Antimonopoly regulation

On 15 March, the Non-profit Partnership Corporate Counsel Association held its annual Antimonopoly Forum supported by the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (“FAS”) and the Eurasian Economic Commission. Experts discussed the fifth antimonopoly package, the abolition of immunity for intellectual property, the draft clarifications of the Presidium of the FAS with regard to analysing competition on commodity markets, the implementation of the National Plan for Developing Competition, issues in the practice of the Eurasian Economic Commission and the Commission’s plans for the future. 

Pepeliaev Group has achieved exceptional results in the Chambers Europe 2019 ratings. 

Pepeliaev Group has achieved exceptional results in the Pravo.ru-300 Russian legal ratings. 

Law Firm Pepeliaev Group has continued to perform positively at the top of The Legal 500 international ratings. 

Pepeliaev Group has made striking progress in the Chambers Europe 2018 rankings. In Restructuring/Insolvency: Litigation Pepeliaev Group has risen to Band 3 skipping one band as compared with the last year’s results. In addition, Yulia Litovtseva, Partner and Head of the Bankruptcy and Anti-Crisis Protection of Business Practice, has shown an improvement of her own, rising to Band 4 in individual rankings. 

Pepeliaev Group’s Antitrust Practice’s experts participated in the conference titled Antitrust Law in Russia. The event was held on 27 October by the Russian business daily Vedomosti in partnership with the Competition Experts Association and with the support the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service.

Elena Sokolovskaya, Head of Pepeliaev Group’s Antitrust Practice, took part in the conference “The prospects for developing antimonopoly compliance in Russia” organised by the newspaper Vedomosti on 30 August 2017 in Moscow.

On 8 December 2015 at the office of mobile operator MTS, a presentation was held dedicated to the system of antimonopoly compliance. This system was devised specially for MTS by Pepeliaev Group's lawyers and their colleagues from the company, in conjunction with audit firm Ernst & Young. 

Pepeliaev Group’s tax practice (Band 1) has once again been hailed as the best on the Russian market according to the Chambers Europe 2015 international legal ratings. Clients surveyed by the experts of Chambers Europe consider that “the lawyers dig deep to find issues that play a role in the mandate," while the team stands out because it “is flexible and understands clients' needs."

The international legal directory The Legal 500 has again recognised the professional pre-eminence of Pepeliaev Group among Russian legal practices.