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Lawyers and auditors of Pepeliaev Group provided legal and tax support to the client, the large Dutch company Cupol Ventures Limited, which is a part of Kinross Gold (a Canadian gold-mining company), in a project involving the acquisition of Chulbatkan gold deposit. The project involved tax due diligence of the target company and advice on tax aspects of the transaction. 

Natalia Prisekina, Head of the Far East Office and a Partner at Pepeliaev Group, has taken part in an international conference held on 19 August by Korea Legislation Research Institute (KLRI) in Seoul. 

Pepeliaev Group has been recognised as Law Firm of the Year for Tax Law in Russia according to the major legal peer review publication Best Lawyers™ 2020*. In addition, Sergey Sosnovsky, Partner, and Head of the Tax Practice in the St Petersburg Office, has been named Lawyer of the Year for Tax Law in St Petersburg. This year, 22 lawyers of Pepeliaev Group have been ranked by the publication for the first time, one of whom has debuted in three categories at the same time while another has made it in two categories. Therefore, approximately one quarter of all Pepeliaev Group’s lawyers (36 out of 160) are on the list of Best Lawyers™. 

Pepeliaev Group’s experts played an active part in the business and cultural programmes of the IX St Petersburg International Legal Forum (SPILF) that was held in St Petersburg between 14 and 18 May 2019.

Ksenia Litvinova, Head of a Tax Practice Group at Pepeliaev Group, has been elected as a partner in the firm. 

Natalia Prisekina, Partner, Head of Far East Office at Pepeliaev Group, is appointed head of the newly established Far Eastern Division of the Arbitration Centre at the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.