Firm overview

VLM and Partners (“VLM”) is a dynamic law firm, operating in areas such as investment, finance, corporate and M&A, legal and tax due diligences, Intellectual Property (“IP”) matters, contracts, commercial, litigation, banking, project finance, Public Private Partnership, energy, tax and employment matters. VLM combines the experience of lawyers dealing with international and local corporates in many years. Our lawyers successfully advice on numerous complex transactions and high-profile matters involving major local and international companies that operate in a wide range of business sectors (energy and natural resources, capital markets, construction, FMCG, retail, pharma, etc.). Our lawyers and consultants are graduates of the world known leading universities and bring a deep knowledge and experience coming from international consultancy firms and foreign expertise.

Firm overview

We are a Baku based internationally ranked law firm led by Managing Partner Mr Farid Nabili who had previously headed the Tax law reforms unit at the Ministry of Taxes, where he authored several clauses of the Tax Code.

Our diverse expertise covers business set-ups/joint ventures, international transactions, tax-planning and optimization, corporate re-structuring, employment and immigration matters, and other law and tax advisory primarily in oil-gas, construction, banking, hospitality, ICT, manufacturing and import-export industries. We support clients in complementary tax accounting/filing as part of tax advisory services.

Our main clients include several Fortune 500 companies and multinational enterprises operating in Azerbaijan.