On March 28 and April 4, 2014 EPAM and NPP Russian Corporate Counsel Association held a two-day workshop where the Firm’s leading litigation experts addressed the recent trends and the specificities of dispute resolution in various fields, and provided guidelines on how to avoid disputable situations.
On March 13 and April 3, 2014, the Moscow Office of EPAM hosted seminars on extensive litigations held in a number of jurisdictions in parallel. At the seminars the Russian and foreign experts covered the main aspects of the development and implementation of strategy and tactics for such litigations and reviewed the most interesting cases .
On April 1, 2014 the Moscow office of EPAM hosted the closing event in a series of business breakfasts on the current aspects of the legal regulation of urban development and land use in Moscow. Experts at the third business breakfast covered the legal status of the land plots accommodating unauthorised structures.
EPAM announces the arrival of a new Partner, Dmitriy Glazounov, a leading capital markets and financial transactions expert, together with his team. Dmitriy will head the Banking & Finance and Capital Markets Practices at the Firm's Moscow office.
EPAM held a round-table on the eve of The Lawyer European Awards. As London continues to see a high volume of litigation coming from Russia and the CIS, and a large number of investors continue to pursue their interests in the region, Robin Wittering, Head of International M&A Projects Practice at EPAM, has chosen to focus the discussion around current Russian litigation trends, such as a preference for High Court Jurisdiction clauses over arbitration, deoffshorisation and deal structuring in Russia, reflecting the on-going changes to Russian law.
On 1 January 2014, Ilya Nikiforov was named Vice-Chair of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). This is the first time a practitioner from Russia or the CIS has been appointed as an officer of the Commission.
The Belarusian National Rounds of the Jessup Competition in international law were held in Minsk on February 7-8, 2014 at the Belarusian State University, Faculty of International Relations.
The attorneys of the White Collar Crime Practice at EPAM have successfully defended the interests of the employees of ZAO Alcoa Metallurg Rus, the Russian subsidiary of Alcoa, the world’s largest aluminum producer, terminating a criminal prosecution.
Litigation team of EPAM has successfully defended the interests of its client in the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation (ICAC) and in further proceedings, having managed to recover from Belorussian ODO Mostra Group about 100 million rubles in debts assigned by Nestle Russia LLC to Crobotol Investments Limited.
On December 19, 2013 the EPAM in Moscow hosted a business breakfast on the 2014 new real estate taxation principle. At the event the Firm’s experts discussed the new rules under which the corporate property tax for certain types of real estate items would be based on their cadastral value.
Michael Copeland has joined EPAM as a part of its Moscow team.
The team of EPAM in Minsk (the Firm) was a legal consultant in the pilot (for Belarus) privatization project of OJSC “Medplast”. An important stage of the project has recently come to an end: shortlists of potential investors were made.
The Minsk Office of EPAM (the Firm) provided legal support of the deal which increased the loan amount by EBRD up to EUR 20 million for the OJSC Stadler Minsk.