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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.
Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners has successfully defended the interests of the founders of Transaero in a dispute over a loan that partially led to the air carrier's bankruptcy proceedings.
Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners has provided pro bono legal consulting to Big Brothers Big Sisters in Russia.
Acting on behalf of Russia's Fund for Infrastructure and Educational Programs, Dentons has prepared what it calls a "Concept" for regulating alternative finance methods in Russia.
Akin Gump is advising Russian Internet and IT company Mail.ru Group Limited on the formation of a joint venture between its ESforce e-sports business and games producer Modern Pick.
Baker McKenzie has successfully represented EPK Saratov at Rospatent in a dispute involving a patent on an axle-box with dual bearings.
Alexey Bardin, former Managing Counsel at Shell Exploration and Production Services in Russia, has joined Eversheds Sutherland as Of Counsel and Head of Energy & Infrastructure.
Clifford Chance has advised Russia's SIBUR gas processing and petrochemical company on its benchmark USD 500 million 3.45% Eurobonds issue due 2024.
Rustam Kurmaev & Partners has successfully defended Bio-Rad Laboratories in a dispute with Rosstandart, the Russian Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology.
Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners has helped the Aqua Investments Group and Kavminkurortresursy JSC establish their exclusive geographical indication rights to the Yessentuki N4 and Yessentuki N17 healing diets and mineralized healing water brands.
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner Russia has advised Mistral Wine on its acquisition of 200 hectares of vineyards and a winery in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai.
CMS has advised Constantia Flexibles on its acquisition of Russian TT-print. FCG-Partners reportedly advised the sellers on the deal.
CMS has advised Bazil-Activ LLC, a subsidiary of a Russian commercial bank, on the EUR 28.2 million sale of the 60,000 square meter MainStreet Residential Complex Construction project in Moscow to the Osnova Group.
Lawyers in Herbert Smith Freehills's Moscow office have worked on the firm's cross-border team advising BidFair USA regarding the merger control aspects of its USD 3.7 billion acquisition of international auction house Sotheby's.
CMS Russia has advised Bazil-Activ LLC on the RUB 2 billion sale of a development project in Moscow to the Osnova Group.
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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