{"id":4882,"date":"2026-08-24T18:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T15:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/?p=4882"},"modified":"2026-09-01T00:46:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T21:46:45","slug":"counterparty-due-diligence-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/news\/counterparty-due-diligence-belarus\/","title":{"rendered":"Counterparty Due Diligence on Belarusian Suppliers and Customers Before You Sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_86 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/div>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/news\/counterparty-due-diligence-belarus\/#What_you_can_verify_the_register_and_the_UNP\" >What you can verify: the register and the UNP<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/news\/counterparty-due-diligence-belarus\/#Authority_to_sign_the_check_foreign_companies_skip\" >Authority to sign: the check foreign companies skip<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/news\/counterparty-due-diligence-belarus\/#Solvency_enforcement_and_litigation\" >Solvency, enforcement, and litigation<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/news\/counterparty-due-diligence-belarus\/#What_to_ask_the_counterparty_for\" >What to ask the counterparty for<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/news\/counterparty-due-diligence-belarus\/#Sanctions_and_ownership_the_overlay_with_no_home_equivalent\" >Sanctions and ownership: the overlay with no home equivalent<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/news\/counterparty-due-diligence-belarus\/#Let_the_contract_carry_the_rest\" >Let the contract carry the rest<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/news\/counterparty-due-diligence-belarus\/#Diligence_does_not_end_at_the_signature\" >Diligence does not end at the signature<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/news\/counterparty-due-diligence-belarus\/#The_due-diligence_checklist_at_a_glance\" >The due-diligence checklist, at a glance<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/news\/counterparty-due-diligence-belarus\/#Frequently_asked_questions\" >Frequently asked questions<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/news\/counterparty-due-diligence-belarus\/#Before_the_line_or_after_it\" >Before the line, or after it<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A foreign company with a Belarusian supplier or customer lined up and a contract ready to sign usually has a quiet question in the background: how much can it really know about the party on the other side? The reassuring answer is: more than it expects. Belarus has a public company register, a counterparty\u2019s details are largely open to inspection, and verification is not the black box that foreign companies often assume it to be. But \u2014 and this is the part that matters \u2014 the checks that actually protect you are not the ones you would run at home; they are a set of specifically local ones, together with a single overlay that has no equivalent in your usual diligence at all: sanctions screening. And there is a reason to do all of this properly that most foreign companies do not know, beyond ordinary prudence. In a later dispute \u2014 over an unpaid invoice, or with the tax authority \u2014 a Belarusian court will ask, as one of its first questions, whether you checked your counterparty before you dealt with it. Diligence here is therefore not only commercial hygiene but a documented defence, and its absence can count against you well after the deal is done. You contract, of course, through your own Belarusian entity, which we assume is in place \u2014 the subject of our writing on <a href=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/news\/register-belarus-company-remotely\/\">registering a Belarusian company remotely<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What follows is the shape of a sensible check, in the order it is worth doing it: what you can verify and how openly, whether the person signing can actually bind the company, whether the counterparty is solvent and not mired in litigation, the sanctions question that sits over all of it, and finally what the contract itself should carry that diligence cannot. The aim is not an exhaustive investigation of every counterparty but a proportionate, defensible one \u2014 enough to know who you are dealing with before you commit, rather than after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_you_can_verify_the_register_and_the_UNP\"><\/span><strong>What you can verify: the register and the UNP<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The natural starting point is also the reassuring one, because it dismantles the assumption that a Belarusian counterparty cannot be checked at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That starting point is the Unified State Register \u2014 the EGR, maintained by the Ministry of Justice and open to search. Armed with the counterparty\u2019s taxpayer number, the UNP, or simply its name, you can confirm that the company exists and is what it presents itself to be: its legal form, its field of activity, its registered address, its director, its former names, and \u2014 the detail that matters most \u2014 its current status, including any mark that it is in reorganisation, in liquidation, or has been struck from the register altogether. That is a considerable amount of information, available publicly and quickly through the <a href=\"https:\/\/egr.gov.by\/\">register<\/a> that the <a href=\"https:\/\/minjust.gov.by\/\">Ministry of Justice<\/a> maintains, and it is worth resting on the point: the fear that a Belarusian counterparty is unknowable is simply misplaced. Two practical notes follow. The register tells you the legal form, which for a supplier or customer is worth understanding on its own terms \u2014 an LLC and a closed joint-stock company carry different characteristics, as our writing on <a