OUR SPECIALIZATION

FMCG is a highly specialized business involving a considerable number of branches of law. Our professional team offers a full specter of legal services and support to the market participants.

We assist our Clients with ensuring law compliance and identifying the best business paradigm for entering the Belarusian market and corporate reengineering:

• assistance in the process of construction of industrial or trade facilities,
• identification of tax and legal business architecture in FMCG and/or mass consumer services,
• development, registration and assignment of titles to trademarks, other intellectual property,
• brand development and introduction for retail chain commodities produced under chain trademark by local manufacturers,
• development of distributor and dealer policies and standard contracts.

We assist our Clients with ensuring compliance with trade, advertising, technical regulation, consumer protection laws in their business operations:

• support with marketing activities, such as advertising events, promotional games, sampling campaigns and joint sales promotion with other companies,
• consultations on product promotion, development of documents for discount and bonus programs in the HORECA segment,
• development and analysis of merchandise labeling,
• assessment of legal risks in customer relations: provision of comprehensive and authentic information; warranties; relations with manufactures and suppliers on warranty claims,
• claim settlement and legal support in consumer disputes  (in this matter we are assisted by the Attorneys at law to whom we cooperate),
• consultation on customs and foreign exchange law in merchandise import/export operations, as well as tax lawyer services on all above-mentioned steps.

We support our Clients in this sphere in the event of actual administrative breaches of laws on:

• trade,
• technical regulation and standardization,
• advertising,

as well as in civil law case on consumer disputes, litigations on intellectual property.

Our lawyers have completed a number of due diligence processes in several retail chains, as well as additional assessment of legal risks with sales and services automation, assessment of document flow accuracy and subsequent reduction in trading companies.