Banking and Finance

BM provides expert advice to financial institutions for transactions of any size with some of the transactions employing finance-raising techniques innovative for Azerbaijan.We have an unrivalled experience in representing top international banks and financial institutions. Our lawyers have in-depth understanding of the financial regulatory requirements and potential legal obstacles to the operation of banks.

Our experience covers representation of major international and regional financial organisations and institutions:

• licensing and termination of operations of banks, including branch and representative offices of foreign banks
• capital and other regulatory requirements
• transactional advice to include loan transactions and security, loan restructuring, and finance leases
• equity and debt capital market transactions, public and private offerings
• project finance
• venture-capital financing
• insolvencies

Our lawyers:

• provide regulatory advice to foreign and local banks
• represent foreign banks in acquisition transactions in Azerbaijan
• represent a large number of international financial institutions and foreign lenders to domestic banks
• represented foreign banks as joint lead managers in connection with the debut Eurobond issuances by major Azerbaijani corporates
• represented foreign arrangers in finance-raise transactions involving securitisation of local assets