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Baker & McKenzie - CIS, Limited

What we say about the firm's legal practice in Azerbaijan

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Within Legal market overview, Baker & McKenzie is a first tier firm,

Baker & McKenzie – CIS, Limited’s market-leading ten-lawyer office primarily focuses on the oil and gas industry, but is also active in areas such as finance. Recent highlights include representing Garadagh Cement on a €120m loan from the EBRD, which was the bank’s largest non-oil sector loan in Azerbaijan to date. The firm also represented Kolonsun on the financing and development of a 200-hectare multi-use development. Daniel Matthews heads the team, which includes Aykhan Asadov and Gunduz Karimov.


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Legal Developments by:
Baker & McKenzie

  • New rules due on assessment of workplace working conditions

    Continuing our practice of regularly updating our clients on changes in the Russian legislation, in this legal alert we would like to inform you that as of September 1, 2011, the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation will introduce a new procedure for assessing working conditions in workplaces. 1 [1] Results of workplace assessments with respect to the working conditions conducted before September 1, 2011 (in accordance with the procedure currently in effect 2 [2]) will remain valid up until the next regular assessment.
    - Baker & McKenzie

Legal Developments in Azerbaijan

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  • Doing Business in Azerbaijan 2011

    Doing Business in Azerbaijan 2011 is a general guide for companies operating in or considering investment into Azerbaijan. It is intended to present an overview of the key aspects of the Azerbaijani legal system and regulation of business activities in this country.
  • Registration of Foreign Non-Commercial Entities

    On 16 March 2011, the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan enacted Resolution No. 43 approving the Rules for Negotiating and Entering into an Agreement Concerning Registration of Branches and Representative Offices of Foreign Non-Commercial Legal Entities in the Republic of Azerbaijan (the"Rules").
  • Azerbaijan Promotes Export of Oil and Gas Infrastructure and Expertise

    On April 17, 2009, Law No. 766-IIIQ of the Republic of Azerbaijan, On Application of Special Economic Regime to Export Oil and Gas Operations, dated February 2, 2009 (the “Law”), was promulgated. It is understood that the Law is issued in an attempt by the Republic of Azerbaijan to promote exportation, especially, to the Caspian littoral states, of oil and gas infrastructure and expertise accumulated in Azerbaijan over the past years. On November 1, 2009, Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, On Providing for Implementation of the Law, dated October 30, 2009, was promulgated.
  • Doing Business in Azerbaijan

    Doing Business in Azerbaijan has been prepared as a general guide for companies operating in or considering investment into Azerbaijan. It is intended to present an overview of the key aspects of the Azerbaijani legal system and regulation of business activities in this country.