Magisters’ managing partner has hit out at the Ukrainian government after armed men from the General Prosecutor’s office yesterday raided the firm’s Kiev office, seizing documents and detaining staff for six hours. At 1:30pm on 3 February, around 30 men from the General Prosecutor’s office stormed Magisters’ office in central Kiev and began a 14-hour […]
Wolf Theiss has appointed Taras Dumych to replace Gennady Khareyn as managing partner of its Kiev office. Dumych has been a partner at Wolf Theiss since June 2010. Before that he was a partner at Kiev firm BC Toms & Co. His main practice areas include agriculture, energy, corporate and real estate. Khareyn, who has […]
Norton Rose has revamped the management of its Moscow office as the firm looks to exploit trade between Russia and China. Property specialist Peter Burrows, who has been head of the firm’s China practice since 2008, will take over from Valentina Gluhovskaya as head of Moscow. Burrows will remain head of the firm’s China practice, […]
Norton Rose has raided Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer for the firm’s Russian dispute resolution chief Yaroslav Klimov. Klimov, who was a counsel at the magic circle firm’s Moscow office, has been made partner at his new firm and will lead its own Moscow dispute resolution team, which had previously been fronted by senior associate Nane Oganesyan. […]
Berwin Leighton Paisner’s (BLP) former head of finance is relocating to Moscow as the firm’s Russia tie-up reports a 60 per cent rise in revenue. Simon Allan has been on BLP’s board for the past 10 years and, until September 2010, was head of the firm’s finance practice. He will join Goltsblat BLP in January […]
Time was that ’no win, no fee’ was the exclusive preserve of those firms whose adverts formed the punctuation marks between Countdown and Fifteen To One during soporific student lunchtimes. But if Addleshaw Goddard’s latest innovation is anything to go by, those days could be over. It is doubtful whether Boris Berezovsky spent many weekday […]
Much like the oil companies it covets as clients, Hogan Lovells’ Moscow office is leaking a major resource all over the place. The latest to head off is dispute resolution partner Dominic Pellow, who has left to become a practice head at Baker Botts (see story). Pellow is the third partner to leave since the […]
Hogan Lovells has lost another partner from its Moscow office, this time to US firm Baker Botts. Dispute resolution partner Dominic Pellew, who leaves Hogan Lovells three years after joining legacy firm Lovells, will join Baker Botts’ Moscow office as a partner on 9 August. He will lead the firm’s dispute resolution practice. The move […]
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has hired a corporate partner from Hogan Lovells in Moscow. Suren Gortsunyan will join Akin Gump as a partner in the international corporate transactions practice. Gortsunyan advises on M&A and capital markets transaction, joint ventures and corporate restructurings. He joined legacy firm Lovells from White & Case, where he […]
Herbert Smith’s Moscow practice has turned to Gide Loyrette Nouel for the hire of its first dedicated infrastructure partner as the firm predicts a rush in projects over the coming years. Olga Revzina, who is head of Gide’s PPP group in Russia, will join the firm along with associate Maria Minskova. Revzina’s start date is […]
SJ Berwin’s co-head of arbitration David Goldberg is set to join White & Case’s London office next month. Goldberg, who led SJ Berwin’s Russia desk, will join White & Case’s international arbitration group and is expected to spend a large proportion of his time in Moscow as the US firm continues to build its presence […]
Dewey & LeBoeuf’s Moscow office has poached two partners from international rivals in Moscow, giving the firm a boost in banking and real estate. Dmitry Gubarev, a partner at Chadbourne & Parke, joins the firm on 1 July. He advises on banking and finance, capital markets transactions and structured, project and trade finance deals. Dmitry […]