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Our team of lawyers successfully safeguarded the interests of Mucos Pharma CZ (a foreign pharmaceutical company that is a global leader in distribution of enzyme therapy products in Europe, the CIS countries and Russia) in a dispute with a major Russian insurance company. An issue was the recovery of an insurance payout under an insurance agreement along with interest for the use of another party's funds.

Pepeliaev Group's experts have been involved in preparing the Russian part of GLOBAL GUIDE TO M&A TAX published by the international association of tax experts, Taxand. The guide describes the main tax consequences of M&A transactions almost in all countries of the world. 

Sergey Taut, expert at Pepeliaev Group, has participated in a session of the Expert Panel with Boris Titov, the Russian President's Ombudsman for Entrepreneurs' Rights. The session was held on 17 August at the World Trade Center and was dedicated to the amendments, both implemented and prospective, to criminal and criminal procedure legislation for the purposes of the subsequent decriminalisation of economic relations.

Pepeliaev Group’s lawyers provide legal services to the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery and Electronic Products (CCCME) as well as to a number of Chinese producers and exporters of aluminium alloy wheels within the framework of an anti-dumping investigation. The project is being implemented in cooperation with the law firm Zhong Lun Law Firm, Beijing, China. 

On 27 June the International Trade Centre hosted a session of the Expert Panel with the Russian President's Ombudsman for Entrepreneurs' Rights. During this session its participants discussed an initiative of the Russian Supreme Court to introduce the institution of a "misdemeanour offence". 

The Russia listing of the leading international legal rating Best Lawyers™ 2019 contained 14 lawyers from Pepeliaev Group, including two first-timers: PG Partner Yulia Litovtseva has gained recognition in the bankruptcy category and Head of the Tax Practice Group Ksenia Litvinova has been nominated for tax law.