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Pepeliaev Group has been chosen as one of the Russian legal advisers to British retailer Kingfisher plc. In Russia the company operates through Castorama DIY and home improvement stores. Our lawyers will provide legal advice to the client on the following key areas of expertise: corporate and commercial law; and real estate. 

Pepeliaev Group has made striking progress in the Chambers Europe 2018 rankings. In Restructuring/Insolvency: Litigation Pepeliaev Group has risen to Band 3 skipping one band as compared with the last year’s results. In addition, Yulia Litovtseva, Partner and Head of the Bankruptcy and Anti-Crisis Protection of Business Practice, has shown an improvement of her own, rising to Band 4 in individual rankings. 

The lawyers of Pepeliaev Group’s customs practice won the case for the client, a major shipping company, before the Economic Panel of the Russian Supreme Court. 

The firm’s lawyers successfully represented Kavminvody JSC (“Kavminvody”), a renowned producer of the Novoterskaya Tselebnaya mineral water, in the IP Court. The outcome was that the legal protection of a similar trademark owned by a bad-faith rightholder was declared invalid. 

Valentina Orlova, Head of the Intellectual Property and Trademarks Practice at Pepeliaev Group, participated in the first meeting of the working group that is preparing a draft law amending the Russian Civil Code. The changes will improve the legal regulation of the appellations of origin of goods and supplement the list of the protected IP items with a new item called a ‘geographical indication’.