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PRACTICES

 

The current professional team of DAG Legal Consulting includes attorneys who practice in various specialties:

  • Corporate Law
  • Project Finance
  • Litigation
  • Insurance
  • Real Estate
  • Tax
  • Intellectual property
  • Securities
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Bankruptcy
  • Energy
  • Banking & Finance

Corporate law

At DAG Legal Consulting lawyers provide a broad range of corporate and business services to publicly held corporations and private businesses. In many cases, we serve as general counsel for corporations and represent them in all aspects of their corporate life - from the original establishment of the enterprise through all aspects of its evolution and operation. Our corporate practice is broad and often intersects with closely related practices - particularly tax, corporate transactions, and securities.

We are involved in all aspects of corporate governance, including director and officer liability. We represent corporations in structuring their initial capitalization and in ongoing corporate financing transactions utilizing a wide range of public and private debt and equity instruments.

We Offer  to be active in domestic and cross-border corporate transactions - major mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures, as well as equity investments and change of control transactions. We also counsel businesses in connection with their ongoing contractual relationships with domestic and international customers, suppliers, and distributors.

Project Finance

DAG Legal Consulting project development and finance practice offers extensive experience with transactions spanning the energy and infrastructure spectrum.  Our lawyers provide assistance on the development and financing of projects in a variety of industry sectors.

EXPERIENCE

DAG Legal Consulting lawyers are highly experienced in structuring and negotiating the full range of documentation required for developing and financing  and other various type of projects, including joint venture and development documentation, construction and turbine supply agreements, operating contracts, fuel supply agreements, off take contracts, purchase agreements.

DAG Legal Consulting has a clear strategic understanding of where the projects business is going and has assembled a project development and finance team that offers clients competent assistance in implementing their business plans.  Our goal is to build long-term relationships that add substantive value.

Litigation

Traditional lawyers' role includes assistance in resolution of all kinds of disputes, both in pre-trial and all levels of court proceedings: first instance, appellate and cassation. Practice includes negotiation and drafting of settlements, drafting of claims, statements, requests, submissions and all kinds of other procedural documents, representing clients in court proceedings and throughout the process of enforcement of judgments and arbitral awards.

DAG Legal Consulting team of trial lawyers has been involved in high profile litigation. We have shown the ability to manage issues on a national and international scale.

Our willingness to try cases, our experience in the courtroom, and the resources we bring to bear make us a powerful national force in litigation.

DAG Legal Consulting competition practice combines government and private litigation experience to address the full range of client needs.

Insurance

Managing risk has never been more critical. Regulators across the world are becoming more proactive and interventionist. Consolidation among insurers has imposed new competitive pressures. Carriers are driven to distinguish themselves through service, price and other factors. And acquisitions carry their own risks. 

Underwriting profit is a major concern, as is security, with companies seeking to limit their exposure from underperforming assets or partners. Companies now must manage a complex patchwork of coverage from a variety of different carriers. And the decisions on the level and kind of risks to be retained are becoming increasingly difficult.

At DAG Legal Consulting, we provide advice to a wide range of clients from individuals and small businesses to brokers, corporate and financial institutions. Our experience includes life and general, credit and liability insurance. We provide corporate advice on insurance policies to policy holders, as well as assisting insurers with the development and drafting of new insurance products. Our specialists are involved in litigation for the assured and their underwriters.


We Offer

  • Establishment and registration of insurance companies;
  • Protection of insurance companies' interests: preparation of general and specific conditions, offers, policies, tariffs, instructions, the terms of insurance products and other documents in reference to the conduction of different kinds of insurance products;
  • Preparation of specific insurance products; preparation of insurance and reinsurance contracts;
  • Realization of regressive and direct liabilities against third parties.
  • Consulting company departments on various legal issues
  • Preparing reports about amendments in legislation
  • Revising company registration documentation and registering changes
  • Preparing and revising the tender documentations
  • Representing company in different institutions, preparing official letters
  • Conducting the regular juridical audit of company documentation
  • Managing Problem Claims

 

Real estate

DAG Legal Consulting helps real estate participants carry out successful strategies in all of these areas:

  • Acquisition and disposals
  • Joint ventures
  • Portfolio sales and securitization
  • Real estate investment funds
  • Complex financings
  • Sale and leasebacks
  • Developments
  • Construction projects
  • Leases and real estate management
  • Tax mitigation solutions


Tax

At DAG Legal Consulting, our tax services encompass advising clients on various tax matters such as direct and indirect taxation of business, individual income taxation,  double taxation avoidance agreements. We have extensive expertise in advising on tax aspects of complex corporate, M&A, and real estate transactions, employee benefit schemes, share options..

