Projects

Lawyers from Pepeliaev Group have defended in state commercial courts the constitutional right of a person to receive information from state authorities A team of lawyers from Pepeliaev Group has protected the interests of its client, a major production company, in a precedent-setting case where the key question was about the direct effect of articles 24, 29 and 55 of the Russian Constitution. At the same time, the state authority (the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (“FAS”)) insisted that the constitutional right to receive information could not be exercised, because the information did not violate the rights of the claimant and also because neither the sector-based legislation nor the state authority’s internal regulations set out how the state authority had to provide such information.

Pepeliaev Group’s Employment Practice has succeeded in having the first instance court issue a decision in favour of the client to reduce a top manager's bonus Vitalia Kuznetsova, Head of Pepeliaev Group's Employment and Migration Law Practice Group, represented a defendant, the global leader in the area of healthcare and hygiene products, against a claim of its IT director, who also was a member of the Board, in a dispute concerning a bonus.

Pepeliaev Group’s lawyers have saved over RUB 3 billion in assets for clients in a dispute over secondary liability Our team from the Bankruptcy and Anti-Crisis Protection of Business Practice has consolidated its success in one of the key disputes within the scope of an integrated project that involved providing legal support in three bankruptcy cases. 

Lawyers from Pepeliaev Group’s Siberian Office safeguarded our client’s interests in a major dispute with the prosecutor’s office for the environment A team from our Siberian Office represented the interests of a large Siberian mining company in the court of appeal. Within the framework of the dispute, the prosecutor’s office for the environment demanded that RUB 827 million be collected from the client in connection with the production of coal on an agricultural land plot.

Successfully protected the client's personal assets in disputes about real estate The team of the Bankruptcy and Anti-Crisis Protection of Business Practice succeeded in having the first instance courts set aside the unlawful claims against our client by proving that the agreement to dispose of the asset had been terminated and that no grounds existed for it to be performed.

Lawyers from the Siberian Office have helped a client to preserve more than RUB 4 billion Lawyers from Pepeliaev Group’s Siberian Office have helped a developer to prepare a legal position to defend in court against a claim of the Federal Supervisory Natural Resources Management Service (abbreviated in Russian as ‘Rosprirodnadzor’) to collect more than RUB 4 billion as compensation for damage.