Our firm provides legal assistance, mainly in:

• legal advice and preparation of legal memorandums on various issues of law;
• preparation of legal documents necessary for conclusion of contracts and business projects for client's maximum benefit;
• preparation of the constituent documents for all legal entities and legal support on their subsequent registration;
• mergers & acquisitions;
• client based research on problems of commercial activity and general legal practice; systematic legal support of the company's activity related to all possible legal issues;
• other legal assistance to individuals and businesses.

We also represent and defend our clients' interests before judicial and state bodies. In particular, our lawyers have gained extensive experience in the preparation and conduction of arbitration litigation regarding a wide range of suits.

We represent a wide range of companies, as well as commercial and non-commercial organisations. In general, we concentrate on the following areas:

Corporative Law

Securities and Banking

Our securities practice covers all issues arising from the turnover of securities, the issuance of securities or any other transaction involving securities.

Our banking practice provides support to banking industry clients, such as the preparation of commercial loan agreements, advice relating to commercial loan agreements prepared by others and representation in disputes arising from the negligent execution of obligations by the bank.

Intellectual Property

We counsel clients in a wide variety of matters involving intellectual property, such as transferring copyrights, drafting legal and accounting documents related to intellectual property and registering copyrights. We specialise in helping our clients register and defend their trade marks, distinction marks and firms' names.

Tax

We assist corporate clients and individuals in all aspects of tax planning and litigation. We have handled a wide variety of adversary proceedings, starting with those involving tax authorities and continuing to civil or criminal proceedings, administration proceedings or arbitration proceedings.

Real Estate

We have extensive experience in all issues relating to real estate development and ownership. We specialise in the following areas:

• review of documents and analysis of the legal status of a wide range of commerce and residential real estate;
• the negotiation and preparation of agreements and other legal documents relating to privatisation, purchase and sale, leasing, investment or any other transaction involving real estate development and ownership;
• representation in disputes involving real estate.

Bankruptcy

We represent clients such as commercial organisations, credit institutions and insurance companies in bankruptcy proceedings. We also represent clients in criminal cases resulting from bankruptcy proceedings, such as illegal actions within bankruptcy, false bankruptcy and fraudulent bankruptcy.

Currency Regulation

We offer the full range of services to our clients dealing with foreign currency in their businesses. We specialise in the following areas:

• consultations with individuals and entities on their rights and responsibilities relating to operations involving foreign currency values and the fines or penalties for violations of the currency legislation;
• assistance in establishing operations related to foreign currency values, including current and capital foreign exchange operations;
• consultations with foreign clients about the procedures for opening and maintaining bank accounts in foreign currency or the currency of the Russian Federation.