Legal support for business in Almaty — a lawyer by your side at the deal, not after it

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A lawyer supports the signing of a transaction with the company's executives at an office in Almaty

We support the transaction from negotiations to registration of title
We help launch a company and build documents from scratch
We work on a project basis: you pay for the task, not for a subscription
The first meeting and review of the situation are free of charge

Business support

We register companies and help choose the form to suit the task

We handle transactions: due diligence on the counterparty, structure, contract, payments

We support investment rounds and a partner's entry into the business

We prepare startup documents: shares, options, rights to the product

We protect the business in conflicts with partners and counterparties

Review of your project: where the deal creates risk, what is missing from the documents and what needs to be closed before signing, not after.

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of deal support

We handle projects for companies in Almaty: from an entrepreneur's first deal to the sale of the business as a whole.
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deals supported

Supply, contract work, lease, interests in a partnership, real estate and investments.
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risks are visible before signing

Almost everything that later becomes a dispute can be read in the draft contract in advance.
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first meeting

First we look at the task and say whether a lawyer is needed on this project at all.

Launch and registration

Choosing the organisational form and regime, registering a partnership or an individual entrepreneur, constituent documents and the first internal rules.

Deal support

We check the counterparty, think through the payment structure, prepare the contract and attend the signing.

Counterparty checks

Registration, debts, court cases, pledges, signs of bankruptcy — before the advance payment goes out.

Investments and partnership

An investor's or partner's entry into the business: interests, voting procedure, exit and its consequences, corporate agreement.

Startups and IT projects

Rights to the product and code, contracts with developers and clients, options for the team, work with personal data.

Corporate changes

Change of participants and director, increase of charter capital, reorganisation, withdrawal of a participant from the partnership.

Protecting a business in a conflict

A dispute with a partner, an attempt to siphon off assets, blocking of operations, unfair actions by a counterparty.

Sale of a business

Preparing the company for sale, review of documents, deal structure and support of settlements between the parties.

Hand the legal side of your business over to us — we support you from day one of the project

The first meeting is free and commits you to nothing. If the task is a one-off and you need a lawyer for a single document, we will say so, rather than sell you long-term support.

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For those starting a business
For companies in a deal or project
For startups and IT teams

Cost

Cost legal support for business

Guidelines for common tasks. The cost depends on the complexity of the project and the deal amount, is quoted after the review and is fixed in the contract before work begins.

Service	What is included	Cost
First meeting and review of the task	Discussion of the project and a list of what will be required	free of charge
Turnkey company registration	Form, documents, registration, first internal acts	from 120,000 ₸
Deal support	Review of the counterparty, structure, contract, participation in signing	from 150,000 ₸
Counterparty due diligence	Report on registration, debts, court cases and signs of bankruptcy	from 40,000 ₸
Corporate agreement	Rules between partners: shares, votes, exit, deadlocks	from 200,000 ₸
Startup document package	Rights to the product, contracts with the team, options	from 250,000 ₸
Corporate changes	Change of participants or director, amendments to the charter	from 80,000 ₸
Support for the sale of a business	Preparation for the deal, structure and support of settlements	from 500,000 ₸

Prices are indicative and do not constitute a public offer. State duties, notarial acts and valuation are paid separately and directly — we do not earn on them.

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How it is structured legal support for businesson a project basis

Understanding the task

We establish what the project is, who the parties are and what result you are working towards. At this stage the task is often framed differently from how it sounded at the outset.

Review of the source documents

We look at what has already been signed: the charter, previous contracts, correspondence. A new project almost always runs up against old obligations.

Checking the counterparty

Registration, debts, court cases, pledges and signs of the partner's insolvency. A cheap stage that most often saves money.

Transaction structure

We work out the structure: the payment procedure, the moment when rights pass, security and what happens if things fall through.

Fixed-fee contract

We set out the scope of work and the amount in writing, before we start. No additional invoices appear as the project goes on.

Preparation of documents

We draft the contract and supporting papers, agree amendments with the counterparty and explain the meaning of each concession.

Signing and registration

We attend the signing, assist with notarial acts and registration where it is required.

After the transaction

We monitor performance against the deadlines and step in if the counterparty starts to depart from what was agreed.

Do you have a project or a transaction?

