Rustam Kurmaev & Partners has successfully represented Russian Standard Bank JSC in Russia's 4th Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction in an administrative case instituted by the Russian Prosecutor's Office.

Nektorov Saveliev & Partners has advised IBS IT Holding on the acquisition of Aplana Software from the Aplana Group, which was reportedly advised by DS Law.

Andrey Gorlenko has joined Ivanyan & Partners, where he will focus on investment and commercial arbitration as part of the firm's newly formed International Arbitration practice, as well as on cross-border commercial disputes.

Lawyers from DLA Piper's Moscow office joined the multi-jurisdictional team advising Evraz, a steel and mining company listed on the London Stock Exchange and a constituent of the FTSE 100 index, on its EUR 40 million sale of Evraz Palini e Bertoli to the Marcegaglia Group, an Italy-based company in the steel processing sector. Marcegaglia was advised by LCA Studio Legale.

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.