Criminal Defense Firm Senior Partner Alexey Kasatkin acted as an expert at the conference ‘Criminal and Subsidiary Liability of the Management and Owners’. The conference gathered over 70 business and government representatives.  Tatiana Mineeva, Moscow City Commissioner for Entrepreneurs' Rights, opened the conference. She spoke about court practice on criminal cases in business, statistics on financial crimes in Moscow, entrepreneurs...

On June 22nd, Vedomosti hosted a conference, ‘Business Under Defense’. The conference gathered over 70 business representatives, consulting specialists, and former employees of law enforcement. The ongoing economic crisis makes the government seek a balance between business support and criminal law. On the one hand, there is an objective to support small and medium-sized businesses - on the other - a spike in financial crimes. Actions to decri...

  Criminal Defense Firm partners Alexey Novikov, Alexey Kasatkin, Anna Golub, and the firm’s counsel, Professor Yury Garmaev, are recommended by Best Lawyers 2022 international rating in Criminal Defense in Russia. Senior partner Alexey Kasatkin holds his position in the Best Lawyers rating in Criminal Defense for the third year in a row. He noted, ‘I sincerely thank my colleagues who voted for us and our close-knit team for successful ...

A discussion of the topic ‘It’s A Thin Line Between Criminal Misdeeds And Vicarious Liability’ was held in Clubhouse on April, 13 Speakers: Alexey Kasatkin, Criminal Defense Firm Senior Partner Anna Golub, Criminal Defense Firm Partner Andrey Bezhan, Counsel, ‘Dispute Settlement’ practice of ‘Borenius’ law firm Anastasiya Bogurenko, Deputy Director, Department Head of Bank’s Protection of Interest in Corporate Business and Cooperation wit...

Team Criminal Defense Firm has become the official partner of the VIII International Charity Race Legal Run in 2021. The project unites legal firms worldwide to support the wards of charitable foundation ‘Podari Zhizh’, and other regional foundations. Same as last year, Legal Run 2021 will be held as a flash mob due to COVID-19 pandemic. Criminal Defense Firm managing partner Alexey Novikov noted: ‘We have started to proactively prepare for ...

Criminal Defense Firm Counsel, Doctor of Law, Professor Yury Garmaev has won in the Council of Europe’s grant competition in the “Human Rights Education for the Legal Profession (HELP) in the Russian Federation” international programme. Early in 2021 Yury Garmaev applied to the grant competition, and on March 2 he entered the pool of eight chosen experts from Russia with 4.64 points out of 5. Within the educational programme, Yury will hold ...

On March 26, on Echo Moscow’s broadcast of ‘Biznes Vprave’ programme hosted Epsilon LLC CEO Andrey Testoedov, SPC Shtandart CEO Roman Sukhanov, and Criminal Defense Firm Managing Partner Alexey Novikov. The programme covered the issues of how available the justice for business is, pressure and current restrictions in business,  frame-up cases, mistakes in business and how trustworthy the Russian legal system is for business. Businessmen ...

Criminal Defense Firm partner Irina Krasnova has succeeded in her client’s release from custody on February 25, 2021. The court declared legal defence valid and denied the motion of custody prolongation. The measure of restraint has been changed to house arrest. The businessman, wrongfully convicted of embezzlement, was released from the court room.  

On March 17, ‘Kommersant’ published the year-end 2020 best law firms ranking. Criminal Defense Firm entered the top Russian legal and industry practices in the federal ranking: o   ‘Criminal Law: Financial Crimes’ (1st prize, Band 2); o   ‘Criminal Law: Malfeasance’ (3rd prize, Band 2); o   Healthcare and Pharmaceutics: consulting the medical services and pharmaceutical industry leaders (Band 2); o   ...