Established
in 1966
INTRODUCTION
Established
in 1966
FOUNDATION
Russin & Vecchi is an international law firm with eleven
independent but affiliated offices spanning the globe. The
firm’s first offices were opened in Bangkok in 1966, Saigon in
1967, Santo Domingo and Washington, D.C. in 1969, to create
an international practice serving the developing commercial
environments of Asia and Latin America.
As global cooperation grew and the changing economic
environment set new challenges for businesses worldwide, the
firm both developed its existing practices and continued its
expansion to emerging markets, opening new offices around
the globe, including in the United States, the Dominican
Republic, Russia, Vietnam and Taiwan.
The firm’s offices now offer a variety of domestic and
international business and commercial legal services. Some
offices are full service offices, while others are more
specialized. The overseas offices concentrate on the domestic
law of the countries in which they operate, and are able to
address the full spectrum of local and global legal issues that
confront multinational enterprises today.
KEY FACTS AND DATES
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2001
– B
angkok
– Saigon
– Santo Domingo, Washington, D.C.
– New York
– Taipei
– Puerto Plata
– Moscow
– Ho Chi Minh City
– Hanoi
– Vladivostok
– Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
founded in 1966
PHILOSOPHY
The firm’s basic philosophy is to deliver the highest
quality legal services on time and at a reasonable cost.
We seek to forge long-term relationships with our clients,
and to provide effective solutions to their problems based
upon a clear understanding of their needs. All offices
maintain the same standards of professional responsibility
and performance that clients would expect from lawyers
practicing in the world’s leading commercial centers.
6 countries
11 offices
over 90 lawyers
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RUSSIAN PRACTICE GROUP
RUSSIAN PRACTICE GROUP
Established
in 1966
MOSCOW HEADQUARTERS
RUSSIAN FAR EAST OFFICES
The firm’s first Russian office was opened in
Moscow in 1991, at the very end of the Soviet era,
in anticipation of the significant growth of cooperation
between Russia and major Western economies at both
the government and private business levels, which
was expected to be spurred by the opening of the
Russian border to foreign investments, liberalization of
the Russian economy, establishment of a competitive
market and other factors.
After such international giants as ExxonMobil, Shell,
and British Petroleum (now BP plc) approached the
Russian market and under took a number of multibillion
oil and gas projects in the Russian Far East, the demand
for legal services rendered by exper ts qualified to serve
the business needs of multinational corporations and
knowledgeable in regional and local specifics increased
significantly, and it became clear that the firm’s Russian
practice should be expanded to cover strategic regions
of the Russian Far East. Thus, Russin & Vecchi was the
first international law firm to open offices in both
Vladivostok (1995) and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (Sakhalin
Island, 2001) and to maintain a full time presence in
the Russian Far East.
The Moscow office was intended to carry on the
firm’s tradition, based on long experience, of making
legal services available in emerging economies. Russin
& Vecchi’s team in Moscow specializes in complex
commercial transactions integrating the talents of
attorneys trained in both common law and civil law
jurisdictions. Working within a restructured and evolving
legal system, the Moscow office seeks to achieve
client goals by offering sensible advice and practical,
workable solutions. The firm’s lawyers are trained to
give maximum priority to promptly responding to client
communications.
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Cooperating closely with the regional authorities and business
communities, the firm’s attorneys in Vladivostok focus on
development of business opportunities for investors from the
Asia-Pacific region. The Vladivostok office specializes in general
©Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd. LNG plant,
Prigorodnoye production complex, Sakhalin-2 project.
commercial practice as well as in admiralty and maritime law,
gaming law, environmental and natural resources law, labor law,
litigation and arbitration, and real estate regulations. In addition,
the firm’s attorneys provide comprehensive legal support
to residents of territories of advanced social and economic
development (TORs) and Free Port of Vladivostok.
The Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk office serves large and small
businesses in the rapidly expanding oil and gas industries
on the shelf of Sakhalin, as well as onshore coal-mining
industry. Through an in-depth knowledge of local law,
practice and institutions, our legal staff provides clients with
practical solutions to complex legal and commercial issues.
As part of the Russian Practice Group, the Vladivostok
and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk offices’ attorneys work closely with
the lawyers in Moscow to provide comprehensive and
coordinated advice for clients faced with both federal and
regional (local) concerns.
