Projects

A precedent-setting project of Pepeliaev Group: The Supreme Court has considered for the first time a case regarding the possibility of the withdrawal of a claim by a bankrupt debtor being challenged as a transaction. Pepeliaev Group’s lawyers managed to prove in the Russian Supreme Court that the withdrawal of a claim may be challenged as a transaction by an extraordinary appeal of the court ruling to terminate the case and the claimant may provide in court new evidence that the withdrawal of the claim is invalid.

Antitrust audits The experts of our antitrust practice have conducted a lot of antitrust audits in relation to the activities of pharmaceutical companies, accumulating thus a wealth of knowledge concerning the specifics of this industry’s business in the Russian market.

Pepeliaev Group’s antitrust practice has successfully proven the absence of a cartel agreement on the road construction market Pepeliaev Group’s antitrust practice has successfully proven the absence of a cartel agreement on the road construction market at the Novosibirsk Regional Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service.

Pepeliaev Group’s lawyers have prevented secondary liability worth RUB 4.45 billion from being imposed on a client The lawyers of Pepeliaev Group’s Bankruptcy and Anti-Crisis Protection of Business Practice have prevented secondary liability worth RUB 4.45 billion from being imposed on a client. 

Technical regulation Working together with the client Pepeliaev Group’s experts identified that the client’s products were at variance with technical regulations. They developed a procedure for eliminating the probable negative implications of launching several lots of such products on the market. This arrangement was in line with both the business interests, as well as Russian legislation.

Pepeliaev Group’s lawyers have alerted their client of the risks pertaining to the obligation to include overburden dumps in the State Register of Waste Disposal Facilities Our lawyers have prepared a legal opinion for a large mining company in Novosibirsk Region regarding the ‘legalisation’ of overburden dumps.