href=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/news\/cjsc-vs-llc-belarus-when-to-choose\/\">choosing between a CJSC and an LLC<\/a> sets out \u2014 and you should carry the counterparty\u2019s details into the contract exactly as they appear on the register card, since a discrepancy is both an early warning and a later problem. The counterparty\u2019s taxpayer standing can be checked separately through the <a href=\"https:\/\/nalog.gov.by\/\">tax register<\/a>, and the same public ecosystem lets you confirm matters that bear directly on a deal \u2014 whether the counterparty holds a licence that its activity requires, for instance \u2014 so the picture available to you extends well beyond the bare fact of registration. The registered address is itself worth a moment\u2019s attention, a point our writing on <a href=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/news\/what-is-legal-address\/\">the legal address and what lies behind it<\/a> takes up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Authority_to_sign_the_check_foreign_companies_skip\"><\/span><strong>Authority to sign: the check foreign companies skip<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Confirming that a company exists is not the same as confirming that the person signing on its behalf can commit it, and the gap between the two is where foreign companies are most often caught. Authority to sign rests with the director \u2014 whose appointment and powers appear on the register card and in the company\u2019s charter \u2014 or with a person holding a valid power of attorney granted by the company. A contract signed by someone without that authority may not bind the company at all, which quietly turns an apparently concluded deal into an unenforceable one, a failure that no amount of commercial goodwill afterwards will repair. The discipline that avoids it is straightforward: establish who is actually signing; confirm from the register and the charter that they are the director with power to sign, or obtain and read the power of attorney if they are a representative; and check that the authority genuinely extends to the transaction in front of you rather than to something narrower. It is a small and unglamorous step, and it forestalls one of the more painful outcomes in cross-border dealing \u2014 a contract that looked binding, was relied upon, and turns out not to have been binding at all. The rules on representation and authority sit in the Civil Code, published on <a href=\"https:\/\/pravo.by\/\">pravo.by<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Solvency_enforcement_and_litigation\"><\/span><strong>Solvency, enforcement, and litigation<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Existence and authority settled, the next question is whether the counterparty can and will actually perform \u2014 and here too there is more open to you than you might assume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether the company is in bankruptcy is checkable on the dedicated register of bankruptcy information; a pattern of enforcement proceedings against it \u2014 debts being collected from it by force \u2014 is a fair signal that it may struggle to meet its obligations to you as well; and its litigation history can be reviewed through the <a href=\"https:\/\/court.gov.by\/\">Supreme Court\u2019s data bank of judicial decisions<\/a>, with commercial disputes running through the economic courts. None of this yields a complete financial picture \u2014 for that you may still need the counterparty to hand over statements \u2014 but it answers the more immediate and often more important question of whether you are about to deal with a company that is already in difficulty. Signing with a counterparty that is being wound up, or that is buried in enforcement actions, is a classic and entirely avoidable mistake, and the tools that avoid it are, once again, largely open to inspection. What being \u201cin liquidation\u201d actually means, and how the wind-down runs, is set out in our writing on <a href=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/news\/liquidate-company\/\">liquidating a Belarusian company<\/a> \u2014 and it is precisely the status you do not want to discover in a counterparty only after you have signed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5804\" height=\"3712\" src=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/team-businessman-use-laptop-computer-take-notes-notebook-office-desk-morning.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4886\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_to_ask_the_counterparty_for\"><\/span><strong>What to ask the counterparty for<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much of the checking above you can do yourself, from public sources; some of it is better confirmed by asking the counterparty directly, and a serious one will not object.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is worth asking for a set of documents. An extract from the register, recent enough to be current, confirms the registration details you have already checked and gives them to you on the counterparty\u2019s own authority. The charter establishes the company\u2019s constitution and the scope of its director\u2019s powers. A document evidencing the director\u2019s appointment \u2014 or, where a representative is signing, the power of attorney under which they act \u2014 confirms the authority you will be relying on, and should be read closely rather than merely collected. Where the counterparty\u2019s activity is one that requires a licence, a copy of it confirms the licence is held. And where the size of the deal warrants the request, recent financial statements give a fuller view of solvency than the public records alone. None of this is exotic, and the act of asking is itself informative: a counterparty that is slow, evasive, or unable to produce standard corporate documents has told you something useful before you sign. The documents also leave you with a dated record of what you verified \u2014 which, given that a Belarusian court may later ask precisely that, is worth keeping on file rather than discarding once the ink is dry. For a foreign company one practical point bears adding: these documents will usually be in Russian, and are worth having translated for your own review and records rather than filed unread in a language your team cannot check.