On November 26, Alexey Novikov, Criminal Defense Firm Managing Partner, spoke at the Kommersant Conference ‘Criminal and Vicarious Liability of Business Management and Business Owners’. The conference brought over 80 representatives of the business and legal market together.  The challenge of applying criminal law is now almost key for business in Russia. Furious discussions about relieving criminal pressing are at every confer...

Criminal Defense Firm team is growing—advocates Roman Pavlov and Artyom Polovinkin have recently joined the firm. Roman has 17 years’ experience in investigating and defending against financial, corruption, and white-collar crimes, including six years as assistant officer to a prosecutor (a prosecutor involved in the court stages of criminal proceedings) and an investigator of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. Artyom has...

The conference for lawyers and business advocates ‘IN PITER – LAW’ took place in Saint Petersburg on the 22nd of October. The conference is held twice a year: a harsh, criminal-focused Autumn conference, and a light, civilis-focused Spring conference. This year’s topic of the conference was ‘Criminal Defense of Business: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’. Three sessions of the conference addressed the issues of criminal defense of persons resi...

We are happy to announce that Criminal Defense Firm made the cut of VEB.RF procurement procedure and entered the registry of certified legal services vendors representing the interests of a government-owned development corporation and its employees in law enforcement and judicial agencies during pre-investigation reviews and criminal proceedings. ‘For us, accreditation is one of the milestones, as it verifies our competency, let alone gives p...

 ‘Company’s Top Managers Liability’ conference organized by Pravo.ru was held on September 23. It united over 100 business and legal market representatives, and journalists. The following issues were discussed at the four-session conference: -          Security of the Director’s property in case of forfeiture; -          Subsidiary liability of t...

Criminal Defense Firm Managing Partner Alexey Novikov and the firm’s partner Anna Golub took part at a conference in Voronezh that was held on 23-25 September. The conference joined two events, V Legal Forum of Chernozemye and Minsk Legal Forum. ‘For most lawyers, every Forum is an event where speakers give talks on the same topics and show presentations. As for the name, Legal means its belonging to the sector, and Antiforum means that it d...

Dear clients and colleagues,   This is to inform that advocate Irina Krasnova is no longer with the firm.  The firm’s partners and employees wish Irina the best and plenty of success in her future endeavours!

On 26th of August Alexey Kasatkin, Criminal Defense Firm Senior Partner, gave a talk that was included in the course ‘Inheriting a Business: Organize, Hand Down, Accept’.  The speakers addressed the questions of business inheritance and estate planning at four aspects that are important for every lawyer: - Estate planning as a new legal service; - Legal instruments of estate planning and succession of business assets; - Inheriting bus...

Criminal Defense Firm Senior Partner Alexey Kasatkin joined Pro Bono Publico Bureau of Experts. Pro Bono Bureau of Experts is a new deliberative body established in Moscow. It is aimed at further development of Commissioner’s for Entrepreneurs’ Rights Pro Bono Institute that numbers over 170 experts in different branches of law and economics. The engagement of new qualified experts is constant and consistent. The Bureau will handle improvement...