkable experience in various areas of corporate and commercial practice such as contracts, private international law, IT and telecommunication, real estate; taxes; employment; as well as in litigation. The business-oriented approach emphasises the knowledge of the regional business environment and the practical understanding of clients’ problems and aims. Vardan Stepanyan is an established lawyer who heads the corporate and capital markets practices of the firm. He acts for banks and other financial institutions on regulatory, banking, finance and capital markets matters. He is also heading the Kyiv team and is working between Armenia and Ukraine. Tatul Khudatyan is one of the finest lawyers on the Armenian market, focusing his efforts on foreign investments, M&A, real estate and anti-trust acting on principal transactions in the above mentioned fields.

Department Name Email Telephone
Antitrust/competition Tatul Khudatyan
Antitrust/competition Anna Hakobyan
Asset management Tatul Khudatyan
Asset management Anna Hakobyan
Asset management Vardan Stepanyan
Asset management Ani Nargizyan
Banking and finance Tatul Khudatyan
Banking and finance Vardan Stepanyan
Banking and finance Gayane Virabyan
Capital markets Anna Hakobyan
Capital markets Artur Margaryan
Corporate and M&A Vardan Stepanyan
Corporate and M&A Armine Mkrtchyan
Corporate and M&A Gayane Virabyan
Corporate governance and compliance Anna Hakobyan
Corporate governance and compliance Ani Nargizyan
Employment and benefits Vardan Stepanyan
Employment and benefits Ani Nargizyan
Environment and regulatory
Real estate Tatul Khudatyan
Real estate Armine Mkrtchyan
Intellectual property Vardan Stepanyan
Intellectual property Gayane Virabyan
Insurance Vardan Stepanyan
Insurance Ani Nargizyan
Tax Vardan Stepanyan
Tax Tatul Khudatyan
Number of lawyers : 10
at this office : 9
Armenian
English
French
Russian
Ukrainian
Other office : Kiev

CLIENT: Abraham Denkezian
COMPANY/FIRM: “AGARTHA” LLC
TESTIMONIAL: We are an investment company named Agartha, our cooperation with K&P law firm had begun since launching our initial founding procedures; well, their supportive assistance stays till date. Our working experience with K&P has been a valuable one.

Throughout the establishment process of our company, we received attentive guidance, regular legal instructions, professional sustenance, alongside proficient information which was important to us.

Ever since, we find them relentlessly available, to encounter all of our official issues; nonetheless with alert convenient response, and reassuring helpful companionship.

With their meticulous work, efficient time management, and responsible handling of our official law acts, we trust that advantages gained from K&P are great; and will persist as such in the future.


CLIENT: Georgi Okoyev
COMPANY/FIRM: “RESEARCH CENTER OF MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH PROTECTION” CJSC
TESTIMONIAL: Our decade long cooperation with K&P gives us a unique position to attest firm’s utmost professionalism and unique loyalty to the Client’s needs and interests throughout years. As a large medical institution, we have had quite complex and diverse legal issues on our hands and K&P has always stood out to the challenge and has found the most favourable solution for us. K&P is a team of highly knowledgeable, diligent, proactive professionals ready to assist and support the Client in a best way possible. We are very happy to cooperate with them and have a very trusty relationship with one of the team’s leaders Vardan Stepanyan and associate Armine Mkrtchyan.


CLIENT: Nina Shushani
COMPANY/FIRM: LMS LLC
TESTIMONIAL: Navigating through new market and building a business from scratch is always hard, as well as contains a lot of risks and can be quite costly. This is all shall be multiplied to two, if you have a case of foreign investment with a different legal system of investor. K&P was were for us from the beginning, helping to navigate smoothly through all the challenges, to be as cost efficient as possible in legal and corporate matters. The multilingualism, the ability to act quick and within tight deadlines, the knowledge of the jurisdiction and the business market of K&P team has benefited our firm a great deal. We would gladly recommend K&P to others is asked.


