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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...

On 29th July 2015 the Supreme Court of Russia reveals the decision on the issue whether or not a court grants the recognition and enforcement of an arbitral award against a debtor who is in the process of liquidation or the arbitral award should be conferred initially in accordance with special liquidation provisions. Background & rulings of the lower-tier courts Victo...

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...

On 7 May 2015 the Russian Government proposed a draft new law, the law on domestic arbitration in Russian Federation (the draft law), to the State Duma (the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia (legislature)). Domestic Arbitration is defined as an arbitration relating to a dispute arising out of legal relationship whether contractual or not, where none of the parties is: an ...

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...

The Annual RAA conferences are becoming the largest forum on arbitration in Russia and the CIS gathering the representatives of the arbitral institutions and practitioners from all over the globe. This year the conference was very topical and focused on the contemporary challenges in arbitration related to the EU and US sanctions against Russia and the rise of Asian arbitration centers as an al...

On 25 May 2015, the Moscow Arbitrazh court (a state court) published its decision on Kyrgyzstan v Stans Energy Corp case regarding the issue of challenging of the arbitral award on 30.06.2014 (case A40-64831/2014). A quick retrospective: Kyrgyzstan sought the annulment of the arbitral award, but the Moscow Arbitrazh Court refused the motion (the ruling on 08.07.2014). Then, the CIS...

Today Chambers & Partners has published a new edition of its authoritative international guide, Chambers Europe 2015. KIAP is listed among the best law firms of Russia and has been endorsed for its four legal practices: litigation, IP, tax and corporate/M&A. Singled out for endorsement in their fields were six partners: Andrey Korelskiy, Ilya Ischuk, Konstantin Suvorov, Anton Samokhvalov...

23 April 2015 Ararat Park Hyatt Moscow hosted the 2nd International Conference of the Russian Arbitration Association called “The future of arbitration in Russia. Focus on Asia”.  Aybek Ahmedov, KIAP Partner, addressed a panel of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) and read a report entitled “Application of the principle of justice ...

Today was published the international legal rating Best Lawyers 2015. According to the rating results five partners of KIAP, Attorneys at law, were named the leading lawyers in five practice areas: Andrey Korelskiy (Litigation, Arbitration and Mediation), Konstantin Astafiev (Litigation, Labor and Employment Law), Ilya Ischuk (Competition/Antitrust Law), Anna Grishchenkova (Litigation) and Julia...

Focus on Asia: the battle cry of Russia's business world in response to the sanctions. But the business world is a world of disputes. And some of these will have to be resolved at new arbitration venues – in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Japan. But the Orient is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma… Are we ready to embrace the new rules of the game? To learn some of...

The results of the annual international ranking The Legal 500 Europe, Middle East & Africa 2015 were announced today. The ranking highlights the successful work of the Firm: ‘KIAP is a standout firm for litigation providing high-quality expertise at reasonable prices’.  The report recommends the team in six practice areas:  Dispute Resolution  ...

Although Kyrgyzstan v. Stans Energy Corp is known as an investment arbitration case having been heard by the Moscow Arbitrazh (Commercial) court on the issue of setting aside the arbitral award there is something else interesting – on 12 March 2015 the court refused the motion on anti-enforcement injunctions in the case.  JSC “Kyrgyzaltyn”, not being the party neither to the i...

On 19-20 March 2015 Grand Hotel Kempinski Geneva hosted the 28th Forum on Fraud, Asset Tracing and Recovery, organized by C5 group. KIAP Partner Anna Grishchenkova spoke at the section “Get the Handcuffs on Quick – or Lock Down the Funds? Managing Parallel Civil and Criminal Proceedings – the Dos and Don’ts”. Anna outlined the main types of commercial fraud...