We Offer

  • We provide tax planning for companies, including tax optimization.
  • We provide tax planning for mergers and acquisitionsas well as pre-spin-off and post-acquisition restructuring.
  • Transfer pricing planning, documentation and advance pricing agreements, including economic analysis and financial modeling.
  • We successfully resolve tax disputes with revenue authorities by strategically employing a wide variety of administrative dispute resolution techniques and, when necessary, by aggressively advocating our client's position in litigation in the appropriate court.
  • We provide advice on fringe benefits taxes, retirement plan taxes
  • We provide customs advice and planning with respect to valuation and classification of products, compliance, origin regulations, export controls and licensing. We also represent clients in tax and civil litigation regarding customs matters.
  • Our advice is directed toward minimizing risks of property ownership by maximizing options for holding property, either as a corporation or other entity for tax planning.

 

Intellectual property

Our lawyers advise on all aspects of the exploitation and use of intellectual property rights and the acquisition and use of information technology products and services. We are experienced in providing commercial legal advice and corporate finance services geared to our technology rich clients.

We offer particular expertise in relation to acquisition of rights, transactions involving licensing and the transfer of technology, technology joint ventures, research and development, supply and distribution agreements, and dispute resolution.

We advise both established and developing businesses and have been involved in a number of mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and public offerings in this field, as well as competition law issues which may arise. We also advise clients on legal issues connected with introducing products to the market such as branding, product information leaflets and advertising.

Securities

At DAG Legal Consulting we are rendering legal assistance to our clients in transactions realized with various financial instruments, including issue of debt instruments, issue of derivative instruments, preparing and registration of bid prospects, preparing of various contracts. We have accumulated practical experience in representing our clients in the court for protecting the rights and interests of companies.

The attorneys of our Office possess invaluable knowledge and experience in issues related to loans and leasing deals, securities related to them, as well as in other issues pertaining to warranties and other credit security instruments, and in resolving judicial cases.

Mergers & Acquisitions

The challenge of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and strategic alliances is to ensure that the projected value in the deal is realized.

At DAG Legal Consulting, our services cover the entire spectrum of corporate transactions, including public and private takeovers, management buyouts, leveraged buyouts, and asset deals, where we represent bidders, targets, financial advisers, merchant bankers, and other parties. We represent clients in all M&A stages - from due diligence investigation and negotiation of transaction documents to advising on legal aspects of post-acquisition integration process.

With highly regarded expertise in legal and regulatory issues, our team has established a proven track record in managing mergers and acquisitions, including working with industry experts, financial advisers, and overseas parties.

We Offer our M & A team, which provides experience and advice in areas such as:

  • directors duties advice
  • due diligence investigations
  • employment law issues
  • legal aspects of equity fundraising
  • merger control issues
  • purchases and sales of companies and businesses
  • regulatory compliance of securities offerings and takeovers
  • resource management and environmental considerations
  • restructurings
  • share capital maintenance
  • management buyouts

Bankruptcy

When it comes to a financial crisis and default, you need to act quickly and decisively to preserve value, buy time, achieve stability, seek relief and avoid the effects of insolvency. With bankruptcy looming, you must protect your interests and salvage as much as you can. And where the operating and financial issues cross international borders, the challenge is to develop and execute a coordinated, effective strategy under pressure.

At DAG Legal Consulting, we understand that in every financial crisis there are windows of opportunity, moments when businesses still can be rescued, rehabilitated or reorganized and when it is possible to stop the erosion of value. And we have the necessary range of legal and business skills - and experience in putting them to work quickly and in a coordinated manner - to help you seize these opportunities.

How We Can Help

  • Risk analysis
  • Creditors'/debtors' rights
  • Workout, turnaround and renewal
  • Distressed debt
  • Dispute resolution
  • Formal bankruptcy/insolvency
  • Tax - In conjunction with our tax lawyers, we develop structures and provide bankruptcy tax advice for those concerned with troubled companies

Energy

An important element required of legal advisers in this sector is a strong knowledge of emerging and transition markets. At DAG Legal Consulting we have law practices in the energy and utilities sector. Our lawyers have been involved in the huge energy and utilities projects such as: Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline (BTC), South-Caucasian Pipeline (SCP), Baku-Tbilisi- Supsa Oil Pipeline.

 We advise on the following areas: Energy and utilities finance, Energy and utilities M&A, Entrails, Oil and Gas exploration, extracting, exploitation, processing and sales, Obtainment of governmental licenses and concessions and other various matters connected to this segment. 
    

Banking & Finance

In the field of Banking and Exchange Law you can rely on the following professional services of our experts:

At DAG Legal Consulting, we are able to advise lenders, borrowers, sponsors, fund managers and investors in the areas of leveraged finance, acquisition and property finance, capital markets, corporate lending and leasing, restructurings and rescues. In the sphere of banking our work includes consulting on banking laws and regulations, representation at regulatory authorities, advising on and documenting loan and other banking transactions.