Send us the draft contract and details of the counterparty — we will tell you where the risk is and what needs to change before signing.

Describe your situation

Team

Team of lawyers in Almaty

We handle a case from start to finish with the same team: you always know who is dealing with your matter and who to contact.

Asel Kurmanova

Lawyer for civil cases

Handles disputes over real estate, inheritance, contracts and transactions. Supports transactions from document review through to registration of title.

14 years of practice
Civil and housing disputes
Kazakh and Russian languages

Dmitry Kim

Lawyer for financial and motor vehicle disputes

Works with banks, insurers and debt collectors, handles recovery and bankruptcy cases, and defends drivers in administrative matters.

11 years of practice
Banks, insurers, motor vehicle disputes
Pre-trial settlement

Gulnara Abisheva

Lawyer for family and social matters

Handles divorces, division of property, alimony and disputes over children, as well as employment, pension and social issues.

9 years of practice
Family and employment disputes
Work with guardianship authorities

Yerlan Sagintayev

Lawyer for corporate law

Supports company transactions, arranges shares and corporate agreements, handles disputes between participants and reorganisation.

13 years of practice
Transactions, shares, corporate disputes
Support for investment rounds

Aigerim Nurlanova

Tax lawyer

Challenges notifications and inspection reports, handles tax disputes in court, supports inspections and recovers overpayments.

10 years of practice
Inspections and tax disputes
Working with the client's accounting records

Viktor Li

Construction and contract lawyer

Reviews contract agreements, estimates and acts, handles disputes over quality and scope of works, supports acceptance of facilities.

12 years of practice
Contracting, shared participation, acceptance
Working with construction expertise

Madina Ospanova

Intellectual property and IT lawyer

Protects copyright and trademarks, drafts contracts for IT teams and handles rights to products and code.

8 years of practice
Copyright, trademarks
Contracts for IT and studios

Sanzhar Ibraev

Bankruptcy and debt recovery lawyer

Handles bankruptcy and rehabilitation procedures, recovers receivables, defends directors against subsidiary liability.

15 years of practice
Bankruptcy, rehabilitation, debt recovery
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Practice

Recent case stories from our lawyers in Almaty

Details have been changed and anonymised: the content of the case is protected by professional privilege.

Transaction

Purchase of a production facility with an outstanding mortgage

Situation: The client agreed to buy a workshop for 96 million tenge and was ready to pay a 30 million advance. The due diligence revealed an outstanding bank mortgage: the seller said he would discharge it "right after the advance" and pushed to sign, citing another buyer.
What we did: We refused the advance scheme and structured the payments through conditions: the money would go to the seller only after the encumbrance was discharged and the transfer of title was registered. The deadline for discharging the mortgage was fixed in the contract with a penalty for delay, and until then the buyer had the right to walk away from the deal without losses.
Outcome: The seller discharged the mortgage within three weeks, the payments went through under the agreed scheme, and the buyer got the property clean and with no extra payments. The second buyer we were being rushed with turned out not to exist.

Partnership

Two founders worked for three years without written agreements

Situation: The business had been growing for three years, with turnover exceeding 200 million a year. The shares were "fifty-fifty" on a handshake, everything was officially registered to one person, and the procedure for exit and profit distribution was not documented anywhere. The second partner began thinking about leaving, and it became clear there was nothing to part on.
What we did: We formalised the shares and prepared a corporate agreement: how voting works on key decisions, what happens in the event of disagreement, how the value of the exiting partner's share is calculated, and a ban on selling the share to an outsider without first offering it to the partner. We also set out a separate procedure for a deadlock.
Outcome: A year later one of the partners did leave the business — under the agreed procedure, with the share valued by a pre-agreed formula and an instalment plan for the buyout. No dispute, no court, and the company carried on without interruption.

Startup

The rights to the product stayed with the contractors, and an investor was already at the door

Situation: An IT team spent a year and a half developing a service using freelancers under service agreements. Not one of those agreements contained a clause on the transfer of rights. The company entered negotiations with an investor, and the very first request concerned the rights to the code.
What we did: We mapped out who wrote which modules, contacted each developer and formalised the relationship: we signed retroactive agreements on the transfer of rights with confirmation of payment. For key people we prepared an option scheme to retain the team and remove the issue of verbal promises about shares.
Outcome: The project passed the investor's due diligence with no remarks on the rights to the product. The round was closed, and two developers stayed with the team under the option programme instead of leaving for competitors.

