Best Transfer Pricing Team 2010

According to the results of the voting at World Finance Awards 2010 organised by the World Finance magazine, lawyers from Pepeliaev Group have been awarded the title of best transfer pricing specialists. Our lawyers were also nominated as Russia’s best tax specialists in the Best Tax Practice category at the Tax and Accountancy Awards 2010.

The World Finance magazine created The World Finance Awards in 2007 to identify industry leaders, individuals, teams and organisations that represent the benchmark of achievement and best practice in the corporate legal, financial and consulting world. The World Finance Awards’ independent panel applies a wide range of criteria to identify leaders and subsequently vote, such as originality and quality of products, innovation, excellence in client representation, as well as proof of market development.

Pepeliaev Group has been repeatedly acknowledged by international experts, inter alia it was the first Russian firm to be presented with the World Tax Award by international experts. Based on the results for 2005–2007, the experts and readers of the international tax magazine International Tax Review awarded PG&P’s Tax Practice the title of the leading tax consulting and tax law practice in Russia. In 2009 Chambers Europe, one of the leading international ratings agencies of law firms, recognised PG&P as the absolute leader among companies providing legal advice on taxation in Russia and awarded PG&P Managing Partner Sergey Pepeliaev the title of Band Star - the best tax lawyer in Russia.

Pepeliaev Group is the largest Russian law firm providing a full range of legal services. The company has over 160 lawyers working at two offices in Moscow and St Petersburg. The core lines of the company’s business are: tax advice and tax disputes, antimonopoly regulation, commercial law/M&A and commercial disputes, land, real property, construction, provision of legal support to foreign investors, corporate and labour law, IP, customs law and foreign trade regulation, protection of businesses under criminal law and banking law.

According to ratings published by Expert RA, from 2003 to 2008 PG&P was recognised as the top Russian law and advisory firm. Moreover, according to Expert RA, PG&P is the leading Russian law firm in 12 industries.
In 2009 Chambers Europe, one of the leading international ratings agencies of law firms, recognised PG&P as the absolute leader among companies providing legal advice on taxation in Russia. Moreover, Chambers Europe recommends PG&P as a reliable legal partner for Russian business in the following areas: antimonopoly regulation; dispute resolution; general issues of law; intellectual property; corporate law and M&A; real estate; labour legislation.

Regular clients include such major businesses as Gazprom, Shell, Transneft, Schlumberger, Alrosa, VimpelCom, Svyazinvest, Danone, Metro Cash & Carry, Ford, Volkswagen and more than 800 other clients.