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Sanctions_and_ownership_the_overlay_with_no_home_equivalent\"><\/span><strong>Sanctions and ownership: the overlay with no home equivalent<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One layer of diligence on a Belarusian counterparty has no counterpart in the checklist you would run at home, and it carries the gravest consequences if it is missed. Belarus is subject to sanctions imposed by the European Union, the United States and the United Kingdom, directed at particular officials, businesspeople connected to the authorities, and companies associated with them. For a foreign company the risk is direct and personal to it: dealing with a counterparty that is itself listed, or that is owned or controlled by a listed person, can expose the foreign company to serious legal consequences in its own jurisdiction, however ordinary and commercial the underlying transaction may appear. Screening the counterparty against the applicable sanctions lists is therefore not an optional refinement but a necessary step \u2014 and screening its ownership and control, not merely its name, because the exposure can run through the people behind the company rather than the company itself. A company need not appear on a list under its own name to be caught by one: where it is owned or controlled, above the relevant threshold, by a person who is listed, the restrictions can extend to it as well, which is why the ownership analysis matters every bit as much as the name over the door. And because listings change over time, the position is one to establish as at the moment you deal rather than to take on trust from an earlier look. Given what is at stake, this is a check to run with specialist sanctions advice rather than a hurried self-search, and to treat as a condition of proceeding rather than a formality. It is, of all the steps here, the one a foreign company is likeliest to underweight and least able to afford getting wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Let_the_contract_carry_the_rest\"><\/span><strong>Let the contract carry the rest<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diligence establishes what is knowable before signing; the contract has to carry what is not, and two things belong in it for that reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first is protection against what you could not fully verify: representations and warranties from the counterparty that it is duly organised and in good standing, that the person signing is authorised, that it is not insolvent, and that neither it nor its owners are sanctioned \u2014 so that if any of these later proves untrue, you hold a contractual remedy rather than merely a loss. The second is the machinery a cross-border Belarusian deal actually needs: a governing-law and dispute-resolution clause chosen deliberately rather than by default, and payment and currency terms that account for Belarusian currency-control rules, which shape how, and in what currency, cross-border payments may be made, and which are administered through the banking system under the national bank. The account and payment side of this is bound up with the practical realities set out in our writing on <a href=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/news\/corporate-bank-account-belarus-slower-than-registration\/\">the corporate bank account<\/a> and why it takes longer than the company. Matching the contract to the register, warranting what you have checked, and drafting the payment terms around the currency regime is how the contract does the part that diligence alone cannot reach \u2014 and it is worth the drafting time, because a well-made contract is what remains when a counterparty turns out to be less than it appeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Diligence_does_not_end_at_the_signature\"><\/span><strong>Diligence does not end at the signature<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One assumption worth discarding is that diligence is a single event, done before signing and then filed away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a one-off transaction that may be fair enough, but for a continuing relationship \u2014 a supply contract that runs for years, a customer you invoice month after month \u2014 the counterparty you checked at the outset is not necessarily the counterparty you have a year later. A company can enter liquidation, fall into a pattern of enforcement, change hands, or \u2014 the change with the sharpest consequences of all \u2014 become sanctioned, every one of these after you have signed and while you are still dealing with it. The registers that let you check at the start let you check again, and for a relationship of any size or duration it is worth re-running the core checks periodically rather than treating the opening diligence as permanent. The sanctions position in particular can shift over the life of a contract, and continuing to deal with a counterparty that has since been listed is no safer for the fact that it was safe when you began. Building a light periodic review into how the relationship is managed \u2014 rather than checking once and assuming it holds \u2014 is the natural counterpart to checking before you sign, and it guards against the problem that arrives after the line rather than before it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_due-diligence_checklist_at_a_glance\"><\/span><strong>The due-diligence checklist, at a glance<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th><strong>Check<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>Where to look<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>The risk it