Our country has positioned itself today as one of the best investment options all over the world. Cheap labor provided at high quality standards, high quality services to exporting companies, Armenian raw materials at competitive prices, and numerous tools and benefits that our fiscal and trade regulations provide us, is what makes foreign and national investors choose Armenian as the ideal export platform, and giving their business success.

Under these circumstances, it will be essential for the investor to count with the perfect team of advisors who can lead him and enable him to fully exploit its business through the maze of opportunities and benefits that administrative regulations offer constantly in general. Our firm has develop a team of experts on the corporate and general investment arena, which has followed the road on many occasions and constantly strives itself for keeping up to date, on its knowledge. We push ourselves to the limit in finding better options and alternatives that will lead companies to avoid loss and instead, generate profit.

Our multi-disciplinary practice will guarantee our clients proper assistance and advise always considering the vast array of services below mentioned, as well as all others that well fit within other areas develop by the firm.

Our activities within our corporate department include the following:

• Incorporation and structuring of limited liability companies, cooperative companies, associations and joint venture companies;
• Merger and acquisition projects, including preparation and drafting of formal written agreements;
• Company liquidation projects, considering tax planning issues, assistance throughout liquidation process and asset sell and allocation;
• Creation and development of complex joint venture projects;
• Assistance in the execution and maintenance of corporate legal records: shareholders meetings (approval of director's reports, modification of corporate purpose, etc.) and board of directors meetings;
• Assistance in preparation and safe keeping of stock certificates and transfer book;
• Representation of individuals and companies in the preparation and execution of corporate capital stock, bonds, and general corporate assets buy and sell;
• Assistance in procuring government authorizations and permits for developing production and manufacture plants for the export of goods and services;
• Assistance with proper filing and obtaining business and commercial license from local authorities;
• Assistance and advise with interpretation proper compliance of import and export regulations;
• Assistance on customs' administrative procedures and resolutions derived from misclassification and omitted tax and customs duties from the import of goods;
• Advise on investment projects to foreign and national companies and individuals who which to develop business in Armenia through subsidiaries, directly, or newly investment;
• Assistance in the preparation of documents and obtaining authorizations from Local Authorizes, to allow foreign companies to operate in Armenia and foreign capital to be part of Armenian enterprises, including foreign investment in activities strictly controlled by government or reserved to Armenian individuals;
• Assistance in the preparation of documents and obtaining work permits and non-immigrant visas for foreign employees and investors (tourist, visitor, director, student, professional), including temporary entry permit for business people;

BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS

We have develop and implemented with some of our foreign clients, new methods to secure their commercial transactions with Armenia companies and guarantee them of security on those legal and financial affairs. Our advise has consider at all times, internationally recognized principals derived from INCOTERMS, perfectly known to exporting companies who generally do business over seas, international principals with proper binding effects in Armenia. Under all circumstances, we strive ourselves to provide an advantage on our clients situation in the debtor-creditor relationship in case of any future conflict.

Among other services that we have been providing to our clients on the business arena, we should also mention the following:

• Domestic and international sale and distribution of goods contracts;
• Creation of methods for implementing and establishing credit, and financing national or international sale of goods;
• Assistance for the development of letters of credit on commercial transactions through the use of general bills of lading, invoices, charter party, packing lists, origin certificates, insurance policies, etc.;
• Structuring of trust projects for the development of strategic activities or reserved to Armenian nationals;
• Assistance and advise in structuring franchising, trademark, patent and know-how agreements;
• Assistance and advise in the preparation of contracts and implementing methods to secure services related to merchandise transportation;
• Assistance in the preparation of contracts for the hiring of commission based sales representatives, consignment agreements and agency agreements;
• Assistance and advise in the preparation of collateral agreements, pledges of stock and guaranty trusts;
• Assistance and advise in the preparation of adherence contracts (contract accepted by one party without negotiation);

REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT

Our skills and experience, has allowed us to identify and foresee common problems on investments, real estate development. That is why, our assistance and advise on real estate projects and investments in general, come to be consider as more than complemented, therefore, being able to provide a needed preventive counseling.

On this regard, assistance and advise has been provided with great success, helping companies and individuals develop medium scale shopping centers throughout all needed construction and land use permits. The services that we have offered and keep providing are the following:

• Property title and history of ownership investigation, including public records from private owners;
• Assistance in the negotiation and drafting of sale and lease agreements, including property destined for commercial, industrial and residential use.
• Guidance and assistance on real estate trusts for the acquisition of property on restricted zones;
• Assistance with document preparation and structuring construction projects and permits, including industrial, commercial, tourism and residential developments;
• Assistance with planning and structuring land modification projects, including subdivisions, zoning, variances and land use permits;
• Real estate investment projects;
• Assistance and advise on civil related contracts and agreements: mortgages, hiring of professional services, credit between private parties, debt acknowledgement and transfer, donation, sale, etc.;