Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners has provided legal support to Germany's HTS Tentiq on contractual and currency control issues in Russia.

Radovanovic Stojanovic & Partners and Cerha Hempel have advised AIK Banka, Gorenjska Banka, and Agri Europe Cyprus on their acquisition of Sberbank Europe’s shares in six CEE banks. Noerr advised the buyers on Hungarian law, while Maric & Co, Zuric and Partners, Tos & Partners, and Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners reportedly advised the buyers on Bosnian, Croatian, Slovenian, and Russian matters, respectively.

Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners has successfully represented LabQuestTechnology in a joint-venture-related corporate dispute.

Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners has successfully represented global pharmaceutical corporation Novartis before the FAS in an unfair competition dispute with a Nativa distributor.

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, working with Uzbekistan-based co-counsel Kosta Legal, has advised Sberbank on its sale of 84.2% of the shares in JSC Akhangarancement. Legate and, reportedly, EPAM advised the unidentified buyer.

Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners has advised the US-based tool manufacturer Milltronics Manufacturing Company on its entrance into a distribution agreement with an undisclosed Russian counterparty.

Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners has successfully represented insurance company Rosgosstrakh in a case in which Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service considered an agreement between the company and another undisclosed insurance company as anti-competitive.

Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners has advised US-based chemical corporation 3M on Russian legal aspects of personal data processing and website cookies.

Pavel Sadovsky, Head of the IP/TMT practice in the Moscow office of Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners has been promoted to Partner.

EPAM has announced it is launching a new Natural Resources practice, to be headed by returning Partner Mikhail Kazantsev, the former Rosgeologia Deputy Director General and Head of Legal (as reported by CEE In-House Matters on June 25, 2021).

Former Deputy Director of the Department of International Law of Russia’s Ministry of Justice Olga Tsvetkova has returned to Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners as Co-Head of the firm’s International Arbitration group.

Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners has advised PPG Industries on Russian legal aspects of its tender offer for the shares of Finnish paint manufacturer Tikkurila.

Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasiev & Partners is representing a coalition of Avito, IVI, CIAN, Profi.ru, Tutu.ru, Drom.ru, 2GIS, and Zoon in a abuse-of-dominant-position case against Yandex initiated by the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia.

Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners has successfully represented Magnit in an antimonopoly case initiated by Chelyabinsk OFAS Russia against Spar and Magnit involving an alleged cartel conspiracy.

Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasiev & Partners has persuaded Russia's antimonopoly agency to approve the partnership between Gett and CityMobil taxi aggregator services.

Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners has helped the Samolet Group register the trademark of the group’s brand with Russia’s Federal Service for Intellectual Property, or "Rospatent."

Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners has advised Russian retailer Lenta on its re-domiciliation from Cyprus to Russia.

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