catches<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Registration &amp; status<\/strong><\/td><td>The EGR (egr.gov.by)<\/td><td>A company that doesn\u2019t exist, or is in liquidation<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Authority to sign<\/strong><\/td><td>The register card, charter, and any power of attorney<\/td><td>A contract signed by someone who can\u2019t bind the company<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Solvency &amp; enforcement<\/strong><\/td><td>The bankruptcy register and enforcement records<\/td><td>A counterparty that can\u2019t or won\u2019t pay<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Litigation<\/strong><\/td><td>The Supreme Court data bank<\/td><td>A pattern of disputes or default<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Sanctions &amp; ownership<\/strong><\/td><td>Applicable EU \/ US \/ UK lists, with advice<\/td><td>Legal exposure for you from a listed party<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<section class=\"hfaq\">\n    <div class=\"hfaq__container\">\n        <div class=\"hfaq__wrapper\">\n\t\t\t            <h2 class=\"hfaq__title title title-lg\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Frequently_asked_questions\"><\/span>Frequently asked questions<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\t\t\t            <div class=\"hfaq__items\">\n\t\t\t\t                    <div class=\"accordion\">\n                        <div class=\"accordion__head\">How do I check whether a Belarusian company actually exists?<\/div>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__body\">\n                            <div class=\"accordion__inner\"><p>Through the Unified State Register, the EGR, maintained by the Ministry of Justice and open to search by the company\u2019s taxpayer number, the UNP, or its name. It confirms that the company exists and shows its legal form, activity, registered address, director, former names, and current status \u2014 including whether it is in reorganisation, in liquidation, or has been struck from the register. It is public and quick, which is why the assumption that a Belarusian counterparty cannot be verified is mistaken.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t                    <div class=\"accordion\">\n                        <div class=\"accordion__head\">What is the UNP, and why do I need it?<\/div>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__body\">\n                            <div class=\"accordion__inner\"><p>The UNP is the counterparty\u2019s taxpayer registration number, and it is the key that unlocks the registers: with it you can look the company up in the EGR, check its tax standing, and search the bankruptcy and litigation records. You can often search by name instead, but the UNP identifies the company unambiguously, which matters where names are similar. Ask for it early, and use it to run the checks before you commit rather than after.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t                    <div class=\"accordion\">\n                        <div class=\"accordion__head\">How do I know the person signing can bind the company?<\/div>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__body\">\n                            <div class=\"accordion__inner\"><p>Check their authority. It rests with the director \u2014 whose appointment and powers appear on the register card and in the charter \u2014 or with someone holding a valid power of attorney from the company. A contract signed by a person without that authority may not bind the company, turning an apparent deal into an unenforceable one. So confirm the signatory is the director with power to sign, or read the power of attorney if they are a representative, and check it covers the transaction in question.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t                    <div class=\"accordion\">\n                        <div class=\"accordion__head\">Can I find out if a Belarusian counterparty is in financial trouble?<\/div>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__body\">\n                            <div class=\"accordion__inner\"><p>To a useful extent, yes. Whether it is in bankruptcy is checkable on the dedicated register of bankruptcy information; a pattern of enforcement proceedings against it signals difficulty meeting obligations; and its litigation history is visible through the Supreme Court\u2019s data bank of judicial decisions, with commercial matters in the economic courts. This does not give a full financial picture \u2014 for that you may need the counterparty\u2019s statements \u2014 but it tells you whether it is already in trouble, which is often what matters most.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t                    <div class=\"accordion\">\n                        <div class=\"accordion__head\">Do I need to worry about sanctions when dealing with a Belarusian company?<\/div>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__body\">\n                            <div class=\"accordion__inner\"><p>Yes, and it is the check with no home equivalent. Belarus is subject to EU, US and UK sanctions aimed at certain officials, regime-linked businesspeople, and associated companies, and dealing with a counterparty that is listed \u2014 or owned or controlled by a listed person \u2014 can expose your company to serious legal consequences at home. So screen the counterparty and its ownership against the applicable lists, and do it with specialist sanctions advice rather than a quick self-search, treating it as a condition of proceeding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t                    <div class=\"accordion\">\n                        <div class=\"accordion__head\">Does doing due diligence actually matter if a dispute arises later?