Legal & regulatory advisory · regulated finance & tech · Uzbekistan
Complexity,
in hands that make
it look simple.
We've built regulated products here and held the licenses ourselves, not just advised on them — so what's a maze to most counsel is ground we've already crossed. We know what you're building, and where it breaks.
PSP · MFO · insurance.
The practice
Our advice comes from
doing it, not reading it.
We didn't learn this market from the statute. We took regulated-finance companies through licensing here, built the compliance, shipped the products, and stood in the room for the supervision after. So the advice is what we'd actually do — a position and a path, fast — not a survey of what the law might mean.
01 From the inside.
We've held the licenses and run under them. You get how the rules are applied, not how they read — and we know which requirements bend and which don't.
02 A decision, not a memo.
A clear view, a recommended route, the risks named. Something you can act on this week — not a hundred pages that end in "it depends."
03 One team, end to end.
Licensing, market entry, AML, compliance, governance, product — one practice. You stop chasing specialists who don't talk to each other, and the matter keeps moving.
Areas of work
What we do. Five areas —
most matters cross more than one.
Ordered by what decides whether a regulated business opens and stays open. Pick one to open it — what it covers, the proof behind it, and the sectors it touches. All areas of work, in detail →
01 · Licensing & Registration
Get authorized.
We take regulated-finance companies through authorization in Uzbekistan — banking, payments, e-money, lending, insurance, crypto. We've held these licenses and we know the people who issue them, so we know what your file will be tested on before you file it. Fewer rounds. Faster yes.
- License applications
- Amendments & renewals
- Change-of-control approval
- Board & key-personnel clearance
- Regulatory sandbox entry
- Ongoing reporting
02 · Market Entry & Structuring
Enter on the right footing.
Entering a market is a commercial call as much as a legal one. We structure your entry around what the business needs to do — entity, ownership, substance, licensing path — and we check the partner, the target, or the market before you're committed to it.
- Entity setup
- Foreign-ownership mapping
- Holding structure
- Tax & substance
- Work permits
- Bank-account opening
- Due diligence
03 · AML / CFT
Built for how it's enforced.
The written rule and the supervised reality aren't the same thing. We built leading AML programs that work in operation and that an examiner accepts as a role model — not a binder assembled the week before inspection.
- AML/CFT program
- KYC / KYB
- Sanctions & PEP screening
- Transaction monitoring
- Policies & procedures
- Compliance officer
- Counterparty checks
04 · Compliance & Governance
Stay clean, stay in control.
Two things keep a regulated company out of trouble: how it follows the rules, and who controls it. We run both — the live compliance function as regulation shifts, and the governance and change-of-control discipline that keeps ownership clear.
- Compliance program
- Internal controls
- Regulatory reporting
- Inspections & liaison
- Boards & bodies
- Fit & proper
05 · Fintech & Tech Product Advisory
Design the product right.
A regulated product is a design problem before it's a compliance one. We advise on payments, lending, e-money, deposits, data, and cybersecurity with the legal and compliance architecture built in — to launch, and to scale.
- Payments & cards
- Lending & BNPL
- E-money & wallets
- Deposits
- Data protection & localization
- Cybersecurity
- Product terms
Where the work connects
Most matters cross
more than one.
A bank needs licensing, AML, and governance before it opens. A wallet needs product advice and AML. Trace how an area meets a sector below — and why one team across both is what keeps a regulated build moving.
How we work
Speed is a value here —
not a slogan.
Licensing runs on its own clock, and we won't pretend otherwise. But everything we control moves fast and in the right order — so a matter reaches its result in the fewest possible rounds.
Understand the business
We start with the product, the structure, the deal — not the registry.
Map the path and the risks
What to secure first, in what order, at what cost, where it can fail — before you commit a soum.
Execute with the regulator
Filings, clearances, and the conversations behind them — carried to approval, not handed back to you.
Stay on as you operate
Compliance, governance, product change — built to move as the framework shifts.
About us
Expertise this market
couldn't get before.
A small, senior team — and a clear reason we exist. We came out of building the legal backbone of a Uzbekistan unicorn and the discipline of Big Four — and started Juris because regulated finance and technology here deserved better than the usual choice: law firms too large to be close, or too small to be deep. So we keep the team small and senior, take a limited number of matters at a time, and give each a partner's full attention.
How the work is done
Seniority,
without the pyramid.
In most firms the work passes down a chain — juniors prepare, a partner reviews, and a matter loses something at each hand-off. We've built the practice differently. Behind every lawyer here sits an engine of Uzbekistan's current legislation, regulatory data, and our own precedents — so the person who takes your matter carries the whole of it: a junior's reach across the detail, an owner's sense of what it's for. The work stays in senior hands from the first read to the final view.
On the matters that tend to stall a larger firm — multi-license, cross-border, a product with no precedent — that's where it shows. It changes the kind of answer you get.
We don't give you an answer to defend yourself with — we give you the one the rest of the market ends up following.
The market we're built for
Ancient ground,
new rails.
Uzbekistan is an old crossroads laying brand-new financial and digital infrastructure — faster than the rules around it can keep up. That gap is exactly where we work.
We know the ground: the regulators, the unwritten practice, how a file actually moves here. And we know the rails: fintech, digital products, and the technology underneath them — because we've built them ourselves. Local where it counts, modern where it matters, on our own engine. That's why the companies building this market's new financial layer come to us to clear the path — and reach us before they commit, not after something's gone wrong.
Track record
What we've
already done here.
Licenses held and operated, products structured, companies built — across the regulated sectors. The full record, matter by matter. See the track record →
Insights
How the rules
actually work here.
Sharp, citable explainers on Uzbekistan's financial regulation — capital floors, supervisory perimeters, data localization, licensed vs registered. Written by the people who file the applications. All insights →
How to Register an MFO in Uzbekistan
Charter capital, the documents that actually get checked, and why most applications stall before they reach review.
AML / CFT in Uzbekistan
The gap between the written rules and supervised practice — and the controls examiners look for first.
Entering the Uzbekistan Market
Entity, ownership, and substance decisions — in the order that keeps your licensing path open.
Bring us the matter.
Tell us what you're building. We'll map the path and what to secure first — fast, and before you commit a soum. You leave knowing the route, the order, and the risks. EN · RU · UZ.