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PRACTICE AREAS
PRACTICE AREAS
Established
in 1966
Russin & Vecchi’s commercial clients are involved
in a variety of foreign investment and foreign trade
transactions, including expor t and impor t sales,
installation of manufacturing plants and production
facilities, corporate transactions with and without
Russian par ticipants, purchase of Russian stocks,
minerals exploration and extraction ventures (including
oil and gas exploitation under production sharing
agreements (PSAs) and onshore gold-mining and coalmining industry), shipbuilding and marine engineering,
marine solutions, ship registration and secured
maritime financing, transpor tation and logistics, industrial
engineering and construction, supply of oil and gas
equipment and services, automobile trading, fishery,
timber harvesting and wood processing, food and
beverage production, healthcare and emergency, hotel
business, tourism and gaming.
To assist these matters, our firm has extensive
experience in various spheres of Russian law, including
corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions,
labor law, tax law, energy and natural resources law,
dispute resolution, intellectual proper ty law, real estate
law, environmental law, regulatory law, gaming law, and
maritime law.
ENERGY
Multinational projects handled by the firm have included
legal guidance on multibillion-dollar projects involving
the extraction of oil and gas within the Sakhalin-1 and
-2 framework; government approval of a PSA for the
development of shelf deposits within the Sakhalin-3
framework; and assistance with the complex permitting
and licensing required by a multitude of local Sakhalin
and federal government agencies for contractors and
subcontractors engaged in these projects.
During work on these projects, the firm’s lawyers successfully
completed many significant assignments, such as:
• assisting in arranging for the large-scale international
maritime transport of equipment and personnel to
undeveloped beach sites for the installation of unique
horizontal drilling operations;
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• reconciling the latest drilling waste disposal
technologies with Russian environmental law and PSArelated requirements;
• consulting on structuring contractual relations for
maximum tax and foreign exchange advantages;
• structuring contractor and subcontractor obligations
for the construction of oil and gas pipelines and
liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant on Sakhalin;
• structuring transactions for the construction of
offshore oil and gas platforms;
• assisting a foreign liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)
trading company in establishment of a joint venture for the
construction and operation of a maritime LPG terminal in the
Russian Far East;
• counselling a major company engaged in oil terminal
construction and handling a myriad of relevant legal matters.
NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT
FINANCIAL
Russin & Vecchi provides continuing suppor t to
investors in the timber and coal-mining industries in
the Russian Far East. Some of the legal matters dealt
with by the firm’s attorneys include:
• assisting a multinational corporation with various
regulatory issues associated with coal extraction and
risks of operating in the Russian Far East region;
• assisting in antimonopoly filings and in the
acquisition of a coal-mining extraction and expor t
group of companies by one of the world’s largest
industrial consor tiums;
• structuring a transaction for the purchase of por t
facilities for coal expor t, including performing due
diligence on the facilities, procuring government approval
and permits, and developing operational guidelines to
ensure compliance with Russian maritime and natural
resources laws;
• assisting a client with an environmental pollution
and vessel collision liability risk assessment for its oil
and gas terminal operations in the Sakhalin region;
• preparation of a legal opinion on the legislative
requirements for reclamation of land damaged by
construction activities under a PSA (production sharing
agreement);
• advising a client on the applicability of the Russian
oil spill response plan requirements to foreign-flagged
vessels owned by a foreign company;
• advising on legality of the requirement of the Ministry
of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation that a
separate subsoil use license be obtained for reinjection of
cuttings and drilling muds back into the subsoil.
Russin & Vecchi’s attorneys have an extensive background
in representing both public and private lenders involved
in financing large-scale projects in Russia, many of which
have involved the establishment of mortgages and other
security arrangements. Some of the firm’s notable projects
include the following:
• advising a French commercial bank on a billion-dollar
project involving issuance of Eurobonds by two major
Russian banks;
• assisting a foreign investment fund with structuring and
implementation of a special-purpose loan transaction for
the completion of a Class A office building construction
project in Moscow;
• advising a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) trading
company on a joint venture project financing transaction
involving the construction and operation of a maritime
LPG terminal in the Russian Far East;
• advising an international bank group on Russian
banking licensing requirements relevant to cross-border
financing of a local government;
• due diligence of a borrowing company and examination
of a multimillion-dollar credit and facility agreement for
compliance with the applicable Russian laws;
• structuring a special-purpose loan transaction for
the construction of a large residential real estate and
landscaping project in Moscow, developing necessary
transaction documents, including a special-purpose loan
agreement, operating agreement, shareholders agreement,
and the associated securities;
• counselling an international bank in connection with its
loan program in Russia.
