Foreign Investments

Belarus offers a number of attractive investment regimes, such as an investment agreement with the government, the High-Tech Park, the Great Stone Industrial Park, free economic zones and performance of activities in small cities. They all vary in the business sphere and the admission criteria. Various sets of benefits and preferences are proposed.

Choosing the suitable regime with optimal legal regulation is the key to the future project success and we will help with the right choice.

Prior to making the decision to start the project, it is necessary to understand how the business model complies with the legal regulation of the state, in which the investor plans to invest money.

We will perform the legal analysis of the model and will provide the assessment of your project in terms of its compliance with the norms of the Belarusian law and highlight the potential risks that may arise in the course of project implementation. We will also check the corporate, tax, customs, logistics and other aspects in the course of the analysis, after which we will provide recommendations on risk minimization and the business model optimization.

Conclusion of an investment agreement with the Republic of Belarus will help protect investments and get exemptions from the law and special preferences. The Arzinger team portfolio includes thirty investment agreements, in which we acted on behalf of foreign and local investors. An investment agreement can provide both a standard set of benefits and preferences for all investors, as well as special exemptions from the law and tax preferences.

The main investor’s objective is to conclude an agreement that will allow establishing partnership with the government and excluding potential disputes in the future. We know how to achieve it.

Implementation of any investment project is accompanied by conclusion of a number of legal documents, such as a residence agreement with the HTP or the Great Stone, an investment agreement, a PPP agreement, memoranda of cooperation. Conclusion of such documents is preceded by negotiations and discussions with government bodies and counterparties. A lawyer immediately understands the legal consequences of the decisions discussed in the context of the project in the negotiations.

Having extensive experience in holding of negotiations, we will help you correctly assess the risks prior to making a decision and register the result of negotiations in the form (memorandum, term-sheet, (non) binding offer) that will allow moving towards project implementation efficiently.

The project only starts with conclusion of the investment agreement. Investors’ typical errors are in the two aspects, i.e., contractual and legal.

Contractual relations with the government are a series of mutual rights and obligations stipulated in a single document, performance of which must be supervised in order to avoid an unconscious failure to observe the contractual provisions (the investment agreement implementation roadmap can help in this aspect). The legislative aspect of relations with the government is much broader. The investor must know and understand what liability it bears at each stage of the project (construction codes, environmental requirements, statements, occupational safety, and much more). Lawyers that are well familiar with a specific field of the investor’s activities will help avoid typical errors made by ignorance or negligence.