Pepeliaev Group – Seven Years as Number One on the Russian Legal Market
According to the rating of the agency Expert RA entitled Russian Consulting published in April 2010 in Expert magazine*, Pepeliaev Group was recognised as the leading Russian legal and consulting company in 2009. Over the previous six years Pepeliaev Group also ranked number one in the rating for legal advice. According to the Expert RA rating, Pepeliaev Group is one of the three leading companies in tax consulting.
Expert RA also named Pepeliaev Group as a leader in tax and legal consulting in 17 industries, including:
- oil and gas
- machine building
- metallurgical sector (including coal industry)
- lumber industry and production of construction materials
- chemical industry and pharmaceuticals
- communications, transport and commerce
- banks, insurance companies and investment institutions
- food industry
- construction and development
- agro-industrial complex
- health care and education.
Based on the results of the research entitled Middle East & Africa – 2010 by the international guidebook The Legal 500 Europe, Pepeliaev Group was recognised as an unconditional leader in the nomination Taxation. The Legal 500: Europe recommends Pepeliaev Group in Russia in the areas of dispute resolution, corporate law and M&A, as well as real estate and employment law.
Sergey Pepeliaev, Managing Partner of Pepeliaev Group, notes: “In 2009 we consolidated our position as professional provider of legal services in all domains of law and expanded materially the number of practices and the scope of services and also consolidated our professional positions in such areas as corporate law and employment law, antimonopoly regulation, land and real estate, customs law and foreign trade regulation, commercial and corporate court disputes, as well as international law.”
In addition, we have successfully developed new industry groups and practices. We continue developing our telecommunications group, have established a banking practice, a group for the administrative and legal defence of business, a medicine and pharmaceuticals group and environmental group. Pepeliaev Group aims to expand the geography of its services, regional and international cooperation, strengthen the practices and domains of activity, and create new branch groups that possess the requisite level of specialisation.
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* Russian Consulting research // Expert 2010 No. 14. – URL: http://raexpert.ru/ratings/consulting/2009//.
Pepeliaev Group
Pepeliaev Group today is a leading Russian law firm that provides the whole range of legal services. Over 160 lawyers offer legal support to clients in the Company’s two offices – in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
The main areas of the Company’s activity are: legal support for investment projects, tax law and tax disputes, corporate practice, commercial and M&A practice, antimonopoly regulation, land law, real estate and construction practice, litigation, IP, employment and migration, banking practice, customs law and foreign trade regulation, administrative and legal protection of business, branch specialisation: telecommunications, pharmaceuticals and medicine, heat and energy sector, financial institutions, FMCG and other.
Pepeliaev Group is a member of the TerraLex unit of legal companies and Taxand global network that unites leading tax advisors from 50 countries.
Our regular clients include over 800 major Russian and foreign companies:
Coca-Cola, Frito Lay, Danone, Ritter Sport, Nike, Philips, British American Tobacco, Indesit Company, Oriflame, Reckitt Benckiser, Johnson & Johnson, Xerox, MGTS, VimpelCom (Beeline), Motorola, Gazprom, Shell, Schlumberger, Sakhalin Energy, Parker Drilling Company, Chevron Neftegaz Inc., Transneft, Transnefteproduct, Rosneft, CPC, AIG Russia, Aon, Banque Societe Generale Vostok (BSGV), Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), WestLB Vostok, Rosnanotech, Rosgosstrakh, Dresdner Bank, Mosenergo, Alrosa, Alcoa, RUSAL, Сastorama, Metro Cash&Carry, Ford, Volkswagen, Scania, GM-Avtovaz, Kamaz.