Bankruptcy
CLS associates have in-depth expert knowledge in the field of bankruptcy of legal entities and individuals and have successful practical experience working both on the side of debtors (including supervisors and management) and on the side of creditors.
The CLS team specializes in restructuring, protection from subsidiary liability, contesting transactions and claims, interaction with managers and comprehensive support of bankruptcy procedures, including bankruptcy of credit institutions.
Expertise
- Our services on bankruptcy of individuals and legal entities
- Comprehensive support for a bankruptcy procedure representing a debtor or a creditor
- Contesting and defense of transactions within bankruptcy proceedings (suspicious transactions, transactions with preemptive satisfaction, etc.)
- Preliminary analysis of risks of transactions being contested in the interests of a debtor's contracting parties
- Revealing a debtor's assets
- Subsidiary liability and recovering losses from controlling persons
- Defense in subsidiary liability disputes
- Developing and introducing a system/regulations for adjusting business processes in order to exclude/minimize the respective risks of management being held liable
- Anti-crisis planning and development of strategy for bankruptcy cases
- Interaction with receivers at all stages of bankruptcy
- Challenging claims of creditors on inclusion in the creditor claims register
- Challenging actions of a bankruptcy receiver
- Coordination of procedures, monitoring progress of the case, other procedural and organizational issues
Practice Team
Pavel Kislovskiy
Of Counsel
Victoriya Smirnova
Senior Associate
Practice Projects
Project support for registration of subsoil use rights during construction of a cement plant and asset restructuring in bankruptcy
Directories & Rankings
2026
Высокая оценка экспертов за успешные судебные кейсы и стратегию защиты интересов клиентов.
Основные достижения:
- Победы в арбитражных судах
- Сложные финансовые споры
- Корпоративные конфликты
2025
Опыт сопровождения трансграничных сделок и работы с иностранными инвесторами делает компанию лидером в международных проектах.
Ключевые направления:
- Трансграничные сделки
- Консультирование иностранных инвесторов
- Работа с международным правом
2025
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Bankruptcy news. 1st quarter of 2020
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Bankruptcy is now an independent practice at Capital Legal Services
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