VLM and Partners

Legal

Managing Partner

With over twenty years of experience in sectors as diverse as energy, finance, banking, consumer markets, and retail & manufacturing, Vugar brings insight and know-how to major local and international clients. He gained extensive experience in tax and legal practices at PwC Azerbaijan. Later, he was invited to set up and head the Legal Practice at Deloitte Azerbaijan for many years.

​Vugar has been an arbitrator of the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA) since 2022.

​Vugar advises on complex business and trade transactions, mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations and consolidations, and project finance and applies his legal, tax, and business expertise to transactional documentation and negotiations, legal due diligence, and financial considerations of clients' deals.

​He acted as a legal expert in various foreign courts and arbitrations in Switzerland and the UK, as well as at the NCA (National Crime Agency), UK. Furthermore, he brought his valuable legal expertise into overseas projects of international organizations such as the Asian Development Bank.

​Vugar has extensive involvement in PPP (public-private partnership) projects as well as in all matters relating to their registration and operational matters, issuance of legal opinions, corporate investigations, etc. Additionally, he supports clients in investment protection, private international law, and other areas.

English, Turkish, Azerbaijani

IFLR1000

Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA)

The Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN)

Erasmus University Rotterdam - LL.M, International Business and Trade Law;​

Qafqaz University - Bachelor of Laws