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Pepeliaev Group Rating – Tier 1
Sergey Pepeliaev is managing partner Pepeliaev Group, Taxand Russia. The firm comprises 12 partners and 50 professionals.
The head of the tax practice group Ksenia Litvinova is advising OOO Burovaya Kompaniya Eurasia, a Russian independent drilling company. The team is representing the client in a tax dispute. Officials charged the client for allegedly damaging the environment with waste, in the form of drilling cuttings and fluid, which remained after the client drilled boreholes.
Senior partner Rustem Ahmetshin and the team have been assisting Gazprom PJSC, a global energy company, after winning the contract in a public tender. The corporate tax case concerns de-offshorisation issues related to compliance with tax legislation requirements. A methodology was developed in accordance with profit calculated of controlled foreign companies.