Dispute resolution
REVERA’s experts monitor complicated projects involving foreign participants or application of foreign law.
We also assist with the legal entities and individual entrepreneurs’ registration in the countries where the REVERA operates.
The lawyers of REVERA Law Group specialize in resolving complex disputes complicated by the involvement of foreign entities or the application of foreign law.
We assist businesses through a broad network of international partners in litigation across Belarus, Switzerland, the United States, China, Germany, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Armenia, and other countries. Our team has extensive experience representing clients in various disputes with counterparties, including those affected by sanctions restrictions.
Our specialists have the necessary resources and expertise to protect clients’ interests, providing legal services following international quality standards and professional ethics.
REVERA consistently ranks in Chambers Europe, The Legal 500, and Who’s Who Legal for dispute resolution.
Depending on the jurisdiction in which a dispute is heard, direct representation in court is carried out by attorneys engaged separately.
REVERA has strong partnerships across multiple jurisdictions and years of collaboration with leading international law firms, experts, barristers, attorneys, and dispute resolution specialists.
Our services
Consulting on the strategy for a potential dispute
Main areas of legal support:
- Structuring of dispute resolution clauses, recommendations on the choice of judicial proceedings venue (court or arbitral institution); governing law;
- Pre-trial analysis of risks, perspectives and costs of litigation, offer of alternative options for dispute resolution;
- Check and analysis of counterparty, search for information and assets;
- Pre-trial negotiations with a counterparty on dispute settlement;
- Development of standards, instructions and policies for counterparties check and debt recovery.
Corporate disputes
If you face a corporate conflict, REVERA’s team 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 shareholder;
- Failure to furnish information on corporate activities;
- Failure to pay profit/dividend;
- Any other infringement on shareholder’s rights.
Labour disputes
Primary areas of legal assistance:
- Advising clients and assistance in handling documents in conflict dismissal procedures;
- Develop optimal and efficient strategies to protect employers in labour disputes with employees;
- Representation of clients in disputes with employees seeking reinstatement in employment or change in definition of cause of dismissal;
- Representation of clients in disputes with employees seeking to collect emoluments or other payments;
- Representation of clients in disputes seeking to bring employee to material accountability for any damages inflicted on employer;
- Representation of clients in disputes involving employee’s violation of NDA (non-disclosure agreement), divulgence of employer’s commercial secrets;
- Representation of clients in disputes involving employee’s violation of NCA (non-compete agreement).
Cross-border disputes
REVERA law group has developed a wide contact base of foreign partners and created an internal database of court practice and mechanisms for searching assets and counterparties in foreign countries.
Our team provides legal assistance in the following areas:
- Collection of evidence and information regarding the opponent and their assets in foreign states;
- Selection of foreign partners for the representation of interests in foreign countries, preparation of legal opinion based on foreign law and control of their activities;
- Development of a strategy for disputes in foreign courts.
Disputes on intellectual property
Main areas of legal assistance:
- Representation of interests in disputes arising from software development agreements, license agreements such as developer-customer / developer-publisher / developer-licensee disputes;
- Representation of interests in disputes arising from other agreements related to the creation of copyright objects (websites, works of art, etc.);
- Representation of interests in disputes related to the infringement of trademarks and trade names exclusive rights;
- Advising and representation of clients in disputes related to the domain names;
- Advising and managing DMCA-based copyright or trademark infringement disputes regarding mobile apps;
- Advising and support in the prevention of apps piracy;
- Representation of interests in antitrust and competition law disputes related to the use of trademarks;
- Representation in disputes related to the infringement of the exclusive rights to industrial property.
Settlement of construction disputes
Our team is ready to provide legal assistance in the following areas:
- Litigation Strategy & Pre-Trial Dispute Resolution
- Developing a defense strategy and legal position, assessing risks and prospects for dispute resolution.
- Preparing legal opinions on dispute resolution prospects within pre-trial settlement procedures.
- Representing clients in construction disputes before local and international arbitration (commercial and investment disputes).
- Assisting with international arbitration disputes as local counsel, including document preparation, information gathering, selecting foreign partners and arbitrators, and drafting legal opinions.
- Pre-trial risk assessment, cost estimation for litigation/arbitration, and proposing alternative dispute resolution options.
- Negotiation and mediation support for pre-trial settlement of construction disputes.
- Legal Representation in Construction Disputes
- Disputes over construction quality, including defect remediation during the warranty period.
- Claims for payment of completed work, including refusal to sign acceptance certificates.
- Disputes over additional work performance and payment.
- Claims for withheld guarantee payments.
- Claims for penalties and damages due to contract breaches.
- Disputes over contract formation, unilateral termination, and early contract termination.
- Legal Protection for Engineering & Design Firms
- Defending engineering and oversight organizations in disputes over the quality of technical supervision services.
