Projects

Legal GR and Customs Practices have safeguarded the interests of a major supplier of medical equipment in a dispute with customs authorities

Owing to the joint efforts of Sergey Taut, Pepeliaev Group’s Legal GR expert, and lawyers from the firm’s Customs Practice, we provided key support in safeguarding the interests of a major supplier of medical equipment in a dispute with customs authorities.

We have successfully defended our client in a dispute with a conflicted employee The Head of Pepeliaev Group’s Employment and Migration Law Practice Group, Vitalia Kuznetsova, has defended a client in a dispute with a conflicted employee (a sales representative) who was dismissed for a number of disciplinary sanctions. 

Successfully defending a contract for fiduciary management of a major shopping mall in a bankruptcy case Our Bankruptcy and Anti-crisis Protection of Business Practice has proved the lawful nature of a fiduciary management contract that has been challenged by the debtor’s receiver on the ground that the management company has overstated the service fee and expenses.

A dispute with Rosprirodnadzor with regard to the ‘environmental fee’ We are advising the client in connection with a threatened dispute relating to the amount and method of calculating the fee. Within the frameworks of the project we have to assist the client in navigating a way through new and complex statutory provisions in relation to which there is almost no case law. 

Legal support in a dispute concerning the collection of environmental fees in the appeal and cassation courts The project is unique owing to the amount of the fee being recovered from the enterprise for the discharge of a pollutant, which was not actually discharged.

Due diligence of companies Conducted due diligence of three major Russian companies with foreign investments in order to prepare a report on risks and other projects