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On December 1st the Labour Practice team successfully proved the success of a 9 month complicated redundancy case involving the dismissal of a protected election commissioner employee in the Fourth Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction.
ALRUD team working on the project included labour dispute experts Margarita Egiazarova, Senior Associate, PhD and Ekaterina Bronitsyna, Associate, as well as Anastasia Petrova, Labour and Employment Practice Of Counsel of ALRUD
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ALRUD specialists advised on the sale of VimpelCom by the global digital operator VEON to the Russian top management.
ALRUD team provided comprehensive legal support for the preparation of and agreeing on the transaction documents.
According to the transaction documents, VEON will receive a total consideration in the amount of RUB 130 billion. The transaction is expected to be closed not later than 1 June 2023
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On 9 September 2022 Alexander Zharskiy, Partner, Head of Corporate and M&A Practice, spoke at the webinar of the Association of European Business on “Crisis Update: Sanctions and Countermeasures. Session on M&A”. This session was dedicated to M&A: transaction trends 1h2022 & outlook 2h2022. Alexander spoke on “Key deal terms on the exit of international companies from the russian market – fire sale specifics”. More information about the event can be found here
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In course of regular update on Russian counter-measures, we would like to inform you that on May 11, 2022, in compliance with the Presidential Decree No. 252 “On Application of Retaliatory Special Economic Measures in response to Unfriendly Acts by Certain Foreign States and International Organizations” dated March 3, 2022 (“Decree No. 252”), the Government of the Russian Federation has issued the Order No. 851 “On Measures to Implement the Decree No
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The current challenging time make businesses think about adopting or redesigning their long-term incentive programs, to motivate and keep talents and key team members onboard, especially those involved in key projects or organizational changes. This unquestionably requires particular focus on local legal framework, including securities, tax, exchange control issues
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On October 14th, Dina Kravchenko, Associate of ALRUD Regulatory Practice, spoke at the webinar 'Food & Beverage Advertising Regulation in Europe, the Middle East & Africa'.
Experts from Russia, Turkey, Portugal, Poland and South Africa discussed topical issues of regulation of food and beverage advertising and the impact of the regulation on the marketing of this category of goods. The webinar scrutinized recent precedents and legislative developments
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The Eurasian Data Protection Congress was held from October 20 to 22, 2021. This is the first privacy event organized by different professional communities and associations across the globe.
Reports and discussions with experts from more than 15 countries were organized within the congress. The experts were lawyers, entrepreneurs, privacy specialists, IT specialists, business consultants, representatives of human rights organizations
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On October 19, ALRUD Law Firm held a webinar “Localizing the presence of IT companies”.
This summer, the so-called 'Landing Law' was adopted and came into force (i.e., Federal Law dated 01.07.2021 No. 236-FZ 'On the activities of foreign entities in the Information and Telecommunication Network 'Internet' in the Russian Federation')
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ALRUD’s lawyers successfully represented a longstanding Czech client: the glass equipment manufacturer Sklostroj Turnov CZ, s.r.o., in a dispute amounting up to 43 million euros, under a complex supply contract, in the Russian Arbitrazh Court.
Russian company ??? «OMSK-STEKLOTARA», a buyer under the contract, filed a claim for recovering the advanced payment under the contract from Sklostroj Turnov CZ, s.r.o
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ALRUD Law Firm, participating as the part of the international team of lawyers and investigation experts, provided support to the Client, a global provider of engineering and construction solutions to the energy industry, in a major anticorruption investigation into its top managers of its Russian operation. This was in connection with the requirements of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which has extraterritorial effect (FCPA)
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Our Client faced blockage of its app, due to the distribution of unregistered dietary supplements. ALRUD was engaged for the matter following the coming into force of the court judgment, on the blocking of the mobile app.
