Projects

Assisted with amending an investment declaration of a party to a regional investment project At the request of a mining and processing plant, performed a range of work to amend the investment declaration of the party to a regional investment project in order to protect capital investments which were made in an investment project to build the region’s largest mining and processing plant and to substantiate the scope of tax benefits.

Switching from regional investment project treatment to the treatment of priority development areas Devised a legal mechanism for changing preferential treatment for an individual part of a project; specifically, the mechanism for switching from regional investment project treatment to the treatment of priority development areas

Advised on how preferential terms should be extended with regard to an upgrading project that was implemented Advised a mining and metallurgical company on the upgrading of an existing mining and processing plant with a gold-extracting plant, where conditions were in place that preferences applied to the ongoing project would apply to the construction of the new facilities.

Successfully defended a client in a tax dispute in a state commercial court Successfully defended a major supplier of computer components in the Far East in a tax dispute in a state commercial court.

Advised the client on compensation for harm to aquatic bioresources Specialists from Pepeliaev Group advised the client on compensation for harm to aquatic bioresources: on the content, interpretation and application of the provisions of the methodology for calculating harm, and on the mandatory requirements imposed by the current regulatory and technical documents for obtaining permissible evidence in the case

Support in connection with an incident at a client’s facility, which caused a national environmental catastrophe Pepeliaev Group's lawyers provided comprehensive support in connection with an incident at a client’s facility, which caused a national environmental catastrophe - one of the largest oil spills in the Arctic zone in history.