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Elena Stepanova among most influential persons in Commercial Real Estate market CRE 100 rating!
- Service: Real Estate and Construction
- Date: 28.05.2025
Elena Stepanova, Partner and Head of the Real Estate and Construction practice at CLS, has for the sixth year in a row made the top 10 best lawyers in the CRE 100 rating of commercial real estate in the Legal Practice category.
Legal Services Market Leaders 2025
- Services: Corporate Law / Mergers and Acquisitions, Project financing / Public-Private Partnership, Bankruptcy, Antitrust Law, Tax Law, Customs Law, Foreign Currency Regulation, Commercial Arbitration and out-of-court dispute resolution, Wealth Management, Data Protection
- Date: 24.04.2025
CLS took 15 of the leading positions in the Best Legal Practices and Industries section, and five of our partners were ranked among the top professionals in the Individual Rankings.
PRObankrotstvo Leaders. Lawyer personal rating 2024
- Service: Bankruptcy
- Date: 22.04.2025
Pavel Kislovskiy, Principal Associate of the Litigation practice at CLS, has been noted in the PRObankrotstvo Leaders. Lawyer personal rating 2024.
Arbitration between Russia and China: Practice and Development
- Service: International business structuring and planning
- Date: 11.04.2025
On May 16, 2025, in Moscow, as part of the Russian International Arbitration Congress (RIAC) a satellite event will take place titled “Arbitration between Russia and China: Practice and Development.”
CLS lawyers noted key trends in logistics and foreign trade
- Services: Tax Law, Customs Law
- Date: 04.04.2025
“There are two things that give out a person involved in foreign trade – they always remember a Foreign Trade Code and always look for alternative payment mechanisms.”
10 CLS lawyers recognized by Pravo-300 individual rating
- Services: Corporate Law / Mergers and Acquisitions, Real Estate and Construction, Project financing / Public-Private Partnership, Bankruptcy, Intellectual Property (IP), Tax Law, Customs Law
- Date: 19.03.2025
Pravo-300 once again, in addition to its main rating of law firms, published a list of recommended lawyers. This year, 10 CLS lawyers were noted in the individual rating.
CLS announces new appointments in the Tax and the PPP and Project Finance practices
- Services: Project financing / Public-Private Partnership, Tax Law
- Date: 20.01.2025
Effective January 1, 2025, Ekaterina Smolovaya, Head of the Tax Practice at CLS, became a Partner. Anna Persiantceva was appointed Head of the PPP and Project Finance practice.
CLS recognized in 18 categories of the Pravo-300 national legal rating
- Services: Contract Law, Real Estate and Construction, Project financing / Public-Private Partnership, Antitrust Law, Intellectual Property (IP), Tax Law, Customs Law, Labor and Migration Law
- Date: 12.12.2024
The Pravo-300 rating is the largest research of the legal market in Russia, conducted since 2010. In 2024, CLS was recognized in a total of 18 categories, two more than in last year's ranking.
Russian lawyer rating: the best in 2024
- Services: Corporate Law / Mergers and Acquisitions, Real Estate and Construction, Project financing / Public-Private Partnership, Tax Law
- Date: 04.12.2024
The Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper has published the results of the second large-scale annual study "Rating of lawyers and their companies." Seven CLS lawyers ranked high in the rating, confirming high professionalism of the team.
Memorandum of Strategic Cooperation
- Service: International business structuring and planning
- Date: 10.10.2024
On October 1, CLS and the Pilot Free Trade Zone of Xiamen Area Administrative Committee of China (Fujian) entered into a Memorandum of Strategic Cooperation.