Gor Margaryan

Gor Margaryan is our exclusively recommended Corporate Tax expert in Armenia on the Advisory Excellence website. If you need assistance in this area, please contact Gor directly using the contact details listed above.

Gor is a Managing Partner in LEGELATA and practices Banking and Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate and Tax, Arbitration and Litigation.

LEGELATA’s team guides companies through the whole life cycle of the latter. The firm negotiates and closes sophisticated transactions representing public and private institutions. LEGELATA helps to save on taxes as well as protect the clients in courtrooms from any excessive tax claims. The firm’s professional team applies their complex knowledge to serve all the needs of the corporate clients. The firm provides services in procedures of company registration at state authorities, as well as legal advice in most complicated tax and taxation related issues. LEGELATA also drafts any types of trade and commerce related agreements including contracts for any transactions with real estate.

Areas of Practice

• Banking & Finance
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Foreign investments
• Corporate & Tax
• Litigation & Arbitration

Professional Profile

• RA Chamber of Advocates
• Accountant Qualification, Armenia

Rrepresentative Transactions

• agRIF Cooperatief of Netherlands in  acquisition of stake in Inecobank CJSC.
• Incofin Investment Management, legal support for the process of acquiring shares of Araratbank CJSC,
• Agence Française de Développement, legal support in extending the loan to the Armenian government,
• Legal support for a transaction on loan from Proparco Ameriabank,
• Legal support for the Danish Export and Trade Finance Fund,
• Servizi Assicurativi del Commercio Estero – SACE, legal support under the export credit,
• Legal support in transactions with the EBRD under the legislation of the Republic of Armenia in the field of taxation, rights of creditors, insolvency and foreign investment,
• Alhokair Group, legal support with Sukukov issues,
• Alhokair Group, legal support in the field of tax and corporate restructuring,
Burberry plc, legal support in litigation related to intellectual property rights
• In an arbitration tribunal relating to a multimillion-dollar sale and purchase agreement,
• RCF Holding Management LLC over ICSID arbitration against the Government of the
  Republic of Armenia.

Education

• 2017- Manchester Business School, MBA
• 2008-2010- Master’s degree: Law Institute of Finance, Goethe University, (Germany), Law և Finance
• 2006-2007-Master’s degree: University of Essex, UK, International Commercial Law

Professional Experience

• 2010-present- “Legelata” Law Firm, Managing Partner
• 2014-2018- Fawaz Abdulaziz Alhokair Company,     Chief Lawyer
• 2010- Asian Development Bank
• 2010- Central Bank of Armenia
• 2007-2010- Defense Law Firm, Senior Lawyer
• 2006-2007-Foreign Financial Programs Management Center, Lawyer

Languages

English, Armenian, German, Russian, Spanish

Firm Overview:

Legelata is a law firm with a rich history of connecting businesses with the law across various industries in innovative and dynamic ways.

Legelata wins solutions for businesses involved in banking and finance, trade and logistics, health and pharmaceutical, life sciences and biotechnology, information technologies, and telecommunications.

We advise over highly complex issues connected with mergers and acquisitions, competition and intellectual property, foreign investments, tax, and corporate matters. Legelata represents clients in litigation and arbitration involving the most vital issues.

Legelata’s team of young and purposeful lawyers has the principal goal of providing the highest quality legal services available anywhere …

Exceeding the expectations of and building long-term relationships with our clients and providing the best solution to our client’s legal needs are priority values in everything we do.

We always adopt innovative strategies and new and creative ways of doing things combined with proven traditional solutions. The prospect of staying an authority in the legal market and becoming the best always motivates us to intake fresh legal talents who drive Legelata forward.

We make continuous investments in our people, research, and development. Meantime we work as a team of individuals who are strongly connected with professional and, more importantly, with personal relations. We continually foster teamwork and integrate as whole management. We owe to and share our success with the team we have.