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ST PETERSBURG OFFICE
OF PEPELIAEV GROUP
LAW FIRM

Founded in 2004, the St Petersburg Office of Pepeliaev Group is the first regional division of the firm. It offers a full range of legal services to clients who operate in the North-Western region.
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Services

Over the last three years:

$ 100 million
Owing to our efforts in defending clients’ interests in litigation, we have saved more than $100 million.
€ 225 million
We have provided legal support during major transactions in various industries, including one of the most high-profile transactions on the retail market: the acquisition of Billa Russia hypermarkets by the Lenta chain for €225 million.
700 pieces
We have examined more than 700 pieces of real estate within the scope of due diligence we conducted for our clients.

Projects

We helped our client to win a dispute with a water service company over the recovery of a payment for discharging pollutants
The team of Pepeliaev Group’s St. Petersburg office represented a major food company in a dispute with a regional water service company.
Providing legal support for a major construction holding in Russia, Etalon group of companies, during the acquisition of a well-known multifunctional complex in St. Petersburg
Our real estate and construction practice in St. Petersburg helped the Client within the project aimed at the acquisition of the company, which was the owner of LDM (Leningrad Hall of Youth), a well-known multifunctional complex, and of the land plot beneath it.
Successfully represented the client in a court dispute with a water service company
The practice's team represented the client in a dispute with a water service company over the recovery of a payment for discharging pollutants where the allowable concentration was exceeded and over the payment for the detrimental effect to the centralised water-discharge system, with the total amount being over RUB 30 million.

The team

Sergey Spasennov
Sergey Spasennov
Senior Partner
a.spasennov@pgplaw.ru
Sergey Sosnovsky
Sergey Sosnovsky
Partner
s.sosnovsky@pgplaw.ru
Elena Krestyantseva
Elena Krestyantseva
Head of Land, Real Estate and Construction Practice (St Petersburg)
e.krestyantseva@pgplaw.ru

Today, Pepeliaev Group has one of the strongest teams of lawyers on the legal market of St Petersburg and the North-Western region. The team is renowned for its experience of providing support for investment projects, handling transactions with land and real estate, resolving complex taxation matters and defending clients in tax and commercial disputes.

The St Petersburg Office and its key experts have been mentioned in international and Russian ratings for more than 10 years in a row (icons of ratings).

The firm is actively involved in the business life of the region and is a member of St Petersburg International Business Association (often known as ‘SPIBA’) and the St Petersburg office of the American Chamber of Commerce. Lawyers of the office are regularly invited to speak at major business and specialist conferences and forums that are held in the region, including St Petersburg International Legal Forum.

Moreover, experts provide support to law faculties of the most prominent St Petersburg universities, such as St Petersburg State University and Higher School of Economics, by organising specialist workshops and master classes for students who will practice law in future.

Ratings

  • Pravo.ru

  • The Legal 500

  • Право-300

    Rossiyskaya Gazeta

  • Chambers Europe

  • Chambers Global

  • WTR 1000

  • World Tax&TP

  • IFLR 1000

  • Best Lawyers™

  • Pravo.ru

  • The Legal 500

  • Chambers Europe

  • Chambers Global

  • WTR 1000

  • World Tax&TP

  • IFLR 1000

  • Best Lawyers™

ANALYTICS AND NEWS FROM PEPELIAEV GROUP IN ST PETERSBURG

  • Alerts
    The Russian Government has defined the specific aspects of archaeological reconnaissance and a historical and cultural expert review
  • News
    Pepeliaev Group has made great strides in the Pravo.ru-300 ratings
  • News
    Pepeliaev Group leads the ‘Rating of lawyers and their firms’ which has been compiled for the first time by Rossiyskaya Gazeta
  • Alerts
    The application form has been approved for excluding from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (the “USRLE”) a legal entity classified as a small or medium entrepreneur
  • Alerts
    The law on the “linear amnesty” has come into force
  • Alerts
    The grounds have been clarified for carrying out unscheduled audits in the conditions of the moratorium in 2023
  • Alerts
    The conditions of transactions involving a disposal of shares and membership interests of Russian companies by "hostile" non-residents and a payment of dividends by Russian JSCs and LLCs to foreign shareholders and participants have been published
  • News
    Pepeliaev Group’s key projects in 2022
  • Alerts
    A new information system and new town-planning documentation: changes to the town-planning code
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    Since the start of 2023, the state duty for the registration of supplementary agreements to real estate leases has been reduced
  • Alerts
    Numerous amendments to tax legislation have been adopted
  • Alerts
    Measures of support have been adopted for mobilised individuals and companies that they own
  • Alerts
    The Ministry of Finance clarified certain issues regarding the application of the Presidential Decree on the introduction of a permissive procedure for transactions with LLC shares
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    The procedure of issuing permissions for transactions (operations) with respect to membership interests in llcs involving non-residents from hostile states
  • Alerts
    A simplified procedure for documenting the termination of activity of small and medium-sized companies may be introduced from 1 july 2023
  • Alerts
    The deadlines for the payment of insurance premiums have been extended by a year for a number of categories of payers
  • News
    Pepeliaev Group’s Experts Have Ranked Highly in the Individual Rating of Pravo.ru-300
  • News
    Nine practice areas at Pepeliaev Group have strengthened their positions in the Pravo.ru-300 rating
  • Alerts
    Numerous amendments to the Russian Tax Code
  • News
    Pepeliaev Group at the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum 9 ¾: summary of events
  • News
    Pepeliaev Group’s practice areas have demonstrated exceptional results in The Legal 500 – 2021
  • News
    Pepeliaev Group has demonstrated exceptional results in the Chambers Europe 2021 ratings
  • News
    Where Pepeliaev Group won in 2020
  • Alerts
    The option has become available on the Gosuslugi portal to submit documents to the federal bailiff service electronically
  • News
    Pepeliaev Group has for the first time been mentioned in the top group of the Pravo.ru-300 rankings in the Digital Economy category
  • Alerts
    Amendments have been proposed that aim to improve corporate procedures in JSCs and LLCs, including by extending to 2021 the temporary regulations adopted during the Covid-19 pandemic
  • Alerts
    The Constitutional Court has explained the conditions for collecting corporate property tax based on cadastral value
  • Alerts
    A failure to enter into the Unified State Register of Real Estate information about a selected secondary type of permitted use of a land plot does not entail liability
  • Alerts
    The law on the state registration of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs has been amended
  • Alerts
    The procedure for maintaining the register of SMEs has been changed

Contacts

Address

Golden Shpalernaya Business Centre, 54 Shpalernaya St, St Petersburg, 191015, Russia

Phone / Fax

+7 (812) 640-60-10

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