Our services
Settlement of disputes in IT
REVERA’s team regularly work with clients from the IT sector. We provide legal support in the following types of disputes:
- Disputes over Software development contracts;
- Disputes associated with the protection of exclusive rights in the IT sector;
- Disputes related to the unlawful acquisition and use of confidential information;
- Disputes connected with copyright infringement;
- Other disputes on behalf of IT companies.
Domain disputes
Our services:
- Representing client during the pre-trial stage, in particular preparation of claim (cease and desist letter), response to claim; correspondence with competitor; negotiating over a pre-judicial resolution of dispute;
- Representing client in the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center under the UDRP procedure with respect to claims involving infringement of trademarks and domain name registration;
- Support in disputes involving infringement of trademarks, contestation of trademarks in the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), national courts of European Union countries, Great Britain, USA, and Russian Federation;
- Consulting and analysis of prospects of disputes with competitors, criteria of similarity (up to confusion) between trademarks and domain names; of procedures and prospects of contestation of trademarks, preparing recommendations to mitigate dispute risks;
- Consulting and analysis of signs of unfair registration/use of trademarks or domain names.
Our services
- Representation of interests in state and administrative courts of the Republic of Kazakhstan (economic, administrative, civil cases, city and regional courts, Republic of Kazakhstan Supreme Court)
- Supporting disputes in local and foreign arbitration (tribunal) courts as a local counsel, including document preparation; selection of foreign partners; selection of arbitrator candidates; preparation of legal opinions.
- Recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration decisions in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
- Consulting on the strategy of a potential dispute.
- Legal due diligence before filing the case to court, including services for representation of third parties.
- Researching and engaging foreign consultants specializing in English law to support disputes and arbitration proceedings outside of Kazakhstan.
Participation in pre-trial dispute resolution
- Pre-trial risk analysis, assessment of prospects and cost of litigation, proposal of other dispute resolution options.
- Negotiating dispute resolution, participation in mediation procedures.
- Preparation of opinions on the prospects of dispute consideration within the framework of pre-trial dispute resolution procedures.
Depending on the subject matter of the dispute
- Debts collection
- Foreign economic activity (export, import)
- Corporate disputes.
- Challenging actions of government/ state authorities
- Labour disputes.
- IT disputes.
- Intellectual property disputes.
- Investment protection.
- Resolution of construction disputes.
- Resolution of real estate related disputes.
- Disputes from different contracts (lease, services, joint ventures, etc.).
Experts in the field
Projects
Settlement of multi-million dollar debt out of court
Support in pre-trial settlement of a commercial dispute between an international company in the field of agricultural technology and a distributor in Kazakhstan.
Effective work with debts in a pre-trial manner
Supporting pre-trial resolution of a dispute between an international IT company and a major financial institution in Kazakhstan. After the contract was fulfilled, the client faced a refusal to pay over 70 million tenge.
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