Projects
Successful out-of-court settlement of a tax dispute
Our client, a company carrying out import and trade operations, was illegally accused of failing to pay app. RUB 20 m of customs tax.
The client, with support of our lawyers, challenged the illegal prescription in commercial court. Finally, the first case (RUB 2 m) was resolved in favour of our client in court, and the second one (RUB 18 m) through the out-of-court negotiations.
Tax authorities continued inspecting client’s accounting and trade documentation through all the hearings.
- Legal support of a construction company in court in the framework of defending the permit for an apartment building construction in the historical center of St. Petersburg
- Legal support of a development company in the framework of challenging the law of St. Petersburg on planted land
- Representation of a development company’s interests in a dispute over the land plot area significant increase
- Defending Siyanie CJSC, construction company contracted for construction of the Courtyard by Marriott Hotels, in a litigation dispute
- Protection of the North-West Regional Directorate of the State Federal Fishing Agency property interests by settlement of disputes on federal property use
- Representing A.Len, one of the leading architect & project design companies in St. Petersburg in a series of legal disputes with customers and subcontractors (total cost of 3M Euros)
- Representing the 6th Trust construction company in dispute between parties of construction investment contract
- Legal support to ATLANT-M automobile holding within construction of automobile showrooms and warehouses in St. Petersburg
- Representing Adamant, a large development holding, at court
- Court representation of Tebodin, an international engineering company in a contract fulfilment dispute
- Major development company legal support at court under the investment contract of the residential complex «Bolshoi Drama Theatre House» construction with a total living area of 29 th sq m
- Defending client interests in a dispute over the collection of back debt in an amount exceeding 13 mln rubles
- Representing a big sanitary engineering supplier in a 15-million RUB commercial dispute
- Protecting interests of a large equipment supplier for Oil and Gas industry
- Developing recommendations on reducing the tax burden and minimizing the risks of the companies belonging to Smeshariki Group
- Legal representation on tax disputes with regard to claiming illegal the tax prosecution and charging additional taxes.
- Representing LAM Electric Installation Company acting as defendant in three closely connected commercial disputes arising from construction works
- Representing Russian branch of Tebodin, a multinational engineering company, in the dispute with the tax authorities on tax remission
- Representing customers against a malevolent contractor on telecom networks construction
- Defending the owner of a large warehouse against the property management company
- Successful out-of-court settlement of a tax dispute
- Defending the warrantors
- Defending the non-commercial legal research institution against a customer
- Defending the intellectual property rights in an domain name dispute
- Legal representation in numerous court proceedings in relation to property claims