Corporate disputes
Our team practice shows that corporate conflicts occur quite often and with owners of all types, regardless of who participates in their business – relatives, friends or other common interest partners.
Consequences of corporate conflicts are almost always wrecking for business, unless you timely take advisable preventive measures.
If you face a corporate conflict, REVERA’s team of lawyers will help your business to settle the conflict in a most efficient way. We render legal assistance in the following matters:
- contesting decisions of corporate management bodies;
- invalidation of major transactions and affiliated parties transactions;
- non-performance or invalidity of transactions between shareholders involving purchase of shares/stocks;
- unlawful re-allocation of participatory/equity shares;
- amendment (registration of amendment) of the articles of association involving inaccurate information;
- expulsion or desired expulsion of a shareholder;
- failure to furnish information on corporate activities;
- failure to pay profit/dividend;
- any other infringement on shareholder’s rights.
With regard to corporate disputes, REVERA’s lawyers offer the following multi-stage procedure:
- Introductory advising. Assistance in gathering required information (obtaining extracts on company registration, history of shareholders/CEOs, present ratios of shares; on titleholders of particular real estate units; obtaining information from state authorities, legal/natural persons by way of lawyer’s letters of enquiry; preparing shareholder’s request to furnish information on corporate activities; personal attendance to inspect information on corporate activities; where required, discovery of company documents/information through judicial procedures, etc.); assistance in formalising, certifying, translating powers of attorney, etc.
- Defining action tactics and strategies with regard to a corporate conflict, further to the analysis of collected information.
- Assistance in settling corporate conflicts through the pre–trial process; conducting negotiations between participants; formalisation of engagements.
- Preparing, in accordance with chosen action strategy, any legal documents for the purposes of corporate procedures; holding meetings of collegiate management bodies of business entities and/or participating in such meetings as client’s representative; ongoing consulting support; representation of client in relations with the company, shareholders, third parties; ongoing consulting support.
- Preparing petitions/motions seeking auditing by law enforcement agencies (in case of arbitrariness of former CEO, theft of shares/stocks, fraud of company officers, etc.) – this will be relevant, particularly, as a way of collecting missed data; participating, as client’s representative, during client’s testimony for the purpose of inspection/auditing; review of inspection/audit results; ongoing consulting support.
Experts in the field
Senior Associate, REVERA Kyrgyzstan Legal Panel Coordinator
