News
15September2014
Roman Bevzenko has become a partner at Pepeliaev Group
Roman Bevzenko, former head of the Directorate for Private Law of the Russian Supreme Commercial ('Arbitration') Court, has joined Pepeliaev Group as a partner in the firm. He will handle special projects within the Dispute Resolution and Mediation Practice.
08September2014
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.
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.