Elena Berger, Senior Associate of the IP practice spoke before the participants of the European Legal Students Association (ELSA) summer school, consolidating law school students from all European countries.

The IP team of Capital Legal Services successfully protected interests of its client, a major European company manufacturing roof windows, against whom a windows manufacturer from Voronezh filed a lawsuit citing unlawful use of its trademark in Russia. 

The two-day Executive MBA Program seminar of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (China) took place on June 29-30, 2017. About 40 top managers of large Chinese companies and corporations from construction, investment, bank and other economic sectors attended.

On June 28, 2017, the round table “Customs assessment and risk management system: current management practice, prospects subject to the Customs Code of the Eurasian Economic Union” was held at the St. Petersburg International Business Association, in the course of which experts in customs law shared their opinions in relation to some of the innovations.

The fifth meeting of participants of the Prague Lawyers Club took place on June 24-27, 2017 in the capital of the Czech Republic, where Irina Onikienko, Partner at Capital Legal Services and a member of the Council of the Russian Federal Chamber of Lawyers, took part.

Capital Legal Services provides comprehensive legal support for a concession agreement on construction and operation of a bridge over the Chusovaya river, signed on June 21, 2017 in Perm.

The “Director’s new adventures in Russia” seminar dedicated to directors’ liability was held in St. Petersburg on June 14, 2017. Capital Legal Services and the St. Petersburg International Business Association (SPIBA) organized the event.

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On June 8-11, 2017, the annual EMEA Interlaw event took place in Bucharest, dedicated to issues of improving the process of interacting and coordinating work with clients.

On June 8, 2017, associates of the Capital Legal Services corporate practice held a business breakfast at the Lambic restaurant on the topic of “Corporate compliance. Part 1. Major and related-party transactions: new regulations and practical recommendations.