June

FLI is asked to accompany the CEO of a multinational company and travel to the US for a nine-day marathon business meetings.  While in the US Mr. Casares convened a meeting with the VP of a publicly listed company based in DC with whom FLI is discussing potential world-wide collaboration opportunities.

Other high-level meetings were convened under a relentless travel pace.
 

FLI NET has been asked to provide a global litigation support on behalf of a major client in the steel industry. To that effect, FLI Brussels gathered its best and brightest IP and litigation FLI NET Partners from the UK, Germany, Switzerland, and USA to map out the strategy to pursue the desired objectives on a very delicate matter.

FLI is very proud to announce that Kalikova & Associates (www.k-a.kg), a top-rated Kyrgyz law firm, has officially joined FLI, as a 29th partner, and is looking forward to providing high-quality services to FLI and FLI NET Partners’ clients.

Formed in 2002, Kalikova & Associates has rapidly grown into one of the leading law firms in Kyrgyzstan specializing in Business Law.

According to Chambers Global (www.chambersandpartners.com), Kalikova & Associates has established a reputation of a reliable partner to many leading foreign companies, international organizations and diplomatic missions. The firm's strength lies in thorough analysis of current law in combination with economic, political and cultural trends in Kyrgyzstan.

Kalikova & Associates tailor their services to meet the individual and specific needs of our clients and focus on providing high quality advice resulting in effective business decisions for our clients.
 

On the occasion of the 4th CIS Local Counsel Forum held in Kiev Ukraine on June 24th – 26th, Orlando Casares (FLI Principal) met with the FLI NET partners from the CIS states to explore potential business development opportunities in their respective regions.

Hosted by our FLI NET Ukrainian Partners, Ms. Yevgeniya Derbal and Mr. Borys Lobovyk (Konnov & Sozanovsky),  Mr. Casares was delighted to meet up with Ms. Tatyana Suleyeva (Aequitas – FLI NET Kazakhstan), Ms. Gulnara Kalikova (Kalikova & Associates – FLI NET Kyrgyzstan), and Ms. Liliya Vlasova and Mr. Konstantin Mikhel (Vlasova Mikhel & Partners – FLI NET Belarus).  During the meeting, held at the Opera hotel all partners shared their views on best practices to increase cross-border business activities among FLI in the region and in general. 

During the meeting, Ms. Gulnara Kalikova recommended a client-sharing program should be developed to find business synergies; also a list of distressed assets portfolio list should be circulated amongst FLI; Ms. Derbal and Mr. Lobovyk reminded us that Ukraine is hosting the European Football Cup in 2012 which if explored in good time should result in some files for FLI NET Partners.