Dilshodbek Kenjaboyev
Partner, Business Lawyers Group
Advocate and Partner at Business Lawyers Group in Tashkent. He defends executives, officials and companies in white-collar cases (corruption and bribery, embezzlement, fraud, tax offences) at every stage, from the pre-investigation inquiry to cassation, and advises companies on corporate and employment matters, including clients from Germany, Canada and the United States.
In December 2024 he won the “Rising Star” («Порлаётган юлдуз») nomination of the Advocate of the Year 2024 contest, held by the Chamber of Advocates of the Republic of Uzbekistan together with the NGO Regional Dialogue.
Before joining the firm in 2020 he served as assistant to the Yangiyer city prosecutor (2016–2017) and taught at the Department of Criminal Procedure Law and Criminalistics of Tashkent State University of Law (2017–2019). He co-authored the university’s 2018 textbooks on criminal procedure and criminalistics.
He is now a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Judicial Power, Advocacy and Law Enforcement Bodies of TSUL, and a mediator certified by TSUL’s professional training centre (2021).
He holds a law degree from TSUL (2016), completed postgraduate studies in law at Chonnam National University in Korea (2019–2020), and earned an LLM in International Commercial Law with Merit from Westminster International University in Tashkent (2026), with a dissertation on corruption in arbitration. His doctoral research concerns the regulation of the legal profession through advocates’ organisations.
He has supervised more than 50 trainee advocates, all of whom now practise; four have passed a US bar examination. He works in Uzbek, Russian and English.
Key facts
- Position
- Partner, Business Lawyers Group
- Licence
- Advocate licence No. 112633, since 2021
- Recognition
- Winner, “Rising Star” nomination, Advocate of the Year 2024 contest — Chamber of Advocates of Uzbekistan and Regional Dialogue Source
- Teaching
- Senior Lecturer, Department of Judicial Power, Advocacy and Law Enforcement Bodies, Tashkent State University of Law
- ADR
- Mediator, certificate MT No. 000062 (TSUL, 2021)
- ADR
- Arbitrator, Union of International Arbitration Courts of Uzbekistan
- Education
- LLM in International Commercial Law (Merit), Westminster International University in Tashkent, 2026; postgraduate studies, Chonnam National University (Korea), 2019–2020; LLB, Tashkent State University of Law, 2016
- Career
- Business Lawyers Group (since 2020); Lecturer, TSUL (2017–2019); Assistant Prosecutor, Yangiyer (2016–2017)
- Training
- WTO Law / Contract Law and Dispute Resolution, Ministry of Justice and TSUL (2023); Uzbek Arbitration Week (2024)
- Languages
- Uzbek, Russian, English
Research and degrees
- LLMCorruption in arbitrationcompleted, 2026
- PhDRegulating the practice of law through advocates’ organisationsin progress
Publications
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The Origins of the Legal Profession and Its Bridging Function: Roman Law, the Turkestan Legal Tradition, and Modern Legal Theory
Society and Innovations, 2026, vol. 7, no. 9/S, pp. 270–282 · DOI 10.47689/2181-1415-vol7-iss9/S-pp270-282
Abstract
The article examines the origins of legal advocacy through its function of mediating between individuals and the law. Drawing on Roman sources, al-Marghinani’s al-Hidaya and the practice of qadi courts in Turkestan, it argues that publishing legal rules does not remove information asymmetry but shifts it to interpretation and procedure, and that the enduring function of advocacy is a bridging one.
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Advokatlik faoliyatida “kollegiya” va “hay’at” atamalarining etimologik va huquqiy mazmuniga ko‘ra evolyutsiyasi
The evolution of the terms “collegium” and “hay’at” in advocacy: etymology and legal meaning
Zamonaviy dunyoda ijtimoiy fanlar: respublika ilmiy-amaliy konferensiyasi, 2026, vol. 5, no. 25 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23262257
Abstract
Tezisda advokatlar birlashmasini ifodalovchi “kollegiya” (lot. collegium) va “hay’at” atamalarining kelib chiqishi hamda Rim huquqi, Rossiya davlat boshqaruvi, sovet huquqi va O‘zbekistonning amaldagi qonunchiligidagi mazmuni tahlil qilingan. Postsovet davlatlarida bitta atama ikki turdagi turli huquqiy institutlarni ifodalashi ko‘rsatilib, terminologik aniqlik bo‘yicha takliflar berilgan.
