Expert SM renders legal services both to the local and foreign organizations and  enterprises since 2002.

We render professional legal services for legal entities, based on an extensive legal practice, providing full confidentiality of contractual relations with the client.
Services brought to your attention promote creation of conditions for protection of business of our clients and its effective development.

The commercial law

• The Analysis and inventory accounting of debtor and creditor debts. Claiming problem debtor debts (return of debts), management of promissory notes.
• Settlement of disputes pertaining to the conclusion, execution, changes and cancellation of contracts.
• Protection of the rights of the proprietor against wrongful actions of the third parties, which violate the rights and interests of the proprietor. Registration of the right.
• Legal examination and business-projects support.
• Protection of the proprietory and personal non-proprietory rights of the client, business reputation.

The corporate law

• Registration, and also absorption, merges, allocation, division, liquidation of all forms of legal persons and legal consulting of the future activity. Modification in constituent documents, reorganization of the enterprise.
• Development of constituent and internal corporate documents.
• Protection of your business against hostile absorption with use of offshore trusts, funds, maintenance of the maximal confidentiality of the information on proprietors of the company.
• Legal support on alienation/purchase of shares.
• Settlement of disputes between the proprietor and the manager.
• The Explanation of the rights to shareholders on management of a society.

The tax law

• Legal examination of actions and executed decisions of tax bodies.
• Representation of interests of the organization at carrying out of tax checks, preparation of objections on acts of tax check and the appeal of decisions on attraction of the tax bearer to the responsibility.
• Settlement of tax disputes in/out of the judicial order.
• The Sanction of tax disputes in courts (a recognition of non-normative tax bodies-void, return of unduly paid/claimed sums of taxes and tax collections).
• Return of unduly paid/claimed taxes and tax collections. Return of the export VAT.

The conventional law

• Settlement of disputes pertaining to the conclusion, execution, changes and cancellation of contracts.
• The Legal analysis of plans, operations, transactions with a view of their check and the further optimization; recommendations on legal questions on expediency of change of separate conditions of contracts, on undesirability of some transactions in a kind of uncertainty of their tax consequences.

Economic disputes, representation in courts

• ·        Representation of interests of the organizations in courts, appeal courts and cassation instance.
• Protection of the rights and interests of the client on criminal and administrative affairs in the sphere of economic activities.
• Protection of the rights and interests of the client in criminal cases.
• Representation of interests of the client in relation with supervising bodies (DIA, Office of Public Prosecutor, tax).

Expert SM renders services of user's service of the enterprises, including decision of all legal questions arising out of activity of the client.

To subscribers of Expert SM are rendered following services:

• Legal support for activitities of the local and foreign companies in any sphere of business.
• Consultations on reciprocal relations with public sector, settlement of disputes.
• Representation of interests of the client in relation with supervising bodies (DIA, Office of Public Prosecutor, tax).
• Reception of necessary licenses and sanctions.
• Checking the conformity of given documents with the requirements of the legislation.
• Settlement of disputes concerning the conclusion, execution, changes and cancellation of contracts.

Expert SM offers you services of the family lawyer which include:

• Consultations by the family right.
• Consultations on supervision of real and personal estate.
• Notary public services.
• Questions connected with administrative law (mutual relations with car inspection, executive and local authorities, etc.).

Expert SM Legal Service provides legal services for 7 years already. Our specialists are ready to render consulting services in all the matters in connection to licenses and permissions obtaining and will assist in obtaining of the following types of licenses necessary for commence and continuation of business activity on the market:

• Licensing of professional participant of the security market
• 2 Licensing of asset management company (Mutual Investment Funds)
• Construction license for the following types of activity:
• Medical license
• Pharmaceutical license
• Tourism license
• License of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Azerbaijan
• Alcohol trading license (wholesale and retail)
• Educational license
• License for hazardous wastes handlingOur specialists are also ready to assist in obtaining of diplomas, certifications, verifications.

Legal support of business. Subscription legal service

Subscription legal service is a highly skilled complex support of activity of the company on all legal problems arising in the course of economic activities.Among advantages of regular legal support provided by our company the following are distinguished:

• Efficiency of the decision of any legal problem.
• Cost of one business hour of the lawyer is reduced in 1,5—3 times (depending on the amount of solved problems).
• You will not need to conclude a special contract for each type of service. You can safely plan the budget since you know the sum of a monthly subscription payment.
• Staff costs without a damage to its functionality (taxes, wages, holidays, benefits, sick-lists, normative bases, training, premises, business equipment, office, and etc.) are minimized.
• Possibilities and experience of the lawyers who are carrying out the subscription legal service, in most cases exceed possibilities and experience of employees of legal department of the organization. Five departments of various specialization function in our organization, each of those will be involved in work with your company if necessary. It becomes immediately and does not influence on the service price.