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PRACTICE AREAS
PRACTICE AREAS
Established
in 1966
MARITIME
REAL ESTATE AND CONSTRUCTION
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
EMPLOYMENT
Russin & Vecchi has been involved in a variety of maritime
issues, including the negotiation, registration and execution
of ship mortgages, the planning and construction of port
facilities, and the development of port navigation rules. Other
noteworthy projects handled by the firm in this sphere
include:
• advising a client on the transportation and operation of a
foreign-flagged dredging vessel in Russian territorial waters off
the northern part of Sakhalin Island;
• advising on legal (customs, tax, environmental, regulatory,
etc.) implications of coastal operations on Sakhalin for the
purpose of avoiding cabotage between Russian ports;
• assisting a client with locating a vessel hidden in a foreign
port and with collecting payments from the ship owner;
• advising on reflagging a platform on the Sakhalin shelf for
one of the operators of the Sakhalin projects;
• advising on the applicability of oil spill response plan
requirements for foreign-flagged vessels owned by a foreign
company;
• advising a U.S.-based transportation company on tax
and customs implications associated with delivery of drilling
modules from South Korea to the Piltun Bay (Sakhalin Island)
marine offloading facility for the Sakhalin-1 Project.
Russin & Vecchi has substantial experience in
representing the interests of foreign investors operating
in the Russian real estate market and involved in the
acquisition of Russian real estate and in the construction
of manufacturing facilities, production bases and other
commercial projects. The firm’s attorneys have been
providing clients with services involving a wide variety
of real estate and construction issues, including:
• providing an international brewing company with
comprehensive legal assistance during the construction
of one of the largest brewery plants in Russia;
• preparation of a set of model lease agreements
for leasing plots under a pipeline, liquefied natural gas
(LNG) plant and other facilities within one of the
largest oil and gas projects in Russia;
• providing a major agricultural holding company
from Southeast Asia with legal guidance during the
construction of a feed mill in the Moscow region;
• advising a client on a joint venture financing
transaction for the construction and operation of a
maritime LPG terminal in the Russian Far East;
• advising a client in connection with construction of
por t facilities in the Russian Far East.
Russin & Vecchi advises clients on various aspects of
Russian intellectual property (IP) law. The firm’s trademark
attorneys handle trademark clearance, registration,
prosecution and enforcement, licensing and assignment of
rights, domain name registration and dispute resolution,
copyright and trademark counseling, infringement matters,
opposition and cancellation proceedings. The IP matters
routinely handled by the firm’s trademark attorneys
include:
• representing trademark holders before the Russian
PTO (Rospatent) through conducting trademark availability
searches, handling trademark filings and prosecution and
overcoming refusal actions as well as renewing trademark
registrations and entering amendments to them;
• representing clients in various trademark matters in
the Chamber of Patent Disputes of the Russian PTO;
• assisting non-Russian trademark holders in overcoming
Russian PTO refusals to grant protection to international
trademarks filed under the Madrid System;
• developing license and assignment of rights
agreements, as well as commercial concession contracts
(franchising agreements), and registering them with the
Russian PTO;
• representing clients in Internet domain disputes in Russia.
The firm provides guidance to international and domestic
clients on a broad array of employment and labor law
issues, including assistance with the labor law regimes
of the Russian Far East and Extreme North and issues
related to attraction and use of foreign labor. In particular,
the labor issues being regularly dealt with by the firm’s
attorneys include:
• advising clients on use of seconded seafarers while
operating foreign vessels under a bareboat charter with a
Russian company;
• implementation of northern benefits, to which
employees working on Sakhalin and in other Far East
territories having similar conditions are entitled under
Russian Federation labor regulations;
• nondisclosure and noncompetition agreements with
clients’ key personnel;
• implementation of trade secret and confidentiality
procedure;
• obtaining work permits and visas for expats;
• representing employers and employees in disputes
associated with unlawful dismissals and labor discrimination;
• personnel reduction and assessment and mitigation of
related risks;
• protection of employees’ personal data.
