In June 2022, a Finnish company, citing sanctions restrictions, suspended the supply of goods to the client and refused to return the advances that had been paid. Thanks to our efforts an amicable agreement was concluded. Under the agreement, the Finnish company undertook to return to the client the advance payments made under the contract, […]
In connection with the subsequently introduced anti-Russian economic sanctions, a Swiss company announced the suspension of the performance of the contract with the client, in particular, its obligations to pay for goods. Having studied the civil and sanctions legislation and concluded that the buyer’s reference to the sanctions restrictions was unfounded, we started preparing a
We successfully protected our client, a well-known fashion brand, in a trademark and design protection dispute with a Russian Instagram blogger who produced and distributed bags with a design infringing the client’s exclusive rights. The infringer satisfied our pre-trial claim and agreed to stop the infringement of the client’s rights. Thus, we managed to resolve
On 12 August 2020 a Decision of the St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region Commercial Court invalidating customs decisions amending (supplementing) information stated in a goods declaration became effective. Between 2015 and 2017 a limited liability company that was a wholly owned subsidiary of a European company acquired industrial products from the European company to sell
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On June 9, 2020, the Third Cassation Court of general jurisdiction terminated a dispute over the reconstruction of the Naryshkin-Shuvalov Palace, located on Fontanka River Embankment, thus enabling the creation of a circular exhibition in the Fabergé Museum located in the palace in question. Last year St. Petersburg rights activists petitioned to Kuibyshevsky Court of
Our team represented the interests of a global manufacturer of electronic and electro-optic equipment for viscosity control and ink control in the printing industry from Switzerland in the trial court in St. Petersburg. The matter concerned a cross-border sale of high-tech equipment for a Russian printing enterprise. The dispute was complicated by a counterclaim from
Our team represented BASF Stroitelnye Sistemy LLC (a Russian subsidiary of a global manufacturer providing advanced chemical solutions for construction) in the courts of all three instances as a third party in a dispute between a developer and the client’s distributor over the quality of goods supplied. As a result, the court judgment remained in
Our team represented Michael Janson, a private client, who inherited the copyright to a series of novels written by his grandfather about Valaam Church. The Valaam Church itself was publishing these novels without any prior consent from the right holder further to a recommendation of the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church. The matter
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We represented a Russian private client in divorce proceedings which were initiated simultaneously in Russia and in Florida. The claims were raised in courts of both jurisdictions to have a marriage terminated and property divided (in the territory of Russia and Florida), alimony payments settled and the place of the child’s residence determined. In addition
Our team represented a Dutch national who is a UK resident in a matter concerning an inheritance from his late mother. The project implied that the inheritance procedure should be coordinated in the UK and in Russia, as well as a challenge to an unlawful inheritance in Russia by an heir of the second level
