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.

Mr. 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, Mr. 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.

Mr. 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, Mr. Gashamov knows English and Turkish at an advanced level and Russian at an intermediate level.