Associated with subscription legal service our company is guided by the following rules and principles:

• We book preliminary legal audit before the cooperation begins.
• We guarantee complete confidentiality.
• The clients under subscription legal service in our company are of first-priority comparing to other clients.
• Subscription legal service is carried out with the assistance of the corporation council of experts which members are recognized experts in various fields of knowledge and scientists from around the world.
• We conclude the contract on subscription legal service for a minimum three months.
• For the subscriber companies of our corporation there is a 25 % discount for all legal services which are not included into the confirmed tariff plan.
• The main mission of our company is to afford to the client an opportunity to develop and increase the business under a reliable legal protection, not distracting for decision of conflict situations. We believe that a qualified lawyer should do his best not to bring the case to the court.
• We insure responsibility when working with medium and big business.

Legal service of organizations includes rendering of the following legal services:

• Monitoring of legislation on main activity of the company-user.
• Legal consultations on business law, labour law, information on current legislation of the Azerbaijan Republic.
• Consultations concerning the tax law, optimization of taxation.
• Check and legal analysis of all legal documentation of firm, including constituent documents, contracts, and etc.
• Introduction of legal document circulation; determination of criteria for the documents for visa by the lawyer.
• Working out of registers of shareholders and consultation on keeping the registers of shareholders by issuers.
• Check of the counterpart in Uniform state register of legal entities and Uniform state registration chamber.
• Legal support of transactions.
• Setting up of accounts in foreign banks.
• Legal support of bankruptcy procedures
• Representation of interests of firm in administrative bodies and in negotiations with partners and clients of the company.
• Drawing up of legal documents (economic and labour contracts, claims, answers to claims, remedial documents, and etc.) in Azerbaijan, Russian and English language if necessary.
• Pre-judicial and extrajudicial settlement of economic and labour disputes by negotiations and other lawful ways.
• Representation of interests of the company in courts.

Our specialists are ready to render highly professional assistance in all the spheres  of  labor law, including:

• consulting on employment permits to foreign citizens on the basis of labor law/civil
• law contracts and agreements of personnel provision
• consulting services with regard to requirements of territorial migration authorities to companies employing foreign citizens
• other necessary assistance in obtaining employment permit for the client and
• work permits for the clients, foreign employers

1. Consulting on establishing any legal forms of juridical persons;
2. Assistance in choosing a type of the company you might want to establish with the focus on the specifics of the sector and nature of relationship between contributing participants;
3. Assistance in preparation and correct handling of internal documentation;
4. Analysis of different documents on their relevance to the existing legislation;
5. Drafting of standard documentation;
6. Drafting of different types of contracts;
7. Preparation of the employee instructions;
8. Drafting of the labor contracts;
9. Assistance in preparation of claims and statements;
10. Analysis of presented documentation with verbal conclusion;
11. Legal examination (research) of the full-text documents with the report in writing on findings of the examination;
12. Verbal consultations on the matters of law;
13. Consultations on the matters of law in writing;
14. Business consulting.

Main fields and special disciplines of law we consult on:

1. Civil and commercial law:
   1. Property relations:
      1. Liability law (all kinds of contracts and transactions)
      2. Law of estate (property rights, operational management rights etc.)
      3. Torts (liability deriving from a tort)
   2. Non-property relations
   3. Intellectual property
2. Labor law
3. State and municipal law
4. Financial, budgetary, and fiscal law
5. Civil procedure law
6. International private law
7. Information law
8. Other fields and special disciplines of law

WORKS (SERVICES) AT THE STAGE OF CONTRACT CONCLUSION

1. Participation in negotiations regarding the issues of conclusion of contracts, with tracking of legal purity of the bargain.
2. Making contract drafts:
   • the subject of which is assessable;
   • the subject of which is not assessable.
3. Legal expert examination of contract draft with issue of written opinion.
4. Participation in settlement of pre-contract disputes.

WORKS (SERVICES) AT THE STAGE OF CONTRACT AMENDMENT, DISSOLUTION AND EXECUTION

1. Participation in negotiations regarding contract amendment and dissolution.
2. Making drafts of amendments and additional agreements to the original contract.
3. Application of grounds of complete or partial discharge of contract.
4. Juridical analysis of legal reality of execution of obligations under the concluded contract with issue of written opinion (in the absence of legal dispute).
   • for contracts of property nature;
   • for contracts of non-property nature.
5. Juridical analysis of legal grounds for default under the concluded contract with issue of written opinion (in the absence of legal dispute).
   • for contracts of property nature;
   • for contracts of non-property nature.
6. Legal support of commercial contract from the moment of its conclusion (including participation in drafting) to the moment of execution or dissolution thereof.
7. Writing of business letters.