Our firm represents one of the oldest law teams advising foreign investors in the Republic of Uzbekistan. Our team was formed back in 1993 as a group of local legal advisers to TACIS Programme of the EU. Histore of our new firm starts from early 2002.
Azizov & Partners is a full service law firm with expertise in a wide variety of areas including: corporate and commercial; energy; finance; intellectual property/technology; regulatory and administrative law; natural resources; taxation; telecoms, international trade and litigation. The firm was established as an independent practice on 1 January 2002 as the successor to Gouldens Central Asia. Gouldens was one of the first foreign law firms to be involved in Uzbekistan as a result of being appointed in early 1994 as special legal advisor to the Committee on Economic Reform and Budgetary Policy of the Supreme Soviet under the TACIS Programme of the EU. Gouldens Central Asia Limited was granted its licence to practice Uzbek law in the summer of 1995 and became the first accredited foreign law firm in Tashkent. The firm developed close working relationships with the Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance by whom it was appointed special advisor on international financial law in 1997. Since then international clients of the firm included: Central Asian Investment Company, Central Asian American Enterprise Fund, Standards Bank, EBRD, ECGD, Hitachi, Kalo Holdings, Laing/Alarko, Taylor Woodrow, Marubeni, Motorola, Nokia, Nortel, UDV and other companies. The firm also acted for international law firms: Ashursts, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, Linklaters and Salans.
