On September 24-25, 2020, the II International Legal Banking forum on the topic "Current issues of law in the banking sector" was held in Samara. The forum was organized by Sberbank of Volga region, Samara University, and the Samara State University of Economics with the support of the Government of the Samara Region and the Association of Lawyers of Russia.
This year the forum was held i...
On September 19-21, 2020, the regular Russian South Legal Forum was held in Sochi, organized by the YUG Law Office (Krasnodar) and the international law firm Dentons with the support of Pravo.ru.
Russian South Legal Forum is the leading communication platform in the professional legal community of the southern region. As part of the Forum's business program, leading consultants, in-houses...
On September 15, 2020, a webinar on the topic “The Challenges of Online Case Management”, organized by the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (ICC YAF), was held.
During the webinar, leading experts in the field of international arbitration discussed the most actual issues that arise in the online arbitration process. On examples from the current ICC practice, the experts talked about how arbi...
On September 11, 2020, the Marriott Royal Aurora Hotel hosted the Legal Forum of Russia, an annual business forum organized by the editorial office of the Vedomosti newspaper. This year the event was held for the sixteenth time.
The forum focused on discussing the legal challenges faced by business lawyers in 2020. The program of the annual business event included both a discussion of the...
On August 29-30, 2020, the results of the V RAA Competition On Online Arbitration (Online Moot) were summed up - an annual student Moot Court Competition in the format of a mock-trial (moot-court), organized by the Arbitration Association (RAA) with the support of the Faculty of Law of the Higher School of Economics National Research University.
Traditionally, the Competition is held in t...
On August 27-28, 2020, the Masters’ School of the Law Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU). This year the event was held online, lectures were held via Zoom platform. KIAP, Attorneys at Law, traditionally acted as a partner of the event.
The remote format of the Summer Masters’ School this year did not prevent to gather once again a unique panel of spe...
On August 25, 2020, one of the most successful arbitration conferences in Russia took place - the Russian Arbitration Day (“RAD”), organized with the support of the Russian Arbitration Center at the Russian Institute of Modern Arbitration and the LF Academy educational project.
The sixth Russian Arbitration Day was held in an online format, the event was broadcast live in Russian and Eng...
On August 11, 2020, an online seminar "How to protect VAT deductions and income tax expenses even for unscrupulous counterparties. Trends in Tax Control and Judicial Practice" was held, organized by the Chamber of Tax Consultants (CTC). The seminar was held remotely on the MIRAPOLIS platform.
Andrey Zuykov, Partner and Head of Tax practice at KIAP, Member of the Chamber of Tax Consultants...
On August 4, 2020, the Russian National Committee of International Chamber of Commerce - World Business Organization (ICC Russia) with the support of Orchards law firm held a webinar "Dispute resolution on transactions with guarantees and letters of credit: how are arbitration and court practice changing?" As part of the event, partners of leading Russian and international law firms, as w...
On July 23, 2020, the Russian National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce - World Business Organization (ICC Russia) presented the results of the study "The Attitude of Financial Institutions to Arbitration (Arbitration Proceedings)" (in Russian language), conducted jointly with KIAP in 2019-2020. The study was aimed to understand attitude of Russian banks and financi...
On Monday, July 13, 2020, Pravo Tech webinar was held on the topic "Early termination of the legal protection of trademarks in a bankruptcy case". Anastasia Skovpen, Associate of KIAP IP practice, acted as speaker of the webinar.
From the moment the court adopted the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation ruling on the application of United Breweries Heineken LLC on the early termi...
On Monday, 29 June 2020, an online master class was held on the topic "Protection and Intellectual Property: use impossible to be prohibited", organized by the "PRO. Education" Center of the Moscow State Law University. The master class was held by Anastasia Skovpen, Associate of KIAP IP practice.
On the one hand, the law on protection allows copyright holders to protect themselves ...
Anna Grishchenkova, Litigation and International Commercial Arbitration Partner of KIAP, Attorneys at Law, is included into Panel of International Arbitrators of the Korea Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB INTERNATIONAL), the main arbitration institution of the Republic of Korea.
KCAB is the third Asian arbitration institution for Anna to be included into panel of arbitrators. In 2016, A...
At the end of 2019, KIAP, DS Law and Balashova Legal Consultants have officially announced the start of the consolidation of three companies under a single brand, KIAP Digital & Smart.
From November 2019 to March 2020, inclusive, the companies carried out an extensive work on business integration in terms of general strategy, staff and marketing, however, the COV...
The global pandemic has shown that while state courts may be closed, proceedings in international arbitration still go on – all documents can be submitted electronically, arbitration hearings may be held online, arbitrators write decisions quicker than usual.
Therefore, this is a reason to once again look closer to arbitration and to understand:
How much arbitration can cost?...
On 3 June 2020 the results of the annual international legal rating Best Lawyers 2021 were published online. According to the rating results 28 lawyers of KIAP achieved individual recognition from the eminent rating in 21 practice areas:
Andrey Korelskiy (Litigation, Arbitration and Mediation). In 2021 Andrey is recommended by the rating for the 11th time.
Konstantin...
Anna Grishchenkova, KIAP Partner and Deputy Chairman of the ICC Russia Commission on Arbitration, joined the Task Force on "ADR and Arbitration" of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR.
The mission of the Task Force is to study and analyse how different ICC ADR Services are currently being used and combined with ICC Arbitration. One of the tasks is to better understand which ICC dis...
On May 27, 2020, a webinar was held on the topic "How the tax officers will make an audit after lockdown: what to prepare for and how to protect yourself ," organized by "Practical Tax Planning" magazine, the core publication of Action media group.
The webinar was held by Partner of KIAP Tax practice Andrey Zuykov. During the speech, Andrey discussed with the participants what business sh...
The international ranking agency Who’s Who Legal published the results of an annual research of leading experts in the field of corporate taxation WWL Thought Leaders - Corporate Tax 2020. According to the ranking, KIAP Tax practice partner Andrey Zuykov is included into the global list of the world best lawyers in this field for the second year in a row.
In 2020 the list of experts in t...