Success cases

As part of comprehensive legal support to one of the largest retailers in Russia, a team of Korelskiy, Ischuk, Astafiev and Partners, Attorneys at Law has been successful in a series of disputes against suppliers carrying out dubious practices.As a result of the team’s efforts, including successful of counter-claims, the Law Firm has assisted the client in saving more than 200 million rubles, as w...
 2005 23 November 2011
Korelskiy, Ischuk, Astafiev and Partners, Attorneys at Law succeeded for the second time to obtain a satisfactory result for the ROSNO Group's claims against a foreign reinsurer – Swiss Infrassure Ltd.  The dispute arose from an accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydropower plant.Infrassure, which reinsured the liability of ROSNO, was unable to convince the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeals to r...
 2180 2 November 2011
The Federal Arbitration Court of Moscow District has upheld the judicial acts of the lower arbitrage courts that had accepted as illegal all the arguments of the Interdistrict Inspectorate of the Federal Tax Service of Russia for the Moscow region with respect to the Danish industrial holding company, Rockwool.As a result, Rockwool has obtained the right to be refunded substantial taxes and penalt...
 2340 28 September 2011
Tax practice of the Law Firm under the supervision of Oleg Bazhenov triumphantly completed a series of disputes in the interests of the largest distance selling company OTTO Group Russia (trademarks OTTO, WITT, BON PRIX, etc) against Russian tax authorities.In Federal Arbitration Court (FAC) of Moscow District it was proven that the commercial catalogues OTTO, WITT, BON PRIX should be considered o...
 1908 31 July 2011
Experts of the Law Firm succeeded to obtain a satisfaction of ROSNO Group claims against foreign reinsurer – Swiss Infrassure Ltd, connected to the accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydropower plant, in the Arbitrage of Moscow. Infrassure Ltd is to pay ROSNO GROUP more than 800 million roubles of reinsurance recovery.It will be recalled that, after the accident at Sayano-Shushenskaya hydropower ...
 2097 18 July 2011
Attorneys of the Law Firm conducted the antitrust investigation in the interests of one of the leaders of the Russian distance-selling market. Thanks to the rigorously gathered evidence base and convincing speech at the meeting of Federal Antimonopoly Service committee, it was proven that the violations committed by the Client during a major advertising campaign of its products are irrelevant.As a...
 1873 13 July 2011
Experts of Korelskiy, Ischuk, Astafiev& Partners, Attorneys at Law defended the interests of the major insurance company in a suit on recovery of insurance compensation in connection with process failures that took place at a large energy facility in 2010.The results of the litigation reveal that attorneys of the Law Firm succeeded in proving the amount of insurance compensation of more than 2...
 1956 16 June 2011
Experts of the Law Firm completed an important stage of the complex project, undertaken in the interests of the major European operator of the distance selling market. Federal Arbitration Court of the North-West district upheld the position, formed by the Attorneys of the Law Firm, that in order to charge royalties for the right to use the trademarks additional to the customs value of goods, Custo...
 1989 14 June 2011
Experts of Korelskiy, Ischuk, Astafiev & Partners, Attorneys at Law represented the interests of the major international retail chain in the litigation with suppliers, who sought to collect from the Client fictitious debts in amount of around 50 million roubles. Laborious analysis and development of a competent legal position allowed the experts of the Law Firm to secure a cancellation in...
 1764 9 June 2011
Experts of the Korelskiy, Ischuk, Astafiev & Partners, Attorneys at Law defended the interests of the company Rockwool in a major tax dispute. Convincing evidence together with a solid legal position, developed by the experts of the Law Firm, allowed the court to leave the arguments of the tax authority without redress.As a result Rockwool was able to recover sums from the budget together with...
 1854 6 June 2011
Korelskiy, Ischuk, Astafiev& Partners, Attorneys at Law defended the interests of one of the largest Russian insurance companies in a dispute with a major energy company about insurance indemnity for the damage caused to expensive power equipment.Experts of the Law Firm have done considerable work in order to justify in court the amount of indemnity due. As a result of conducted technical expe...
 1955 24 May 2011
Experts of Korelskiy, Ischuk, Astafiev & Partners, Attorneys at Law defended the interests of a large regional private pension fund in a dispute with Moscow-based management company. Thanks to the efforts of the Law Firm’s attorneys the judgment of the Arbitration Court of Moscow, according to which funds of the pension reserves unreasonably withheld by the management company were to be collec...
 1886 12 April 2011
Today a delegation consisting of more than four hundred businessmen from 210 Belgium companies, headed by His Royal Highness Prince Phillippe of Belgium, began the official part of its visit to Russia and held several meetings in Moscow with the representatives of Russian business.As a part of this economic mission talks between a number of Belgium and Russian legal companies were conducted in or...
 2035 4 April 2011
Korelskiy, Ischuk, Astafiev & Partners, Attorneys at Law gained another victory in the interests of the Law Firm’s Patron – major distance selling company – in a legal dispute with the tax authority.The court once again declared illegal all the claims of the tax authority, regarding taxation of gifts and expenses for commercial catalogues distribution. Another positive precedent will allow our...
 1920 21 March 2011
Korelskiy, Ischuk, Astafiev & Partners, Attorneys at Law successfully challenged the tax claims worth more than $1 million dollars to the company Rockwool.Thanks to the quality job of the Law Firm’s experts in preparation of the evidential base, it was possible to confirm the fact of services provision by the unscrupulous counteragent to the taxpayer.  Apart from the usual difficulties of prov...
 1996 14 March 2011
Korelskiy, Ischuk, Astafiev & Partners, Attorneys at Law successfully completed the litigation on the issues of intellectual property to the benefit of large company of the oil and gas sector.Owing to well-reasoned legal position, developed and implemented by the experts of the Law Firm, proceedings on all the opponents’ claims were terminated. Thus, a new precedent took place, applicable for ...
 2007 9 March 2011
Korelskiy, Ischuk, Astafiev & Partners, Attorneys at Law gained another victory for the major European distance selling company in the dispute with one of the divisions of the Federal Customs Service of Russia.Fourteenth Arbitration Court upheld the legal position, developed by the Law Firm’s attorneys, and rejected the claim of the customs authority. This victory is another important step tow...
 1897 28 February 2011
Korelskiy, Ischuk, Astafiev & Partners, Attorneys at Law gained a victory in the complex corporate dispute in the interests of Closed JSC “Repair Mechanical Plant” – the largest engineering holding in the city of Sochi. The dispute concerned the recovery of damages, connected to additional paper issue by the company. The court passed judgment, sustaining the previously adopted legal acts for t...
 1967 24 February 2011
Experts of the Law Firm once again successfully represented the interests of the German company Schindler in court in the dispute with unscrupulous supplier. As a result of legal processes all the claims of the Client were satisfied in full.The project involved managing partner Andrey Korelskiy and lawyer Juliya Kirpikova.Korelskiy, Ischuk, Astafiev & Partners, Attorneys at Law acts as a perma...
 1957 22 February 2011
Korelskiy, Ischuk, Astafiev & Partners, Attorneys at Law gained a victory in a complex dispute over infringement of trademarks in the interests of major Russian FMCG producer. The subject of the dispute was opponent’s application of the designation confusingly similar to a series of trademarks, registered by our Client in respect of fungible goods.Experts of the Law Firm succeeded in appealing...
 1975 18 February 2011