CEE Legal Matters
In-depth coverage of the news and newsmakers that shape Europe's emerging markets
The Russian Migration Authority responsible for the Moscow region recently started to enforce laws requiring foreign employees to be present in Russia at regular intervals, and providing for the cancellation of a work permit if a foreign employee is not in Russia at least at certain intervals. This potential cancellation of a work permit even applies to employees classified as highly qualified specialists.
Finland's Castren & Snellman law firm has closed its Moscow and St Petersburg offices and withdrawn from Russia.
Dmitry Koronchik, former Director of Legal Affairs at YIT, has joined Accountor as the head of its legal department.
Former Dentons Partner Konstantin Tretyakov, who led the firm's White Collar Crime practice in Moscow, has joined Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners, bringing along his team, including senior lawyer Konstantin Elfimov and lawyer Maria Kilesso.
Why would a lawyer in private practice strive to make partner? That may come across as a strange question. An old saying holds that a soldier who doesn’t aspire to become a general is a bad soldier. Partnership as an ultimate goal is often taken for granted.
Norton Rose Fulbright today named Ayse Yuksel Mahfoud as its Head of Cross-Border Practices, a new position at the firm that it says "will strategically address clients’ needs for high-quality cross-border legal advice and cutting-edge market intelligence."
On December 18, 2019, CEE Legal Matters reported that NSP had advised IBS IT Holding on its acquisition of Aplana Software from the Aplana Group. We reached out to Eugene Peskin, Head of Strategy at IBS, for more details.
Liniya Prava has promoted Alexey Kostovarov, the firm's Head of Antitrust Law and Procurement, to Partner.
Alexander Rymko, former International Senior Counsel at Harney's, has joined Alrud to head the firm's Banking and Finance practice.
2019 has been an eventful year for anti-corruption compliance in Russia with an extension of enforcement actions against companies, the strengthening of anti-corruption laws and new domestic compliance requirements. The crucial developments for companies are summarised below:
Yulia Yarnykh has been promoted to Partner at Gowling WLG as part of a promotion round involving a total of 36 promotions to the firm's partnership around the world.
Baiju Vasani has joined Russia's Ivanyan & Partners, where he will head the firm's newly-formed International Arbitration practice.
Alevtina Kamelkova, former Partner and Head of FinTech and IT at Ivanyan and Partners, has left the firm.
Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners had helped BlaBlaCar to obtain clearance from Russia's competition authority for its purchase of Busfor, an online bus ticker aggregator.
Nazali Legal & Tax Services has opened an office in Moscow, led by Partner Altinay Sheralieva.
Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners' lawyers Sergey Kalinin, Vera Rikhterman, and Andrey Mashkovtsev will join the firm's partnership on January 1st, 2020.
Rustam Kurmaev & Partners has successfully represented Boris Dubrovskiy, the former governor of Russia's Chelyabinsk region, in a dispute with the Antimonopoly Service of Russia.
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.
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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