Exit of a participant

A partner left the LLP and demanded a share based on an inflated valuation

Situation: One of the three participants of the company decided to exit and stated a value for his share calculated from revenue rather than net assets. The charter did not regulate the valuation issue, the financial statements were kept carelessly, and some property was recorded personally to the director. The company risked being left without working capital.
What we did: We arranged an independent valuation with disclosure of the methodology and put the financial statements for the disputed period in order. We separated the company's property from the director's personal property by documents. We held negotiations with the exiting participant, offering an instalment payment with security so as not to withdraw money from circulation all at once.
Outcome: The value of the share was agreed at half the initial demand, and the payment was split over eight months. The charter was supplemented with a procedure for valuation and exit — now such disputes are resolved by a formula rather than by negotiations.

Trade mark

A competitor registered the name the company had been working under for five years

Situation: A chain of coffee shops operated under its own name but had not registered the mark. A competitor filed an application, obtained a certificate and sent a claim demanding that use cease and compensation be paid. The signage, packaging, social media accounts and the brand itself were all under threat.
What we did: We gathered evidence of use of the designation before the competitor's priority date: lease agreements with signage in photographs, advertising invoices, press publications, customer reviews with dates. We prepared an objection to the grant of legal protection and, in parallel, filed our own application for a combined designation.
Outcome: The competitor's registration was challenged, and our own application was brought through to a certificate. The chain kept its name and obtained the protection it had lacked for five years.

Change of director

The former director did not hand over the documents and continued to operate the account

Situation: The participants replaced the director by a decision of the general meeting, but the former manager refused to hand over the seal, the constituent documents and the contracts database, and at the bank he was still listed as an account operator for another day. During that time payments went out of the account to a company connected to him.
What we did: On the day of the meeting we sent notifications to the bank and counterparties, ensured that changes were entered in the registration details, and drew up a statement of refusal to hand over documents with witnesses present. For the payments that had gone out, we prepared a claim for damages against the former manager.
Outcome: The operation of the account was blocked within a day, and the documents were handed over under a statement after we applied to court. Damages of 4.6 million tenge were recovered from the former director.

Business inspection

An inspection suspended the warehouse's operations for a week

Situation: A trading company's warehouse was inspected, and as a result its operations were suspended for violations, some of which could have been remedied in a day. The downtime cost the company supplies and obligations to customers, and no one recorded the explanations given on site.
What we did: We immediately remedied the remediable violations and recorded this in a statement with photographs, and filed a request to resume operations with supporting evidence attached. On the remaining points we prepared written comments on the inspection report, showing that some of the conclusions had been drawn without an inspection and without reference to the regulations.
Outcome: Operations resumed on the third day instead of the expected week. Some of the points were excluded from the report, and the final sanction was reduced by roughly three times.

Sale of a business

The buyer discovered hidden liabilities after the deal

Situation: The client was buying a going concern: production equipment, a customer base, staff. Two months after the deal, creditors appeared with claims under contracts the seller had not disclosed, along with a claim from an employee for unpaid amounts for an earlier period.
What we did: We reviewed the sale and purchase agreement: it did contain representations that there were no liabilities, but without liability for their inaccuracy. We gathered evidence that the seller knew about the claims at the time of the deal — correspondence and pre-trial claims received before signing — and filed a claim for compensation.
Outcome: We recovered 8.9 million tenge from the seller in compensation for the liabilities identified. For the client's subsequent deals, we developed a due diligence procedure with mandatory representations and retention of part of the price for the period during which risks may emerge.

Useful information

Legal support for business in Almaty: from launch to inspections

Asel Kurmanova Civil lawyer

Published: 11 June 2026 Updated: 16 September 2026

Things change quickly: today you need to set up an LLP and sign a lease, tomorrow a partner arrives with money, the day after a major supplier with a prepayment. At every step there is a document that either protects you or creates a problem for years to come. A mistake in the charter, in a contract or in the allocation of shares does not surface immediately, but when the assets are already invested and it is hard to change course.

