Projects
Our lawyers represented a French multinational group, the second biggest worldwide brand portfolio of luxury, sport & lifestyle divisions and retail brands, in a transaction to lease 2,000 sq. m. of retail premises in extremely close proximity to the Kremlin.Among the tasks our team had to accomplish was full transactional support , including for the subsequent renovation of the facilities before the store opened.
Our Real Estate Practice’s lawyers provided comprehensive legal support to a leading European car manufacturer which enjoys the same prominence on a global scale. The development project the client implemented in Moscow included the construction of an individual building and the subsequent purchase of A-class warehousing facilities with an area of 60,000 sq.m. The value of the transaction was estimated at around USD 80 million.
Our Real Estate Practice's lawyers represented clients in court proceedings against the government of Moscow Region. The matter in dispute was a failure to include seven shopping malls in the cadastral register for taxation purposes based on their cadastral value. Our lawyers successfully challenged the unfair tax amounts assessed on these real estate items.
Our Real Estate Practice’s lawyers have developed and assisted with a transaction of a major Russian diamond-mining company to purchase office premises in Moscow. The total floor area of the buildings was 11,500 sq.m. while the transaction value amounted to USD 90 million.
Pepeliaev Group’s lawyers represented a client to which a tax authority had assessed additional profit tax on several grounds based on the results of a field tax audit. In doing so, the tax authority did not recognise a court decision which had been previously handed down in favour of the company, insisting that it had a right to specify additional grounds and ignore the previous court decision. Our lawyers managed to defend the client’s position on this point. The court stated that the tax authority should in any case comply with the previous decision of the court. And therefore the court has defended one of the fundamental principles of law that all state authorities should comply with court decisions. The total amount in dispute exceeded RUB 90 million.