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The Slovenian National Assembly adopted the Class Action Law, which will implement an important institute to the Slovenian legal system, i.e. mechanism of class action.

The Sarhegyi and Partners law firm has successfully represented the Hungarian State on appeal to the Metropolitan Regional Court against claims brought against it by the Hungarian town of Budaors involving challenges to aspects of the country's Budget Act. In addition to the immediate dispute, the case represents the first time that the issue of liability for damages caused by legislation was considered since the new Hungarian Civil Code entered into force in 2014.

Ilyashev & Partners is representing the Ukrainian State Strategic Enterprise “Antonov,” which on October 12, 2017, filed a motion in the Sviatoshynskyi District Court of Kyiv for enforcement of a judgment delivered by the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry awarding more than UAH 32 million to Antonov from the Libyan Executive Authority for Special Flights.  

Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners has defended Total in a multi-billion-dollar dispute with the administrations of Russia's Volgograd and Saratov regions before ad hoc arbitrators in accordance with the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules.

Vasil Kisil & Partners has successfully represented the interests of Imperial Tobacco Production Ukraine in a dispute with Ukrainian tax authorities.

Goltsblat BLP has won a dispute in the Supreme Court of Russia for Wine Brandy Plant Alliance-1892 LLC against Russia’s Federal Tax Service’s Inter-district Office for Major Taxpayers No. 3.