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“Давлат адвокат аёллар кўпроқ бўлишини истаса, уларнинг ижтимоий таъминоти масаласини албатта кўриб чиқиши керак”
“If the state wants more women in the bar, it must address their social security”
Advokat-Press (newspaper of the Chamber of Advocates of Uzbekistan), January 2025, no. 1 (48), p. 2 — interview with the winners of the Advocate of the Year 2024 contest · Excerpt on Telegram (@advokatnews)
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Процессуал ҳаракатлар ва қарорлар устидан шикоят қилиш ҳуқуқи амалда таъминланмоқдами?
Is the right to appeal procedural actions and decisions guaranteed in practice?
ADVOKAT (journal of the Chamber of Advocates of Uzbekistan), 2024, no. 6 · Excerpt on Telegram (@advokatnews)
Abstract
The article shows how investigators deny defence counsel access to, and copies of, decisions to open a criminal case, detain a suspect or bring charges, and how this undermines the right of appeal under Articles 53 and 358 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
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Ўзбекистонда нега оқлов ҳукмлари кам чиқади?
Why are acquittals rare in Uzbekistan?
ADVOKAT (journal of the Chamber of Advocates of Uzbekistan), 2023, no. 6, pp. 20–25
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Impediments to Investigating Cybercrimes: Comparison of Some Common Law Countries and Uzbekistan
Journal of Law Research, 2020, vol. 3, issue 5, pp. 69–79 · DOI 10.26739/2181-9130-2020-3-9
Abstract
The paper identifies systemic impediments that obstruct police investigations, prosecutions and digital forensic examinations of cybercrimes in common law and civil law countries, with particular attention to Uzbekistan, and proposes amendments to Uzbek legislation.
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Суд компьютер экспертизаси ва унинг натижаларидан ахборот технологиялари соҳасидаги жиноятларни очиш ҳамда тергов қилишда фойдаланиш
Forensic computer examination and the use of its results in detecting and investigating information technology crimes
Journal of Law Research, 2019, vol. 2, issue 1, pp. 11–19 · DOI 10.26739/2181-9130-2019-2-2
Abstract
The article discusses the scientific and theoretical issues of using special knowledge in the detection and investigation of crimes in the field of information technology, including electronic evidence and forensic computer examination.
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Жиноят-процессуал қонунчилигида терговга қадар текширув институти: таҳлил ва такомиллаштириш масалалари
The pre-investigation inquiry in criminal procedure legislation: analysis and proposals
Review of Law Sciences (Yuridik fanlar axborotnomasi), pp. 121–125
Abstract
The article analyses the rules governing the pre-investigation inquiry as a form of pre-trial proceedings and proposes ways to remove shortcomings observed in law enforcement practice.
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Эксперт и специалист как участники уголовного процесса
The expert and the specialist as participants in criminal proceedings
Pravosudie (Justice), journal of the Supreme Court of Uzbekistan, 2018, no. 9, pp. 94–100
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Жиноят процессида тафтиш ва экспертиза: миллий қонунчилик ва хорижий тажриба
Audit and forensic examination in criminal proceedings: national law and foreign experience
Bulletin of the Supreme Court of Uzbekistan, 2018, no. 6 (141), pp. 48–52
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Жиноий фаолиятдан олинган даромадларни легаллаштиришга қарши курашни ҳуқуқий тартибга солишнинг айрим жиҳатлари
Some aspects of the legal regulation of anti-money laundering
Combating the legalisation of criminal proceeds and the financing of terrorism: proceedings of the national conference, 12 December 2018. Tashkent: TSUL, 2018, pp. 43–46
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Эксперт и специалист в уголовном процессе: некоторые аспекты
The expert and the specialist in criminal proceedings: selected issues
Information and analytical material. Tashkent: TSUL, 2018, 18 p.
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Jinoyat-protsessual huquqi. Maxsus qism: darslik
Criminal Procedure Law. Special Part: textbook
Co-author (chapters IV and VII). Tashkent: TSUL, 2018, 440 p. ISBN 978-9943-380-66-0
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Криминалистика: учебник
Criminalistics: textbook
Co-author (chapters 21 and 35). Tashkent: TSUL, 2018, 516 p. ISBN 978-9943-380-67-7