SERVICES
RESOLUTION OF CORPORATE DISPUTES AND LEGAL SUPPORT OF CORPORATE PROCEDURES
- Comprehensive legal protection in corporate conflicts
- Recovery of illegally divested assets
- Countering bad faith conduct of company members and management
BANKRUPTCY
- Advising business beneficiaries, company management, among others, on the matters of mitigating the risk of being brought to the secondary or other liability
- Liaison with insolvency practitioners
- Representation before courts, including on the matters of challenging transactions, bringing to the secondary liability etc.
CONTRACTUAL AND OTHER CIVIL LAW DISPUTES
- Assessing legal risks associated with contracts or other transactions, including risks of a transaction being challenged in court
- Preparing complaints and litigating court disputes over execution, performance and termination or invalidation of contracts and other transactions
- Litigating other civil law disputes, including disputes over ownership to property and property rights, encumbrances on property and property rights, recovery of damages, recovery of unjust enrichment etc.
LEGAL SUPPORT OF TRANSACTIONS
- Drawing up and helping draw up ad hoc contracts
- Comprehensive legal support of M&A and investment transactions, dealings with debt capital and real estate, including structuring transactions, preparing term sheets, transaction documents and shareholders agreements, and involvement in negotiations with the counterparty
- Legal due diligence of a company in the lead up to its sale or fund-raising
TAXES AND TAX DISPUTES
- Advising clients on the matters of domestic and cross-border taxation and tax risks
- Advising on tax aspects and implications of transactions, assisting in preparing "tax" clauses in contracts
- Tax heathcheck and tax due diligence of a company in the lead up to its sale or fund-raising
- Assisting in preparing tax reports and documents in support of the right to tax deductions and exemptions, including personal income tax returns
- Assisting in preparing documents in line with the laws on controlled foreign companies (CFC), including notices of participation in a CFC and notices of a CFC, CFC's financial statements and attached documents
- Supporting desk and field tax audits, including assisting in preparing replies to requests from tax authorities, assisting in interviews at the tax authority and other tax control measures
- Litigating tax disputes at the prejudicial and judicial stages, including preparing objections to tax audit reports and additional tax control measures, and appeals against decisions of the tax authority to superior tax authorities, representing the client and preparing all procedural documents and litigating a dispute in courts of general jurisdiction and arbitrazh courts
FOREIGN EXCHANGE REGULATION AND RELATED DISPUTES
- Advising clients on the matters of Russian foreign exchange regulation and related risks verbally and in writing
- Assisting in preparing special reports as required by the laws on foreign exchange regulation
- Litigating disputes through administrative proceedings in the area of foreign exchange regulation
OTHER AREAS OF PRACTICE
- Litigating labour and family disputes and advising on the matters of labour and family law
- Litigating disputes seeking to declare illegal (invalid) the decisions and actions (omissions) of governmental authorities and public officers
- Litigating disputes through administrative proceedings
- Comprehensive legal protection in corporate conflicts
- Recovery of illegally divested assets
- Countering bad faith conduct of company members and management
BANKRUPTCY
- Advising business beneficiaries, company management, among others, on the matters of mitigating the risk of being brought to the secondary or other liability
- Liaison with insolvency practitioners
- Representation before courts, including on the matters of challenging transactions, bringing to the secondary liability etc.
CONTRACTUAL AND OTHER CIVIL LAW DISPUTES
- Assessing legal risks associated with contracts or other transactions, including risks of a transaction being challenged in court
- Preparing complaints and litigating court disputes over execution, performance and termination or invalidation of contracts and other transactions
- Litigating other civil law disputes, including disputes over ownership to property and property rights, encumbrances on property and property rights, recovery of damages, recovery of unjust enrichment etc.
LEGAL SUPPORT OF TRANSACTIONS
- Drawing up and helping draw up ad hoc contracts
- Comprehensive legal support of M&A and investment transactions, dealings with debt capital and real estate, including structuring transactions, preparing term sheets, transaction documents and shareholders agreements, and involvement in negotiations with the counterparty
- Legal due diligence of a company in the lead up to its sale or fund-raising
TAXES AND TAX DISPUTES
- Advising clients on the matters of domestic and cross-border taxation and tax risks
- Advising on tax aspects and implications of transactions, assisting in preparing "tax" clauses in contracts
- Tax heathcheck and tax due diligence of a company in the lead up to its sale or fund-raising
- Assisting in preparing tax reports and documents in support of the right to tax deductions and exemptions, including personal income tax returns
- Assisting in preparing documents in line with the laws on controlled foreign companies (CFC), including notices of participation in a CFC and notices of a CFC, CFC's financial statements and attached documents
- Supporting desk and field tax audits, including assisting in preparing replies to requests from tax authorities, assisting in interviews at the tax authority and other tax control measures
- Litigating tax disputes at the prejudicial and judicial stages, including preparing objections to tax audit reports and additional tax control measures, and appeals against decisions of the tax authority to superior tax authorities, representing the client and preparing all procedural documents and litigating a dispute in courts of general jurisdiction and arbitrazh courts
FOREIGN EXCHANGE REGULATION AND RELATED DISPUTES
- Advising clients on the matters of Russian foreign exchange regulation and related risks verbally and in writing
- Assisting in preparing special reports as required by the laws on foreign exchange regulation
- Litigating disputes through administrative proceedings in the area of foreign exchange regulation
OTHER AREAS OF PRACTICE
- Litigating labour and family disputes and advising on the matters of labour and family law
- Litigating disputes seeking to declare illegal (invalid) the decisions and actions (omissions) of governmental authorities and public officers
- Litigating disputes through administrative proceedings