Projects
Providing “turn-key” support to a client adopting tax monitoring
A team from the practice group is supporting a major mineral extraction company in adopting tax monitoring from 2025 in terms of building the risk management and internal control system (RM&ICS), preparing and approving the necessary forms at the stage of their adoption, as well as reporting forms for Q1 2025.
Analysed tax risks and developed tax calculator for group companies
A team from the tax practice performed a comprehensive analysis of the tax risks and tax potential of companies that form one of the largest groups in Russia.
We protected the client’s interests before the Supreme Court in another dispute concerning mineral extraction tax on the extraction of gold concentrates
A team from Pepeliaev Group’s tax practice successfully protected the interests of Kosvinsky Kamen CJSC before the Russian Supreme Court in a further dispute concerning the taxation of the extraction of concentrates and other intermediate materials containing gold, platinum and other precious metals.
Pepeliaev Group’s lawyers protected the interests of a company’s CEO in a dispute about secondary liability for RUB 2.3 billion
Successfully protected a transaction for nearly RUB 85 million in the bankruptcy of a contracting party
In the bankruptcy case of a management company, the team of the Bankruptcy and Anti-Crisis Protection of Business Practice succeeded in having the ruling cancelled which had invalidated payments received by the client for services provided.
Successfully provided legal support to a client in obtaining official clarifications from the Russian Federal Customs Service
A major Russian shipping company specialising in sea transportation of hydrocarbons instructed us to assist it in obtaining official clarifications of the Russian Ministry of Finance on whether it was required to obtain the customs authority’s permission and perform customs transactions in the situation as follows.
Pepeliaev Group’s St Petersburg Office has helped its client to win a complicated corporate dispute
Our lawyers from St Petersburg corporate practice have successfully defended interests of a public enterprise, a large regional producer of bread and pastries, in a dispute with its former shareholders who sought to challenge a resolution of the enterprise’s supervisory board regarding how the redemption price of shares had been established.
The teams of Pepeliaev Group’s Dispute Resolution and Mediation and Criminal Law Defence of Business practices have defended a client in the Supreme Court
The teams of Pepeliaev Group’s Dispute Resolution and Mediation and Criminal Law Defence of Business practices jointly represented a client's interests before the Supreme Court in a case based on a claim from the Prosecutor's Office.
Pepeliaev Group’s lawyers have protected clients from secondary liability amounting to more than RUB 3 billion
The
team of our Bankruptcy and Anti-Crisis Protection of Business Practice has
successfully protected the interests of six clients (individuals and foreign
companies) in a dispute concerning secondary liability amounting to more than
RUB 3 billion.
Pepeliaev Group's team has successfully wrapped up a tax dispute in favour of VimpelCom PJSC
Represented VimpelCom PJSC in a dispute with the Russian Federal Tax Service which lasted for over three years and ended yesterday in the court of cassation.
The Supreme Court has completed reviewing the tax authority’s supervisory appeal within the scope of a dispute that concerns calculating mineral extraction tax when gold concentrates are processed
We are speaking about case, in which the Supreme Court’s Judicial Board for Economic Disputes handed down a judgment in December 2023 in favour of the taxpayer having quashed the decisions of commercial (‘arbitration’) courts.
Defended a bank's senior manager in a dispute concerning secondary liability for RUB 2.6 billion
The team from our bankruptcy and anti-crisis protection of business practice was successful in defending a bank’s senior manager against secondary liability amounting to RUB 2.6 billion.
Pepeliaev Group’s Customs Practice has successfully completed a 4 year long litigation
Lawyers of Pepeliaev Group’s Customs Law Practice have won a litigation which started on 24 November 2020 (case No. А51-18513/2020). This case was instigated by the Vladivostok Customs Office, which filed with a state commercial court a claim to recover import customs duties and default interest of over RUB 1.7 billion in total because this sum included the cost of a business aircraft.
We helped our client to win a dispute with a water service company over the recovery of a payment for discharging pollutants
The team of Pepeliaev Group’s St. Petersburg office represented a major food company in a dispute with a regional water service company.
Providing legal support for a major construction holding in Russia, Etalon group of companies, during the acquisition of a well-known multifunctional complex in St. Petersburg
Our real estate and construction practice in St. Petersburg helped the Client within the project aimed at the acquisition of the company, which was the owner of LDM (Leningrad Hall of Youth), a well-known multifunctional complex, and of the land plot beneath it.
The team of Pepeliaev Group’s St Petersburg office helped a client to protect its right to a preferential lease rate before the Russian Supreme Court
We have protected the interests
of Essity LLC, one of Russian leaders in the area of goods for hygiene and
healthcare, before the Supreme Court.
A complex analysis of tax law to organise a business efficiently in the UAE
The team of our Middle East Desk advised a major manufacturer of metal on the possibility to apply the 0% corporate tax rate to the profit from the trading of rolled steel.
Legal support regarding compliance with the economic substance regulation in the UAE
Our Middle East Desk advised a global fast-food chain on complying with the economic substance regulation in the UAE.
Built up and implemented an anti-corruption compliance system
Pepeliaev Group’s lawyers handled a project aimed at building up and implementing a modern anti-corruption compliance system within the client’s company.
Advised a client on the risks related to sanctions and counter-sanctions
The lawyers of our practice provided advice to a large global corporation which was successfully active in Russia, in connection with restrictions related to sanctions and counter-sanctions.