A foreign parent whose Belarusian High-Technology Park subsidiary has built something valuable — a platform, a codebase, a product — reaches a point where it wants the intellectual property “consolidated at the parent,” usually ahead of a financing round or a sale, and usually in the belief that moving IP inside its own group is […]
A foreign company that has set up in Belarus — through a local subsidiary or another registered entity — or begun selling into it, comes to register its brand expecting a formality — file the mark, pay the fee, receive the certificate — and instead meets a refusal on a ground it never saw coming. […]
A founder who has read up on the individual moving parts — how a power of attorney is legalized, whether a company should be an LLC or something else, why an electronic signature is not the shortcut it first appears — reaches the point of wanting the whole thing laid out in order. Not this […]
A foreign founder is ready to set up a Belarusian company without flying in, which is entirely possible, and how most of them do it. Someone tells them the mechanism: sign a power of attorney authorizing a Belarusian representative to handle the registration, get it apostilled, and send it over. So they find a notary, […]
A founder who has just worked out what it takes to send a power of attorney into Belarus — the notary, the apostille or legalisation, the courier, the translation on arrival — asks the obvious question of the age: surely all of that is unnecessary now, and the documents can simply be signed electronically from […]
A head office reading up on setting up in Belarus keeps meeting the same three abbreviations — LLC, CJSC, and the unitary enterprise, or PUE — and cannot tell from the general material whether choosing between them is a formality or a decision that will matter later. The honest position is that for most foreign […]
A foreign manufacturer has been selling into Belarus through an independent distributor for years, and the arrangement has run its course. They want their own people in-country. They want to invoice Belarusian customers directly instead of through a middleman taking a margin. Two advisers have told them to open a representative office, and someone has […]
A foreign company is going into business with a Belarusian partner. The local side brings the things that are hard to import — market access, a customer base, licences, premises, people who know how the sector works locally. The foreign side brings capital and technology. They have agreed the shape of it: the foreign investor […]
A foreign owner of a profitable Belarusian trading company asks what looks like the simplest question in the file: what is our tax rate? The honest answer is that there is no single number, and the gap between the number the owner has in mind and the amount that actually leaves the business is where […]
Three Belarusian entities under common foreign ownership, acquired at different times and for different reasons. One manufactures components. One imports and distributes. One holds the warehouse and the land beneath it. Each has its own director, its own accountant, and its own bank. Cash is stranded in the wrong entity roughly once a quarter. The […]
Two contacts in the same month. The first: an Israeli-American IT founder running a forty-person team serving Middle Eastern and Indian fintech clients, weighing whether to move the operating company from Tel Aviv to Minsk or to a freezone in Dubai. The second: a Russian-Belarusian dual citizen who runs a manufacturing operation supplying EAEU automotive […]
