Corporate law is one of our company’s key practices. Our attorneys specializing in the area of corporate law have a good understanding of the complexity of tasks and issues arising in the course of creating and developing a company. The scope of our services includes advice on issues of strategic planning, developing schemes and structures for mergers and acquisitions, the sale of assets, and restructuring of businesses of major corporations. We provide our clients with advice and legal support on current issues arising from their day-to-day activities. Our attorneys have extensive expertise in creating commercial and non-commercial organizations in Russia and abroad.

Advice from CLS attorneys helps our clients minimize the risks of operating holding companies, improves the manageability of companies forming part of a group, optimizes tax consequences, increases capitalization, as well as ensures corporate transparency, including for the purpose of attracting investors.

One of the corporate practice areas is advice on risk management issues, increasing business efficiency, and issues concerning Russian and international anti-corruption laws.

The Corporate Practice of CLS was recommended by Chambers&Partners and Legal 500, reputable international publications, for companies doing business in Russia.

Our services:

• Creation, reorganization and liquidation of legal entities of various legal types, as well as branch offices of foreign companies

• Bringing incorporation documents of legal entities into compliance with legislative requirements

• Shareholders agreements structured in accordance with Russian legislation and English law

• Legal due diligence of legal entities, their business and assets

• Advice on corporate management issues

• Organization and support of merger and acquisition transactions (M&A), and support for transactions involving securities

• Restructuring of companies

• Advice on disaggregation issues including the disposition of non-essential assets

• Creating and supporting activities of joint ventures, strategic alliances and consortiums

• Corporate secretary functions

• Development and implementation of compliance programs, risk management systems and systems for increasing business efficiency

• Settlement of corporate disputes.