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SELECTIVE LIST OF CLIENTS
Established
in 1966
LITIGATION AND ARBITRATION
Russin & Vecchi’s dispute resolution team represents clients
in complex commercial disputes at all court levels in Russia
and before international arbitration tribunals. The firm’s
litigation attorneys regularly represent clients in disputes with
a wide range of state agencies such as the Federal Customs
Service, the Federal Tax Service, and labor commissions as
well as other regulatory agencies and committees. The firm’s
recent experience in dispute resolution includes:
• representing a vessel operator in a court dispute,
contesting demand by the customs authorities for
administrative responsibility for use for a not intended purpose
of a sea vessel imported under PSA terms and restrictions
with payment of the full amount of import customs duties
and taxes;
• representing a major Japanese trading company within
legal proceedings associated with recovery of a debt from a
Russian contractor being liquidated and successfully achieving
application of interim measures in the form of a prohibition
against registration of the liquidation of the debtor by the
Russian tax authorities before execution of the judgment;
• representing a client in a recovery action against a vessel
located in China;
• representing a global manufacturer of drilling equipment
in a dispute with the Russian customs authorities associated
with the reclassification of equipment imported to Russia and
recovery of a multimillion overpayment of customs duties;
• representing the interests of a holding company
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operating a sea port in the Russian Far East in a chain of
corporate disputes with former shareholders;
• assisting a foreign company specialized in implementation
of major construction projects in connection with recovery
from a Russian counterparty of outstanding amounts
for the works done and equipment supplied within the
implementation of one of the recent largest infrastructure
projects in Russia, including representing the client’s interest
in bankruptcy proceedings initiated against the named
Russian counterparty;
• representing the interests of a Russian client in a
recovery action against a U.S.-based trading company in
connection with the latter’s failure to deliver 15 trucks
to Russia under a sales contract, including preparing
claim papers and initiating arbitration proceedings at the
International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Chamber
of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation,
arranging service of process upon the respondent in the
U.S. and handling an array of relevant issues and formalities;
• assisting a foreign microelectronics company in
multijurisdictional proceedings associated with loan
default and nonpayment of interest by a large Russian
semiconductor producer, taking necessary actions in
connection with the recognition and enforcement in
Russia of an arbitral award rendered in the U.S. by the
international arbitration tribunal at the American Arbitration
Association’s International Centre for Dispute Resolution.
Russin & Vecchi represents clients across a wide range
of industries and stages of growth, from startups to welldeveloped corporations, which shares are listed at the
international stock exchanges.
ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION:
INDUSTRIAL:
• CH2M HILL
• CTSD Limited
• Nippon Express
• Posco Engineering & Construction Company Co., Ltd
• WorleyParsons
• Baker Hughes
• Freyssinet International & Cie
• Mitsui & Co. Ltd.
• South African Breweries International
• Sumitomo Corporation
FINANCIAL:
IT & COMMUNICATIONS:
• ABN AMRO Bank
• Credit Agricole
• European Bank for Reconstruction
and Development (EBRD)
• Moscow Narodny Bank
• The US-Russia Investment Fund (TUSRIF)
• Amdocs Development Limited
• Biamp Systems Corporation
• Google
• M/A-COM Technology Solutions
• VIAcode
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KEY TEAM MEMBERS
Established
in 1966
SERGEI L. LAZAREV
Managing Partner
General Director of Russin & Vecchi’s Russian Practice Group
Ph.D. in Law
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:
PHILANTHROPICAL & NOT-FOR-PROFIT:
• Burger King Corporation
• Discovery Communications
• Eurosport
• Qualcomm Incorporated
• Tim Hortons International
• Australia Trade Mission
• Foundation for Russian American Economic Cooperation
• Municipality of Wakkanai, Japan
• National Tourism Organization of Korea
• Rostropovich-Vishnevskaya Foundation
MARITIME:
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES:
• Crowley Marine Services, Inc.
• Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd.
