Personal bio
Fuad Gashamov is a professional lawyer with over 12 years of experience in consulting industry. He mainly specializes in: dispute resolution, real estate, contracts, regulatory, intellectual property and compliance. He graduated from Qafqaz University with a bachelor's degree in “International Law” in 2008 and a master's degree in “International Law” from Baku State University in 2011. Сurrently, he continues his LLM in “Dispute Resolution” at the University of Aberdeen, UK. Fuad Gashamov worked as a lawyer in various consulting companies in 2009-2011, then as a lawyer at OJSC “Azer-Turk Bank” in 2011-2012, as a senior lawyer at the consulting company Reta Commerce in 2012-2013 (as an outsource legal counsel in Veyseloglu Group). From March 2013 to May 2021, Fuad Gashamov started working at Ekvita business consulting company, where for the last 5 years he was the head of dispute resolution practice, and also held the position of a partner of the company since January 2020. Fuad Gashamov has been one of the founding partners of Legalize Law Firm since May 2021. He also works as a lecturer at the Academy of the State Customs Committee since September 2021 and teaches commercial law to law students. He is a member of the Bar Association of the Republic of Azerbaijan since August 25, 2014. He is also a member of the Commission on Business Environment and International Ratings of the Republic of Azerbaijan “Enforcement of contracts, resolution of disputes, closure and bankruptcy of an enterprise, judicial system and rule of law”. In addition to Azerbaijani which is his native language, Fuad Gashamov knows English and Turkish at an advanced level and Russian at an intermediate level. Fuad Gashamov’s ten-years working experience includes: Advised on prospective enforcement of LCIA award in Azerbaijan to a Global 500 ranked Korean company; Represented a UK company in a complicated real estate dispute in Azerbaijan (amount in dispute was more than USD 2 million); Represented an American company in a complex contractual and real estate dispute (amount in dispute was more than USD 20 million); Successfully represented a major US oil services company in several employment and commercial disputes; Successfully represented UK shipping company in employment litigation; Provided full legal support to a Korean construction company in USD 107 million construction project; Represented a UK based company in a loan and real estate related dispute (amount in dispute is approximately AZN 130 million); Acted as a legal expert on the matter of Azerbaijani law in LCIA in multi-hundred-million-dollar dispute between the largest shipping company in the region and the state-owned company; Acted as the party-appointed arbitrator in an international USD 30 million dispute in Istanbul Arbitration Center (ISTAC).