The SORAINEN Belarusian office, established in 2008, is now one of the recognized leaders in the local market. Today our firm integrates the team of professionals, majority of which holds LLB and LLM degrees from the leading Belarusian, European, and US law schools, and have experience of working at offices of large international law firms in Austria, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, and other European countries.
SORAINEN Belarus office has indisputable portfolio of local and international clients in Belarus. During the past year the team has advised a number of local and international market leaders including Abbott, Bayer, Carlsberg, Citibank, Coca-Cola, Deutsche Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Getin Holding, Intel, International Finance Corporation, Lindstroem, Manuli Group, Microsoft, Nokian Tyres, Nordic Investment Bank, Raiffeisenbank, Rennaisance Capital, SanDisk, Unilever, Vienna Insurance Group, Volvo Truck Corporation, VTB Capital, Xerox, and others. SORAINEN Belarus is also widely regarded as the leading law firm by international directories. It has been rated as a top-tier service provider in the country by a number of leading surveys.
SORAINEN with its focus on client service and quality has gained both international recognition of legal directories and high reputation with the local government and business communities.
SORAINEN helps clients in successfully accomplishing all matters related to business law in Belarus and is able to provide a full spectrum of legal services to local and foreign clients doing business in Belarus.
Our office has developed very successfully and already has more than 20 lawyers, which makes us one of the largest law firms in Belarusian legal market. Furthermore in all areas Belarus office may rely on the know-how and experience of SORAINEN pan-Baltic operations.
SORAINEN Belarus office is led by Kiryl Apanasevich and has currently three partners, all experienced lawyers who have practiced business law for many years, and a strong group of associates. Members of the Belarus team have experience working at the major Belarusian law firms, hold LL.M. degrees from American, European, and Belarusian law schools and have been trained at European offices of international law firms (Freshfields, Allen&Overy, Clifford Chance, Latham&Watkins, Wolf Theiss, etc.) as well as in other offices of SORAINEN. Our working languages are Russian, English, German, Polish and French.
We summarise the following benefits of choosing SORAINEN as your provider of legal services in Belarus:
- SORAINEN is the leading full-service business law firm in Baltic-Belarus region, employing over 140 lawyers and tax specialists;
- Our team has extensive experience advising on local and international clients;
- Our excellent legal expertise has been acknowledged and confirmed by the number of international awards received in 2008-2013, including IFLR1000 and Financial Times and Mergermarket Awards;
- SORAINEN quality management system is uniform across the offices and is certified pursuant to ISO 9001:2000 standards;
- SORAINEN Belarus office is fully integrated and benefits from the know-how, quality and client relationship management and other support of our Baltic offices;
- We are flexible in billing practises; we offer to you hourly rates, but we are also ready to provide capped or fixed fees.
