Facts

 

• Businessconsult is the first private law firm established in Belarus;

 

• Among our clients are well-known national and international companies, as well as the developing ones;

 

• The leading position of the company and its partners on the Belarusian legal market is recognized by the number of international publications and ratings, such as CHAMBERS GLOBAL: THE WORLD’S LEADING LAWYERS; THE LEGAL 500 EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA, The International Who's Who Legal; International Financial Law Review’s Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law firms (ILFR) and others;

 

• Among our achievements – thousands of successfully settled disputes at the economic courts and commercial arbitrations, hundreds of successful investments projects implemented in the Republic of Belarus, including the largest ones;

 

• Businessconsult has offices in Minsk, Moscow and Kiev;

 

• Businessconsult closely cooperates with Magnusson law firm, which has its offices in Sweden, Denmark, Poland and Russia;

 

• Businessconsult is honored to be a consultant for such well-known legal firms as Baker & McKenzie, Clifford Chance, Debevoise& Plimpton,  DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, Ernst & Young, Grant Thornton Trid, Mannheimer Swartling, Norton Rose, PricewaterhouseCoopers, White & Case, as well as the Executive Committee of the Russia-Belarus Union, The Economic Court of CIS and the Representative Office of the German Economy in the Republic of Belarus;

 

• Our lawyers have hundred of publications, among which monographs, research and practice comments and interpretations to the legislative acts of the Republic of Belarus, study books and guides, series of articles in specialized legal publications;

 

•  It is our common practice to prepare legal opinions upon the requests of the state authorities and other establishments, as well as on the developing (discussing) legislative bills;

 

•  Based on the inquiries of international intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations (UN representative office in the Republic of Belarus, World bank, etc), state bodies of the Republic of Belarus (National assembly, President's Administration, Supreme Economic Court, National bank, Ministry of Justice, etc.) Businessconsult more than once has prepared legal opinions concerning new bills of legislative acts, as well as analytical reviews on different issues of practical implementation of legislation, regulating business and legal proceedings in the Republic of Belarus;

 

•  More than 1500 hours per year our lawyers spent on teaching students and listeners at the Law Faculty of the Belarusian State University and Institute of retraining and qualification improvement for judges, employees of the prosecution offices, courts and justice establishments;

 

•  Partner Timour Sysouev is coaching the moot-court team of the Belarusian State University Law Faculty, which on the permanent basis participates in Willem C. Vis Commercial Arbitration Moot competition in Austria, involving the participation of the law students from all over the world;

 

•  We are actively taking part in public activities, conducting and participating in variety of seminars, conferences and round tables, which provides us with additional possibilities during our practice;

 

• Our managing partner is the chairman of the Lawyers-entrepreneurs Council of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus, member of the central Council of the Lawyers Association of the Republic of Belarus, arbiter of the International Arbitration Court of Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, General Counselor of the Economic Court of CIS.       

 

•  Businessconsult partners, Igor Verkhovodko and Timour Sysouev, are professors at Belarusian State University Law Faculty, teaching civil, commercial and arbitration procedures, arbiters of the International Arbitration Court of Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Vilnius International and National Commercial Arbitration.