News
21August2014
CREATING THE CORPORATE STRUCTURE AND FINANCING THE PROJECT: WHAT DO YOU NEED TO BEAR IN MIND?
Pepeliaev Group and Legal Insight magazine are continuing a series of articles «How investment projects have evolved - lawyers' views». We are following the evolution of an investment project involving enthusiastic investors from Russia, Kazakhstan and Finland. They are ready to build a plant to produce a special nano-bitumen in order to manufacture elastic, ultra-strong asphalt designed to tackle that age-old scourge of this country: its roads. Our company is not over-endowed with assets. It is not affiliated to state corporations or to oligarchs. It wishes to play by the rules and to live inside the law. It has no desire to make use of administrative leverage. The first step is to lay down a corporate structure which both meets the owner's requirements and is suitable in view of the need to obtain bank or investor funding for the project.
20August2014
Pepeliaev Group announces that a new partner has been elected
Pepeliaev Group announces that Nikolay Solodovnikov, Head of Corporate Law Practice, has been elected as a partner of the firm.
04August2014
Pepeliaev Group represented Korea Exchange Bank in establishing and licensing of a Russian banking subsidiary
Pepeliaev Group, acting as Russian counsel in cooperation with the Seoul office of Shin & Kim, represented one of the largest Korean financial institutions in establishing and licensing of a Russian banking subsidiary of Korea Exchange Bank.
22July2014
New sanctions which affect businesses’ rights and interests in Russia
On 16 July 2014 the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the United States Department of the Treasury extended its Specially Designated Nationals List (the “SDN List”) with respect to the Ukrainian crisis. Additions have been made both to the general and to the sectoral parts.
21July2014
How investment projects have evolved - lawyers' views
After the economic boom years form 2005 and 2008, lean times and a shortage of cash have hit the economy across the board. Only the most decisive and best resourced investors have carried on with their projects or even begun new ones. There were investors who, before the crisis, were receiving returns thanks to stock exchange bubbles and short-term speculation. Now, most of these have lost the bulk of their funds (securities are worth more or less the cost of the paper they are printed on). This has once again led us to believe that it will be much safer and more promising to invest money in tangible assets and the real economy. Readers, we are certain, will agree that modernising by creating new high-tech advanced industries is a desperately needed and unavoidable stage in the development of modern Russia. How prudent and safe is it now to invest in Russia, to launch and develop a true, creative business?
16July2014
Pepeliaev Group Impresses in the IFLR 1000 Ratings
The annual international IFLR 1000 ratings have named Pepeliaev Group among the top firms for legal support on restructuring and bankruptcy projects (Tier 3) and in the energy sector (Tier 4).