Be strong and think fast are the rules if you want to succeed in this troubled region. The shortlisted firms for our European awards show the way. The political and economic climate in Ukraine continues to be a headache for businesses and their professional advisers. Law firms are having to be creative to survive, with […]
This year’s European Managing Partner of the Year, Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners’ chairman Dimitry Afanasiev, opens up about the challenges affecting Russia and Ukraine. Over the last two decades the Russian legal market has become one of the most competitive in the world, with international firms piling in in the early 1990s following the […]
Chadbourne & Parke has recruited corporate partner Andrei Baev from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) as its new Moscow managing partner. Baev will split his time between London and Moscow, as he has done previously. He joined BLP in late 2011 from Allen & Overy and spent the past three years working both from the UK […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer litigation counsel Maxim Kulkov has left the firm along with a team of lawyers to set up a Moscow-based dispute resolution boutique. Kulkov has co-founded Kulkov Kolotilov & Partners alongside Freshfields associate Oleg Kolotilov. Kolotilov is also a partner at the new firm and the duo have brought four other Freshfields lawyers […]
The Ukraine crisis has raised questions over which rule of law to follow, but the flight of international investors is giving local firms an advantage. In April 2013, pro-Russian activists seized control of government buildings in eastern Ukraine, sparking a revolution that tore the country apart. One year later, eastern Ukraine is a war-torn no-man’s […]
Western sanctions are making life tough for Russia’s companies and lawyers, so they are forging new links in the East This has been a tense year for the Russian legal market, with the annexation of the Crimea resulting in a wave of sanctions from the EU and US. In the past two months each has […]
Ukrainian firm Vasil Kisil & Partners has split in two, after five of its 11 partners quit to launch a new firm. Aequo – Latin for ‘equal’ – launched this week. The new firm is led by managing partner Denys Lysenko, who focuses on corporate and tax law. Lysenko is joined in the new venture […]
Dentons has become the first firm to snap up one of the lawyers at Chadbourne & Parke’s Kiev office, which is closing in the next few months. Chadbourne international partner Adam Mycyk has joined Dentons as a partner in its Kiev corporate practice. Mycyk, a US-qualified lawyer, has worked in Ukraine since 1994, when he […]
Chadbourne & Parke is in the process of closing its Kiev office, citing a “problematic long-term outlook” among its reasons for pulling out of Ukraine. Chadbourne currently employs two international partners and a further six lawyers in Ukraine. The team is understood to be winding down open matters while seeking new employment. A spokesperson for […]
It’s a nervous time for international law firms in Moscow, as Russia’s rift with the West threatens to throw their businesses off course – possibly for good A quarter of a century after the first international law firms moved into Moscow, booming workflows for both domestic and foreign practice have suddenly been affected by president […]
Everyday legal work is at a halt and the country’s lawyers stand ready to do their bit in the army if the Russians move in The political crisis in Ukraine has shifted the priorities of the country’s lawyers. Day-to-day legal activity has ground to a halt as citizens work out what the impact of the […]
Dentons has hired Baker Botts partner Dominic Pellew into its international arbitration group in Russia and London. The partner, who is dual-qualified in the UK and France as well as being a Russian speaker, will join partners Liz Tout and Michelle Bradfield in London and Mikhail Ivanov in St Petersburg. Pellew’s arrival at the firm […]