1. Sanctions compliance and verifications
- Identification of sanctioned persons (i.e., complete verification of the company’s corporate structure, including its final beneficiaries and subsidiaries);
- Performance of sanctions due diligence of current and potential counterparties, the assessing the compliance risks and ways of their minimization;
- Verification of the companies’ corporate and contractual structures regarding the compliance with the sanction laws of the countries with which the company is associated; formulation and drafting of (anti)sanctions clauses in contracts; advising on possible options for changing the corporate structure.
2. Business consulting
- Advising international and national companies in regard to sanctions and the consequences of their imposition;
- Communication with the official bodies and authorities competent to impose sanctions, including the issues of de-listing;
- Supporting the procedure for appealing decisions (resolutions) of the competent authorities on the imposition of sanctions in state courts;
- Conducting the training (workshops) for owners, CEO and other employees of companies on the peculiarities of sanctions regulation;
- Developing sanction’s policies, strategies, and recommendations for doing business when sanctions are imposed.
3. Reputation, defense against defamation
- Analyzing the status and conditions of the mass media information and assess the reputational risks of the company (person) that may affect the process of the sanctions’ imposition;
- Representing the interests and assisting in refuting (appealing) the false information in media (exercising the right of reply and others) in foreign and Belarusian mass media sources.
Experts in the field
Projects
Recognition and Enforcement of a Foreign Court Judgment for a Leading Uzbek Bank
REVERA successfully secured the recognition and enforcement of the foreign court judgment in Belarus. The client’s rights were effectively protected, and cross-border risks were minimised.
International Construction Arbitration: Protecting the Client’s Interests in an Amount Exceeding EUR 30 Million
REVERA provided comprehensive legal support to a major company implementing turnkey projects in the mining and metallurgical as well as mining industries in the CIS and beyond, within the framework of a dispute before the International Arbitration Court at the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IAC at the BCCI) against a major customer, a resident of Uzbekistan.
A project with an implementation value exceeding EUR 300 million became the subject of a dispute in an amount exceeding EUR 30 million. The case was considered under Uzbek law, while the seat of arbitration was Minsk, which immediately created a number of cross-border and conflict-of-laws challenges.
REVERA law group case: protecting copyright against bad-faith trade mark registration
REVERA law group lawyers represented the interests of the client — a resident of the Republic of Belarus engaged in the sale of large and small-sized electric transport. The copyright protection dispute was considered by the Appeal Board of the National Centre of Intellectual Property (NCIP) within the procedure for challenging the legal protection of a trade mark out of court.
Publications
Expansion of EU restrictive measures against the Republic of Belarus – 20th sanctions package
articles
Recognition and Enforcement of a Foreign Court Judgment for a Leading Uzbek Bank
news
Belarus Ratifies the CIS Agreement on Information Exchange Between Enforcement Authorities: New Opportunities for Debt Recovery
news
International Construction Arbitration: Protecting the Client’s Interests in an Amount Exceeding EUR 30 Million
news
How to protect copyright if a competitor registers your work as a trade mark
news
New EU Sanctions Against Belarus: Key Points to Consider
