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Alexander specialises in advising clients on corporate law issues and the resolution of complex corporate disputes in state commercial courts, as well as in pre-trial settlement of such disputes.
During his long-standing engagement in the analytical departments of supreme courts and top positions at the Ministry of Justice, he significantly architected the modern corporate law in Russia. For instance, starting from 2010, Alexander has inspired and authored a lot of key reforms and novelties in this sphere, both in legislation and in court practice, which makes his experience in this field truly unique.
Alexander is actively involved in law-making and expert activities:
since 2010, he has been the main author of all clarifications of the Russian Supreme Commercial (‘Arbitration’) Court and the Russian Supreme Court regarding corporate law;
Alexander participated in the implementation of a number of major reforms of corporate legislation (including Chapter 4 of the Russian Civil Code regarding legal entities): he authored the changes which affected the mechanisms for expelling a member, derivative lawsuits, large-scale transactions and interested party transactions, the right of a member to obtain information, the right to withdraw from an LLC, model charters, etc.;
successfully defended the interests of a member of a major investment group against a creditor’s claim for losses to be recovered; and
participated in the full-fledged protection of the interests of a member of a group of companies in connection with the other members transferring the group’s assets to their own parallel business (challenging transactions, expelling members, requesting information, recovering losses from managing bodies).
Alexander holds a Doctor of Laws degree from Moscow State University and has authored several books (dedicated to a member being expelled from an LLC, the dispositive limits of corporate legislation, and the restructuring of business entities); he has also been the editor-in-chief of collected materials published by Statut, a major national legal publishing house, and the author of numerous articles in Russian legal publications (such as Vestnik Grazhdanskogo Prava (Newsletter of Civil Law), Vestnik Ekonomicheskogo Pravosudiya (Newsletter of Economic Justice), Zakon (Law), Khozyastvo i Pravo (Business and Law) and others).