CLIENT: Arman Vardanyan
COMPANY/FIRM: “C-Quadarat Ampega Asset Management Armenia” LLC
TESTIMONIAL: We are very content with the services provided by K&P for the last 8 years. Vardan Stepanyan and K&P’s entire team continuously provide excellent, professional, understandable advice and counsel to us. K&P is a loyal and trustworthy partner on which advice we rely heavily, a team of dedicated lawyers, who address complex legal issues with great flexibility and with a contribution of their previous solid experience of legal services.


CLIENT: Avedis Tavitian
COMPANY/FIRM: “Tavitian Vineyards” LLC
TESTIMONIAL: Since we engaged with K&P, they have provided exceptional quality legal advice with sector- specific knowledge and a deep understanding of our needs. They guided us in establishing our business entities in Armenia based on our goals and plans, with solid, competent sector-specific knowledge. The K&P team is always available for our inquiries maintaining professional representation with great integrity. They present with continuous hands-on partner involvement, leading a dynamic team that focuses on client requests, ensuring availability, and ensuring that advice and support are always available.


CLIENT: Ara Alexanian
COMPANY/FIRM: “Computron Industries Establishment” LLC
TESTIMONIAL: Throughout our decade long cooperation, we have received premium quality legal advice from K&P lawyers, which is always coupled with sector specific knowledge and deep understanding of the client’s needs and interests. The lawyers have excellent ability to negotiate with the government and communicate with local and foreign representatives of the client. K&P lawyers have processed large volume of real estate transaction documents in tight timeframes and they have shown great diligence and legal accuracy throughout this project. K&P Lawyers have continuously advised us on all aspects of real estate development, such as development permits and negotiations with the government representatives on highest levels, lease of commercial premises, real estate acquisition, investor protection matters and taxation.


CLIENT: Gagik Sarucanian
COMPANY/FIRM: “Sartis” Srl
TESTIMONIAL: In the last 4 years that we have been in cooperation with K&P, we have not experienced any problem to which the K&P team has not found a desirable, cost-effective solution. K&P combines the knowledge, experience and energy of the whole firm to solve the client’s most complex challenges, wherever and whenever those arise. We would absolutely recommend this firm to other foreign investment businesses in Armenia to ensure their successful operation within the ever-changing business and legal environment.


K&P Law is a full-service firm capable of catering to all corporate clients’ needs, no matter the complexity. Yet, what makes us truly stand out is our unrivalled strength in key sectors of Financial Services, Energy and Natural Resources, Real Estate and Technology. This professional knowledge forms the backbone of the advice we provide to our clients on large cross-border transactions, local establishment and acquisitions and daily operations. Working on some of the most significant and high-profile projects for entities ranging from growing and exciting businesses to government bodies, we combine the right insights and expertise for a particular project.

K&P’s widely-recognized and respected team has been providing foreign investment clients with unrivalled counsel for almost two decades. The team’s position at the top of the market offering multilingual and dynamic advice gives clients the reassurance they need when dealing with local matters. Our client-oriented approach emphasizes the team’s knowledge of the regional business environment and the practical understanding of our clients’ problems and targets.

We have advised local and international clients on some of the largest transactions on the Armenian market, which included the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), Société de Promotion et de Participation pour la Coopération Economique (PROPARCO), C-Quadrat Investment AG, Austria, and Talanx Asset Management GmbH, Germany, responsAbility Inc., European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), VTB Bank (Russia), Crédit Agricole S.A. (France) and SACAM International (France), Churchill and Associates (USA), “Sovcombank” PJSC (Russia), Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Siemens Project Ventures Gmbh (Germany). We have also provided legal services to IFIs such as International Finance Corporation (IFC) in 2015, to OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries), Nederlandse Financierings-Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden N.V. (FMO), RENCO CJSC (Italy), MAJID AL FUTTAIM HOLDING (Carrefour), Qatar Airways, KfW Bankengruppe, MicroVest Capital Management, Agence Française de Développement (“AFD”), KBC Bank Deutschland AG, Deutsche Bank AG, etc.

In 2009 a subsidiary company “K&P Law Office” LLC was incorporated in Kiev, to operate in Ukraine, which has made a sharp success in its efforts of being established in Ukrainian legal market.

Further our international capabilities are strengthened by the team’s knowledge of multiple foreign languages as Russian, Ukrainian, English, French and German.