Legal Reforms Consulting

ILC provides legal advice and consulting services to governments, private entities and international organizations active in the area of legal reform. In addition to analyzing and developing draft laws, related regulations and implementation acts, we also provide training to governmental officials, entrepreneurs and businesses in the private sector, as well as non-profit or non-governmental organizations (NGOs) active in the process of developing civil society in Central and Eastern Europe.

ILC attorneys have served as consultants to private and government entities within the framework of the projects sponsored by the World Bank, USAID, EBRD and EU (European Union), and have been active participants in the process of legal, economic and democratic reforms taking place in the economies in transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States (NIS). Our advisory services involve analysis and resolution of cutting-edge legal issues, the application of the experience in transferring legal concepts from one social and economic environment to another and from the common law system to civil law systems and vice versa. The firm’s approach is to pay particular attention to the correlation between technical expertise on the one hand, and the notions of legacy, continuity and gradual evolution on the other.

The firm’s attorneys have advised government institutions and private clients with regard to the issues of harmonization and approximation of legislation at regional and national levels in connection with the European integration process. ILC attorneys are experienced legal consultants with EU-funded programs and with EC Commission legal expertise projects. Our attorneys’ experience also includes project development, management and monitoring of numerous donor programs. ILC’s effective and efficient international project management ensures the transfer of Western training, experience and technological know-how to Central and Eastern European institutions and the private sector.Similarly, the firm’s services promote the exchange of knowledge of the Eastern markets to the West.

ILC attorneys have been directly involved in comprehensive analysis, review and drafting of securities regulations, corporate, property and investment legislation in Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Macedonia, Moldova, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Yugoslavia (both in Serbia and Montenegro). The areas in which the firm’s attorneys have provided other advisory services include Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovakia, Poland and Romania. ILC attorneys’ operative languages are English, Russian, Belarussian, Bulgarian, French, Czech, Spanish, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, and Ukrainian.

The firm’s attorneys have conducted multiple legal training seminars and trainee programs as well as managed and participated in numerous assessment centers and workshops in Central and Eastern Europe and Asia. The target audience groups included government officials, civil servants from central, federal, regional and local levels, senior and middle management of commercial enterprises and banks as well as business start-ups and young entrepreneurs.

ILC attorneys’ key experience and expertise includes the following areas of legal reforms and training:

• energy sector restructuring;
• contract and property law reforms;
• privatization policy and strategy, privatization transactions;
• corporate governance and shareholders’ rights;
• bank restructuring;
• securities markets;
• telecommunications;
• oil and gas (including production sharing agreements);
• foreign investment;
• judicial reform and legislative drafting;
• training workshops in the areas of contract negotiation, technology protection, licensing and technology transfer.

 
Representative legal reforms projects:

• In a European Union funded project, the firm’s attorneys conducted workshops, reviewed and analyzed present legislation and regulations relevant to business associations and small and medium enterprises in Kyrgyzstan.
• Short term assignments in suport of Ministry of Health of Moldova under a EU-funded project in the areas of assessing licensing and accreditation system and policies; privatisation, business, banking and investment legislation and policies; tax system; status of financial entities outside the banking sector, such as insurance companies, securities market and investment funding; evaluating privatisation procedures of health care facilities.
• Under the auspices of a USAID-sponsored project in Ukraine, the firm’s attorneys conducted several workshops on corporate governance, contract negotiations, technology law, project finance and banking regulations for attorneys, entrepreneurs and government officials.
• Participation in the development of the legal components for the reform of the energy sector in Romania.
• Comprehensive review of the economic legislation of Yugoslavia/Serbia and recommendations for the amendment of the basic laws on corporations, secured transactions and property.
• Establishment of the policy framework for compensation for nationalized property in Montenegro in conjunction with the ongoing privatization effort in the country.
• Review of the business legislation in Croatia and development of legislation on secured transactions.