Mr Vugar Mammadov > VLM and Partners > Baku, Azerbaijan > Lawyer Profile
VLM and Partners Offices
Hyatt International Center
Hyatt Tower 2, 6th Floor
8 Izmir Street
AZ 1065
Azerbaijan
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Mr Vugar Mammadov
Work Department
Legal
Position
Managing Partner
Career
With over twenty years of experience in sectors as diverse as energy, finance, banking, consumer markets, and retail & manufacturing, Vugar brings insight and know-how to major local and international clients. He gained extensive experience in tax and legal practices at PwC Azerbaijan. Later, he was invited to set up and head the Legal Practice at Deloitte Azerbaijan for many years.
Vugar has been an arbitrator of the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA) since 2022.
Vugar advises on complex business and trade transactions, mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations and consolidations, and project finance and applies his legal, tax, and business expertise to transactional documentation and negotiations, legal due diligence, and financial considerations of clients’ deals.
He acted as a legal expert in various foreign courts and arbitrations in Switzerland and the UK, as well as at the NCA (National Crime Agency), UK. Furthermore, he brought his valuable legal expertise into overseas projects of international organizations such as the Asian Development Bank.
Vugar has extensive involvement in PPP (public-private partnership) projects as well as in all matters relating to their registration and operational matters, issuance of legal opinions, corporate investigations, etc. Additionally, he supports clients in investment protection, private international law, and other areas.
Languages
English, Turkish, Azerbaijani
Memberships
IFLR1000
Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA)
The Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN)
Education
Erasmus University Rotterdam – LL.M, International Business and Trade Law;
Qafqaz University – Bachelor of Laws
Lawyer Rankings
Azerbaijan > Leading Firms
Vugar Mammadov leads the team at VLM and Partners
, experienced in supporting financial services clients alongside work in the energy, consumer markets, and retail and manufacturing industries. The team’s expertise spans business and trade transactions, mergers and acquisitions, reorganisations, and consolidations – it conducts both domestic and cross-border work. Ismayil Aliyev‘s work focuses on international companies establishing their businesses in Azerbaijan; Vusala Babayeva-Nazirli has provided Azerbaijani legal expertise before the UK courts.