The Banking & Finance, Capital Markets team at EPAM has successfully completed the legal support of two transactions to securitise the mortgage assets of the Housing Finance Bank (ZAO Bank ZhilFinance).
On 27 June 2014 a business breakfast meeting took place at the St. Petersburg Law Office of EPAM under the header ‘New Civil Code Regulations for Legal Entities’.
On June 18, 2014, on the first day of IV St. Petersburg International Legal Forum, EPAM held lunch “Antitrust regulation: tendencies, problems and solutions”. More than 80 representatives of large business came to discuss the most actual issues of antitrust regulation in the open dialog with the Federal Antimonopoly Service (the FAS) of the Russian Federation.
On May 20, 2014, Shanghai hosted a business discussion involving Boris Titov, the Russian Presidential Commissioner for Entrepreneurs’ Rights, Robin Wittering and Mikhail Kazantsev, Partners at EPAM, as well as Chinese business and legal community representatives. The meeting was organised by EPAM and held during Vladimir Putin’s official visit to China.
Members of the General Council as well as its new Chairman have been elected following the general meeting of the Non-Commercial Partnership “Competition Support” held on April 23, 2014.
On April 22, 2014, the Moscow Office of EPAM hosted discussions on intellectual property protection in digital media as part of the 7th International Forum on Intellectual Property in the 21 century organised under the auspices of the World Intellectual Property Organisation.
The Attorneys of EPAM have successfully defended the interests of TV-Daryal CJSC, a federal broadcaster belonging to CTC Media, the Russia's largest private media holding, in a complicated dispute with bad-faith patent holders.
Ivan Smirnov has been appointed Managing Partner of the St. Petersburg office of EPAM, one of the oldest law firms in St. Petersburg.
EPAM Minsk office supported the first-ever republican competition Best Legal Departments taking place in Belarus. The awards ceremony was held on March 28, 2014 in Minsk.
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.