Shakhtersk Sea Coal Port (UMPSh LLC), represented by KIAP, Attorneys at Law, had insured a marine tugboat under a CASCO policy that had operated for years at Shakhtersk port. In December 2023, severe weather conditions caused the vessel to run aground, resulting in its subsequent recognition as a constructive total loss. Following a two-year claims adjustment process and receipt of a pre-trial...
KIAP’s client is a leading coal supplier. The client entered into a series of contracts for the sale of coal with an Asian counterparty. In 2018, in the course of the load of the coal on the vessel provided by the buyer the vessel crane collapsed, causing damage to the chartered vessel. Said incident resulted in a dispute between the buyer and the vessel owners in a London-seated ad hoc arbitr...
Two years after an individual filed for bankruptcy, his wife sold a suburban land plot near a lake jointly owned by the spouses.
KIAP's lawyers representing the creditor supported the manager’s statement to challenge the transaction made to the detriment of creditors. The trial court dismissed the claim as the buyer was affiliated neither with the debtor nor his spouse. In add...
KIAP was contacted by the majority members of a company, who found themselves in a seemingly hopeless situation. Fraud committed by the CEO and, at the same time, minority member resulted in the company's losses amounting to tens of millions of RUB. However, the members could not dismiss the CEO as the Articles of Association provided for a unanimous resolution on early termination of his powe...
A corporate conflict regarding appointment of a new board of directors (“BoD”) caused by a death of an independent director was dragging on between the company's shareholders. The opponent tried to take advantage of counter-sanctions rules (provided for by Federal Law No. 292) in 2024. The opponent interpreted these norms in such a manner that only votes of the directors appointed to the BoD b...
The Employment, and Dispute Resolution teams successfully completed the court proceedings in an employment dispute involving a top manager, a foreign citizen, laid off due to downsizing.
As part of an intra-group reorganization, the client of KIAP, Attorneys at Law, decided to terminate the employment of an employee whose job was no longer relevant for the employer due to a change i...
KIAP Attorneys at Law's Corporate Practice team keeps representing Kirill Larin, the founder and CEO of eCredit, the innovative car loan platform, in the transaction with Yandex. eCredit platform is a one-stop service for choosing the loan and insurance offers for car owners. Yandex has purchased the entire company from the founder and has plans to integrate the platform that showcased high pe...
As part of the bankruptcy case, the creditor's application about inclusion of RUB 60 million in the register of creditors' claims was satisfied. Despite the fact that KIAP associates consistently insisted that the creditor was affiliated with the debtor and that no evidence existed that the loan was real, the appellate court left the order unchanged.
In the court of appellate instance KI...
Proceedings in a bankruptcy case revealed a prenuptial agreement provision that allowed the debtor, at his sole discretion, at any time foreclose from the bankruptcy estate three-quarters of the property by submitting a petition for a divorce with his spouse. After the divorce petition was submitted, the debtor's financial receiver filed a claim into the court that a separate provision of the ...
In the 1st half of 2022, multiple Russian companies encountered the blocking of their money transfers via foreign banks. Foreign authorities substantiated similar blocks by inclusion of money recipients or their banks into the designated persons lists.
Finding itself in the straits when a payer was unable to de-block or refund the blocked funds, and a creditor did not obtain the money, e...
As part of the bankruptcy case of a major construction company, the debtor's controlling entities were held vicariously liable for the company's obligations. However, while the application for bringing the debtor's controlling entities to vicarious liability was being considered, the courts in concurrent disputes granted the applications of new creditors for inclusion in the register, thereby ...
A Principal of the KIAP Law Firm participated in the proceedings in an Austrian court on the defendant's side. Following consideration of the case, the court declined to grant the plaintiff's requests, awarding the Principal of the KIAP Law Firm court costs totaling more than RUB 3.6 million. The KIAP Law Firm's attorneys were tasked with ensuring that the Austrian court's ruling be recognized...
Secondary liability claims for RUB 900 million were filed against a director of a group company. Our Law Firm intervened in the case in 2019. By the time, the dispute had lasted for a year and a half, and included 4 secondary liability claims. The Administrator successfully challenged a number of the debtor’s transactions. Later, the fifth claim was filed. As a result, the court considered a b...
Some countries may reject visa applications from Russian nationals due to the concerns that, fleeing from mobilization, they would not want to leave the country after their visa has expired.
One of KIAP's clients found himself in a similar situation. He was admitted to a university in New Zealand and was planning to study there. But applying for a student visa turned out to be a complic...
KIAP, Attorneys at Law, helped the largest Russian reinsurance company to prevent an attempt to illegally claim a premium of more than 300 million roubles under the obligatory reinsurance contract.
The reinsured applied to the Moscow Arbitration Court with a demand to terminate the obligatory reinsurance contract and return the entire premium, believing that the reinsurer had violate...
A Russian distributor of pharmaceuticals has claimed penalties for the violation of its rights to priority distribution of pharmaceuticals in Russia from a foreign pharmaceutical manufacturer.
During the court proceedings, our lawyers managed to prove that the Russian company had a framework related to the priority distribution of pharmaceuticals, that the foreign manufacturer did not v...
The US and Swiss oil trading companies, represented by KIAP, faced hardship and force majeure circumstances performing their contractual obligations before the largest Russian petrochemical companies and foreign terminals. KIAP lawyers secured settlement of all the disputes.
In 2022, the Clients failed to perform the obligations to purchase the goods from the Russian suppliers, as well ...
The dispute arose when the Client’s foreign subcontractor resisted a set-off of claims. Consequently, the subcontractor initiated an ICC arbitration to recover several million of euro of the warranty sums retained by the Client.
In the course of the arbitration proceedings, KIAP showed that the subcontractor had breached the contract, that the penalty should be charged, and that the...
KIAP is currently representing a foreign construction company in an ICC arbitration seated outside Russia. Following the initial respondent’s reorganization, the arbitration is being pursued against a Russian bank which is a 99,9% subsidiary of one of the largest state-owned Russian banks. Both banks are subject to US, UK, and EU sanctions.
Subsequent to the events of February 2022,...
The Swiss company applied for the protection of their interests in a dispute to recover a debt from a Slovak company under a freight forwarding agreement in arbitration in Switzerland (currently the name of the institution is the Swiss Arbitration Center - https://www.swissarbitration.org/).
The defendant argued on all issues - argued that the arbitration clause was unenforceable, argued...