Pepeliaev Group advises that on 25 November 2013 the President signed Law No. 317-FZ “On amending certain pieces of legislation of the Russian Federation and repealing certain provisions of Russian legislative acts regarding the protection...
It is beyond doubt that merging the Russian Supreme Court and the Russian Supreme Commercial (‘Arbitration’) Court will affect the way all cases are considered, antimonopoly cases among them. This change can be attributed less ...
Class actions will become an attractive way for business entities to protect themselves from bad-faith competition only if gaps in the regulation of this type of dispute are filled in, and also only if certain substantive legal institutions...
In the last few weeks, what many have termed Russia’s ‘decade of sport’ has really moved into gear. After a relatively low key World Rugby Sevens tournament in Moscow, the main global student sporting festival the Universiade was...
In western antitrust practice, the general approach when competition offences are criminalized is that abuses of dominance are excluded from the scope of the criminal law.
In the last year, several amendments have been made to Russian corporate law. Most of these amendments aim to promote a favourable business environment for both foreign and Russian companies and investors, in the long run, boosting Russia’s...
The latest and only amendments to the legislation regulating transfer prices were made at the start of April this year. However, the legislature failed to fulfil the hopes of taxpayers, who were anticipating that major flaws would be eliminated....
