Dispute Resolution

“AEQUITAS’s lawyers demonstrate strong analytical skills and have a comprehensive and complex approach.” Chambers Asia Pacific 2024

“I liked that the lawyers of AEQUITAS were extremely client-oriented, worked with an individual approach to each emerging issue.” The Legal 500 2024

AEQUITAS Dispute Resolution practice focuses for years on complex cross-border litigations and commercial arbitration (mostly at venues outside Kazakhstan).

Another area of practice is investment arbitration. The firm’s lawyers prepare disputes for international arbitration on a comprehensive basis, from representing the client in local courts to forming the international team, fund-raising and defense in investment proceedings.

The firm’s lawyers act on a regular basis as party representatives and arbitrators in commercial arbitration; they are experienced in dispute resolution under the rules of LCIA, ICC, UNCITRAL, GAFTA, SCC, International Commercial Arbitration Court (ICAC) at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, and others.

AEQUITAS partners and senior advisors often act as experts before foreign courts and international commercial and investment arbitration. The practice team focuses exclusively on dispute resolution.

The practice team specializes and possesses dispute resolution expertise in the following areas:

• Contract
• Construction (including FIDIC contracts)
• Labor (the firm is a Ius Laboris affiliate)
• Patent and copyright
• Advisor professional liability
• Antitrust
• Banking
• Corporate
• Anti-counterfeiting
• Financial leasing
• Subsoil
• Liquidation

Bankruptcy, rehabilitation and debt restructuring (including finance organizations). International rating agencies Chambers & Partners (2022) and The Legal 500 (2022) recommend AEQUITAS as Kazakhstan’s leading law firm in Dispute Resolution (Band/Tier 1).

Services

• Preliminary legal analysis of a disputable situation and preparation of a legal opinion regarding its resolution prospects.
• Client representation in all judicial instances and in all kinds of civil and administrative disputes.
• Pre-trial dispute settlement (preparation of claims, negotiations to settle the dispute in an extrajudicial procedure, and drafting of dispute settlement agreements and amicable agreements).
• Preparation of all types of court documents (statements of claim, amicable agreements, appeals, motions, statements of defense, rebuttals, etc.).
• Client representation in arbitral tribunals and international commercial arbitrations.
• Advice and assistance in the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
• Advice on enforcement proceedings and legal support in judicial acts enforcement.
• Client representation in the course of different inspections by governmental agencies.