Legal overviews
Is trademark protection in EAEU quicker, easier and cheaper?
- Service: Intellectual Property (IP)
- Date: 20.12.2018
Integration within the Eurasian Economic Union is ongoing, and this time in the area of intellectual property: trademark registration will be possible in all five EAEU member states at once – Republic of Armenia, Republic of Belarus, Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic and the Russian Federation, under a unified procedure.
Amendments to Federal Law "On joint stock companies" regarding improvement of corporate governance
- Service: Corporate Law / Mergers and Acquisitions
- Date: 03.09.2018
Significant amendments to Federal Law No.208-FZ "On joint stock companies" dated 26.12.1995 regarding improvement of corporate governance take effect on July 19, 2018.
Government approves Action Plan for decreasing effect of foreign sanctions on Russian market
- Services: Sanctions Compliance, Corporate Law / Mergers and Acquisitions
- Date: 31.07.2018
Russian Federation continues to implement counter measures against USA.
Procedure for migration registration at the place of residence has been adjusted
- Services: Labor and Migration Law, Corporate Law / Mergers and Acquisitions
- Date: 24.07.2018
Federal Law “On migration registration of foreign citizens and stateless persons in the Russian Federation” was brought in line with the Russian Constitution.
List of possible objects of concession/PPP agreements is updated
- Service: Project financing / Public-Private Partnership
- Date: 30.06.2018
Draft laws providing broader range of possible objects of Public-Private Partnership projects are adopted.
Putin signs new Russian counter-sanctions law
- Services: Corporate Law / Mergers and Acquisitions, Sanctions Compliance
- Date: 04.06.2018
Today, June 4, 2018, President Putin signed Federal Law No. 127-FZ, “On Measures for Reaction (Counteraction) to Unfriendly Actions of the United States of America and Other Foreign States” (the “New Law”). Before signing, the document had been passed by the Russian Duma on May 22 and received assent from the Federation Council on May 30.
Russian Federation takes counter measures against another expansion of US sanctions
- Services: Food industry, Health Care and Pharmaceutical Industry, Sanctions Compliance, Corporate Law / Mergers and Acquisitions
- Date: 31.05.2018
Draft law on Russian counter sanctions successfully passed third reading in the State Duma.
Another state cadastral valuation of real estate to take place in Moscow and St. Petersburg in 2018
- Services: Commercial real estate, Real Estate and Construction
- Date: 09.04.2018
The valuation will cover all types of real estate in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Set of laws signed to enact another “capital amnesty”: what is this second chance for Russians with assets at home and abroad?
- Services: Wealth Management, Tax Law, Protection of information and trade secrets
- Date: 20.02.2018
A set of laws is enacted providing a second stage of the “capital amnesty,” allowing to declare assets and accounts while being released from liability for violations tied to such assets.
The moment has finally come! The Russian Ministry of Finance published the draft Federal Law “On Digital Financial Assets,” aimed at regulating various applications of Blockchain technology
- Services: Corporate Law / Mergers and Acquisitions, Information technology
- Date: 26.01.2018
A draft law to regulate the use of Blockchain has been published.