Registration of a company (LLC)

A Russian advertising agency whose client is a leading Moscow airport and a Hong Kong company specializing in lighting technology and other installations, decided to create an LLC with the aim of joint cooperation and provision of comprehensive services to clients. At the same time, the company from Hong Kong decided to contribute to the authorized capital in the form of intellectual property, namely, a unique technology in the field of lighting.

• Lawyers negotiated with representatives of both parties and agreed on the basic conditions;
• Prepared incorporation documents, including a corporate agreement at the request of the client;
• Accompanied the process of property valuation for the contribution to the authorized capital of the future LLC;
• Communicated with tax authorities and non-budgetary funds;

The executives of a large Russian magazine decided to conduct reorganization in the form of transforming a private JSC into an LLC. In the original structure, the general meeting of shareholders consisted of 20 shareholders. Accordingly, it was necessary to carry out reorganization at a high level and consider the rights of all shareholders.

• Lawyers prepared a roadmap for reorganization, held negotiations with shareholders, agreed on all the conditions for creating a new LLC;
• Prepared the incorporation documents and application forms required for filing with the Federal Tax Service;
• Communicated with the register of shareholders, tax authorities and extra-budgetary funds.

A large foreign company incorporated in Germany and represented on the territory of the Russian Federation by affiliated legal entities whose main scope of activity is the research, production and sales of innovative plants in the field of agricultural production, has reached out to VALEN Group lawyers to provide assistance and full range of services in the matter of legal, from migration legislation standpoint, employment of a foreign citizen accepted as CEO of a Russian legal entity.

The case was sophisticated by the fact that the above foreign citizen acted as the General Director of two Russian companies being part of the German holding company operating in different regions of Russia.

VALEN Group lawyers:

• collected and prepared the entire package of necessary documents for permits obtaining in the migration authorities;
• submitted documents to the relevant structural divisions located in different regions of Russia;
• provided support for the client to the state body when receiving documents.

As a result of the work done, a foreign citizen has successfully obtained documents that allow him to freely carry out work in the Russian Federation on legal grounds.

A foreign company interested in expanding the scope of its commercial activities decided to enter the Russian market, and therefore applied to VALEN Group for assistance in setting up a limited liability company.

In addition to establishing a legal entity on the territory of the Russian Federation, it was necessary to provide the client with assistance in the subsequent employment of a foreign citizen as General Director of the established company in strict accordance with the rules of Russian employment and migration legislation, as well as to afterwards change the sole executive body of the LLC to a management company.

Besides, as soon as the Russian company was incorporated, the client expressed a desire to enter into a transaction for the purchase and sale of shares in the authorized capital of the established LLC, at that the buyers of the shares were 2 foreign citizens. Thus, the number of LLC members increased to 3.

VALEN Group lawyers:

• successfully registered a limited liability company;
• collected and submitted the entire package of documents for obtaining permits necessary for legal employment;
• prepared all the necessary documents for the change of the sole executive body to the management company;

provided full assistance in concluding the purchase and sale of shares.

An international travel platform from Sweden, which was interested in expanding the scope of its commercial activities, has decided to enter the Russian market, and therefore has applied to VALEN Group for assistance in registering a limited liability company.

The case was sophisticated by the fact that the beneficiaries of the company planned to form a limited liability company with two foreign directors acting jointly, three members of the Board of directors, all of whom are foreign citizens.

VALEN Group lawyers:

• have prepared the constituent documents and the forms required for filing with the Federal Tax Service;
• provided support for the client in the state body.

A foreign company, which is a leader among manufacturers of components for commercial refrigeration equipment in the CIS countries, applied to VALEN Group with a request for accreditation of a representative office of this company, incorporated under the legislation of a foreign state, in order to legally carry out business activities on the territory of the Russian Federation.

The complexity of the entire accreditation process was due to the fact that the founders of the foreign company were persons who were not residents of the country of company’s incorporation, as well as due to significant restrictive measures taken in connection with the spread of coronavirus infection which have significantly complicated the entire process.

VALEN Group lawyers:

• prepared a comprehensive set of documents for the accreditation of the representative office in accordance with the requirements of the current legislation;
• submitted a set of necessary documents to the authorized state executive authority;
• received a document confirming the accreditation of the representative office, as well as all the necessary documents from the extra-budgetary funds of the Russian Federation;
• performed actions to open a current account of the representative office in a Russian bank.