Development support - Import export

We provide our clients IP project support in various areas: protection, registration, transfer of IP, use of intellectual property rights, including copyrights, trade marks and inventions. We have vast experience of working with clients operating in innovative IT development areas. We understand all aspects of business protection in terms of commercial secrecy and the nuances of securing title to privately developed software. We also perform due diligence of IP, prepare a contractual framework of any complexity under Russian and foreign law (including franchising agreements, licence agreements and contracts with developers), provide support in negotiations and disputes, and advise on regulatory matters. Our ability to pool the best specialists from various practice areas on project teams provides our clients with integrated IP solutions under the laws of various jurisdictions, with optimal regulatory and tax arrangements and taking into account the specific nature of the given...

Our experts have considerable experience in legal, financial and tax structuring and integrated support for real estate projects and transactions of various complexity and in various business areas, including support for industrial construction, transactions with major agricultural assets and land, commercial and warehouse properties, Olympic infrastructure facilities, business and shopping centres. We support development projects at all their stages. Our team participates in implementing real estate projects in Russia and abroad, at all stages from an integrated due diligence of an asset to registration of rights. We advise clients on a wide range of real estate project issues, including tax and regulatory aspects, specifics of residential construction, various types of lease, specifics of and restrictions on land use; we perform specialised legal audits to identify and mitigate project risks. Our clients include commercial banks, developers, engineering and construction...

We advise clients on the full range of transactions and models for project commercialisation for companies operating in software development, electronics, IT services, state-of-the-artt technologies and innovative solutions. Our experience covers the most advanced areas in this area, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, neural networks, Internet of Things, Industrial Internet of Things, tele-healthcare services, cyber security, Bit Data, etc. A considerable share of our recent projects has been dedicated to legal support for IT developments, in which we represent the founders of digital companies, venture funds, investment banks, financial institutions, business angels, etc. In this sector, we structure and support transactions on a “turn-key� basis, on the part of both individual and joint investors and founders. We provide integrated solutions under Russian and foreign law in a wide range of jurisdictions.

Law firm AVELAN provides all-round legal support of investment (developing) projects and deals with real estate, including: •structuration and realization of transactions on sale of objects or financing attraction, including with participation of foreign investors and-or in foreign jurisdictions; •preparation and support of execution of contracts of rent and purchase and sale of object(premises); •resolution of disputes in judicial and extrajudicial usages; •legal protection of investments into objects, restoration of the lost property rights or removal of obstacles in realization of the rights to real estate objects; •legal assistance of reconstruction objects; •registration of rights to enterprise as a property complex.

One of the Westside law firm’s focus areas is providing legal advice to the clients carrying on business connected with construction, acquisition and lease of real estate items. Westside law firm provides legal support to construction and development companies on all stages of construction, legal support of transactions on acquisition of land plots and real estate items (including legal due diligence of an asset, its owners, structuring of the deal, determination and mitigation of associated risks). Westside lawyers successfully represent the clients’ interests in legal proceedings connected with disputes involving real estate, some of which are of precedential value for law enforcement. Additionally, Westside law firm has an experience in support of developers’ bankruptcy proceedings (having special status with regards to the bankruptcy legislation).