Firm Description

Lorenz is an international law firm with offices in Brussels, Bishkek and Geneva.

The Bishkek office of Lorenz offers local and international clients a high level of expertise and provides a full range of highly qualified legal services in litigation, arbitration and non-litigation matters, from corporate law to trade disputes, from mining and subsoil use law to real-estate law.

Lorenz office in Bishkek covers the following practice areas:

-international commercial law and transactions;
-mergers and acquisitions;
-corporate law;
-investment law;
-mining and subsoil use law;
-energy law;
-construction and real estate law;
-labour law; and
-arbitration and dispute resolution.

Each of the Lorenz Bishkek lawyers has represented multinational mining companies in the Kyrgyz Republic, primarily in drafting, negotiating, reviewing and amending exploration and extraction licenses (for gold, copper, and other non-ferrous metals), and the underlying contracts, including joint venture arrangements with local entrepreneurs.

A selection of cases in which Lorenz has been involved:

• Acquisition of shares in a large local mining company by the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic.
• Acquisition of shares in a group of Kyrgyz gold mining companies by a Hong Kong company.
• Legal Due Diligence of two of a number of gold mining companies in the Kyrgyz Republic.
• Legal Opinions for the Government of Kyrgyzstan on a license dispute with a joint Western-Kyrgyz mining venture as well as a legal opinion regarding title to a large drill rig.