Vusala Babayeva-Nazirli

Senior Associate

Vusala is a senior member of VLM's legal team. She commenced her professional career at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences as a Human Resources specialist. She had also gained profound legal expertise in a non-banking credit institution as a lawyer before joining our team.

Being a legal expert at VLM, Vusala's valuable knowledge and skills are evident in securing the legal interests of clients from various business sectors, including construction, oil and gas, manufacturing, and many others.

Vusala provides her clients with extensive input in drafting, negotiating, and reviewing agreements, corporate and employment documents, distribution and franchising transactions, and so on. She is actively engaged both in legal and tax due diligence projects. Relying on her expertise in employment and human resources fields, she regularly deals with challenging labor law and HR matters of our clients.

Core Practice Areas

Contracts;
Corporate Law;
International Corporate Structuring;
Business Reorganization;
Statutory Compliance;
Capital Markets;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Labor and Migration Law

Languages

English;
Russian;
Turkish;
Azerbaijani

Education

Baku State University - LL.M in International Law;
Baku State University - Bachelor of Laws

Key Accomplishments

Acted as an Azerbaijani legal expert in the UK courts upon the NCA (National Crime Agency) invitation to the UK;
Provided legal guidance through the process of increasing the authorized share capital for a leading international shipping and logistics company;
Assisted an international mineral water company with the process of the change of director and increase in the authorized share capital;
Delivered due diligence investigations for a big fish industry and a large bakery chain in Azerbaijan;
Provided one of the largest chain of confectionery stores in Azerbaijan with an HR Report;
Assisted a well-known international construction company with HR support on a daily basis.