Most often an entrepreneur relies on standard forms, oral agreements and templates from the internet. That works until the first dispute: the counterparty failed to deliver the goods, a partner left the business, a tax inspection found discrepancies. Legal support for business is not only a reaction to a conflict, but also preparing documents so that no conflict arises or it is resolved predictably.

Legal support for business in Almaty before launching

Launching a business in Almaty starts with choosing a form: sole proprietor or LLP. This determines personal liability: LLP participants risk only their contributions, while a sole proprietor is liable with their own property. A consultation with a lawyer on starting a business helps match the scale, number of partners and financing to a specific organisational form.

Before the first deal it is important to finalise the basic documents: the charter and the decision on establishment for an LLP, the order appointing the director, the lease and bank details. Legal support for startups includes checking the signatory's authority, the allocation of shares and the decision-making procedure: mistakes in these documents are expensive to fix later. Below are the documents worth checking before registration and the first contracts.

The charter and the decision on establishment of an LLP, or the receipt for filing notice of commencement of activity for a sole proprietor
The order appointing the director and their authority
The lease for an office, warehouse or retail outlet
Bank details and access to the account
Documents for the trademark and website

What to check before the first deal
Document	Why it is needed	Common mistake
Charter and decision on establishment	They determine the founder's rights and obligations	The charter does not set out the procedure for selling a share
Order appointing the director	Confirms the right to sign	The director signs without a resolution
Lease agreement	Provides the address and workplace	The address does not match the registration
Bank details	Ensure settlements with counterparties	The account is opened in another person's name

An individual entrepreneur and an LLP are the main forms of doing business in Kazakhstan. A taxpayer's personal account is available to an entrepreneur immediately after registration.

Legal support for business when choosing between an individual entrepreneur and an LLP

At the start it is important to choose between an individual entrepreneur and an LLP, and the key difference is the liability regime. An individual entrepreneur is liable for debts with all personal property, including property not connected with the business. An LLP risks only the company's assets. Legal support for business at this stage helps to calculate the consequences before submitting documents, rather than after the first claim.

As the business grows, the risks change. An individual entrepreneur gains large counterparties, but the limits under the simplified regime and mandatory payments tighten settlements. An LLP faces corporate procedures, distribution of shares and taxes on dividends. Legal support for business here is not a formality, but a way not to lose control. Business support and business servicing close these issues before they become a problem.

Individual entrepreneur — personal liability, simpler registration, harder to scale
LLP — liability within the contribution, but corporate procedures are mandatory
Mistake: choosing a regime for the low tax without assessing the risk of losses
Mistake: not formalising relations with partners before the start

Legal support for business when concluding transactions

Before signing a contract it is important to understand who you are dealing with and what exactly you are signing. A counterparty is checked against open state registers and court databases: this shows whether the organisation is active, who its director is, and whether there are debts or disputes. If according to the documents the company has existed for a year but the director has changed three times, that is a reason to ask questions before the deal, not after.

In the contract itself, look at the subject matter, price, deadlines, liability and termination procedure. Vague wording, automatic renewal without a right to exit, penalties for only one party, and payment not tied to the result are dangerous. Legal support helps here: a lawyer sees in advance where the contract allows the counterparty not to pay or to take an asset. Transaction support for legal entities and legal consulting close these risks before signature.

Check the counterparty's legal capacity and the signatory's authority
Verify the subject matter and price of the contract against your commercial terms
Set out liability, deadlines and the termination procedure
Make sure payment is tied to delivery or the result

Legal support for companies when checking a counterparty

Before a transaction, the lawyer builds a dossier on the counterparty: open registers, information about the director, registration history, enforcement proceedings, debts and court cases. The address is checked too: whether it is a mass-registration address. In nine cases out of ten the risk is visible before signing.

Warning signs are divided into groups. For businesses that need legal support for a company, these are a recent change of director, minimal charter capital, no staff and frequent moves. Where there is a chain of intermediaries, every link is checked.

change of director or participants before the transaction;
minimal charter capital where the contract sum is large;
recent registration and a mass-registration address;
enforcement proceedings and tax arrears;
a whole chain of intermediaries with no clear role for each.

