Pepeliaev Group has been shortlisted for the Chambers Europe Awards for Excellence 2011 amongst the best national law firms in Russia.

This award will be honouring outstanding law firms on the basis of research carried out for Chambers Europe 2011 and reflect a law firm’s pre-eminence in key practice areas and notable achievements over the past 12 months including outstanding work, impressive strategic growth and excellence in client service.

This year’s Chambers Europe Awards ceremony will be on Thursday, 5th May 2011 at the Hotel Okura in Amsterdam.

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Pepeliaev Group is the leading 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. They render legal support to clients all around Russia and abroad. The list of regular clients includes over 800 large Russian and foreign companies.

The main areas of the Company’s activity are: legal support for investment projects, tax law and tax disputes, corporate practice, commercial and M&A practice, antimonopoly regulation, land law, real estate and construction practice, litigation, IP, employment and migration, banking practice, customs law and foreign trade regulation, administrative and legal protection of business, branch specialisation: telecommunications, pharmaceuticals and medicine, heat and energy sector, financial institutions, FMCG and other.

Pepeliaev Group is a member of the TerraLex unit of legal companies and Taxand global network that unites leading tax advisors from 50 countries.

Chambers and Partners, based in London, began as general book publishers in 1969. Since 1990, they have published the Chambers Guide to the UK legal profession. Chambers’ staff of full-time researchers now prepare renowned directories, which assess and rank the world’s leading lawyers according to their reputations amongst their clients. Chambers Europe was first introduced in 2007. For more information about Chambers and Partners, visit www.chambersandpartners.com.