• SCF Swire Offshore (Pte) Ltd.
• Teras Cargo Transport (America), LLC
• Tidewater, Inc.
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MINERALS & HYDROCARBONS:
TRADE & DISTRIBUTION:
• ExxonMobil
• ONGC Videsh Limited
• Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd.
• Samsung C&T Corporation
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• Sinopec International Petroleum Service Corporation
Applus+ Velosi
Asiana Airlines
Falck Denmark A/S
NagaCorp Ltd.
Time Warner Inc.
Arizona International
BMG Music
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
COSTCO Wholesale Corporation
Hudson Foods Inc.
Education
• School of Law, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
• The Hague Academy of International Law, Netherlands
• The George Washington University, National Law Center, United States (Edmund S. Muskie Fellowship Program)
Experience
With over 30 years of legal
experience, Mr. Lazarev brings his
unique knowledge of the Russian
legal and business landscape to
every client issue. Mr. Lazarev has
been facilitating foreign business
operations in the Russian Federation
for around 25 years.
Under his supervision, the firm provided legal support
for multibillion dollar oil and gas extraction projects within
Sakhalin-1 and Sakhalin-2, including the construction of the
first LNG plant in Russia with a capacity of 10 mln. tons
per year; government approval of the production sharing
agreement (PSA) to develop the shelf field within Sakhalin-3;
and adoption of a law of the Russian Federation on including
the Kirinsky block into the subsoil plots for which use rights
may be granted on a production sharing basis.
Mr. Lazarev is one of Russia’s leading lawyers and
has been recognized by The Legal 500 for work in
the oil and gas sector, suppor ting companies engaged
in development of the Sakhalin oil and gas projects; by
IFLR1000, which identifies him as an exper t in M&A;
by PLC Which lawyer? and The Best Lawyers, which
have recommended him for labor law and employment
matters; and by Legal Exper ts EMEA, according to
whom he is an exper t in corporate M&A and dispute
resolution.
Mr. Lazarev served for ten years as a research
scholar at the Institute of Scientific Information for
Social Sciences (INION) at the Depar tment of State
and Law at the Russian Academy of Sciences. In
addition to many ar ticles and abstracts on problems
of state and law, international law, foreign policy
and political science, he is the author of the book
International Arbitration. He is a frequent speaker
at international conferences and is a member of
the Russian Association of International Law and the
International Bar Association.
Following completion of his studies at the George
Washington University in 1993, Mr. Lazarev worked
at the international law firm Arnold & Por ter in
Washington, DC.
Languages
• Russian
• English
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KEY TEAM MEMBERS
NATALIA G. PRISEKINA
JONATHAN J. RUSSIN
Senior Partner
Head of the firm’s office in Vladivostok
Ph.D. in Law
Firm’s co-founder
Founder of Russian Practice Group
Senior Counsel
Education
Education
• School of Law, Far Eastern National University (now - Far Eastern Federal University), Vladivostok, Russia
• Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, United States
• McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, United States (Edmund S. Muskie Fellowship Program)
• Yale Law School, United States
Experience
Ms. Prisekina has extensive experience
in international commercial and
corporate transactions and maritime,
transportation, and labor law, as well
as in civil, commercial, and international
litigation, and personally has handled
many substantial transactions in the
Russian Far East.
Ms. Prisekina complements her practice by working as a
professor of international law at the Far Eastern Federal
University School of Law.
She is a member of the Association of Russian Lawyers
and the Advisory Council of the Far Eastern Customs
Administration; External Consultant and Empowered
Representative of the Primorsky Regional Notary Chamber
Experience
in the Republic of Chile; Arbitrator of the Arbitration
Court of the Independent Arbitration Chamber, an autonomous
non-commercial organization; Arbitrator of the Arbitration
Court of the Primorsky Regional Chamber of Commerce and
Industry; and Secretary of the International Expert Council of
the Far Eastern Federal University School of Law. She served
as president of the Rotary Club Vladivostok in 2004-2005 and
2010-2011.
Ms. Prisekina also serves as Honorary Consul of the Republic
of Chile in Vladivostok. Her consular jurisdiction covers Primorye,
Sakhalin, Kamchatka, and the Khabarovsky and Amur regions.
