Gamedev
The global computer game industry continues showing a steady growth, and Belarusian gamedev companies are among the leaders of the "world ranking" - the total number of downloads of mobile games of Belarusian developers has already exceeded 1 bln per year.
Aleinikov & Partners' work covers a wide range of issues, from working under publishing agreements, profit sharing agreements, including with key members of the gamedev team, user agreements (EULAs), privacy policies, to interacting with Apple, Google, Steam, and other platforms on game distribution.
We also advise in the field of eSports, including on the transfer of eSports players and related taxation, contracts with players, coaches and managers, and agreements on participation in tournaments.
Projects
Vizor Games
Advising Vizor Games, a Belarus' leading mobile game developer, on an investment transaction with Playrix, one of the world's largest gamedev companies.
Melesta Games
Advising Melesta Games, the Belarusian mobile game developer, on an investment transaction with Wargaming, a developer of the world-popular games World of Tanks and World of Warships.
IGRO TEK
Advising IGRO TEK, a Belarusian development office of Mail.ru Group (My.Games), on applying for a status of HTP resident with a project in the field of product development for the PC games and consoles market.
Awem Games
Advising Awem Games, an international developer and publisher of mobile games, on IP rights protection, publishing, structuring activities within a group of companies, and corporate taxation.
Vizor Games
Advising Vizor Games on eSports activities, including the inclusion of eSports in the list of activities allowed for carrying out under the HTP regime, preparation of documents for registration of relations with coaches and eSports players, regulations for their participation in tournaments, bootcamps, and promotional events.
Sergey Bruy
Co-Founder of Vizor Games
Vizor team would like to express its gratitude to the law firm Aleinikov&Partners for legal support of Vizor Interactive projects. It is quite difficult to find lawyers with an excellent understanding of technologies. Lawyers of "Aleinikov and Partners" are those with whom you can speak the same language. Taking into account the timesaving you can achieve with that, such quality cannot be overemphasized. The law firm "Aleinikov and Partners" can be recommended to IT businesses, which need a modern, flexible and professional team.
Elena Rybina
General councel at HARIBO Russia
We would like to express our sincere thanks to Aleinikov&Partners law firm and its senior partner, advocate Denis Aleinikov for the highly professional legal assistance and representation of our company’s interests in the courts of the Republic of Belarus at all levels. In particular, we would like to note Denis’ deep involvement in work and creative problem-solving approach that led us to the result we wanted to achieve. The work done was highly evaluated by the opposing party, which undoubtedly indicates service excellence and sets the company apart from the leading Belarusian law firms.
Sergey Kostevich
CEO at ASBISc
We have acquired a reliable partner and consultant in the face of the law firm “Aleinikov and Partners”. We recommend the company for cooperation to anyone who needs effective legal support for M&A deals. It should be noted with confidence that lawyers solve problems with high efficiency and in short time, and not afraid to take the challenges of non-standard clients' requests.
Aleinikov&Partners provided overall legal assistance in M&A transaction on acqusition of MapData by American Mapbox.
Aleinikov & Partners has been advising the Development Bank of the Republic of Belarus (DBRB) in drafting a regulatory legal act aimed at amendment of the Belarusian legislation to entitle the DBRB to conduct venture capital financing
Aleinikov&Partners Law Firm became the local consultant of the World Bank in the frame of the World Bank’s project on international technical assistance to Belarus aimed at harmonizing of the domestic legislation with respective EU Directives and international standards.