<\/div>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__body\">\n                            <div class=\"accordion__inner\"><p>It does, in a way foreign companies often do not expect. In a later dispute over debts, or with the tax authority over a bad-faith counterparty, a Belarusian court will establish whether you checked your counterparty before dealing with it \u2014 so diligence is a documented defence, not only prudence, and its absence can count against you. Keeping a record of the checks you ran is therefore worth the small effort, because it may matter long after the contract was signed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t                    <div class=\"accordion\">\n                        <div class=\"accordion__head\">What should the contract itself include?<\/div>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__body\">\n                            <div class=\"accordion__inner\"><p>What diligence cannot guarantee. Representations and warranties that the counterparty is duly organised and in good standing, that the signatory is authorised, that it is solvent, and that it and its owners are not sanctioned \u2014 so a breach gives you a remedy. Plus a deliberate governing-law and dispute-resolution clause, and payment and currency terms drafted around Belarusian currency-control rules. Match the details to the register exactly. The contract carries what the checks cannot reach, so it is worth drafting with care.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t                    <div class=\"accordion\">\n                        <div class=\"accordion__head\">What documents should I ask the counterparty for?<\/div>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__body\">\n                            <div class=\"accordion__inner\"><p>A current extract from the register; the charter; evidence of the director\u2019s appointment, or the power of attorney if a representative is signing; a copy of any licence the counterparty\u2019s activity requires; and, for a deal of any size, recent financial statements. A serious counterparty will provide these without difficulty, and the request is itself informative \u2014 reluctance or an inability to produce standard documents is a signal in its own right. Keep what you receive on file, since it is also your dated record of what you checked, and have it translated where it comes in Russian.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t                    <div class=\"accordion\">\n                        <div class=\"accordion__head\">Do I need to keep checking after we have signed?<\/div>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__body\">\n                            <div class=\"accordion__inner\"><p>For a one-off deal, not usually; for a continuing relationship, yes. A counterparty can enter liquidation, fall into enforcement, change ownership, or become sanctioned after you have signed and while you are still dealing with it \u2014 the sanctions position especially can change over the life of a contract. So for a relationship of any size or length, re-run the core checks periodically rather than treating the initial diligence as permanent. A light periodic review is the sensible counterpart to checking before you sign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <script>\n        document.querySelector( '.hfaq__items' ).addEventListener( 'click', function ( e ) {\n            if ( e.target.classList.contains( 'accordion__head' ) ) {\n                let root = e.target.closest( '.accordion' );\n                let body = e.target.nextElementSibling;\n\n                if ( body.style.maxHeight ) {\n                    body.style.maxHeight = null;\n                    root.classList.remove( 'accordion--expanded' );\n                }\n                else {\n                    body.style.maxHeight = body.scrollHeight + 'px';\n                    root.classList.add( 'accordion--expanded' );\n                }\n            }\n        } );\n\n        document.querySelectorAll( '.hfaq' ).forEach( node => node.querySelector( '.accordion__head' ).click() );\n    <\/script>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Before_the_line_or_after_it\"><\/span><strong>Before the line, or after it<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A signature is a threshold of a particular kind. Before it, the counterparty\u2019s problems are the counterparty\u2019s; after it, they are, in part, yours. An insolvent supplier is a fact you can walk away from before the contract and a loss you must absorb after it; an unauthorised signatory is a question you can resolve beforehand and a void agreement afterwards; a sanctioned customer is a party you can decline to deal with in advance and a serious exposure once you are dealing with them. The whole purpose of diligence is to move the discovery of a problem to the right side of that line \u2014 to know before you sign what you would otherwise learn afterwards, when it is too late to say no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Belarus, the means to do that are more open than foreign companies expect: the register is public, the local checks that matter are the ones to concentrate on, the sanctions screening is the one that cannot be skipped, and the contract is built to carry whatever the checks cannot reach. The diligence is cheap and fast; the failure it prevents is neither, and it always lands on the wrong side of the line. If you are preparing to sign with a Belarusian supplier or customer and want the checking done properly \u2014 the register verified, the authority confirmed, the sanctions position cleared, and the contract drafted to protect you \u2014 that is work our team does routinely, and does before the line rather than after it. When you are ready, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/opencompanyinbelarus.com\/eng\/contacts\/\">contact our team<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A foreign company with a Belarusian supplier or customer lined up and a contract ready to sign usually has a quiet question in the background: how much can it really know about the party on the other side? The reassuring answer is: more than it expects. 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