Two phone calls. The first: your co-founder wants out by the end of the quarter and already has another project lined up. The second: an investor on the other side of the world wants twenty percent of your Belarusian company, and the term sheet is sitting in your inbox. Both calls sound like a one-form […]
It’s a Tuesday in October. Your accountant in Minsk forwards three filing reminders before 10am. The bank wants beneficial-ownership confirmation by Friday. A tax-authority letter has been at the legal address for eleven days, and nobody has opened it. None of this was on your radar this morning. Most months your Belarusian subsidiary doesn’t appear […]
You’ve trademarked your brand back home. Maybe you’ve also got it covered across half of Europe. Useful work. None of it does anything for you in Belarus yet. That’s because Belarus runs on first-to-file. Whoever lodges an application at the National Center of Intellectual Property in Minsk first gets the rights here. Your brand might […]
You’ve had a good year, your Belarusian company has profit to spare, and you’d like to take some of it home as a dividend. Simple enough — until you ask two questions that people tend to blur into one. How much tax comes off the top? And, increasingly, can you actually move the money out […]
You set up a Belarusian subsidiary a few years ago, and now — for whatever reason — you want out. On paper, selling your stake looks like any other share deal: agree a price, sign the contract, update the register. In today’s Belarus, that picture is misleading, and acting on it can leave you with […]
Few procedures in Belarusian corporate practice offer the flexibility of reorganization. It can change a company’s legal form, merge related entities, hive off a business line, or absorb one company into another, with full legal succession preserved at each step. For foreign investors and Belarusian owners alike, it is often the cleanest way to move […]
In January 2026, Belarus did something most jurisdictions still haven’t done. It legally recognised “crypto banks” as a distinct category — joint-stock companies that combine traditional banking services with digital token operations under unified state supervision. Decree No. 19 of January 16, 2026, created the new legal category, set the dual oversight model — HTP […]
Opening a Limited Liability Company (LLC) is one of the most common ways to start a business in Belarus. This form of business combines management flexibility, structural transparency, and limited liability for its participants, making it suitable for both small and medium-sized businesses. For an entrepreneur just starting out, it is important to understand not […]
In today’s global economy, companies increasingly face the need to resolve disputes that extend beyond the borders of a single country. Foreign court decisions may affect the businesses, investments, and assets of Belarusian companies. However, obtaining the right to enforce such a decision in Belarus requires a separate recognition procedure. Recognition of a foreign court […]
Proper business structuring is the foundation of long-term stability, operational efficiency, and legal security. Regardless of the size of your operations, selecting the appropriate legal form helps minimize risks, optimize taxation, simplify the investment attraction process, and foster transparent relationships between partners. Entrepreneurs in Belarus can choose from several legal forms of doing business, including […]
