Russia
Redomiciliation of companies to "Russian offshores"
Over the past 25 years, Russian corporate law has developed very rapidly, absorbing previously unknown concepts. One of these concepts was the possibility of redomiciliation of companies. For this purpose,...Read more

Vladislav Gorobinskiy
Head of the Legal Support Department for International Projects, Mediator, New Investment Group LLC, Russia
Impact of Sanctions on Russian Companies and Ways to Minimize Their Consequences.

This article is aimed at discussing the problems that Russian companies face in the context of sanctions imposed on the country and ways to solve them. To accurately identify problems...Read more
Elena Ogawa
PF Finance, LEVINE Bridge Company, Russia
Anastasia Maslova
Lawyer, Levine Bridge LLC, Russia
The Specially Protected Trade Marks: Lack of Clarity from the International Perspective


World history of trademark regulation is quite long-standing. Derived from antic and medieval jurisprudence where Lex Cornelia or general delict rules were used as a legal frame for the merchant...Read more

Vadim Nyunyaev
Head of the Intellectual Property Projects (Ph. D. in Law), Marketing Communications Department, Corporate Communications Block, Gazprom Neft, Russia

Oksana Morozevich
Intellectual Property manager, Marketing Communications Department, Corporate Communications Block, Gazprom Neft, Russia
Russian Counter-Sanctions
In response to Russian “special military operation in Ukraine” (known in the EU and the USA as “Russian invasion of Ukraine”), starting from February 2022, the European Union, the United...Read more

Vladislav Gorobinskiy
Head of the Legal Support Department for International Projects, Mediator, New Investment Group LLC, Russia
Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures in Russia
Russian procedural codes indicate that one of the main purposes of civil proceedings is the peaceful settlement of disputes. Even though procedure codes contain an open list of alternative dispute...Read more

Vladislav Gorobinskiy
Head of the Legal Support Department for International Projects, Mediator, New Investment Group LLC, Russia
Copyright Protection of Websites

Russian Civil Code does not explicitly recognize websites as objects of copyright. This does not mean that websites are not protected by copyright, but implies the following questions instead: What...Read more

Natalia Gulyaeva
Office Managing Partner, Hogan Lovells (CIS), Russia

Vadim Nyunyaev
Head of the Intellectual Property Projects (Ph. D. in Law), Marketing Communications Department, Corporate Communications Block, Gazprom Neft, Russia
Digital Notarial System in Corporate Relations
Modern Russian laws rarely provides for the obligatory participation of a notary in corporate relations. First of all, these cases relate to the various actions of the members connected to...Read more

Vladislav Gorobinskiy
Head of the Legal Support Department for International Projects, Mediator, New Investment Group LLC, Russia
Regulatory Guillotine
The Russian legislation system faces a difficult task in reviewing and updating an enormous accumulation of regulations, standards and guideline – thousands that have built up over the years, often,...Read more
Oraz Durdyev
Legal & Corporate Affairs Director, Russia, Middle East , AB InBev Efes, Russia
The Compulsory Licensing in Russia: The First Precedent Lessons Learned
The compulsory license mechanism in Russia had been described in the Civil Code of the Russian Federation for a long time. However, there had been no real cases of granting...Read more

Elvira Dubovskaya
Fulbright Scholar, N/A, Russia
Personal Data Legislation in Russia
Russia’s Personal Data law may be only 6 years and a few months old, but as Tatiana Egorova demonstrates, extracting substantial parts of the relevant legislation, it is already a...Read more
Tatiana Egorova
Unit Head of Legal support of loan transactions, CB "Garanti Bank-Moscow" (ZAO), Russia