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
Ilona Zekely is regular contributor to Wirtschaftsblatt's column, focused on economy of Eastern Europe.
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.
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.
Ilona Zekely is regular contributor to Wirtschaftsblatt's column, focused on economy of Eastern Europe.
EPA&P lawyers contributed to Wirtschaftsblatt's column, focused on economy of Eastern Europe.
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.
Parliament members are debating a draft law that would give state agencies greater access to people's personal bank account details.
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.
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.
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.
The Kremlin Is Taking Steps to Guard Minority Shareholder Interests Against Abuses and Mismanagement.
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.
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.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who declared war on corruption as a major priority, intends to tighten punishment for bribes. To this end he submitted amendments to the Criminal Code and the Code of Administrative Offences to the State Duma on Wednesday with the intention to multiply fines and prison terms for commercial bribery and for receiving and giving bribes.
