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ST PETERSBURG OFFICE
OF PEPELIAEV GROUP
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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

Protection of the interests of a French architect firm in the lawsuit for the recovery of debt from a counterparty
Lawyers of the St Petersburg Real Estate and Construction Practice successfully protected, in courts of three levels, the interests of a French architect firm in the lawsuit for the recovery of debt from a counterparty.
Challenging the cadastral value of a large business centre
Lawyers from Pepeliaev Group’s St Petersburg Office successfully completed a project that included challenging in the first instance and appeal courts the cadastral value of Petrovskiy Fort.

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
    Regulated rent for using land plots in state or municipal ownership will be calculated based on the cadastral value
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    New amendments to the Russian Tax Code
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    Tourist tax is being introduced
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    Tax amnesty in the case of the "splitting up of a business"
  • Alerts
    The Russian Tax Code has been amended with regard to payroll taxes
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    The Russian Tax Code has been amended with regard to profit tax, VAT, the simplified taxation system and property taxes
  • News
    Pepeliaev Group at the St Petersburg Legal Summit 2024
  • Alerts
    The Constitutional Court has protected potential cultural heritage sites
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    The liability of developers under shared construction agreements is limited until 31 December 2024
  • 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
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    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
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    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
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    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
  • Alerts
    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
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    Pepeliaev Group’s practice areas have demonstrated exceptional results in The Legal 500 – 2021

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

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+7 (812) 640-60-10

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