Practice Areas
Practice Areas
We Serve The Best Service
MGB’s practice-specific experience, allows us to provide you with more tailored solutions for your most complex or strategic matters. The dedicated team is also focusing on best practices to drive service excellence and positive outcomes for clients’ businesses.
Antitrust, Competition & Procurement
A wide range of companies, sponsors, and foreign investors rely on the firm’s established antitrust practice for tailored competition law advice and guidance on complex procurement law matters, ensuring compliance.
Aviation
As a leading aviation practice in Azerbaijan, the firm provides expert advice on aviation contracts, aircraft financing, leasing agreements, and airline compliance, assisting leasing institutions and operators with leases.
Banking & Finance
MGB offers renowned finance expertise, advising international financial institutions on debt and equity financing, debt restructuring, secure repayment structures, and compliant banking, while guiding foreign institutions on marketing stocks, bonds, and derivatives.
Litigation, Disputes and Investigations
We help clients develop litigation strategies for disputes, supported by four Collegium of Advocates members, advising sectors like energy and finance, representing international clients in arbitration, and handling white-collar investigations.
Commercial Real Estate, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
We advise clients on the contentious and non-contentious aspects of property law, including title searches, drafting complex land leases and development arrangements, ensuring seamless property solutions for the clients’ business needs
Corporate and M&A
A wide range of foreign investors rely on our leading corporate law practice to make their chosen corporate structures, transactions and services work efficiently. The firm delivers timely and insightful advice and due diligence investigations on every aspect of complex domestic and cross border M&A, joint ventures and corporate restructurings.
Technology and Data Protection
Our clients rely on MGB to help them navigate the newly adopted complex laws that govern the use of data and technology. We offer practical and pragmatic solutions in compliance with the requirements of GDPR and data protection/data privacy laws.
Employment
Our team of specialist employment lawyers assists foreign clients on both contentious and non-contentious matters, including compliance with the Labor Code, termination, misconduct investigations, and complex disputes in local courts.
Environment
MGB advises on environmental health and safety regulations, including emissions, permitting, decommissioning, and pollution liabilities, particularly in Azerbaijan's oil, gas, and petrochemical sectors.
Fintech
The MGB team advises clients on fintech and financial services regulations, including licensing arrangements, providing in-depth knowledge of the regulatory framework to help financial sector clients make optimal business decisions.
Foreign Investment
Our team of experts helps clients navigate through Azerbaijani investment laws, including company establishment in free economic zones, across sectors like petrochemicals, production, property development and hospitality.
Intellectual Property & Franchising
MGB Law Offices is a trusted Intellectual property law firm in Azerbaijan, offering expert guidance on IP registration, enforcement of IP rights, licensing, and franchising contracts under Azerbaijani law.
Insolvency & Restructuring
MGB Law Offices provides trusted business restructuring legal services, offering comprehensive advice on insolvency and debt restructuring across Azerbaijan’s banking and non-banking sectors.
Pharmaceutics and Health Care
The Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Practice Group provides tailored advice on regulatory, sales, competition, and intellectual property matters, including licensing, approvals, trade regulations, and trademarks, backed by extensive industry expertise.
Public Private Partnership (PPP)
Our team provided an in-depth analysis of the project agreements and due diligence to the project company -Aqua Power, contributing to one of the nation’s most important infrastructure projects including Baku Desalination project, the first major PPP of its kind in Azerbaijan.
Taxation
With significant experience handling local tax authorities, the team provides targeted advice on tax compliance, and transfer pricing, and successfully represents clients in contentious tax matters, including negotiations with the Ministry of Taxes.
Energy
Our deep understanding of the regulatory landscape as well as the specific requirements to investment agreements, PPAs, land allocations for renewables projects, production sharing agreements for major oil and gas fields in Azerbaijan allows us to navigate complex legal challenges while driving the success of our clients.
Privatisation Law
Our privatisation law team guides foreign investors through state enterprise acquisitions, including high-profile cases like Azercell Telecom's acquisition.
Telecommunications
We offer comprehensive Legal services for telecom regulations, advising on licensing, network operations, and investment opportunities within Azerbaijan's telecommunications sector.