Economic Analysis of Corporate Law | Dmitry Stepanov
This article provides an overview of key concepts of economic analysis of corporate law.
27 September 2016
23 September 2016
Review of Federal Law No. 218-FL “On the State Registration of Real Estate” | Anton Alekseev, AEB Real Estate Monitor 3/2016
Federal law No. 218-FL “On the State Registration of Real Estate” dated 13 July 2015 unifies the currently existing State Real Estate Cadaster (GKN) and Unified Register of Rights to Real Estate and Transactions Therewith (EGRP) into one Unified State Register of Real Estate (EGRN). The law entails the enactment of more than 30 regulations which will enter into force in 2017. Although Law No. 218-FL in many ways continues and combines the approaches of the previous legislation and court practice, both the authorities, courts, developers and holders of real estate will need some time to get used to the new provisions.
16 September 2016
Construction 2017: Russia | Elena Gavrilina, Yuri Savvin, Anton Alekseev
Construction 2017 published by the Getting the Deal Through provides expert local insight into the field of construction law in different jurisdictions worldwide, covering such areas as: joint ventures, foreign penetration of the local market and licensing procedures, labour requirements, local labour law and health and safety regulation, construction contracts, insurance, contracting with government entities, bribery and foreign corruption, force majeure and acts of God, dispute resolution mechanisms, international environmental law, international bilateral treaties and currency controls.
5 September 2016
Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners Ukraine defend pharmaceutical company | The Lawyer
Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners Ukraine team successfully defended interests of one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies in a dispute with the State Intellectual Property Service of Ukraine (Patent office) on extension of patent term for medical product for of additional three years over standard 20 years’ term.
1 September 2016
Private antitrust litigation in Russian Federation: overview | Denis Gavrilov, Evgeny Bolshakov, Maria Krychkova, Igor Gavrilov; Practical Law Global Guides
The Q&A provides a high level overview of the legal basis for bringing private antitrust litigation actions; parties to an action; limitation periods and forum; standard of proof and liability; costs and timing; pre-trial applications and hearings; alternative dispute resolution; settlement or discontinuance of an action; proceedings at trial; available defences; available remedies; appeals and proposed legislative reform.
20 July 2016
Demand for Law and Enabling Structure of Regulation | Dmitry Stepanov
Laws, regulations and the law itself might be viewed from economic analysis of law standpoint as a type of any non-material goods, thus there is a demand for, and supply of, law.
19 July 2016
ICC Leniency Manual | the Russia chapter by Denis Gavrilov
Denis Gavrilov became the author of the Russia chapter of the Edition.
12 July 2016
Expanding of Merger Rules on JV Agreements in Russia | Anna Numerova and Elena Kazak, International Antitrust Bulletin by ABA Section of Antitrust Law
The most recent amendments to the Russian Competition Law, called the Fourth Antimonopoly Package, became effective January 6, 2016. Among other developments, the Fourth Antimonopoly Package brought joint venture (JV) agreements under mandatory merger control clearance procedures.
26 May 2016
On Islamic finance in Russia | comments by Ilya Bareysha for RBTH
Russia hopes that Islamic banks will help make up for a deficit in international finance caused by sanctions.
24 May 2016
EPAM successful for Transammiak in environmental dispute | ceelegalmatters.com reports
Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasiev & Partners has successfully defended the interests of Transammiak against a RUB 12 million claim brought by the Department of Rosprirodnadzor (Russia's Federal Service for the Supervision of Use of Natural Resources) in the Voronezh region of Russia for damages relating to an ammonia leak.
10 May 2016
Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners’ Tax Practice team became the author of the ACEA’s Tax Guide Russia Chapter
ACEA’s Tax Guide gives an overview of motor vehicle taxation in the 28 EU member states, the EFTA countries (Iceland, Norway and Switzerland) as well as major world markets such as Brazil, China, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, Turkey and the United States.
13 March 2016
Yandex vs. Google | Evgeny Bolshakov and Denis Gavrilov, International Antitrust Bulletin by ABA Section of Antitrust Law
On September 18, 2015, the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (“FAS”) ruled that Google had abused its dominant position in the market for pre-installed applications on mobile devices with an Android operating system in the Russian Federation. The ruling was affirmed on March 14, 2016 by the Moscow Arbitration Court.
4 March 2016
Merger Control 2016. Russia - Trends & Developments | Anna Numerova and Elena Kazak, Chambers and Partners Global Practice Guide
The major trend in the regulator’s merger control approach remains quite liberal. This can be seen in both the regulator’s practice and legislative development. Fines for failure to meet the merger control requirements have not been increased.
27 December 2015
The government took a giant step toward transparency this year by opening up databases for land titles and real estate property to the public | commentary by Oleg Boichuk, KyivPost
Transparency comes to real estate, land transactions.
23 December 2015
“We increasingly see clients who want their lawyers to be compliant with FCPA, UKBA and the Russian Federal Anti-Corruption laws” | interview with Mikhail Kazantsev
Leaders League publishes an interview with Mikhail Kazantsev.