In 1995, after receiving her LL.M. in transnational business
practice, Ms. Prisekina practiced private international and
commercial law at a law firm in Sacramento, California, returning
later that year to Vladivostok to work with Russin & Vecchi.
Mr. Russin advises and counsels
clients worldwide on the establishment
of industrial and commercial activities
in Russia. He facilitates the creation
of Western-Russian joint venture
companies, and counsels firms
on Russian rules of corporate
governance, on the resolution of
disputes in a multicultural setting, and on compliance in
Russia with the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. He
counsels and trains Russian staff in the delivery of legal
services based on US standards of legal ethics, including
recognition and resolution of conflicts of interests and
issues of bribery and corruption in dealing with courts,
government officials and private parties. Mr. Russin offers
Languages
Languages
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• English
• Russian
• Spanish
Russian
English
French
Spanish
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Established
in 1966
orientation and continuing legal advice to philanthropic and
not-for-profit organizations to improve their operations in
Russia and elsewhere in the former Soviet Union.
Mr. Russin is the founder of Russin & Vecchi’s
Russian Practice Group. He conceived, organized and
supervised the firm’s integrated practice of Russian and
American lawyers from its Moscow inception in 1991
until his relocation to Washington, DC, in 2013. Mr.
Russin now directs the independent office of Russin
& Vecchi in Washington, DC, from which he continues
to serve as Senior Counsel to the Russian Practice
Group.
Mr. Russin is a frequent speaker at international
conferences. He is a member of the District of
Columbia Bar and is a graduate of Yale Law School.
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KEY TEAM MEMBERS
KEY TEAM MEMBERS
NATALIA KUZNETSOVA
ANTON LYAPIN
SERGEY PARINOV
VILENA MANDRIKA
Local Partner in the commercial arbitration practice
Local Partner in the litigation practice
Senior Associate
Senior Associate
Established
in 1966
Education
Education
Education
Education
• School of Law, Moscow State
University, Moscow, Russia
• Advanced Arbitration Academy
• Queen Mary University of London
• School of Law, Far Eastern Federal
University, Vladivostok, Russia
• McGeorge School of Law, University
of the Pacific, United States (Edmund S.
Muskie Fellowship Program)
• Plekhanov Russian University of
Economics, Moscow, Russia
• School of International Law, Russian
Foreign Trade Academy, Moscow, Russia
• School of Law, International Law
Institute under the Ministry of Justice of
the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
• Pericles Law Center for international
legal education
• School of Law, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Institute (Branch) of the Russian State
University of Trade and Economics,
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia
Experience
Experience
Experience
Experience
Ms. Kuznetsova specializes in corporate and contract law
issues, international commercial arbitration and international
litigation. In 2014, she was recommended by the The Best
Lawyers in the practice area of arbitration and mediation
in Russia.
She also serves as a case reporter in the International
Commercial Arbitration Court under the Chamber of
Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation. She
is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators,
London.
Ms. Kuznetsova is admitted to practice law as an
advocate and is a member of the Moscow City Bar
Association. She has an LL.M. in international business law.
Mr. Lyapin specializes in civil and criminal litigation,
international commercial arbitration, white collar crime,
international M&A, and commercial, corporate, tax and
intellectual property law and has more than 15 years of
experience in advising Russian and foreign corporations on
complex domestic and international transactions.
Mr. Lyapin is a trademark attorney qualified by the
Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent) and is
also a licensed tax consultant.
He is admitted to practice law as an advocate and is a
member of the Moscow Region Bar Association.
Mr. Lyapin has an LL.M. in transnational business practice
and B.S. degree in Finance.
Since joining Russin & Vecchi in 2007, Mr. Parinov has
been actively involved in advising multinational corporations
on cross-border transactions and establishment of their
operations in Russia. He has participated in a number of
large projects, including assisting one of the world’s largest
industrial corporations in acquiring a group of Russian coal
producers; advising an investment group from Southeast Asia
on constructing a modern agricultural complex in Russia; and
counseling global media, telecommunication and IT companies
on compliance with Russian regulatory requirements.
