The Pepeliaev Group has entered into an agreement of mutual understanding and cooperation with the Commercial Legal Service Center of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade. The agreement was signed at the International Commercial and Legal Cooperation Forum in Changsha, China.

Debevoise & Plimpton has advised the Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Nasdaq-listed Yandex N.V. on a restructuring of the company's corporate governance. Kemperink Maarschalkerweerd Wouters acted as co-counsel.

DLA Piper has acted as lead tax advisor to several shareholders of Familia, Russia’s leading off-price apparel and home fashions retailer, on the USD 225 million sale of a 25% stake to the TJX Companies Inc.

Russia's Prime Advice law firm has opened a new Criminal practice.

Herbert Smith Freehills and Indonesian associate firm Hiswara Bunjamin & Tandjung have advised a joint venture of Pertamina-Rosneft on engineering contracts for a new USD 16 billion refinery in Tuban, East Java, designed to increase Pertamina's refining capability and strengthen Rosneft's presence in the Asia-Pacific petroleum market.

Former KPMG Moscow Senior Lawyer Irina Orlova-Panina has joined Nektorov, Saveliev & Partners as a partner in the firm's Tax and Tax Dispute Resolution practices.

Russian lawyer Konstantin Litvinenko has been promoted to the Baker Botts partnership, effective on January 1, 2020.

Lawyers in the Moscow office of Herbert Smith Freehills have joined the firm's multi-jurisdictional team advising the Anex Group on its acquisition of Intourist, Bucher Reisen, and Oger Tours. All three travel businesses were part of the insolvent Thomas Cook Group.

Dentons has advised the Stada group on a USD 660 million purchase of more than 20 prescription and over-the-counter drugs and dietary supplements from the Takeda group in 11 countries.

Nadmitov, Ivanov & Partners has successfully represented Gazprom Energo before the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation in a dispute over the legality of the "normative legal act" involving the tariff for the transmission of electric energy.

Dentons has advised the minority shareholders in Russ Outdoor LLC, Russia’s largest outdoor advertising operator, on the sale of their combined 48.57% stake in Dutch parent company Russ Out of Home BV to the owners of the third-largest operator in the sector, Vera-Olymp.

Russia's KIAP, DS Law, and Balashova Legal Consultants have announced that the three firms will be merging and operating as KIAP Digital & Smart.

The Moscow and London offices of Debevoise & Plimpton have advised PJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel on in its USD 750 million Eurobond offering due 2024 with a coupon rate of 3.375% per annum, the lowest coupon ever achieved by Nornickel on a USD transaction.

Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners has successfully represented BlaBlaCar, a global long-distance carpooling service, in a dispute against an unidentified group of bus carriers in Russia.

Kachkin & Partners has advised a consortium consisting of Gazprombank and BaltNedvizhService on an agreement to create 21-kilometer tram network in Saint Petersburg.

Ivan Smirnov, the Managing Partner of the Saint Petersburg office of Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners, has been selected to join the public council of the Leningrad Department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia.

Elena Sokolovskaya, Head of Antitrust at the Pepeliaev Group, has been promoted to Partner.

Dentons has advised Russia's Chelpipe on its debut issuance of USD 300 million 4.50% loan participation notes due 2024. Dentons acted as English, United States, and Russian counsel to Chelpipe.