Deloitte & Touche LLC > Baku, Azerbaijan > Firm Profile
Deloitte & Touche LLC Offices
96 Nizami St.
Business Center ‘Landmark III’
8th Floor, Baku
Azerbaijan
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Azerbaijan > Leading Firms Tier 2
The team at Deloitte & Touche LLC in Baku offers a range of legal services with a focus on corporate and M&A solutions, fielding expertise across commercial, banking, finance, IP, licensing, migration and employment law. It collaborates with colleagues both internationally and in its tax, consulting and financial advisory departments to support a range of clients including international businesses in the energy, finance, and retail sectors. Nuran Kerimov, managing partner, leads the team along with Amina Bakhshiyeva, who is particularly sought after for corporate reorganisation matters, and energy sector specialist Bahar Kavuzova.Practice head(s):
Nuran Kerimov; Amina Bakhshiyeva; Bahar Kavuzova
Key clients
Magro Holding
GL LTD
Veyseloglu Holding
Pasha Technology
Visa
Ritz Carlton Baku
Schlumberger
HELL Energy
Sumitomo
SOCAR Midstream Operations
Carlsberg
TechnipFMC
JOCAP
Colgate
Henkel
EXPRO
Hilton Hotel Baku
Marriott Hotel Baku
Weir
TAM International
Berlin-Chemie
KochSystem
SAP
Yapi Kredi Bank Azerbaijan OJSC
Kapital Bank
PASHA Bank
Bolt
Halliburton
Oceaneering
SOCAR Gas Operating Company
Subsea 7
Worley
Agility Subsea Fabrications
Airbus
Equinor
Nestle
Coca-cola
Unilever
SOCAR Midstream
BOS Shelf
British Council
Work highlights
- Provided legal assistance and represented BOS Shelf LLC in a dispute with a value of approximately USD 25m concerning a loan transaction.
- Conducted legal due diligence of the biggest oil transportation terminals in Azerbaijan targeted by the client SOCAR Midstream Operations.
- Conducted an internal compliance risk assessment for GL Limited and evaluated its compliance with local legislation and foreign regulations having extraterritorial reach.
Deloitte & Touche LLC > Firm Profile
Skilled and experienced Deloitte Legal* professionals work together with other Deloitte professionals in tax, consulting, risk- and financial advisory to guide their clients through a project in a coordinated way around the world. Deloitte Legal, present in over 84 countries, is able to provide holistic guidance around strategic business decisions as well as offer support services that can increase efficiency and reduce the cost of some routine legal activities. As part of the global Deloitte professional services network, Deloitte Legal helps you in delivering multinational legal solutions that are Consistent, Technology-enabled, Tailored, and Sensitized.
Deloitte Legal* offers competent yet pragmatic advice in many fields of national and international business law. Our professionals provide tailored solutions for demanding projects and complex domestic and international transactions. And we offer even more: Multidisciplinary advice incorporating tax, consulting, risk- and financial advisory.
Whether family-owned smaller and medium-sized companies, listed stock corporations or international groups of companies—with our service lines Commercial, Corporate/M&A, Employment Law & Benefits, and Legal Management Consulting, we cover those fields of business law that are important for our clients.
Collecting and combining multidisciplinary expertise in our industry groups Financial Services, Energy, Resources and Industrials, Consumer, TMT, and LSHC enables us to render interdisciplinary advice which anticipates industry- or sector-specific trends and developments. And thereby help our clients to face the challenges of an ever-changing regulatory and economic environment.
We understand legal advice not as an isolated component, but as a contribution to a comprehensive solution of the issues that our clients face. Working together with our Deloitte colleagues we can help our clients in taking informed decisions in the context of legal as well as other business considerations.
* “Deloitte Legal” means the legal practices of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited member firm affiliates that provide legal services. For legal and regulatory reasons, not all member firms provide legal services.
Interviews
Nuran Kerimov, Managing Partner
Nuran Kerimov, Managing partner of Law firm Deloitte&Touche LLC discusses how the firm is adapting to clients' changing needs.What do you see as the main points that differentiate deloitte azerbaijan’s legal practice from your competitors?
- We care as much about our clients’ long term success as we do for the short term outcome of a project.
- We speak the language of the boardroom, business language, not just legalese.
- What matters to us is to win great clients and to make an impact on their businesses.
- Our services are interdisciplinary, covering all business issues.
- We have wide-ranging and in-depth experience and understanding of sectors, industries and markets.
- We possess collective expertise available on a firm-wide basis.
Which practices in your member firm do you see growing in the next 12 months? What are the drivers behind that?
Our focus is to develop litigation and commercial law services. We also see financial law and corporate law services as a growth area for our firm, given increasing market demand for these services.
What is the main change you have made in your firm that will benefit clients?
We now offer litigation services in all fields of business law, and can assist our clients with tax and employment matters as well.
How is technology changing the way you interact with your clients and the services you can provide them?
We see a rising interest of clients in understanding and harnessing the power of state-of-the-art document analysis and document automation tools. While there is no “magic bullet”, significant efficiency gains can be achieved by carefully matching the strengths and weaknesses of the available tools with the concrete task that the client is facing.
Can you give us a practical example of how you helped a client add value to their business?
We helped a multinational oil company to restructure their business in Azerbaijan in order to comply with local content requirements, as well as optimise their tax, legal and customs obligations. The work included advising on cross-border re-structuring of the company head offices, merging with a local company; assisting with re-establishment in Azerbaijan and transferring employees, assets and liabilities. The business is currently functioning in a way that brings value to all shareholders, is fully compliant with local legislation, and is profitable for both local and foreign shareholders.
Are clients looking for stability and strategic direction from their law firms – where do you see the firm in three year’s time?
In three years’ time, we aspire to continue to be equally successful, become an ever greater law firm serving new clients, using a combination of innovative technology and high-end legal expertise to deliver services designed to achieve our clients’ business and legal objectives.
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