Igor Gorokhov is a Principal Associate at CLS. Igor Gorokhov specializes in regulating commercial disputes, and is part of the work group providing support for real estate projects.

Igor has been practicing law for more than 20 years. During his years with the Company, he has implemented several successful projects on providing court protection to clients, as well as pre-trial settlement of disputes.

Prior to joining CLS, Igor worked as a corporate lawyer for a St. Petersburg bank holding and practiced litigation in commercial arbitration courts and in courts of general jurisdiction.

Areas of practice:

• Court Practice
• Real estate and construction
• Contractual Law

Recent projects:

• Protection of interests of a major foreign holding in a court dispute with the Moscow Government on recognizing the ownership title to a real estate facility
• Representation of interests of a foreign pharmaceutical company in a bankruptcy (acting as creditor)
• Protection of interests of a foreign manufacturing company in a set of interrelated court disputes in the Commercial Arbitration Court of Samara Region
• Representation of interests of a number of manufacturing companies when bringing real estate documentation into compliance (legalization of unauthorized construction, registration of changes, transfers, termination of rights in the Unified State Register of Rights to Real Estate and Transactions Therewith)
• Comprehensive legal support for a foreign group of companies of the forest industry complex;
• Comprehensive legal analysis of risks for a major foreign manufacturing investor acquiring a land parcel in Leningradskaya Region

Education:

• St. Petersburg University of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Law School (2002)

Languages:

• Russian
• English