Grant Thornton Legal and Tax LLC > Yerevan, Armenia > Firm Profile
Grant Thornton Legal and Tax LLC Offices
VAZGEN SARGSYAN ST
10 BUILDING,1ST FLOOR, OFFICE 109 (IN 'PIAZZA GRANDE' BUILDING)
YEREVAN 0010
Armenia
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The firm: Grant Thornton Legal & Tax LLC (GTLT) is a multi-professional group of lawyers, tax and accounting advisors. The firm was founded by spinning off the legal and tax departments of Grant Thornton (GT) CJSC into a separate business entity. GT Armenia was founded in the early 1990s, organised by a common professional vision and especially focused on providing high-quality services to clients. For more than 20 years of dedication and commitment, its clients have enjoyed high professionalism, integrity and deep understanding of the requirements of their businesses. Through its membership in GT International, the firm has access to a network of member firms and GT International IBCs worldwide. The GT network greatly contributes to attracting multinational companies operating in several member-firm countries to getting the network standardised services. In addition to high professionalism, the firm’s specialists are renowned for their profound foreign languages proficiency which helps local clientele in foreign economic activity and co-operation with overseas companies. Moreover, the unchanged composition of the top managerial staff of the firm for many years helps to win the confidence of potential clients and keeps current clients and business partners. The firm greatly benefits from being involved for many years in preparing a Doing Business in Armenia guide with introduction of relevant Armenian laws and regulations for potential foreign investors. Selection of the firm by the World Bank in providing expertise in specific areas for its Doing Business publication also makes the firm stand out in the industry.
Areas of practice: The firm offers clients, including multinational, local and foreign companies, entities in the private and public sector as well as individuals, an extensive suite of legal services related to preparation of legal opinions based on thorough analysis of legislation regulating different areas of law. Clients enjoy the highest quality advisory services in corporate management, tax planning and corporate tax strategy development. In the regulatory field, the firm provides legal assistance in concluding various transactions, obtaining permits, licences required for implementation of customer activities, conducting comprehensive studies, reviews and due diligences aimed at legal evaluation of the client’s performance, identification of tax risks and liabilities, developing solutions for their elimination and/or abatement. The firm’s services help clients take full advantage of internationally accepted guidelines, thereby maximising benefits, capitalising on opportunities and gaining competitive advantages. The firm provides legal services for registration, reorganisation and liquidation of legal entities, as well as legal advisory services for drafting corporate management documents, shareholders agreements, founding documents, ADR and court representation, including trade marks, copyright and patents. Its highly qualified specialists are involved in realisation of initiatives directed at developing and drafting laws, other legal acts, rules and regulations, conducting comparative analysis of applicable legislative acts, partaking in working groups responsible for legislative reforms and legislative amendments. The firm’s experts provide strategic and advisory services to clients in developing a planned and structured approach to achieving their investment objectives. The service provided by the firm is built on the premise that the best advice should be provided by experts within local business environments and cultures.
Main Contacts
Department | Name | Telephone | |
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Administrative and public | Gayane Grigoryan | ||
Aviation | Karina Vardazaryan | ||
Banking and finance | Aram Poghosyan | ||
Capital markets | Marine Shahparonyan | ||
Commercial | Marine Shahparonyan | ||
Dispute resolution | Hakob Tadevosyan | ||
Employment | Marine Shahparonyan | ||
Energy and natural resources | Tatevik Harutyunyan | ||
Environment | Gayane Grigoryan | ||
Insolvency | Hakob Tadevosyan | ||
Intellectual property | Aram Poghosyan | ||
IT, telecoms and the internet | Marine Shahparonyan | ||
Legal market overview | Tatevik Harutyunyan | ||
Mergers and acquisitions | Gayane Grigoryan | ||
Pharmaceuticals, healthcare industries | Hakob Tadevosyan | ||
Private equity | Tatevik Harutyunyan | ||
Real estate and construction | Hakob Tadevosyan | ||
Taxation | Armen Galstyan |
Staff Figures
Number of lawyers : 20Languages
Armenian English French RussianMemberships
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Contacts : Hakob Tadevosyan (managing partner) Contacts : Aram Poghosyan (partner) Contacts : Armen Galstyan (partner) Contacts : Marine Shahparonyan (manager) Contacts : Tatevik Harutyunyan (manager)- Leading firms