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Tonucci & Partners has successfully represented the St. Petersburg Mussorgsky State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre in an Italian court against the Rome Opera Theater.
Debevoise & Plimpton has advised NLMK on a USD 500 million 7-year Eurobond offering.
Nadmitov, Ivanov and Partners has represented the interests of Israel's Rivulis Irrigation Ltd in relation to the establishment of a joint venture with the Polyplastic Group.
Attorney Ilya Dedkovskiy has been appointed Head of the Bankruptcy practice at the KIAP law firm in Moscow.
Liniya Prava Partner Ruslan Nagaybekov has been elected new Managing Partner of the firm, taking over from Andrey Novakovsky, who will now lead the firm's Board of Partners.
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Alliance Legal CG is representing the interests of Evgeniy Lebedev, the founder of the pro100business social Internet community, before the Central Court of Chelyabinsk.
Alrud has advised the VTB Group on its RUB 36 billion acquisition of 100% shares in Novorossiysk Grain Terminal LCC from the NSCP Group.
Former Orrick Partner Konstantin Kroll has joined Dentons’ Moscow office as a partner in the Corporate and M&A practice.
Sidley Austin was global legal counsel to the Nidec Corporation and Alrud and Kinstellar provided local assistance in Russia and Slovakia, respectively, on the company's USD 1.08 billion acquisition of Embraco from the Whirlpool Corporation. Linklaters, Pinheiro Neto Advogados in Brazil, and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton were among the firms advising Whirlpool on the sale.
There are a number of significant legislative changes in Russia, says Alrud Senior Partner Vassily Rudomino, citing the strengthening of competition regulations in digital markets and new data protection laws as among the major ones.
Karen Shakhnazarov, Darya Nosova, Inna Perelekhova, Natalya Pushkarskaya have been promoted to Partner at O2 Consulting, and Tatyana Safonova has joined the firm as a Partner.
Russia's Norland Legal and NewLawyers law firms have merged and will operate as Lurye, Chumakov & Partners going forward. The newly established law firm will be co-managed by Partners Vladislav Lurye and Andrey Chumakov.
CMS Russia has advised S8 Capital on the sale of ELT-Poisk — a motor insurance and lending platform that provides development and implementation of IT solutions for automating the interaction of car dealers, leasing companies, insurance companies, and banks — to an unidentified foreign private fund specializing in FinTech investments.
Tomashevskaya & Partners has advised MaximaTelecom on a joint venture agreement with Gazprom-Media Holding for a new brand, named Quant.
Akin Gump has advised PJSC Lukoil on its USD 800 million acquisition of a 25% interest in the Marine XII License in the Republic of Congo from New Age M12 Holdings Limited. Clyde & Co advised New Age M12 Holdings on the transaction, which was signed on June 6, 2019, and is subject to several conditions, including the approval by the government of the Republic of Congo.
Moscow lawyers Nadia Goreslavskaya and Marina Tokunova, Prague lawyer Milena Hoffmanova, and Vienna lawyer Lukas Feiler have been promoted to partner at Baker McKenzie as part of the firm's global round.
Vinson & Elkins has confirmed that, following the retirement of Managing Partner Natalya Morozova, the firm closed its Moscow office at the beginning of 2019.
Founded in 1993, Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners is the leading full-service law firm in the CIS with offices in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus and associated offices in the UK, the USA and Cyprus.
We advise its clients in many areas of law, including: dispute resolution in Russia and abroad, corporate law, M&A, antitrust issues, project finance and PPP, restructurings and insolvencies, energy and natural resources, property management and privatization, environment, technical regulation and industrial safety, banking and finance, intellectual property, criminal law, real estate and construction, taxation, family and labour disputes, marine and transport law, and international trade and customs.
We combine high academic qualifications, internationally acknowledged moral and ethical values, senior partners' professional experience and practical abilities with the vigour and knowledge of younger attorneys that enables thus providing clients with reliable, first-class service according to both Russian and western standards through a flexible structure.
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