What is checked before signing a contract
Area of the check	Data source	Red flag
Legal status	register of legal entities	change of director before the transaction
Financial position	open data on debt	enforcement proceedings
Reputation	court cases and publications	regular disputes with counterparties
Authority of the signatory	charter and decision of the body	no confirmation of authority
Address and staff	register and reporting	mass address and absence of employees

From experience of handling such inspections, they are carried out before signing the contract, not after.

Legal support of business in a partnership

A partnership without written agreements is the main cause of corporate conflicts. Partners' relations are set out in the charter and the foundation agreement, and for startups also in agreements on rights to the product and code. If this is not done, a dispute over shares and decisions will paralyse the company's work.

Legal support of an enterprise at this stage helps to allocate roles, votes and the procedure for exiting the business in advance. A lawyer at the enterprise checks that the charter does not contradict the foundation agreement and does not block management. Legal support of the organisation also includes formalising rights to intellectual property created by the partners.

Size and payment of shares: who contributes how much and when.
Distribution of votes and the decision-making procedure.
Rights to the product, code and trademark created in the startup.
Terms of a partner's exit and transfer of the share.
Procedure for resolving deadlock situations.

Legal support of business when selling a share or the company

When a partner exits the business or the owner changes, legal support of the organisation's activity comes down to checking the cleanliness of the asset and formalising the transfer of rights. First, the charter, minutes and information on pledges or arrests are requested, then it is confirmed that the shares are paid up and there are no hidden encumbrances. Without this, the buyer risks acquiring a company with debts or challengeable decisions.

Support of a business sale includes preparing the share or stock purchase agreement, the participants' consents and documents for registering changes in the state register. Support of legal entities here is not limited to a signature: the signatory's authority, tax and corporate risks are checked, and the transfer of files and seals is formalised. Business support services help to close the gap when the seller has already exited but the buyer has not yet assumed the rights.

an extract from the state register and the charter in the current version;
minutes or a decision on the sale of the share and waiver of the pre-emptive right;
certificates confirming absence of debts and encumbrances;
the purchase agreement and the act of transfer of documents;
an application to register changes in the state register.

Legal support of the organisation's activity during inspections

An inspection by a state body is easier to get through when you are prepared for it in advance. The inspector arrives with a notification or an act on the appointment, and the inspection itself is registered with the legal statistics body — this fact is worth checking before letting anyone into the office. If there is no registration, there are grounds not to admit the inspectors and to record this in writing.

During an inspection two things matter: what exactly is requested and what you hand over. It is better to receive requests in writing, copies — with an acknowledgement of receipt, and to give explanations based on documents, not from memory. Comprehensive legal support in such a situation means that a lawyer is present from the first visit: checking the inspector's authority, the boundaries of the subject of the inspection and not allowing anything extra to be seized.

What to prepare before the inspectors arrive and during the inspection:

The notification or act on the appointment of the inspection and the record of registration with the legal statistics body
The log of inspections and incoming requests
Founding documents, licences and permits for the type of activity
Contracts, primary documents and reports for the disputed period
Written explanations and objections to the audit report before it is signed

Comprehensive servicing of legal entities and legal consulting

Ongoing work with documents is built on a single company file: founding documents, minutes and decisions, current contracts, HR orders, correspondence with state bodies. When there are changes in staff, addresses, types of activity or the composition of participants, it is this file that is updated, not individual folders. This way legal consulting answers a specific question, and comprehensive legal support of a business keeps documents from diverging from reality.

Legal support of companies includes reviewing contracts and internal regulations before signing, assessing the tax consequences of transactions, preparing responses to requests from state bodies and banks, and working with HR documents. A separate area is legal consulting for a company on matters where a lawyer's position is needed, not just a template: relations with a key supplier, use of a trademark, a disputed wording in a contract or the charter. A common and costly mistake is to sign a document based on a sample from the internet and then deal with the consequences in negotiations or in court, when it is too late to change the terms.

What is checked first:

contracts with counterparties: subject matter, deadlines, liability, termination procedure
the charter and decisions of participants: powers of the director and the procedure for approving transactions
HR orders, employment contracts and schedules
correspondence with the tax and other state bodies before a response is sent

Lawyer consulting and legal consulting for enterprises

A consulting lawyer in consulting is not a replacement for an in-house specialist but a reinforcement at difficult stages. An in-house lawyer is loaded with day-to-day matters: contracts, HR, claims, correspondence with state bodies. External legal consulting steps in when the matter concerns the tax consequences of a transaction, subsidiary liability of the director or a dispute with the state revenue bodies. An in-house lawyer sees the matter from the inside and may be constrained by the corporate hierarchy; an independent consultant assesses the situation from the outside and says what the management is not always told within the company.

