29 May 2012
German newspaper Handelsblatt publishes commentary by Michael Hartleben on Supreme Arbitrazh Court of the Russian Federation president’s proposals to grant the Russian courts powers to set aside foreign court judgments and international arbitration awards that prejudice interests of Russian parties.
12 April 2012
Oksana Ilchenko, M&A partner at the Ukraine offices of Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners, comments to Ukrainian newspaper KyivPost about organic M&A growth in future with Cyprus, Russians as biggest buyers
5 March 2012
Ilona Zekely is regular contributor to Wirtschaftsblatt's column, focused on economy of Eastern Europe.
22 February 2012
A company in the Urals has sued for the rights to the Playboy trademark, saying that the current owner, Playboy Enterprises, is not using it to produce condoms and lubricants like it ought to.
27 January 2012
Former BP-nominated director of Anglo-Russian TNK-BP Holdings, Richard Scott Sloan, and BP Exploration Operating Company (BP EOC) are going to seek a total of approximately $1 million in damages from a TNK-BP Holding minority shareholder, according to Denis Arkhipov, senior associate at the Russian legal firm that represents BP's interests in the case.
5 December 2011
Ilona Zekely is regular contributor to Wirtschaftsblatt's column, focused on economy of Eastern Europe.
11 November 2011
EPA&P lawyers contributed to Wirtschaftsblatt's column, focused on economy of Eastern Europe.
27 October 2011
Modern-day relations are characterized by Austria’s role as a major trade and investment partner – especially in banking. The financial presence includes Raiffeisen Bank Aval, Erste and Bank Austria.
29 September 2011
Parliament members are debating a draft law that would give state agencies greater access to people's personal bank account details.
1 September 2011
Filipp's high school grades were so bad that eventually he stopped going. After a few months he decided to make a fresh start in college. Re-enrolling in high school would take too long, he figured. Buying a high school diploma seemed like a good solution.
15 July 2011
Russian business lawyers are cautiously optimistic, but concerns over corruption and the reliability of the country's commercial courts still beset legal practice in a country striving to take its place on the global stage.
5 July 2011
Providing a snapshot of the business market in Russia, some of the leading lawyers in Moscow share their insights on trends and developments in the banking and finance, IPO, M&A and energy sectors over recent months.
9 June 2011
The Kremlin Is Taking Steps to Guard Minority Shareholder Interests Against Abuses and Mismanagement.
30 May 2011
While Russian law firms have taken off on the back of big transactions over the last ten years, Russian law has been notably less successful. A presidentially-mandated decree will try to bolster the domestic legal frameworks with the help of some of Russia’s leading commercial firms including Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners.
18 February 2011
Russia may introduce criminal punishment for legal entities, Investigative Committee head Alexander Bastrykin said Thursday, claiming that it is needed to lure foreign investors — though experts believe it will work the other way around.