Today Chambers & Partners has published a new edition of its authoritative international guide, Chambers Europe 2016. KIAP is listed among the best law firms of Russia and has been endorsed for its seven legal practices: Litigation, IP, Competition/Antitrust, Tax, Corporate/M&A, Restructuring/Insolvency and Transportation: Shipping. Singled out for endorsement in th...
In April 2016, KIAP became a full member of The Harmonie Group. The Group’s members are independent law firms that are invitation-only, prequalified and vetted.
The Harmonie Group is a not-for-profit membership organization of independent law firms dedicated to serving the special needs of the risk industry. Founded in 1993 at the Harmonie Club in New York Cit...
The results of the annual international ranking The Legal 500 Europe, Middle East & Africa 2016 were announced today. The ranking highlights the successful work of the Firm: ‘The ‘team of trusted specialists’ at KIAP provides ‘an outstanding combination of business acumen and legal know-how’.
The report recommends the team in nine practice areas:
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Kommersant and LegalPractice.Ru project have published the findings of their annual study of Russian law firms.
In this ranking of the best performing law firms in various areas of legal practice, KIAP stands third in the TOP-5 list under Commercial Disputes category, and fifth in Banking and Finance and Anti-monopoly Disputes and Consultations sectors.
According to this analysis,...
17 March 2016 Chambers and Partners published the Chambers Global 2016 guide, which unlike the regional directory of Chambers Europe, expected in the second half of April, ranks law firms based on their international projects involving global market leaders on a worldwide scale. This year KIAP has been recommended in Dispute Resolution (band 4) area.
Four par...
12th annual conference “New Customs Legislation: Theory and Practice” organized by the Transport and Customs Committee of the Association of European Businesses took place at Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya on March 10, 2016.
Alexey Sizov, Counsel and head of the customs law and external trade practice at KIAP, gave a speech on determination of jurisdiction when challenging resolutions ...
Alexey Sizov, head of Administrative practice and Customs & International Trade practice, has been promoted to a Counsel position at KIAP, Attorneys at Law.
Alexey joined KIAP in 2012 and since 2013 he has successfully leaded Customs & International Trade practice. Alexey advises Russian and Foreign clients, including INDITEX, METRO Group, Schindler, Pitney Bowes and represen...
Anna Grishchenkova, partner of dispute resolution and international commercial arbitration practice areas, became an officer of the IBA Litigation Committee. This Committee, being one of the largest and most influential in the International Bar Association, is a unifying forum for hundreds of litigators, including experts in cross-border disputes.
A prospective regional represe...
KIAP announces opening a new “Insurance” practice. The direction will be headed by a new partner Dmitry Shnaydman, a lawyer with 18 years’ experience in insurance business. During the last 8 years he headed the area of business of Rosgosstrakh, major Russian insurance company, dealing with legal support for the largest and most significant disputes on the whole territory of the Russian Fed...
The expansion into the new practice area is due to the increase in the number of projects involving clients representation in relations with the state and municipal authorities.
The new division offers to the clients protection in cases on administrative offences, resolution of disputes with the state and municipal authorities, advice on administrative law and procedure, support in inspec...
Today the Pravo.Ru legal rating has published a joint annual ranking of Russian and international law firms, Pravo.Ru-300. Based on the industry ranking, KIAP is the best choice for project support in thirteen legal specializations:
Arbitration
Commercial real estate
Tax law
Banking and Finance
Intellectual property
Antitrust law
Bankruptcy
International arbit...
During November 30 – December 2 the British Embassy in Moscow hosted the English Law Week. KIAP Partner of International Commercial Arbitration practice Anna Grishchenkova moderated the session “Enforcing debts through the English Courts”.
The conference was centered on key trends in legal services in Russia, England and Wales: the relevance of English law to Russian business...
On 29-31 October 2015 the annual German-Russian Young Leaders Conference was held in Kazan. The capital of Tatarstan hosted more than 250 participants, among them members of parliaments, businessmen, scientists, journalists and artists from Russia and Germany at the age of 25 to 40 years. KIAP’s partner Anna Grishchenkova attended the Conference.
At the opening ceremony the Russian and ...
KIAP, Attorneys at Law, has once again been recognized by the global community as Russia’s leading legal consultant. For the first time ever, the Law Firm has been included in the International Financial Law Review (IFLR1000) rankings based on performance in 2014 and joined the list of recommended law firms in the following practice areas: Banking & Finance and Capital Markets.
The ...
Two years ago – on September 26th, 2013, the same day when UN celebrates the International Day of Sea, we have launched the Shippinglaw.Ru website, a bilingual hub for maritime and shipping lawyers worldwide.
Since then the site has acquired the reputation of a sole source of shipping and maritime law in Russia, which provides open access to many legal publications, book review...
Aybek Ahmedov, partner and head of shipping and transport law practice at KIAP, has been invited to join an International Working Group of the Comité Maritime International on the Reformulation of the Lex Maritima at a recent meeting of CMI General Assembly in Istanbul.
Comité Maritime International (CMI) is an international non-governmental organization. It was founde...
In August 2015, KIAP became a full member of the Association of European Businesses (AEB). The Firm's partners have been coopted onto specialist committees, including the Legal Committee, Finance and Investment, Customs and Transport, Taxes, and IP Committee as well as Working Groups on Data Protection, Modernisation & Innovations, Parallel Imports.
The Association of European Bu...
27 July 2015 the Izmaylovo Alfa congress hotel in Moscow hosted a workshop called “Non-compliance risks of corporate crisis management”, organized by the Institute for the Development of Modern Educational Technology (IRSOT).
Lawyer Julia Kirpikova, senior counsel at the KIAP law firm, served as a moderator for a panel called “Staff management in times of crisis: the thi...
Senior associate for dispute resolution, Attorney at law, Ilya Dedkovskiy and IP associate Anastasia Pichugina taught a course on IP Case Engineering for third-year students at Higher School of Economics.
The course took two months to complete and had two parts. The first, called “Procedural framework”, dealt with aspects such as arbitrazh (commercial) litigation in the...