| 1995 | Foundation
The firm is founded as a closed joint-stock company (ZAO). The Firm's corporate structure now also includes the Vegas Lex Law Office.
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| 1996 | Opening of regional offices in Volgograd and Krasnodar
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| 1997 | Formation of an active public position
The Firm works with the Anglo-Russian Law Association, the Russian Union of Lawyers, the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, the International Arbitration Club, and the Royal Institute of Arbiters in Russia.
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| 1998 | Invitation to assist in the legislative process at the federal level
The Firm participates as an expert in meetings of specialized Committees of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, and also in expert councils, commissions and committees of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
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| 1999 | Leadership in ratings of Russian consultants
The Firm is one of the five leaders in the ratings of RA Expert, Kommersant (Dengi) and the newspaper Izvestiya.
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| 2000 | Recognition in key international and Russian media
The Firm and its specialists appear in the pages of The Financial Times, Vedomosti, Kommersant, Izvestiya, RBC-Daily and Vremya Novostei.
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| 2001 | Entry into the international legal services market and attachment of the existing International Projects Practice
The Firm provides a broad range of services for projects involving international and foreign law.
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| 2002 | Inclusion in the ratings of the international analytical agency Legal 500
The Firm is recommended for partnership in the areas of banking, financial, corporate and contract law, mergers and acquisitions, maritime and transportation law, and also in the field of tax dispute resolution.
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| 2003 | Mediation (intermediary services) is established as a separate line of business
The Firm offers parties in a dispute its experience in mediation, in cases where the parties remain interested in continuing to work together, but are unable to settle their differences on their own.
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| 2004 | Unification of the network of regional offices into a Directorate and creation of a partner program. Creation of a separate legal practice specializing in real estate, land and construction projects
The Firm bases its regional strategy on the objective of providing clients with comprehensive legal services that take into account the specifics of each individual region.
The Firm is one of the first to respond to changes in the land and real estate market in Moscow and to the arrival of foreign investors. On the recommendation of Western partners, the Firm creates the Real Estate, Land and Construction Practice.
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| 2005 | Unification of energy projects in an independent legal practice and creation of the Department of Energy-Sector Projects.
The Firm reacts quickly to the first stage of reforms in the Russian energy sector and the new conditions in the sector, and offers its clients a qualitatively new legal service.
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| 2006 | Foundation of the Arbitration Group and development of an innovative Case Engineering product
The Firm's applied research bears fruit in its new Case Engineering methodology. This methodology answers questions of how to bring elements of civilized efficiency to Russian arbitration practice.
Forbes magazine names the Firm one of Russia's three leading law firms.
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| 2007 | Foundation of the Analytical Department and development of the analytical area of the Firm’s work
The Firm offers its clients a wide range of services in broad-based legal analysis and launches a new product pro bono - analytical reports in various areas of business and law, each of which constitutes fact-based research into the problem as it stands on the Russian market.
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| 2008 | Active implementation of innovative technologies and PPP in work on client orders
The Firm handles more than 400 projects per year. The Firm's clients include more than three hundred representatives of medium-sized and big business, as well as government bodies.
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| 2009 | Recommendations and Recognition
The Firm has earned recognition from the leading international guides Chambers Europe 2009, The Legal500 Europe, Middle East&Africa - 2009 Edition (EMEA), European Legal Experts 2009; Vegas Lex associates have received individual ratings from these international directories. Following the independent CBonds Awards review, the Firm has become one of the winners of the "Best Law Firm in the Bond Market" nomination and a breakthrough of the year.
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