Legal services

04June2020

Pepeliaev Group has been again recognised as Law Firm of the Year for Tax Law according to Best Lawyers™ 2021* Pepeliaev Group has been again recognised as Law Firm of the Year for Tax Law in Russia according to the major legal ratings directory Best Lawyers™ 2021. Moreover, senior partner and head of Pepeliaev Group's St Petersburg office Sergey Spasennov (M&A) and partner Alexander Kosov (customs law) from the Moscow office were acknowledged as lawyers of the year. 44 lawyers from Pepeliaev Group have been listed in the Best Lawyers rankings™, with eight of them making their debuts.

Ecology Energy Life sciences Administrative law defence of business, Antimonopoly regulation, Banking and finance, Bankruptcy and Anti-Сrisis Protection of Business , Corporate law / M&A, Real estate and construction, Tax law and tax disputes

16April2020

Pepeliaev Group secures top ratings in The Legal 500 – 2020 Law firm Pepeliaev Group has demonstrated exceptional results in The Legal 500, the independent international ratings directory.

Telecom, media and IT Oil and gas sector and mineral resource use Antimonopoly regulation, Bankruptcy and Anti-Сrisis Protection of Business , Commercial practice, Corporate law / M&A, Personal data, Dispute resolution and mediation, Employment and migration law, Family and inheritance law, Intellectual property and trademarks, International Litigation and Arbitration Practice, Real estate and construction, Services for private clients, Tax law and tax disputes

13March2020

Pepeliaev Group has demonstrated exceptional results in the Chambers Europe 2020 ratings

Our Tax and Employment Law Practices continue to be named in Band 1. In the individual ratings, the reviewers have given prominent placings to Managing Partner Sergey Pepeliaev (Eminent Practitioner), Partner Julia Borozdna (Band 1) and Head of the IP Practice Valentina Orlova (Band 1).

Life sciences Antimonopoly regulation, Bankruptcy and Anti-Сrisis Protection of Business , Intellectual property and trademarks, Corporate law / M&A, Commercial practice, Tax law and tax disputes, Real estate and construction, Dispute resolution and mediation, Banking and finance

23December2019

Alexey Konevsky has received an official message of thanks from the World Bank for his participation in preparing the overview Doing Business 2020 Alexey Konevsky, partner at Pepeliaev Group, has received an official message of thanks from the World Bank for his participation in preparing the overview Doing Business 2020. The research was published in October 2019. Alexey Konevsky has been cooperating with The World Bank Group for more than five years, channelling to it data concerning the regulation of the construction industry in Russia for the purposes of the overview.

Real estate and construction

06December2019

Nine of Pepeliaev Group’s practice and sector groups have entered Pravo.ru’s Tier 1 Nine of Pepeliaev Group’s practice and sector groups have entered Tier 1 of the Pravo.ru rating. This is the first time that we have been included in Tier 1 of the Compliance (Tier 1) and Environmental Law (Tier 1) categories. In the Digital Economy section, in which we also feature for the first time, Pepeliaev Group has been placed in Tier 2.

Digital Economy Legal Support Group Ecology Life sciences Oil and gas sector and mineral resource use Telecom, media and IT Antimonopoly regulation, Banking and finance, Bankruptcy and Anti-Сrisis Protection of Business , Corporate law / M&A, Currency regulation and currency control, Customs and foreign trade regulation, Dispute resolution and mediation, Employment and migration law, Family and inheritance law, Intellectual property and trademarks, International Litigation and Arbitration Practice, Real estate and construction, Tax law and tax disputes

24May2019

Pepeliaev Group has been recognised as Law Firm of the Year in tax law according to Best Lawyers™ 2020

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™.

Life sciences Administrative law defence of business, Antimonopoly regulation, Bankruptcy and Anti-Сrisis Protection of Business , Corporate law / M&A, Customs and foreign trade regulation, Dispute resolution and mediation, Employment and migration law, Intellectual property and trademarks, International Litigation and Arbitration Practice, Real estate and construction, Tax law and tax disputes

15April2019

Pepeliaev Group’s practice areas have achieved outstanding results in The Legal 500 – 2019

Several of Pepeliaev Group’s practice areas at once have demonstrated progress in the international legal rating The Legal 500. The Bankruptcy and Anti-Crisis Protection of Business Practice of Pepeliaev Group has been hailed by the rating for the first time, making it straight into Tier 3. The lawyers from this practice area support creditors through the process of recovering debts from subsidiaries and contractors, as well as representing clients in bankruptcy disputes and in managing insolvency risks. Moreover, the practice area headed by Yulia Litovtseva, Partner, has substantial expertise in the area of secondary liability.

Telecom, media and IT Energy Antimonopoly regulation, Bankruptcy and Anti-Сrisis Protection of Business , Intellectual property and trademarks, Commercial practice, Real estate and construction, Tax law and tax disputes, Services for private clients, Personal data, International Litigation and Arbitration Practice, Family and inheritance law

11March2019

Chambers Europe 2019 recommends 11 legal practice groups and 13 lawyers from Pepeliaev Group

Pepeliaev Group has achieved exceptional results in the Chambers Europe 2019 ratings.

Antimonopoly regulation, Bankruptcy and Anti-Сrisis Protection of Business , Commercial practice, Corporate law / M&A, Dispute resolution and mediation, Employment and migration law, Intellectual property and trademarks, Real estate and construction, Tax law and tax disputes

27February2019

Vladivostok hosted the official opening of Pepeliaev Group’s office and a business lunch dedicated to current legal trends

On 27 February, a business lunch: “Current trends and hot topics in legislation” was held in Vladivostok. During the event Pepeliaev Group’s experts shared their assessments of and recommendations for the most pressing topics today.

Corporate law / M&A, Real estate and construction

07December2018

The Pravo.ru-300 ratings recommend 19 practice areas of Pepeliaev Group for legal support to business projects

Pepeliaev Group has achieved exceptional results in the Pravo.ru-300 Russian legal ratings.

Antimonopoly regulation, Banking and finance, Bankruptcy and Anti-Сrisis Protection of Business , Corporate law / M&A, Currency regulation and currency control, Customs and foreign trade regulation, Dispute resolution and mediation, Employment and migration law, Family and inheritance law, Intellectual property and trademarks, International Litigation and Arbitration Practice, Real estate and construction, Tax law and tax disputes

27June2018

14 lawyers from Pepeliaev Group have been listed in the Best Lawyers rankings, with two of them making their debuts

The Russia listing of the leading international legal rating Best Lawyers™ 2019 contained 14 lawyers from Pepeliaev Group, including two first-timers: PG Partner Yulia Litovtseva has gained recognition in the bankruptcy category and Head of the Tax Practice Group Ksenia Litvinova has been nominated for tax law.

Bankruptcy and Anti-Сrisis Protection of Business , Corporate law / M&A, Dispute resolution and mediation, Employment and migration law, Intellectual property and trademarks, Real estate and construction, Tax law and tax disputes

12April2018

Pepeliaev Group secures top ratings in The Legal 500

Law Firm Pepeliaev Group has continued to perform positively at the top of The Legal 500 international ratings.

Antimonopoly regulation, Banking and finance, Corporate law / M&A, Dispute resolution and mediation, Employment and migration law, Family and inheritance law, Intellectual property and trademarks, Real estate and construction, Tax law and tax disputes