Projects

The Supreme Court has completed reviewing the tax authority’s supervisory appeal within the scope of a dispute that concerns calculating mineral extraction tax when gold concentrates are processed We are speaking about case, in which the Supreme Court’s Judicial Board for Economic Disputes handed down a judgment in December 2023 in favour of the taxpayer having quashed the decisions of commercial (‘arbitration’) courts.

Defended a bank's senior manager in a dispute concerning secondary liability for RUB 2.6 billion The team from our bankruptcy and anti-crisis protection of business practice was successful in defending a bank’s senior manager against secondary liability amounting to RUB 2.6 billion. 

Pepeliaev Group’s Customs Practice has successfully completed a 4 year long litigation Lawyers of Pepeliaev Group’s Customs Law Practice have won a litigation which started on 24 November 2020 (case No. А51-18513/2020). This case was instigated by the Vladivostok Customs Office, which filed with a state commercial court a claim to recover import customs duties and default interest of over RUB 1.7 billion in total because this sum included the cost of a business aircraft.

We helped our client to win a dispute with a water service company over the recovery of a payment for discharging pollutants The team of Pepeliaev Group’s St. Petersburg office represented a major food company in a dispute with a regional water service company.

Providing legal support for a major construction holding in Russia, Etalon group of companies, during the acquisition of a well-known multifunctional complex in St. Petersburg Our real estate and construction practice in St. Petersburg helped the Client within the project aimed at the acquisition of the company, which was the owner of LDM (Leningrad Hall of Youth), a well-known multifunctional complex, and of the land plot beneath it.

The team of Pepeliaev Group’s St Petersburg office helped a client to protect its right to a preferential lease rate before the Russian Supreme Court We have protected the interests of Essity LLC, one of Russian leaders in the area of goods for hygiene and healthcare, before the Supreme Court.