GRATA News, August 2021

GRATA News August 2021

GRATA International Kazakhstan will take part in Uzbek Arbitration Week

On 6-10 September 2021, Uzbek Arbitration Week will be held by the Tashkent International Arbitration Centre and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Askar Konysbayev, Partner of GRATA International Kazakhstan, will speak at the panel session: Force Majeure, Hardship and the Pandemic Fuelled Disputes: Expect the Unexpected.

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GRATA International holds the online conference: Specifics of concluding a license agreement

We are pleased to invite you to take part in the upcoming conference: ‘Specifics of concluding a license agreement in the Following Countries: Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russia, Uzbekistan’, which will be held on 30 September 2021 in an online format.

The purpose of our conference is to tell you about the concept of a license agreement, its conclusion features, as well as about a license agreement in the area of online games and the features of transferring intellectual property rights under license agreements.

The conference will cover two panel sessions:

The first session will be held in Russian and moderated by Dmitry Viltovsky, Managing Partner, GRATA Belarus.

The second session will be held in English and moderated by Sofia Roinishvili, Partner, GRATA Georgia.

Time: 9.00 a.m - 12.40 p.m (Moscow time).

Conference speakers:

Full programme→

The conference will incorporate leading experts and practitioners who will present the following topics:

Practical aspects of concluding license agreements in Belarus.
Features of transferring the rights to IP objects under license agreements in Kazakhstan.
Legal regulation of the transfer of the rights to IP objects under license agreements in Kyrgyzstan.
License agreements in the area of online games: lack of proper legal regulation and risks of legal uncertainty in the Russian legislation.
Features of concluding a license agreement in the Republic of Uzbekistan.
The nature and characteristics of a license agreement in Azerbaijan.
License agreement and personal data protection in Georgia.
Specifics of concluding a license agreement in Mongolia.

Free registration→

For additional questions, please contact: events@gratanet.com

Welcome to the conference!

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Dispute resolution support in CIS and Eastern Europe

Dear clients!

The continuing development and close economic links between countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (Russian Federation, Republic of Kazakhstan, Republic of Belarus, Kyrgyz Republic, Republic of Armenia), and close historic ties between CIS countries encourage constant cooperation between the countries, increase the volume of mutual trade and number of business projects between the companies from these countries.

As a part of our enhanced range of services and an expanded network of offices, we would like to offer a new service – Dispute resolution in CIS and Eastern Europe.

Lawyers of GRATA International will represent the interests of clients in disputes across ten countries: Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

Gulnur Nurkeeva became a science and legal expert of the "Institute of Legislation and Legal Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan"

We are pleased to announce that Gulnur Nurkeeva, Partner, Head of GRATA International China Office, became a science and legal expert of the "Institute of Legislation and Legal Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan" of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan with the purpose to conduct scientific legal expertise on projects of legislations on specializations of civil law, investment law, commercial law, and private international law.

In connection with the adoption of the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Improving Rulemaking", a new model of scientific legal expertise was introduced.

In order to implement this model, the Register of Experts was formed to conduct scientific legal expertise on projects of legislations and international treaties, to which the Republic of Kazakhstan intends to become a party, or on draft international treaties subject to ratification.

GRATA International China shortlisted for the China Law & Practice Awards 2021

We are pleased to announce that GRATA International Beijing office’s successful project has been shortlisted for Deals of the Year Award in the forthcoming China Law & Practice Awards 2021 - the pre-eminent legal awards in China.

As China’s most renowned ceremony for the legal elite, the China Law & Practice Awards honor and recognize the best law firms, legal talents and outstanding performances of China's legal service industry in the most significant commercial legal transactions in China. This year, the Awards received a record-number of submissions, covering multiple practice areas of China legal market. These Awards are set out to recognize exceptional achievements from within the region.

GRATA International Beijing office’s deal that has been shortlisted in “Projects & Energy” Deals of the Year 2021 nomination is:

China Power International Development’s Kazakhstan Wind Power Investment.

GRATA International in IFLR1000’s financial and corporate rankings across 8 countries

IFRL1000 released the third of four groups of rankings that represent IFLR1000's 31st edition which focused on identifying best firms and lawyers in financial and corporate, as well as project development practices across the globe. GRATA International’s teams were named among the best lawyers in Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Mongolia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

Recent events

GRATA International held an online conference: Labeling of goods by means of identification

On July 22, 2021, the GRATA offices in Kazakhstan, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan held an international conference: Labeling of goods by means of identification.
The conference was oriented for Russian-speaking audience and moderated by Shakhrukh Usmanov, Partner, GRATA Kazakhstan, Almaty.

The conference was completed with a Q-A section, where speakers answered questions of interest to the audience.

The recording of the conference will be available on our YouTube channel.

Speakers presentations→

Natalia Zhuk, Counsel, and Polina Sachava, Junior Associate of GRATA Belarus took part in the conference: «Labeling of goods by means of identification»

On July 22, 2021, specialists of GRATA International, Belarus Natalia Zhuk, Counsel, and Polina Sachava, Junior Associate, took part in the online conference: «Labeling of goods by means of identification» in the countries of presence of GRATA International: Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan.

Within the framework of the report "Special aspects of marking goods by means of identification in Belarus":

Natalia Zhuk:

- told about the features of business entities on marking goods by means of identification,

- focused on the cases of mandatory labeling of goods under the legislation of Belarus, the obligations of business entities to enter special information into the Bank of electronic passports of goods (ePASS),

- gave a detailed comment on the procedure of actions when marking with identification means.

Polina Sachava:

- told about the procedure for working with identification tools in the company,

- presented a step-by-step algorithm of actions of retail enterprises that sell goods subject to labeling and (or) traceability, for the implementation of electronic consignment notes.

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