9 December 2013
Russia’s competition authority, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), has proposed amendments to eliminate the discrepancy in different definitions of a cartel in Russian competition law and the country’s criminal code, Andrey Tenishev, head of the cartel division at FAS, told PaRR. A definition given to a cartel in antimonopoly law will be integrated into criminal law, he explained.
29 November 2013
The financial crisis took a heavy toll on Central and Eastern European economies. But local experts are confident that a recent spate of M&A activity could revive once-flagging deal flow.
21 November 2013
Ukrainian corporate legislation is as young as the country. It sprang up when Ukraine declared its independence in 1991. That’s also when demand for foreign legal counsel among local businesses skyrocketed, a trend that continues today, lawyers say.
19 November 2013
Alexandra Lysova became the author of the Russia chapter of the Getting the Deal Through – Product Recall 2014.
7 November 2013
Pavel Sadovsky and Vyacheslav Yugai contributed to the Study on Videogames published by World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).
25 October 2013
KyivPost publishes an article by Oksana Ilchenko on antitrust regulation in Ukraine.
25 September 2013
Evgenia Evdokimova writes on arbitrability of disputes from the viewpoint of Russian legislation and judicial practice.
14 September 2013
Mark Rovinskiy on Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development Action Plan on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting.
12 September 2013
Evgeny Bolshakov on the FAS clarified the criteria of a joint venture agreement validity and how to evaluate certain non-compete provisions therein.
11 September 2013
“Arbitration was attractive to me as commercial law in Russian courts during the early 1990s was very rudimentary. What you learnt in law school was looking like theory,” says Ilya Nikiforov, managing partner at EPAM.
9 September 2013
Elena Legashova on foreign trade transactions regulations in Russia.
8 September 2013
The minor countries of the CIS region have attracted less interest than their larger, louder neighbours but this is still a valuable region.
22 August 2013
GAR publishes an article by Dmytro Marchukov and Oleksandr Volkov on a series of puzzling Ukrainian court decisions.
5 August 2013
UEFA has no obligation to exclude FC Metalist Kharkiv from the UEFA Champions League of the 2013/2014 season after the ruling of the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, the club's representative in court, Head of Sports Law at the EPAM Law Firm Markiyan Kliuchkovsky has said.
25 July 2013
Anton Alekseev on the Supreme Arbitrazh Court’s position is that a foreign purchaser of Russian real estate will have to disclose information on beneficiaries in the case of court disputes to prove good faith and to prevent the seizure of property.