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Improving corporate law is a prerequisite for creating an international financial centre in Russia Sergey Pepeliaev, managing partner of Pepeliaev Group, took part in a meeting hosted by the Russian President to discuss the new version of the Russian Civil Code drafted by the Russian President’s Council for the Codification of Civil Law.

Pepeliaev Group is an expert of Tax Policy Group of the Russian Government Vadim Zaripov, Head of Analytical Department of Pepeliaev Group has become member of the Russian Government’s Tax Policy expert group. Expert groups are formed by the Russian Government in various areas and aim to revise Russia’s social and economic development strategy for the period up to 2020.

Pepeliaev Group has been shortlisted for the Chambers Europe Awards for Excellence 2011 amongst the best national law firms in Russia.

This award will be honouring outstanding law firms on the basis of research carried out for Chambers Europe 2011 and reflect a law firm’s pre-eminence in key practice areas and notable achievements over the past 12 months including outstanding work, impressive strategic growth and excellence in client service.

Pepeliaev Group – leader of Russian legal business The portal Pravo.Ru has hailed Pepeliaev Group as a leader among Russian law firms.

Pepeliaev Group lawyer becomes a Customs Union expert Galina Balandina, a Pepeliaev Group partner and Head of the firm’s Customs Law and Foreign Trade Regulation Practice, has been named as a member of the Council of Experts of the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

Russia's tax strategy at the turn of the decade On 14 December 2010, the 6th All-Russian Tax Forum, dedicated to ‘Russia’s tax strategy at the turn of the decade’, took place in Moscow. The Russian Chamber of Commerce organised the event with the support of the law firm Pepeliaev Group. The journal Nalogoved was the general information partner.