The matter was complicated by the fact that the Roskomnadzor continuously blocked not only the mobile app, indicated in the court judgment, but also the official website of the Client, even though no prohibited information was located on it
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Over a period of several years, ALRUD has participated in an integrated project on forming a comprehensive compliance system for the largest Russian private charity foundation, from a Code of Business Conduct to instructions on working with certain documents. ALRUD participated both in compliance matrix and document structure development, and in its implementation, refining and subsequent improvements
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For many years, ALRUD’s tax specialists have been advising Mastercard Europe SA and its Russian subsidiaries of the international financial corporation MasterCard on Russian tax and currency regulation
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Specialists of ALRUD Tax Practice advised NHL Enterprises, Inc., which represents one of the first and most-prestigious professional hockey leagues in the world – NHL, in the course of coordinating an agreement with the Russian media giant, Yandex, to broadcast three seasons of NHL games.
The deal, closed in the fall of 2019, has become one of the most progressive and innovative in the field of sports broadcasting in Russia in recent years
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ALRUD Law Firm acted as a legal counsel of Sberbank in relation to the acquisition of 50% of shares minus 1 share in JSC New Investment Holding, from AFK Sistema. This is a joint venture established to acquire the Nearmedic Group of Companies, which operates in pharmaceuticals industry, biotechnology, and medicine in Russia and Italy
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On September 23th, the event of the AEB Real Estate Committee took place, at which Stanislav Veselov, ALRUD Senior Associate of Real Estate Practice, spoke on the topic: “Legal issues of inseparable improvements: approaches to the definition, contractual practices”
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On September 22nd, the 13th ABA Annual Conference on the Resolution of CIS-Related Business Disputes was held, organized by the American Bar Association (ABA) with the support of the Arbitration Association
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On September 21st, the experts of Labour and Employment Practice of ALRUD Law Firm opened a series of online events, prepared specifically for members of Coleman Services Industrial and HR Clubs, by holding a webinar "Compliance in the Workplace: Legal Ways of Ensuring, Investigating of Unfair Actions, and Liability Issues". The ALRUD experts at the event were Irina Anyukhina, ALRUD Partner, and Anastasia Petrova, ALRUD Of Counsel
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Anton Karpenko, ALRUD attorney, wrote an article for the Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance blog. The article is devoted to the theme of Landing of the International IT Companies in Russia. In recent years, Russian State authorities have been greatly concerned about the efficiency of enforcement measures, imposed on foreign companies which have no legal presence in Russia. In practice, the only available measure was blockage of the company’s web resources
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ALRUD Law Firm is advising Uber on the sale of shares in Yandex.Eats, Yandex.Lavka, Yandex.Delivery, as well as in the Self-Driving Group businesses to Yandex. Partners of Uber and Yandex will continue to jointly develop services for ordering taxis, car sharing, and renting scooters, within the Yandex Taxi group of companies. The total value of the transaction is amounted to US$1bn. Uber will also sell Yandex a 4.5% stake in the joint venture
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For the 13th Annual IBA “Mergers and Acquisitions in Russia and CIS” Conference, the world's leading experts in economics and law will gather from around the globe and discuss the latest emerging developments and hot topics in Russian and CIS M&A law.
The event is scheduled for 26th November 2021
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ALRUD is proud to announce the appointment of Dmitry Kuptsov as a new Firm Partner, with effect from September 1st 2021. Dmitry Kuptsov will strengthen our team of Dispute Resolution, Restructuring and Insolvency Practices.
Dmitry specializes in handling complex domestic and cross-border disputes, in various areas of law and business industries. He has extensive experience working on full-scale projects, in the areas of restructuring and insolvency
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On August 25, 2021, international ranking agency IFLR1000 published the results of EMEA rankings that represent IFLR1000's 31st 2021/22 edition. The rating evaluates law firms in different areas. ALRUD law firm is again top ranked for M&A, Banking, Restructuring and Insolvency, Project Finance, PPP, Capital Markets: Debt and Equity, Project development: Mining and Energy
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We would like to present you with the fifth edition of our brochure “Doing Business in Russia” - a comprehensive guide for international companies operating in, or considering investment in, the Russian Federation
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ALRUD Law Firm advised the French Automobile Educational Association ‘GNFA’ on the conclusion of a corporate dispute with a former minority shareholder, a Russian legal entity. Within this case, ALRUD specialists elaborated a comprehensive strategy to resolve the dispute. This related to the exclusion of the majority shareholder, our Client, from the Russian limited liability company
