Foreign investment & investment structuring
A foreign investor's first decisions in Azerbaijan — how to hold the business, where to hold it from, and what protection comes with that choice — are the hardest to undo later. We help investors make them with the corporate, tax, currency and treaty consequences in view at once.
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How we work
The vehicle, the route in and the protection that comes with it.
We advise on the vehicle and the route in: a local company, a branch, a joint venture with an Azerbaijani partner, or a holding company in a treaty jurisdiction. Each carries different tax, reporting and exit consequences, and the right one depends on how the investor expects to earn its return and bring it home.
Our legal and tax lawyers work on the same structure at the same time, so the one that looks best on paper is also the one that survives registration, the bank's compliance review and the tax authority.
What we do
Our services include:
- Providing comprehensive guidance for foreign and local investors on Azerbaijani investment protection laws
- Choosing the investment vehicle: subsidiary, branch, representative office or joint venture
- Holding structures and the choice of jurisdiction, with their tax treaty consequences
- Registrations, licences and approvals needed to begin operating
- Currency regulation, profit repatriation and shareholder loans
- Investment agreements with state bodies
- Exit planning: share sales, reorganization and liquidation
News and insight
VLM Times
The amendments, decrees and court decisions that change what a business operating in Azerbaijan has to do next.
Contact
Tell us what you are trying to do in Azerbaijan
Marine Plaza, 3rd floor, Uzeyir Hajibeyli 62, AZ 1010, Baku. A partner replies within one business day.
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