- Representing interests in disputes related to project design and surveying contracts.
*Court representation is carried out by separately engaged attorneys who are not employees of REVERA.
Узнать большеSettlement of real estate disputes
If you have problems with real estate disputes, we are ready to protect your interests and resolve the conflict. Our team will take on all difficulties in negotiating with the counterparty and provide objective arguments to protect your interests.
We provide legal assistance in the following areas:
- Analysis of legal position;
- Formation of litigation strategy;
- Selecting the most effective way to protect the client;
- Preparation of all necessary documents;
- Participation in negotiations.
Disputes lease contracts
We assist clients in resolving the following disputes involving lease contracts:
- disputes involving dissolution of lease contracts;
- disputes involving preliminary lease contracts;
- collection of rental debts;
- recovery of damages from lessee/lessor;
- protection of interests in disputes involving improvement of immovable property;
- protection of lessor’s interests during eviction, protection of lessees in case of eviction;
- protection of lessees from lessors’ unfair acts.
Settlement of disputes in IT
REVERA’s team regularly work with clients from the IT sector. We provide legal support in the following types of disputes:
- Disputes over Software development contracts;
- Disputes associated with the protection of exclusive rights in the IT sector;
- Disputes related to the unlawful acquisition and use of confidential information;
- Disputes connected with copyright infringement;
- Other disputes on behalf of IT companies.
Domain disputes
Our services:
- Representing client during the pre-trial stage, in particular preparation of claim (cease and desist letter), response to claim; correspondence with competitor; negotiating over a pre-judicial resolution of dispute;
- Representing client in the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center under the UDRP procedure with respect to claims involving infringement of trademarks and domain name registration;
- Support in disputes involving infringement of trademarks, contestation of trademarks in the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), national courts of European Union countries, Great Britain, USA, and Russian Federation;
- Consulting and analysis of prospects of disputes with competitors, criteria of similarity (up to confusion) between trademarks and domain names; of procedures and prospects of contestation of trademarks, preparing recommendations to mitigate dispute risks;
- Consulting and analysis of signs of unfair registration/use of trademarks or domain names.
IP monitoring. Risk analysis and protection of interests in the sphere of intellectual property & competition
Our lawyers are ready to provide legal assistance in the following areas:
- IP monitoring and risk analysis
- Representing client’s interests in case of detection of any infringement of IP rights by your competitor
Debt Recovery
The REVERA team offers a comprehensive approach to debt recovery, covering everything from pre-litigation settlements and negotiations with debtors to representing clients in courts and arbitration, including international instances.
Our Services:
- Developing a debt recovery strategy
- Pre-litigation debt settlement
- Judicial debt collection
- Enforcement of court rulings
- Debt recovery in foreign courts and arbitration
- Protecting creditors' interests in bankruptcy proceedings
Projects
Advising an international industrial group of companies in the resolution of cross-border disputes exceeding EUR 3 million
Case: support in cross-border commercial disputes in the field of industrial equipment supply.
REVERA’s lawyers advised the Russian subsidiary of an international industrial group whose parent company is headquartered in Sweden in connection with complex cross-border commercial disputes.
Recognition and Enforcement of a Foreign Court Judgment for a Leading Uzbek Bank
REVERA successfully secured the recognition and enforcement of the foreign court judgment in Belarus. The client’s rights were effectively protected, and cross-border risks were minimised.
International Construction Arbitration: Protecting the Client’s Interests in an Amount Exceeding EUR 30 Million
REVERA provided comprehensive legal support to a major company implementing turnkey projects in the mining and metallurgical as well as mining industries in the CIS and beyond, within the framework of a dispute before the International Arbitration Court at the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IAC at the BCCI) against a major customer, a resident of Uzbekistan.
A project with an implementation value exceeding EUR 300 million became the subject of a dispute in an amount exceeding EUR 30 million. The case was considered under Uzbek law, while the seat of arbitration was Minsk, which immediately created a number of cross-border and conflict-of-laws challenges.
Protecting copyrights in AppStore
Consulting a number of Belarusian IT companies on disputes with competitors involving violation of copyright on AppStore applications.
Domain dispute in WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center under UDRP Policy
Сonsulting foreign IT company in its dispute in WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center under the UDRP Policy procedure involving transfer of a domain name on the motion of foreign owners of trademarks.
Settlement of a construction dispute at the pre-trial stage for a customer from the IT sector
REVERA helped to reach peaceful settlement of disagreements between the contractor, who, based on the oral instructions of the customer, exceeded the contractual scope of repair works by more than twice, and the customer, who, due to the absence of professional specialists, could not evaluate competently the scope of works performed, their quality and cost, and therefore refused to accept and pay for them.
