Legal overviews
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.
A new beginning from January 1. Clarification on the status of currency residents and other news in currency laws for Russian citizens
- Services: Construction, Natural resources / Energy, Food industry, Commercial real estate, Health Care and Pharmaceutical Industry, Wealth Management, Tax Law
- Date: 19.01.2018
Federal Law “On currency regulation and currency control” undergoes big changes: clarifications on status of currency resident and rights and obligations of currency operation participants.
News for holders of foreign assets. List of countries ready to exchange financial information with Russia is published
- Services: Construction, Natural resources / Energy, Food industry, Commercial real estate, Health Care and Pharmaceutical Industry, Wealth Management, Tax Law
- Date: 09.01.2018
On December 21, 2017, the OECD published the list of countries ready to exchange financial information with Russia.
Concept of an unjustified tax benefit: recommendations from the tax authority and trends in practice
- Services: Construction, Natural resources / Energy, Food industry, Commercial real estate, Health Care and Pharmaceutical Industry, Tax Law
- Date: 04.12.2017
The Federal Tax Service once again explained how to apply the concept of unjustified tax benefit established by Article 54.1 of the Russian Tax Code, and the courts have already started to apply the new article.
Never was a news piece of more woe than the news on unrestricted powers of the Russian Federal Tax Service
- Services: Protection of information and trade secrets, Construction, Natural resources / Energy, Food industry, Commercial real estate, Tax Law
- Date: 13.11.2017
The Russian Supreme Court confirmed the right of the Federal Tax Service to cancel resolutions of subordinate tax authorities in the course of internal control.