Maxim Kulkov’s testimony in the LCIA helped a claimant obtain a partial award in its favour

In a dispute concerning the recovery of $1.3bn of debt under a loan agreement, KK&P Trial Lawyers Managing Partner Maxim Kulkov prepared an expert report. It covered an unconventional argument made by the Respondent regarding the lack of authority of the Board of Directors of the Claimant’s parent company (the firm’s client) to approve arbitration […]
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Results of Pravo.ru-300 2022 Lawyers Ranking

According to the Pravo.ru-300 2022 results the number of practices which marked high results of KK&P partners and lawyers has increased. The firm’s advocates are individually ranked 22 times this season instead of 12 last one: 1) Maxim Kulkov (Managing Partner): International Litigation – Band I Sanctions Law – Band I Domestic Litigation (High Market) […]
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KK&P defended Metrostroy of the Northern Capital JSC’s $45 million claim in the register of creditors of Metrostroy JSC

The Commercial Court of the North-Western District upheld the position of the KK&P team, refusing to subordinate the claim of the client (Metrostroy of the Northern Capital JSC) for $45 million to Metrostroy JSC, which is bankrupt and was previously engaged in the construction of the subway in St Petersburg. Despite contradictory practice, the courts […]
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Maxim Kulkov’s expert evidence on the statute of limitations in a work contract helped the respondent to defeat a US$15 million claim in a SCC arbitration

The dispute between leading US and German engineering companies arose from a contract for water suppression works in a mine owned by the key Russian corporation. The shaft was flooded, and the German company (an employer) lodged the claim for multi-million losses against the US company (a contractor). The respondent raised the limitation defence and […]
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Russian Supreme Court upholds enforcement of SCC award rendered by tribunal seated in Russia

  Maxim Kulkov (Managing partner), Dmitry Vlasov (Senior Associate), Nikita Chernyshenko (Paralegal)   In Resolution No 306-ES21-5440, the Russian Supreme Court upheld the enforcement of an SCC arbitral award that was rendered by a Russia-seated tribunal even though the SCC does not have “permanent arbitral institution” status in Russia.   The facts of this case […]
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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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An award rendered within an international commercial arbitration won by KK&P was successfully enforced in Russia against one of the world’s largest oilfield service companies

Recently, Russian courts issued an enforcement order against one of the world’s largest oilfield companies in a dispute won by KK&P in international commercial arbitration. According to the circumstances of this case, the defendant (a contractor) provided for cementing services for an ultra-deep oil well at the request of the claimant (a customer).  When performing […]
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Maxim Kulkov’s expert evidence on over a hundred Russian law issues in PJSC Tatneft v Bogolyubov & Ors helped the defendants defeat a US$300 million claim in the English High Court

After a 12-week trial in the High Court of England and Wales involving the cross-examination of witnesses and experts from the UK, the US, Russia and Ukraine by video conference – the longest entirely remote trial in the Commercial Court’s history – Mrs Justice Moulder handed down a judgment against the claimant (Tatneft). The key […]
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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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