Winning a case in the IAC at the BelCCI for USD 4.5 million
We successfully assisted in a dispute on the side of a Belarusian company for recovery of an advance payment from a Russian counterparty under an agricultural products supply contract in the equivalent of USD 4.5 million. REVERA team justified the competence of the IAC at the BelCCI to handle the dispute and applied the rules of interpretation of contractual clauses under Belarusian law.
Protecting client in a Californian court
We were involved in two disputes in the District Court of the Northern District of California, protecting a Belarusian computer games developer from motions by a French and a Turkish companies claiming violation of copyright on a mobile phone game, unlawful use of means of individualisation and unfair competition.
AECOM
AECOM is a global leader in providing design services for the construction industry and are listed by Fortune 500. In Belarus, AECOM is involved in the construction of the multi-functional complex in Minsk worth 900 mln USD. Our lawyers consulted the Client for the purpose of settling differences with the customer, and in particular developed a strategy and a legal position to protect the Client’s interests in court in an action of collection of penalties for unsatisfactory provision of services.
Minority shareholders of Frandesa company
Frandesa is a leader in the development and production of plant protection agents. REVERA represented company’s minority shareholders in a multi-million corporate conflict with majority shareholders. The majority shareholders desired to fully consolidate the business, but the proposed terms were not satisfactory for our clients. As a consequence of 2-months of discussions, the parties effected a deal, to the reasonable satisfaction of our clients. At present, all terms and conditions of the deal are being duly observed. REVERA’s team managed to settle the dispute without recourse to a court.
Protecting Salamander’s interests
Successful resolution of a corporate conflict between participants of an LLC, a resident of Brest free economic zone. We arranged a defense against claims seeking to invalidate decisions of general meetings of participants, validation of participant’s withdrawal from the company and defense against groundless collection of value of share to the benefit of the withdrawing participant.
A EU company, a leader in producing crop protecting agents
Representation of a Swiss company in a complicated dispute with a Belarusian company involving the amount of ca. 2 mln euros in Belarusian courts and monitoring the dispute in Switzerland.
Defending Bauer Technics a.s. in IAC under the BelCCI
Representing Bauer Technics a.s. in the International Arbitration Court under the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in a dispute with Borysov Meat Factory involving collection of VAT sums in excess of contract sum. The complexity and uniqueness of this case was in that there was no similar judicial practice in Belarus prior to it.
Protecting majority shareholders of AvangardSpecMontazhPlus
The Client is a leader in the security systems market. REVERA represented majority shareholders in a corporate conflict lasting over 3 years. During the conflict, REVERA’s lawyers won the principal court proceeding, thus materially strengthening client’s position, claim amount being decreased by 98%.
A major manufacturer of aseptics
Сonsulting a shareholder in a corporate dispute with other shareholders: successful defense against lawsuit claiming coercion into a share purchase agreement, defense against lawsuits seeking to invalidate share purchase agreements and lawsuits seeking to invalidate decisions of management bodies.
Protecting a majority shareholder of a bulk freight hauler
Successful defense of a majority participant against a motion seeking to exclude him from the list of participants of an LLC. Representation of plaintiff in cases contesting decisions of general meeting of shareholders on re-allotment of shares of LLC participants, and seeking invalidation of state registration of amendments to the Charter as based on knowingly false information.
Protecting owner of a retail shop
Successful resolution of a corporate conflict with minority shareholders, including defense against motions seeking to invalidate decisions of general meeting of shareholders, to reverse rights and obligations of share purchaser, to invalidate purchase of shares.
Protecting a major retailer from unfair competition
Representation of a major Belarusian retailer in the case involving a violation of fair business competition principles. The project involved many petitions to state authorities, including the anti-monopoly regulator, due to competitors’ violations of business competition laws by way of unfair advertising, in particular violations of rules of promotional games.
A major Belarusian fashion retailer
Representation of a major Belarusian fashion retailer in a dispute with lessor seeking to recognise an unenforceable notary’s execution order.
A major chain of restaurants
Representation of a major chain of restaurants in a major economic case. We succeeded in levying deposit money under a lease contract. The deposit money was acknowledged to be unjust enrichment due to expiry of principal contract.
An IT company vs. former employee
Representation of a major IT company in an employement dispute with former employee.
Invest-System
Representation of a private developer in a complex dispute with general contractor involving coercion to remove shortcomings in construction and assembly works for an infrastructural facility in Minsk’s housing area.
A dispute with former manager
Representation of a leading enterprise of BelEnergo, a construction and assembly complex, in an employement dispute with former CEO.
Samsung
Representation of Samsung in a case involving unconscientious activities of an individual that ahd registered Samsung.by domain and used it to place advertising hyperlinks on web-pages of some online stores. REVERA represented Samsung in a judicial proceeding in the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus, with the result that the domain was conferred to the client.
