Projects

Successfully providing legal support to a client in obtaining official clarifications from the Russian Federal Customs Service A major Russian shipping company specialising in sea transportation of hydrocarbons instructed us to assist it in obtaining official clarifications of the Russian Ministry of Finance on whether it was required to obtain the customs authority’s permission and perform customs transactions in the situation as follows. 

Pepeliaev Group’s St Petersburg Office has helped its client to win a complicated corporate dispute Our lawyers from St Petersburg corporate practice have successfully defended interests of a public enterprise, a large regional producer of bread and pastries, in a dispute with its former shareholders who sought to challenge a resolution of the enterprise’s supervisory board regarding how the redemption price of shares had been established.     

We successfully protected the right of Elizaveta Glinka’s heir to use her pseudonym Doctor Liza The team of Pepeliaev Group’s Intellectual Property and Trademarks Practice successfully protected the interests of Elizaveta Glinka’s heir in a dispute with the “Spravedlivaya Pomoshch Doktora Lizy” Foundation (referred to below using the English translation “Doctor Liza Fair Aid” Foundation) over the right to use her pseudonym “Doctor Liza”.

The teams of Pepeliaev Group’s Dispute Resolution and Mediation and Criminal Law Defence of Business practices have defended a client in the Supreme Court The teams of Pepeliaev Group’s Dispute Resolution and Mediation and Criminal Law Defence of Business practices jointly represented a client's interests before the Supreme Court in a case based on a claim from the Prosecutor's Office. 

Pepeliaev Group’s lawyers have protected clients from secondary liability amounting to more than RUB 3 billion The team of our Bankruptcy and Anti-Crisis Protection of Business Practice has successfully protected the interests of six clients (individuals and foreign companies) in a dispute concerning secondary liability amounting to more than RUB 3 billion. 

Pepeliaev Group's team has successfully wrapped up a tax dispute in favour of VimpelCom PJSC Represented VimpelCom PJSC in a dispute with the Russian Federal Tax Service which lasted for over three years and ended yesterday in the court of cassation.