On November 14, 2017, the Swedish Consulate held a business breakfast dedicated to distributed ledger technology, block chains and crypto currencies. Representatives of major Swedish companies participated in the business breakfast.

On October 17 and 19, 2017, Capital Legal Services held a series of business breakfasts on protection of intellectual property (copyright and trademark rights) in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

On October 13, 2017, Managing Partner of Capital Legal Services Vladislav Zabrodin spoke at and moderated a discussion organized by the St. Petersburg International Business Association (SPIBA) with the business community of the northern capital. The date of the discussion had some impact on its subject matter: “Friday the 13th. Business-divination: the socio-economic situation in Russia.”

On October 12, 2017, Elena Berger, Senior Associate of Intellectual Property practice spoke at the SPIBA discussion “Use of Intellectual Property Objects in Marketing Activities.” Elena also moderated the discussion, which was very lively due to relevance of the issues covered.

On October 3, 2017, a round table was held at SPIBA dedicated to block chains and crypto currencies.

The IP team of Capital Legal Services prepared and filed a lawsuit on behalf of TWIN Media against VGTRK due to breach of rights to the brand of The Night of the AD Eaters in Andrey Malakhov’s program Live on the Air (Pryamoi Efir).

Yesterday, Capital Legal Services and the major charity organization SOS Children’s Villages helping orphans and children in difficult family situations held a business breakfast “It is easy to be good to the others if…” The business breakfast was organized for the second time and appears to be a good tradition. Irina Onikienko, Partner of the firm, once again was co-organizer and moderator of the event.

Andrey Astanin has joined the Capital Legal Services team as Of Counsel of the Antitrust practice. Andrey’s portfolio consists of approximately 100 successfully completed cases including high-profile antitrust cases where he represented interests of Russian and international companies in the Russian FAS (Federal Antitrust Service) and commercial arbitration courts.

On September 27, 2017, a discussion of the SPIBA Legal Committee on reform of legislation on arbitration courts in Russia took place.

Pavel Karpunin gave a lecture in the Graduate School of Management of the St. Petersburg University in the context of regular international modules “Doing Business in Russia” held by the Graduate School together with top-tier foreign business schools from around the world.