Corporate Practices

East-West Law Group offers to Russian and foreign companies a package of legal services in the sphere of corporate and commercial law applicable to every stage of a company's life cycle. All these services might be classified to the following categories:

I. Business start-up

• state registration as a legal entity, registration of amendments in constituent documents
• joint-venture registration, as well as registration of offshore and affiliated companies, strategic alliances, reorganization and optimization of holding company's structure
• license application and acquisition, state registration
• full set of services regarding calling and holding of a shareholders meeting, adjustment of the amount of charter capital, issue of capital stock, corporate governance and directors' liability
• contractual settlement of partnership

II. Legal support

• foreign investment counseling: foreign direct investment structuring
• securities transaction support, legal support for share and bond issue, legal support for projects on public or private company share acquisition from minority shareholders for various funds, and acquisition of venture capital from the funds in order to strengthen private capital's position in a company
• transaction structuring and full every stage legal support for transactions
• regulatory issue counseling, foreign exchange regulation counseling, fiscal legislation counseling
• antitrust and bank regulation counseling
• labor legislation counseling
• legal analysis or due diligence

III.      Corporate restructuring or liquidation

• Legal support for reorganization proceedings (company merger. takeover. demerger. spin-off. Reformation)
• Legal support for bankruptcy and liquidation proceedings
• representation of the interests of creditors and debitors in liquidation and bankruptcy proceedings

Construction

East-West Law Group provides legal support for the construction of office, retail, residential, storage and industrial real estate and infrastructure, assists companies with legal and financing structuring of real estate transactions and, if required, with deciding the difference.         More specifically, we offer the following services in real estate sector:

• structuring and administration of greenfiled and brownfield projects
• structuring and administration of investor's participation in greenfiled projects
• legal support for negotiations, investment and participatory share construction agreements drafting
• contract documents preparation, including building contract drafting
• dispute settlement
• structuring and due diligence of real estate transactions
• land plot reclassification and state registration of such alterations
• fiscal structuring of real estate transactions
• real property purchase and sale, registration of title to real property
• environmental legislation counseling, as well as submitting for approval by regulatory agencies