Mr. Parinov advises clients on formation of joint venture
companies, implementation of anti-corruption policies
and compliance in Russia with the FCPA requirements,
corporate governance, structuring M&A deals, debt
recovery and dispute resolution. He also represents clients
in international arbitration proceedings and assists with
enforcement of foreign arbitral awards.
Ms. Mandrika has extensive experience in providing legal
assistance to Russian and foreign companies undertaking
projects in various areas of business. Her main fields of
specialization are corporate law, real estate, labor and
immigration law, and dispute resolution.
Before joining Russian & Vecchi, Ms. Mandrika worked as
a lawyer at a Sakhalin-based law firm, where she acquired
substantial experience in providing legal services to companies
and individual entrepreneurs, including representing clients’
interests before arbitration courts and courts of common
jurisdiction and before various state and local government
bodies. Ms. Mandrika also worked as a senior legal advisor
at the Sakhalin branch of Russian Agricultural Bank, one of
the largest banks in Russia. Until 2010, she worked as a
legal advisor at a trading company with a chain of stores on
Sakhalin, where she represented the company before state
bodies and courts of different levels.
Languages
Languages
Languages
Languages
• Russian
• English
• Russian
• English
• Russian
• English
• Russian
• English
• French
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KEY TEAM MEMBERS
KEY TEAM MEMBERS
NATALIA LYSENKO
DENIS KHLOPUSHIN
ANTON YUZHANIN
DMITRY LYAKHOV
Associate
Associate
Associate
Of Counsel
Education
• School of International Law, Far
Eastern National University, Vladivostok,
Russia
• Far Eastern Centre of Continuing
Education
• Harbin University of Science and
Technology
Established
in 1966
Education
Education
Education
• School of Law, Far Eastern Federal
University, Vladivostok, Russia
• School of Law, Far Eastern Federal
University, Vladivostok, Russia
• School of Law, Far Eastern National
University, Vladivostok, Russia
•
Goethe
University,
Frankfur t,
Germany
Experience
Experience
Experience
Experience
Ms. Lysenko has broad experience in registration of
rights to immovable property, representation of clients in
all types of courts in a wide range of civil cases, and
interaction with state and municipal agencies on a wide
scope of matters. Her practice areas include civil law, real
estate law, corporate law, business law, Russian litigation,
and private international law.
Before joining Russin & Vecchi, Ms. Lysenko acquired extensive
experience working as a lawyer in the legal department of a
well-known Russian commercial industrial holding company for
three years and as a leading lawyer in a law firm in Vladivostok
for two years.
Ms. Lysenko completed a Ph.D. program in civil law, business
law, family law, and private international law at the Far Eastern
Federal University and is currently working on her dissertation.
Mr. Khlopushin provides advice to clients on a wide
variety of legal matters, specializing in corporate law, M&A,
contract law, labor law and migration, real estate, energy
and natural resources, project finance, joint ventures, loan
securitization, civil litigation and commercial arbitration.
Mr. Khlopushin has assisted a leading state-owned
investment fund in deal structuring and securitization of
a special purpose loan. He has represented clients before
state bodies and courts of different levels.
Mr. Khlopushin began his career as a junior lawyer at a law
firm in Vladivostok and there acquired substantial experience
in corporate law, bankruptcy law and real estate law.
He completed a one-year practice at the Vladivostok-based
legal clinic, where he assisted clients in the areas of civil and
labor law.
Mr. Yuzhanin counsels clients on legal matters in the
areas of M&A transactions, contract law, and migration
regulations.
His specialties include civil law, migration law, and
commercial arbitration. He has experience in representing
both Russian and foreign clients before state bodies and
courts of different levels.
Starting his career as a junior lawyer at a law firm in
Vladivostok, Mr. Yuzhanin acquired experience in aviation
law, corporate law, and migration law. During that period,
he took part in a significant project involving insurance
issues associated with an aircraft incident.
Mr. Yuzhanin completed a one-year practice at the
Vladivostok-based legal clinic, where he acquired his first
experience in legal work on civil and family law matters.
Mr. Lyakhov provides advice to clients on a broad
range of legal matters, specializing in corporate law, M&A,
contract law, labor law and migration, real estate, energy
and natural resources.
Since joining Russin & Vecchi as an associate in 2007, Mr.