Consulting legal services for an enterprise are access to different specialisms at a single point: a corporate lawyer, a tax lawyer, a specialist in subsoil and licences, a litigator. Keeping all of them on staff is expensive and not always justified, especially when the workload in a particular area arises sporadically. Comprehensive servicing of legal entities is structured so that each task goes to the person who handles it regularly, not to a generalist. Legal services for supporting a business include both one-off consultations and ongoing support on current matters.

Reviewing a contract before signing and assessing the tax consequences of a scheme
Preparing a position for an audit or a dispute with a state body
Legal audit of corporate documents when a partner joins
Analysis of a specific situation without getting involved in the company's day-to-day matters

Legal support of a business as protection against risks

Ongoing legal support of a business is when legal matters are resolved as they arise, not after a conflict or a fine has emerged. The owner and the manager get protection of the business by a lawyer: contracts, HR decisions, correspondence with state bodies and partners undergo legal review before signing. This reduces the risk of transactions being challenged, of losing a share and of sudden claims.

A consulting company providing legal services covers not only law but also accounting: legal and accounting support of a business helps avoid discrepancies between documents, taxes and actual transactions. Such discrepancies often become the main argument against a company during an audit or a dispute.

Reviewing contracts before signing, not after a deal falls through
Control over HR decisions and internal documents
Legal assessment of correspondence with state bodies and counterparties
Reconciliation of legal and accounting data

Ongoing legal support for business in Almaty on a permanent basis

A permanent basis means that the company's documents are maintained not from time to time, but according to a clear procedure. A register of contracts is kept with dates, deadlines and responsible persons, and changes in constituent documents, powers of attorney and HR orders are tracked. Legal support here is built around a calendar: the lawyer sees in advance where a lease is expiring, where a permit needs to be renewed, and where a counterparty has sent a supplementary agreement with amendments.

If the volume of work in the firm grows, it is more cost-effective for the lawyer to be at the enterprise — on staff or on permanent access. Then the review of contracts, claims, HR decisions and correspondence with state bodies proceeds without delays. Business support includes document version control: it is important to know which version of a contract was signed and which remained a draft. Legal support for firms with a distribution of roles reduces the risk that someone signs a document without review.

Register of contracts: date, subject matter, term, responsible person
Calendar of deadlines: leases, permits, licences
Version and signatory control of constituent documents
Review of incoming claims and requests from state bodies

How much legal support for business costs and what the fee is made up of

The cost of legal support for business in Almaty is not plucked out of thin air: it is tied to the labour input required for a specific volume of work. If a company needs a one-off check of a counterparty before a transaction, that is one volume; if it is a matter of ongoing maintenance of cases, contracts and HR documents, that is quite another. The price of legal support for business depends on the number and complexity of documents, the number of transactions per month, the industry and the mode of work: one-off consultations, project work or a permanent arrangement.

Legal consulting on disputed situations has a separate impact: the more time is spent analysing contracts, preparing objections and dealing with state bodies, the higher the cost. The final figure is also affected by urgency — when documents are needed by tomorrow, labour input increases.

volume and complexity of documents: contracts, charter, HR orders
number of transactions and counterparty checks per month
industry and specifics of the company's activity
mode of work: one-off tasks or ongoing maintenance
urgency of document preparation

The most expensive disputes are those that could have been prevented by one correctly drafted clause in a contract or charter. Prepare your documents before the money has gone to the counterparty or partner.

Reviews

Reviews of legal support for business

4.9

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2GIS

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Zoon

4.7 · 41

Arman K. 14 August 2026

We were buying premises for production and, honestly, I didn't understand how to protect myself, because the advance payment was a serious amount, so I looked for a lawyer specifically for a real estate deal. It turned out the property was under a pledge, and they structured the payments so that the money only went through after the pledge was released. Without a lawyer I would have paid the advance and waited for something to happen