Managing Partner of Capital Legal Services Vladislav Zabrodin met in Beijing with Mr. Zengli Guo, the head of the Mall China association which unites over a thousand of China’s retail companies.

Last week, Vladislav Zabrodin, Managing Partner of Capital Legal Services, participated in the international Belt and Road Summit in Hong Kong.

Today August 30, the leaders of the legal market will open the new business season with the grand forum “Legal Business Forum: Leaders and New Reality-2023” which will take place in Moscow at the Ararat Park Hyatt Hotel.

Regardless of the current geopolitical background, small and medium business continues to carry on, meeting new challenges and risks. Yet even the simplest and routine procedures in a setting of uncertainty can become a true test. Who bears the risk of the lack of opportunity to use leased property? What should a tenant do in such a situation and how should a landlord react? If a company has no income, can you place a factory/sale worker in idle mode? Finally, what do you do with unpredictable and avalanche-like administrative fines pertaining to a company’s military recordkeeping obligations?

As we wrote earlier, when UBS bought out Credit Suisse shares, it violated the rights of Credit Suisse shareholders by substantially underpricing the shares, and now investors should be entitled to receive compensation.

On August 8, 2023, the “long-awaited” Presidential Decree No.585 was published (in Russian), suspending  a number of double tax treaties. The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced plans to suspend double tax treaties back in March.

On Sunday, July 30, Pavel Karpunin and Dmitry Churin, Partners at Capital Legal Services, met with a representative of Markitor, an Algerian consulting firm.

Last week, a two-day Russia – Africa summit was held to “strengthen comprehensive and equal cooperation” between Russia and African nations across all areas of society, including politics, security, economic relations, science and technology, as well as the cultural and humanitarian spheres.

In early July, Pavel Karpunin, Partner at Capital Legal Services, visited Zimbabwe on an important business mission for the firm: Pavel and other delegates from Russia participated in negotiations and conferences dedicated to creation of a free economic zone for Russian business in Africa.