Lyakhov has participated as a leading lawyer in a number
of large infrastructural projects in the Russian Far East,
including due diligence of telecommunication companies,
timber processing companies and sea terminals, as well as
construction of APEC 2012 Summit objects.
After obtaining an LL.M. in financial law from Goethe
University in Frankfurt in 2014, Mr. Lyakhov worked in the
banking law practice of one of the ten largest international
law firms in Frankfurt and in the legal department of the
largest Italian bank in Munich.
Languages
Languages
Languages
Languages
• Russian
• English
• Russian
• English
• Russian
• English
• Russian
• English
• German
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KEY TEAM MEMBERS
KEY TEAM MEMBERS
ZHANNA RADMAEVA
VITALY APATAEV
VALERY E. KALINOVSKY
ANNA V. KALINOVSKAYA
Of Counsel
Associate Tax & Litigation Counsel
Patent & Trademark Attorney
Trademark Attorney
Education
Education
Education
Education
• School of Law, Far Eastern Federal
University, Vladivostok, Russia
• College of Law, University of
Illinois (Edmund S. Muskie Fellowship
Program; LL.M. degree)
• Lloyd’s Maritime Academy, London, UK
• Modern Humanitarian Academy,
Moscow, Russia
• Moscow State University of Service,
Moscow, Russia
• Moscow Institute of Transport
Engineers, Moscow, Russia
• Russian State Institute of Intellectual
Property, Moscow, Russia
• All-Union Academy of Foreign Trade,
Moscow, Russia
• Moscow State Linguistic University,
Moscow, Russia
• Russian State Institute of Intellectual
Property, Moscow, Russia
Experience
Experience
Experience
Experience
Mr. Kalinovsky has headed the trademark section at
Russin & Vecchi since 2006, arriving from a large Russian
IP firm where he had worked since 1998, also as head
of the trademark section. He was among Russia’s first
registered trademark attorneys and was appointed head of
the Trademark and Industrial Designs Department in 1980,
a position that he occupied until 1998. Previously, he was
nominated as a senior consultant for Sojuzpatent under the
USSR Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Mr. Kalinovsky
joined the All-Union Research Institute of State Patent
Examination (the former Russian patent and trademark
office) as a senior expert in the Transport Department
in 1971. Prior to this, he worked at the Central Research
Institute of the Ministry of Communication after completing
his engineering degree in 1966.
Ms. Kalinovskaya focuses her practice on intellectual
property portfolio management, including trademark
clearance, registration, prosecution and enforcement,
copyright and trademark counseling, and domain name
registration and dispute resolution. She also handles licensing
and assignment of rights. Ms. Kalinovskaya counsels clients
on maintenance of trademark rights, infringement matters,
opposition and cancellation proceedings. She works with
clients in a diverse range of industries, including computer
software, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, restaurant
services, and consumer products.
Ms. Kalinovskaya joined Russin & Vecchi as a trademark
attorney in 2006. She began her professional activity in
1999 with a large Russian IP law firm where she acquired
substantial experience in patent and trademark matters.
Languages
Languages
Languages
• Russian
• English
• Russian
• German
• English
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Ms. Radmaeva specializes in international maritime law
and insurance (P&I, H&M), and has seven years of work
experience as Counsel of the Legal Department of
“FESCO” – a major shipping company, which has offices
in many countries and transports different types of cargo
worldwide. As Senior Counsel of the logistic company of
“SOLLERS” Group, Ms. Radmaeva provided complete legal
support to the company in its daily operations connected
with multimodal transportation of cargo from Asia to
Russia and vice versa, port operations, container terminal
operations, construction projects, land related issues, as
well as on matters involving corporate, administrative and
labor law.
Mr. Apataev has served in the investigation office of
the Administration of the Federal Service of the Tax
Police, where he carried out preliminary investigations of
criminal cases, concentrating on tax crimes. He participated
in tax audits, analyzed financial and economic activities
of taxpayers, and reviewed financial documents for
compliance with Russian regulations. Mr. Apataev began his
legal career in 2001 in the investigation department of the
Administration of Internal Affairs in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
He has successfully completed courses at the Russian
Tax Advisors Chamber and received the Tax and Duties
Advisor Certificate. In 2009, he obtained the status of
advocate (barrister).
Languages
• Russian
• English
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