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Alexander Ermolenko, Head of FBK Legal Corporate Practice in his interview to Profile magazine commented upon calculations of experts of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich who found 147 transnational corporations (mostly financial ones), which control 40% of global economy.
FBK Legal lawyers started implementing project in legal support of transaction between MTE Finance and Raiffeisenbank a.s. (Prague, Czech Republic). Within the project FBK Legal will provide legal opinion on credit contract, sufficiency, efficiency and eligibility of signing it, they will also prepare a draft pledge agreement in compliance with Russian law.
FBK Legal lawyers successfully completed the first stage of reconciling terms and conditions for acquisition of 100% of JSC Cryogas shares from a Polish firm CP Energia S.A.
Profile magazine publishes an opinion column of the head of FBK Legal Corporate Practice, Alexander Ermolenkoo. The author is reviewing the initiative of The Ministry of Economic Development, which is providing to minority shareholders more rights regarding receiving information and documents from a joint stock company.
FBK Legal Partner and Head of Tax Litigation Practice, Galina Akchurina in her interview to the portal Private Banking&Wealth Management (PBWM.ru) commented upon the statement of the Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin who warned the wealthy Russians that indirect taxes may be increased.
On September 27, 2011 a round table discussion was arranged by Committee for Tax and Legal Regulation at the Russian Managers Association to discuss novelties in the field of control over transfer pricing. Galina Akchurina, Head of FBK Legal Tax Litigation Practice and Tatiana Matveicheva, Head of FBK Legal Tax Advice Practice spoke at the meeting.
On September 22, 2011 Alexei Yakovlev, Head of FBK Legal Tax Litigation Practice and Ekaterina Golubeva, Senior Legal Advisor of FBK Legal Tax Litigation Practice participated in on-line conference arranged by Tax Advisors’ Chamber.
A column by Mr. Alexander Ermolenko, Head of FBK Legal corporate practice, is regularly published in Russian Business Newspaper. The column is related to the amendments to the Civil Code that obliges the offshore companies to reveal the ultimate beneficiaries.
Anna Grishchenkova, FBK Legal Corporate and M&A Practice Manager, in her interview to RBC daily commented on the news that the Presidium of the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation sustained the claim on enforcing decision of Stockholm Arbitration Court to charge Baltiyskiy Zavod OJSC over 21 million EUR and 1 million SEK of losses and legal expenses in favor of a Swedish company Stena RoRo AB.
Elena Bokareva, Chief Legal Advisor of FBK Legal, in an interview to RBC daily commented upon the dispute between the Federal Antimonopoly Service and retailers Auchan and Atak. As it was reminded by the publisher, in their claim to the Moscow department of Federal Antimonopoly Service LLC Auchan and LLC Atak asked to cancel the decision and the order of the Antimonopoly Service that made them liable for violating the Trade Law.