On 4-12 October 2024, Moscow hosted Stage 4 of the International Chess Champions League Ivi Grand Prix. KIAP Law Firm acted as one of the tournament organisers.
Backed by IVI online movie theatre, the Title Partner of the tournament, the organisers managed to bring together the roster that is worth the main tournament of the Moscow Open forum. The tournament started off with 46 chess pla...
22 October 2024 is the date of the 13th Legal Forum for Practitioners to be held in the Kremlin and organised by the Lawyer System.
Traditionally, legal highlights of the year is the main topic of the legal forum. Heads of legal departments from majors, judges, officials from state authorities and consulting experts will together discuss the changes to the laws and practices this year, w...
On 10-11 October 2024, the Hilton Podgorica Crna Gora will host the Balkan Arbitration Conference, supported by law firms LK Law (UK), BlankRome (USA), international litigation funder Nivalion, and the Vienna International Arbitration Centre (VIAC).
Anastasiya Ryabova, an associate in international commercial arbitration, will participate in a panel on third-party funding in arbitration i...
For the past three years, KIAP’s international arbitration practice has been actively involved in cases related to the application of Articles 248.1 and 248.2 of the Russian Arbitrazh (Commercial) Procedure Code (also known as Lugovoy Law). Our team has been diligently tracking all the cases where these provisions have been applied.
We are pleased to share the updated Alert
with st...
Stepan Sultanov has been appointed Head of KIAP's International Commercial Arbitration Practice since September 9, 2024.
He represents clients in complex cross-border disputes in litigation and in international arbitration under auspices of LCIA, ICC, VIAC, SCC, ICAC, RAC and other arbitral institutions.
Stepan is engaged in resolution of disputes in construction, com...
Bloomsbury (Hart Publishing) has published the book “Private International Law in BRICS” under the editing of Stellina Jolly and Saloni Khanderia. The book, written by the leading experts in the relevant jurisdictions, reflects various aspects of international private law in the BRICS states (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), their convergences and divergences.
Stepan Sult...
The Arbitration Association (RAA)
has published the model Procedural Order No. 1.
The procedural order No. 1 is a key document for any arbitration. It constitutes an agreement by the parties and arbitrators on the procedural ground rules, such as rules of submission of pleadings, order of notifications, procedural timelines, organisation of hearings, etc.
The model Proce...
On 12 June 2024 Belgrade will host the annual English Law Day. The event will give floor to leading legal professionals from Russia, Sebia, and the United Kingdom. The English Law Day’s agenda features such topics as “Investor state and international commercial arbitration in Serbia and further afield”; “Sanctions and their impact on transport, trade, transactions and the disputes which arise”...
Anastasiya Ryabova, associate of KIAP’s international arbitration practice, has joined as an associate member the Arbitration Association in Serbia.
The Arbitration Association was founded in 2013 and is a non-governmental and non-profit association of arbitration experts in the Balkan region. The Arbitration Association established the Belgrade Arbitration Center, a mod...
Traditionally, Russia has been one of the leading maritime powers playing an active role in discovery, reclamation and exploitation of the global sea. Today, our country has found itself in a fundamentally new position in defining the foundations of maritime policy, exercising and protecting its interests. Following a significant increase in the number of requests for legal advice in the field...
Dear Ladies,
Congratulations on International Women's Day! We wish you sunny moods, lots of joy, and smiles all year round.
Be happy and loved!
Best wishes,
KIAP team
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Natalia Kovalkova and Anastasia Ryabova, Associates in the International Commercial Arbitration practice, joined the Russian Women in Arbitration (RWA) team.
RWA is an independent initiative aimed to promote and support women's leadership in arbitration. In its activities, the RWA Steering committee and team are committed to create opportunities for communication and ex...
Foreign companies are increasingly facing matters of Russian courts’ exclusive competence and anti-arbitration injunctions in disputes with Russian sanctioned parties – Articles 248.1 and 248.2 of the Russian Arbitrazh (Commercial) Procedure Code (a.k.a. “Lugovoy Law”).
KIAP’s International Arbitration practice has been actively involved in such disputes, tracking and pu...
Dear Friends,
As holidays are upon us, we would like to wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year!
May good health, peace, love, prosperity, strength and great success in all endeavors come to you.
This is a high time to make, fulfill and grant wishes! May your home continually be filled with joy and happiness, just as during these festive times!
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On 2 and 3 December 2023 took place the final rounds of the Mozolin Corporate Arbitration Mootcourt hosted by the Russian Institute of Modern Arbitration (RIMA).
Traditionally, in course of the mootcourt teams prepare pleadings based on the mootcourt problem and participate in two stages of oral hearings – online rated rounds and in-person rounds. On the verge of the in-person round...
KIAP Law Firm announces the appointment of Eldar Guliev as the new head of the Intellectual Property Practice.
Eldar Guliev dedicated over 15 years to issues of registration and protection of exclusive rights to means of identification, both in administrative bodies (Rospatent) and in courts.
For more than six years, Eldar was employed as a state expert on intellec...
Thursday 5 October 2023 | 11.00 am Moscow
KIAP and Belgrade Arbitration Center are excited to announce an international online conference “Serbia as a Relevant Jurisdiction for International Arbitration”.
Our main discussion will revolve over the following topics:
General arbitration framework in Serbia and Ser...
KIAP, Attorneys at Law, helped the largest Russian reinsurance company to prevent an attempt to illegally claim a premium of more than 300 million roubles under the obligatory reinsurance contract.
The reinsured applied to the Moscow Arbitration Court with a demand to terminate the obligatory reinsurance contract and return the entire premium, believing that the reinsurer had violate...
A Russian distributor of pharmaceuticals has claimed penalties for the violation of its rights to priority distribution of pharmaceuticals in Russia from a foreign pharmaceutical manufacturer.
During the court proceedings, our lawyers managed to prove that the Russian company had a framework related to the priority distribution of pharmaceuticals, that the foreign manufacturer did n...
In a bankruptcy case, KIAP lawyers managed to prove that the company became bankrupt as a result of unfair conduct of the business owner.
It is worth noting that KIAP lawyers joined the wife as a co-defendant in the case alongside with the formal beneficiary as she was secretly, but actively involved in the business development. As a result, the proceedings have become more ...