Lawyers of KIAP, Attorneys at Law, successfully completed a dispute with the tax inspectorate in arbitration courts, initiated in defense of the Client - the largest international industrial group of companies.
Tax accruals of the company were associated with the currently prevailing claims - accusations of interaction with the so-called “one-day firms”. The situation was complicated by t...
The dispute was carried out in the interests of the Russian Сlient against the Italian equipment manufacturer and was related to the return of the advance payment under the supply contract and compensation for losses caused by the early termination of the contract.
At the in-person hearing in Vienna, held in English, the positions of the parties were orally announced with the provision of...
KIAP lawyers have completed a tax structuring project of an international group of companies.
Considering that over the past three years Russian and international tax legislation have undergone significant changes, KIAP lawyers have carried out a complex work on reassessing the approaches of a foreign holding to structuring its business activities in Russia.
This project...
KIAP lawyers won the court dispute on the results of the on-site tax audit of the international industrial holding.
One of the contested claims was the important issue of the application of preferential rates of income tax of the special economic zone to income from accompanying types of activity not directly related to the main one. Thus, KIAP lawyers managed to prove that percentage o...
KIAP lawyers successfully prevented additional accruals on field tax audit of a large international company. More than 86% of tax claims, which were related to so-called unfair contractors, were annulled by the tax authority after lawyers of KIAP, Attorneys at law, have prepared an objection for tax audit act.
It is important to mention, that in the context of pro-budget approaches o...
After the thorough analysis of the Principal’s import operations for the last three years’ period it was determined that during customs clearance of certain categories of products a lower customs duty rate could have been applied, so the Principal possessed a right for recovery of previously overpaid customs duties and taxes.
The application for recovery of overpaid custom...
A claim for recovery of unjustified enrichment arising from the contract for engineering and survey works was brought against the Principal of KIAP to the International arbitration court at the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In his turn the Principal filed a counterclaim for recovering of damages.
The situation was complicated by the fact that this dispute was the...
KIAP lawyers presenting interests of defendant in a dispute connected with construction of luxury real estate in the center of Moscow have succeeded in settlement of this dispute in amicable way, approved in the ICAC of RF an arbitral award on agreed terms. The plaintiff (construction customer) claimed that the defendant (general contractor) have committed several breaches during the construct...
The case concerned the recovery of previously paid money under a counter-guarantee that ensured the performance of construction works by a subcontractor.
The Bank argued that KIAP Principal unreasonably filed a claim under the bank guarantee as the subcontractor had performed his work and there was no basis for payment under the guarantee. Despite the complex system o...
KIAP lawyers successfully represented the interests of a large Korean insurance company, which specializes in marine and cargo insurance, as well as in agricultural risks in the East Asian region for more than 70 years, in a dispute arising from several reinsurance contracts.
Specialists from KIAP have represented the interests of the Client on the stage of peaceful settlement of the...
KIAP lawyers successfully challenged additional charges resulting from field tax audit of the world's largest manufacturer of industrial goods. The company's claims were related to the alleged unjustified tax benefit resulting from business relationship with unscrupulous counterparties.
It is worth noting that this category of t...
In the course of consideration of the dispute related to construction of VTB Arena KIAP lawyers managed to prove that the Principal doesn’t have any unfulfilled obligations to its contractor.
The circumstances of this complicated case were investigated from the actual point of view by three arbitrators from Russia and Sweden. Stockholm was chosen as the place of the arbitrati...
In the course of a bankruptcy case of a large tour operator KIAP lawyers managed to prove the existence of legal grounds for bringing the former CEO to liability for the debts of the company – CEO did not transfer any documents on the company’s activity to insolvency officer, which precluded to form an insolvency estate.
During the proceedings KIAP lawyers succeeded in ensuring proper n...
On September 24, after a number of court hearings in the bankruptcy case at the Moscow Region Arbitration Court, KIAP lawyers managed to prove the legitimacy of the interests of the owners of a large distributor of climate equipment in a dispute over invalidating purchase and sale contract for warehouse property worth 115 million rubles.
The plaintiff referred to the conclusion of the c...
The plaintiff stated in the claims that he suffered multi-million dollar losses in connection with the violation of the seller's guarantees and assurances provided in the contract of sale of the power station.
However, KIAP lawyers, representing the seller, managed to prove that the property sold by the Principal has corresponded to the quality stated in the contract, so that the pl...
In the beginning of July, 2018 The Court of Appeal rejected to accept an appeal of Mr Bazhanov, referring to its groundlessness and the absence of violations by the judge of the High court of Justice in England in deciding to refuse jurisdiction.
In December, 2017 the High court of Justice in England rejected the claim of Mr Bazhanov, former Deputy head of the Ministry of agricultur...
Within the claims under the lawsuit the company stated that in the conditions of a difficult financial situation the CEO of the company unreasonably caused the company's losses in the amount of more than 30 million rubles. However, KIAP lawyers managed to prove in the courts of all instances, including the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, that as a result of the actions taken by CEO, th...
In May 2017 the Moscow customs initiated a cameral customs audit for a large importing company. Within the audit the structure and the size of the customs value of goods imported for the previous three-year period were checked. During the inspection KIAP lawyers prepared and submitted documents, information and explanations, substantiating the position of the Principal when declaring the custom...
In December 2017, in Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice in England the final hearing of the claim of Alexey Bazhanov to companies of the Saint Petersburg holding “Blago” owner, Arkadiy Fosman, was held. Alexey Bazhanov tried to collect £30 million pounds of reparation for assets of “Masloproduct” group, which currently went bankrupt, previously owned by him. At the present abovemen...
KIAP successfully finished the litigation of the case on establishment of cadastral value of the office building located in the center of Moscow. As a result of consideration of an administrative claim filed by the Bureau and the examination of the market value of the object, the cadastral value was reduced for more than 750 million rubles.
The project was led by Head of “Real...