Tax law and tax disputes

Pepeliaev Group's experts have been involved in preparing the Russian part of GLOBAL GUIDE TO M&A TAX published by the international association of tax experts, Taxand. The guide describes the main tax consequences of M&A transactions almost in all countries of the world. 

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.

Sergey Sosnovsky, Head of the Tax Practice in Pepeliaev Group's St Petersburg Office, was announced as a new partner of the firm at the regular partners’ meeting.

Pepeliaev Group has won three tenders for providing legal services to Gazprom PJSC. 

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

Pepeliaev Group has made striking progress in the Chambers Europe 2018 rankings. In Restructuring/Insolvency: Litigation Pepeliaev Group has risen to Band 3 skipping one band as compared with the last year’s results. In addition, Yulia Litovtseva, Partner and Head of the Bankruptcy and Anti-Crisis Protection of Business Practice, has shown an improvement of her own, rising to Band 4 in individual rankings. 

Lawyers of Pepeliaev Group successfully defended the client, a large building contractor, before the Russian Supreme Court. 

Experts of law firm Pepeliaev Group have participated in the development of content for the Business Environment platform the establishment of which has been initiated by the Russian Ministry of Economic Development and Sberbank PJSC. The platform will accumulate services which will be useful for small and medium enterprises. The knowledge base of the platform will cover all topics of a business cycle, from formation to the liquidation of a company.

Pepeliaev Group’s lawyers have successfully defended a client in a dispute with a tax authority in which the company had allegedly committed an offence by booking, for profit tax purposes, expenses incurred in previous years. The taxpayer wrote off accounts receivable for which the limitation period had expired several years before. 

In a dispute with the tax authority, lawyers from Pepeliaev Group’s tax practice successfully defended the interests of a company that owns a building which is an architectural monument of national significance in St Petersburg. 

Lawyers from Pepeliaev Group’s tax practice successfully defended the interests of a credit institution in a dispute with the tax authority. State commercial courts of three levels had upheld the lawfulness of the decision of the tax authority to additionally assess profit tax in connection with payroll costs being excluded from expenses when employees had been dismissed by agreement of the parties. The bank’s appeal to the Supreme Court was subsequently referred to the Judicial Board for Economic Disputes. 

The foremost international directories of tax firms, World Tax and World Transfer Pricing, have confirmed that Pepeliaev Group remains the leading law firm on the Russian market (Tier 1).