Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner has successfully defended FM Logistic and its employees in a criminal case in connection with the collapse of a pedestrian bridge in a warehouse that resulted in the injury of more than 50 people.
The firm's efforts prevented "the prosecution of both the company's leaders and one of its founders and owners" and resulted in "a reconciliation with the victims and substantiated petitions to discontinue the criminal case."
"On October 12, 2021, during the court hearing, the criminal case against the only [remaining] FM Logistic employee was terminated due to the reconciliation of the parties without imposing any fines on the employee or the company," BCLP announced.
According to BCLP, the case received significant public and media exposure and was personally supervised by the Chairman of the Russian Federation’s Investigative Committee. A large number of witnesses and the need to review a significant amount of construction and other technical documentation created a challenge for the defense, according to the firm.
The BCLP team included the Head of Criminal Law Business Protection Practice Anton Gusev, Partner Vladimir Chikin, Senior Associate Angela Glamazdina, Advisor Ekaterina Verle, Attorney-at-Law Nadezhda Ilyushina, Lawyer Antonina Potanina, and Junior Lawyer Soslan Doguzov.
