The ruling of the Court of Commercial Arbitration for Kaluga Region was published recently and became an important milestone in the years-long dispute between Mail Order Service (Quelle trademark) and Kaluga Customs. The court has once again upheld the position of the Company detailed by the experts of the Firm and, accordingly, reduced the claims of the Customs Office by more than 50 times comp...
On September 1, 2012 the Supreme Commercial Court of the Russian Federation published full text of the Ruling of Its Presidium dated June 19, 2012, case No. 1831/12, where ZAO RTK was represented by the partner of the Firm Ilya Ischuk and senior associate of the Firm’s litigation practice Mikhail Samoylov.
This case has drawn particular attention as it dealt with the question of validi...
On July 20, 2012, the Supreme Commercial Court of the Russian Federation refused to uphold demands of OAO Kolskaya Energy Retail Company, which had contested the norm under Ruling No. 1179 of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 12/29/2011, which sets a procedure for settlements between the claimant or other guarantee-basis suppliers and OAO Oboronenergosbyt. On stages of development ...
On June 19, 2012 the Presidium of the Supreme Commercial Court of the Russian Federation heard the case concerning the right to equality in access to justice, ZAO RTK (MTS Retail) vs Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Rus. The matter drew attention of the legal community as the issue of equality in access to the judicial system has never been examined from this angle before.Under the terms of the...
The experts from Korelskiy, Ischuk, Astafiev & Partners, Attorneys at Law were successful representing the interests of a large Russian retail network with foreign capital, on 20 disputes with its suppliers, in all litigation instances.
Thanks to more than two-year-long litigation work of the Firm’s attorneys, the overall economic benefit for the Client exceeded 350 million roubles.Furthermor...
A dispute between a well-known Moscow-based management company and one of the largest regional privately-owned pension funds, since mid-2010 undergoing with involvement of Korelskiy, Ischuk, Astafiev and Partners, Attorneys at Law, has been finally brought to its conclusion. On 17 May 2012, having reviewed the matter for the second time, the Federal Arbitration Court of the Moscow District has ful...
The team of Korelskiy, Ischuk, Astafiev and Partners, Attorneys at Law once again achieved important successful litigation outcome in the Federal Arbitration Court of the Moscow district, on the insurance dispute regarding Sayano-Shushenskaya hydro power plant accident (total volume of the claim exceeding 1.1 billion roubles).Based on the results of the court session that was held on May 14, 2012,...
On April 5, 2012, the Presidium of the Supreme Commercial Court of the Russian Federation heard case А79-7518/2010 on the claim filed by OOO Novek Management Company for invalidation of an instruction by Rospotrebnadzor, under which instruction this agency imposed upon the plaintiff an obligation to cease the violation of the rights of the users of heating utility services. Korelskiy, Ischuk, Asta...
Lawyers at Korelskiy, Ischuk, Astafiev and Partners, Attorneys at Law successfully completed the project in which they represented interests of an investor in its dispute with one of the largest investment companies in Russia. The dispute concerning trust management over substantial financial investment assets has been resolved without filing a claim with the court authorities as the hearings the...
On March 13, 2012, a session of the Presidium of the High Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation was held for the hearing of the arbitration case related to the issue of application of Articles 450 and 452 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. The Judges of the High Arbitration Court who have referred the matter to the Presidium of the High Arbitration Court shared position of the Eur...
Lawyers at Korelskiy, Ischuk, Astafiev and Partners, Attorneys at Law successfully completed the project in which they represented interests of an investor in its dispute with one of the largest investment companies in Russia. The dispute concerning trust management over substantial financial investment assets has been resolved without filing a claim with the court authorities as the hearings the...
Korelskiy, Ischuk, Astafiev & Partners, Attorneys at Law, have successfully defended the interests of one of the biggest distance-selling group of companies in a complex dispute with a former foreign top manager on the recovery of compensation in an amount of several million rubles.
As a result of the trial the claims against the client were denied in full.
Interests of the client were...
Korelskiy, Ischuk, Astafiev and Partners, Attorneys at Law protected the interests of a major production company in a dispute over know-how in the court of appeal.The appeal court upheld the trial court's decision, according to which opponents’ claims to recover compensation for the use of know-how have been found to be unsubstantiated and have been fully dismissed.From the side of the Law Firm th...
Korelskiy, Ischuk, Astafiev & Partners, Attorneys at Law, have successfully defended the interests of the international company Rockwool in a major litigation for breach of contract, involving more than 50 million rubles. The case was heard in several courts over a period of 1,5 years.In addition, KIAP’s team of lawyers, in foreclosing on the defendant's real estate, managed to obtain close to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...