Antitrust & Regulatory practice
Transaction support within the context of government control of economic concentration
- Legal analysis of the likelihood that the antitrust agency will refuse to approve a transaction
- Prepare and submit documents to FAS Russia to endorse transactions on economic concentration or approve a joint venture
- Act on transactions that establish control by foreign investors over strategic Russian companies
- Prepare a position and establish the client’s evidentiary basis in order to remove or minimize fines assessed by FAS Russia
- Represent market participants in proceedings before FAS Russia and its regional agencies
- Represent clients in FAS Russia’s administrative proceedings
- Represent clients in court in cases that challenge FAS Russia’s decisions and orders
- Represent clients in court in cases to recover damages for violations of antimonopoly laws, including class action claims
- Develop a system to prevent antitrust risks and eliminate adverse consequences
- Comprehensive due diligence of client’s business as to its compliance with Russian antitrust legislation (antitrust audit)
- Compile a matrix of antitrust risks
- Develop recommendations to minimize antitrust risks and business models
- Develop organizational and legal measures to minimize risks of violating antimonopoly laws, including:
- prepare internal in-house directives
- prepare draft contracts with counterparties
- Legal advice on issues of unfair competition and abuse of a dominant position
- Develop a training system for personnel in order to preclude unlawful anticompetitive behavior of employees
- Develop legal basis for changes to laws and regulations
- Develop draft amendments to laws and statutes and regulations
- Prepare action plan to introduce the proposals and coordinate client’s initiatives with government agencies
- Organizational and legal support of client’s initiatives at government agencies
Clients 33
Projects 45
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Providing consulting services on different legal matters, including...
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Representing interests in the antimonopoly proceedings regarding price...
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Antimonopoly audit of the commercial policies and vertical agreements...
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Expert support provided to the task groups of the Federal Antimonopoly...
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Legal support in the dispute regarding the recovery of the losses caused by...
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Representing PhosAgro in arbitration courts in proceedings involving...
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Representing interests of PhosAgro in a number of disputes pertaining to...
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Representing interests of PhosAgro in the dispute with Minudobrenia, OJSC...
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Preparing a draft contract of life cycle with reference to the standards...
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Protecting of the client’s interests in the court during the new hearing...
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Representation in the courts in a number of arbitration proceedings...
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Protecting interests of the clients in disputes on invalidating the Decree...
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Representing interests of the company in the courts of all levels in the...
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Legal arguments for legislative differentiation of actions of the related...
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Antimonopoly audit of the documentation connected with distribution of...
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Testing the pattern of product sales to identify risks of violation of the...
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Consulting during antimonopoly court proceedings.
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Legal support in the "third wave" administrative proceedings. Devising of a...
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Conducting of independent studies in antimonopoly regulation and...
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Organizational and legal support in making amendments to Article 6 of the...
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Protecting of the client’s interests in the dispute against the...
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Conducting of joint studies in legal regulation in terms of protection of...
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Conducting training sessions on antimonopoly compliance.
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Providing services in identification of any violations of antimonopoly...
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Conducting of antimonopoly audit of the sales system. Identification of...
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Analysis of implications, which can result from the amendments offered by...
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Legal support addressing promotion of competition, removal of the...
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Representing interests of RUIE members in the task group of the Agency for...
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Representing interests during several "waves" of antimonopoly and court...
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Representing interests in the arbitration courts regarding the appeal of the...
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Representing interests in court proceedings to invalidate the decision of...
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Representing interests in the arbitration courts and appealing 10 decisions...
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Legal support in the dispute with the Inter-Regional Distribution Grid...
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Legal support in the process of appeal in the pre-court instance and in the...
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Appeal of the results of the tender for the award of the contract for...
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Assessment of risks associated with the pricing policy; the assessment was...
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Representing interests of executive officers of companies in the...
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Providing services to a foreign company in developing a strategy aimed at...
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Devising of a legal structure for implementation of a project of developing...
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Representing interests in the court when contesting the decision of the...
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Representing interests of the client in the proceedings regarding the...
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Representing interests of the client in the court proceedings regarding...
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Conducting of an antimonopoly audit of the documentation pertaining to...
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Representing the client’s interests in the litigation with the...
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Representing interests of the client in the court proceedings initiated by...
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Russian Competition Law Review 4
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