Protecting majority shareholders against CEO’s actions
Representation of majority shareholders of a Belarusian company in courts and law enforcement agencies due to CEO’s alienation of exclusive right to trademark. Our dynamic efforts had driven negotiations from the dead-lock and allowed the client to agree upon his withdrawal from the Belarusian business on advantageous terms. We also monitored formalisation of arrangements to settle the corporate conflict, in particular, with respect to alienation of shares and change of CEO.
A leading supplier of control and measuring equipment
We supported the client in a complicated corporate conflict between a company member and an executive authority. We elaborated an action strategy to mitigate consequences of executive authority’s actions.
Schneider
A project to fight counterfeit goods in the market of the Republic of Belarus, within the framework of an administrative process. We had been involved in the project right from the start. At first, we carried out a number of sample purchases, in order to establish the fact of sales of counterfeit goods.
After collecting evidential base, we applied to the law enforcement authority, and participated in the investigation together with it. As a result, the entire volume of counterfeit goods was forfeited and the offender was brought to responsibility imposed by law. The rights of intellectual property owner were fully rehabilitated.
Sledopyt
A Belarusian dealer of a foreign manufacturer had registered a principal’s trademark in the territory of Belarus. in course of the judicial proceeding, registration of trademark was acknowledged unfair competition. Afterwards, with the participation of REVERA, the client gained the right to the trademark in accordance with an agreement signed by the parties extrajudicially.
Representing a French manufacturer
Representation of a French manufacturer in complex disputes in the territory of the Republic of Belarus with customers and support for enforcement proceedings.
MorozProduct
Supporting client in disputes with general contractor in respect of construction of an ice-cream factory (both during contruction stage and during warranty period).
Protecting a shareholder of an OJSC
Representation in a case contesting an unlawful additional issue of stocks of an OJSC at the expense of a shareholder.
Protecting supplier of crop protecting agents against CEO’s actions
Successful defense of a major Belarusian wholesale supplier of crop protecting agents in cases contesting agreements involving unjustified rebates unlawfully granted by former CEO to counterparties (misuse of powers). The unjustified rebates amounted in total to circa 5 mln US dollars.
Protecting CEO in a corporate conflict
REVERA participated in a complicated corporate conflict inside a group of companies and defended a hired CEO who was unlawfully dismissed by employer. Thereafter, employer’s executive body unlawfully amended employer’s Charter stating that remuneration at client’s cost shall be paid within three years. The client took legal recourse reluctantly as he considered the risk of injuring his business standing. Therefore, REVERA’s lawyers elaborated an action scheme to restore CEO to his position and provided consulting on appropriate protective measures with regard to relations between company owners.
A major engineering company
Elaborating a strategy and legal position to protect the client in a lawsuit seeking to recover penalties for poor quality of services.
A major supplier of technological solutions for agricultural sector
Representation of a major supplier of process solutions for agriculture in a number of labour disputes.
Protecting owners against successors of a co-founder of AutoRentService
Successful resolution of a corporate conflict with successors of a deceased participant, including defense against a lawsuit seeking to invalidate decisions of general meeting of participants.
Consulting a major Belarusian IT company
Consulting a major Belarusian IT company and supporting in disputes with a German participant in respect of a joint venture registered in the Republic of Malta.
A major Belarusian bank
Preparing a legal opinion on prospective recovery of damages worth over 3.5 mln US dollars from the Banking Processing Centre, due to failure to prevent fraudulent operations. We evaluated the situation and prepared a legal opinion for the client, specifying all risks and outlooks of legal proceeding, thus allowing the client to choose an optimal technique to protect its rights.
Protecting owner against CEO’s actions
REVERA rendered assistance for the client in a complicated corporate conflict between a company participant and executive body.
The executive body evaded furnishing information crucial for the client (company owner) and his strategic decisions. Our associates elaborated an action scheme that allowed company CEO to resign without essential financial outlays and allowed the company to restore its financial soundness that had been lost due to executive body’s actions (recurrent performance of agreements of the principal company not harmonised with the client).
A corporate dispute over a power of attorney
Successful defense against legal suit seeking to invalidate decisions of general meeting of participants on reorganisation and re-allotment of shares, through revocation of a representative’s power of attorney.
A Belarusian footwear manufacturer
Defense against lawsuits lodged by a garment factory seeking reversion of buyer’s rights and obligations under purchase contracts for factory’s stocks.
Bartek
Legal support for recovery of debt from a Belarusian company.
A major Belarusian pharmaceutical company
Establishing unfair competition on the part of a Lithuanian manufacturer of pharmaceuticals in the course of international trademark registration, and its further annulment.
Stopping the Deregistration of a Polish Company from the National Court Register (KRS)
REVERA was approached by a Cyprus-based company with what initially appeared to be a standard request: to recover a debt from a Polish counterparty. The client stated that the debtor remained in regular contact, assuring that payment would be made “any day now” and repeatedly asking for more time. Before initiating dispute proceedings, we conducted […]
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