KK&P Trial Lawyers took part in the 8th International Charity Lawyer Races Legal Run 2021

KK&P Trial Lawyer is a partner of the Legal Run 2021 charity event in aid of “Podari Zhizn” (Gift of Life) charity foundation. Due to a long adverse epidemiological situation, the event is organised in a hybrid mode: instead of mass races the participants take part in such a kind of flash mobs across the […]
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Maxim Kulkov and Dmitry Vlasov are co-authors of the chapter on Russia in the second edition of the guide Enforcement of Investment Treaty Arbitration Awards

Maxim Kulkov, KK&P Trial Lawyers Managing Partner, and Dmitry Vlasov, senior associate, co-authored the chapter on enforcement of investment treaty arbitration awards in Russia, together with Noah Rubins QC of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP.  The book was published by Globe Law and Business Ltd in January 2021. Section 3 (together with the table of contents […]
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Olga Kokoz for Kluwer Arbitration Blog: New Exclusive Competence of Russian Courts in International Sanctions-Related Disputes: Is It as Bad as It Sounds?

KK&P Senior Associate Olga Kokoz reviews key features of Russia’s recently adopted draft law granting persons and companies affected by the sanctions against Russia a right to transfer their international disputes to Russia and analyses how the new law is going to influence Russia-related disputes. The full text of the article is available here: http://arbitrationblog.kluwerarbitration.com/2020/07/29/new-exclusive-competence-of-russian-courts-in-international-sanctions-related-disputes-is-it-as-bad-as-it-sounds/.
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Global Restructuring Review published an article by KK&P on peculiarities of aircraft leasing and airline insolvency under Russian law

The authors – Nikolay Pokryshkin, KK&P partner and head of insolvency practice, Dmitry Vlasov, senior associate, and Anastasiya Shkvarova, associate, – consider specifics of aircraft leasing and airline insolvency in Russia (a case-study based on the Transaero bankruptcy case), the issues covered range from a characterisation and complex assessment of claims arising out of lease […]
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Olga Kokoz for Kluwer Arbitration Blog: Is There Room for Sanctions in Public Policy? Opposite Approaches in The Recent Case Law of the Ukrainian Supreme Court

KK&P Senior Associate Olga Kokoz analyses how, within the space of one month, the Ukrainian Supreme Court rendered contrasting judgments on whether or not sanctions may serve as a ground to deny enforcement of an international commercial arbitration award. The media pressure on the relevant judgements is taken into account. The full text of the […]
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KK&P to be a partner of the Legal Run 2019 charity event

KK&P will be a partner of the Legal Run 2019 charity event in aid of Podari Zhizn (Gift of Life) charity, which will be held on 8 June 2019 in the Central Park of the SKOLKOVO Innovation Center. The firm will also have a team running in the race and the KPP corporate cover band […]
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Maxim Kulkov is the author of a chapter on mediation in the book Dispute resolution in Russia: the essentials

Dispute resolution in Russia: the essentials is a collection of articles in English written by leading Russian experts in the field of dispute resolution. The book was published in Russia under the editorship of Dmitry Dedov and Alexander Molotnikov. Maxim Kulkov, managing partner of KK&P and Executive Director of Unified Mediation Services at the RSPP, […]
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KK&P prepared a Russian law legal opinion for the World Bank’s annual Doing Business report

An independent expert review was required to describe the court proceedings modelled by the World Bank in preparation for its index of protection of minority shareholders in Russia, which is one of the indicators used in the World Bank’s Doing Business ranking. The firm’s lawyers, led by Managing Partner Maxim Kulkov, gave a legal assessment […]
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Ukraine’s appeal to Russia’s Supreme Court on barring the enforcement of an investment treaty award worth US$144 million in favour of Tatneft covered by Global Arbitration Review (GAR)

The article highlights actual progression of the dispute between Tatneft and Ukraine (represented by KK&P and Winston & Strawn LLP) listed within 8 major disputes of 2017 by Kommersant and yet staying crucial for state immunity issues and thereafter for a number of other proceedings. Read on GAR: “Ukraine asks Russia’s top court to bar Tatneft enforcement” (login required).
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