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Recognised by Pravo-300 · Best Lawyers · Kommersant
Issue No. XVII · 2026
Boutique law firm · Established 2009 · Russia
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A boutique
Russian law firm
for clients who notice
the details.
restructuring, asset recovery, tax controversy, intellectual property and business crime defence. Fifteen specialists across six practices; a partner runs every matter we accept. Over seventeen years: 450 matters handled and continuous recognition by Russia’s principal legal directories.
e act for foreign companies, family offices and private clients with interests in Russia — most often in disputes,
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15
narrow focus across six practices
Specialists
1000+
between 2009 and 2026
Matters handled
From the Editor · Cover Story
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Six practices.
No compromise on depth.
No compromise on depth.
§ i
Section one
Selected matters.
A sample of recent representative work.
A sample of recent representative work.
§ iI
Section TWO
Acted for an EU-headquartered industrial supplier in Russian insolvency proceedings against its former distributor — full claim recognition and inclusion in the third creditor tier, with subsidiary-liability action ongoing against the controlling shareholder.
2025
Restructuring &
Insolvency · Creditor-side
Insolvency · Creditor-side
Acted alongside foreign litigation counsel in support of an LCIA arbitration concerning a Russian-situated joint venture — witness evidence collection in Russia, document production, and recognition of the resulting award.
2024–2025
Cross-border Disputes ·
Parallel proceedings
Parallel proceedings
Defended a foreign-owned manufacturing group through a federal tax audit raising permanent-establishment and Article 54.1 challenges — resolution at the pre-litigation stage, with the assessment substantially reduced.
2024
Tax Controversy ·
Permanent establishment
Permanent establishment
Counsel to a multinational consumer-brand owner on defending its Russian trademark portfolio against a series of bad-faith third-party filings — successful Rospatent oppositions and recovery of two squatted marks.
2023–2024
IP Enforcement ·
Trademark portfolio
Trademark portfolio
Matters are described in summary form and have been anonymised. Client identities, jurisdictions of counterparties and specific recovery figures are confidential and disclosed only with the client's consent.
" In the mid-market, clients do not choose between expensive and cheap. They choose between shallow and deep. We chose depth — and that is why we do not take every matter."
Managing Partner · founded the firm in 2009
Vitaliy Vetrov
Note from the Managing Partner
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Independent expert
recognition.
recognition.
§ iII
Section three
The firm is consistently ranked by the principal directories of the Russian legal market. We are not currently listed in Chambers, The Legal 500 or IFLR1000 — when foreign-law expertise or international rankings are required, we work alongside firms with that recognition.
Kommersant
Russia's leading business daily · annual ranking of regional firms
Annual rankings
Best Lawyers
Individual partners listed across disputes, tax and corporate practices
Continuous since 2018
Pravo-300
Russia's principal annual legal directory · ranked across multiple practices
Continuous since 2014
From our desk.
Practitioner analysis.
Practitioner analysis.
§ iV
Section four
By [Author 2], Senior Associate · Private Wealth
Personal foundations under Federal Law 287-FZ: what foreign settlors should know about the new Russian wrapper.
MARCH 2026
Reading time · 8 min
Practice briefing · Private Wealth
By [Author 1], Counsel · Restructuring & Insolvency
Filing a creditor's claim in a Russian insolvency: what foreign claimants overlook.
Russian-side representation in commercial litigation and institutional arbitration (ICC, LCIA, SIAC, HKIAC; MKAS and RAC for Russian-seated proceedings), parallel proceedings, witness evidence in Russia, recognition and enforcement.
April 2026
Reading time · 11 min
By [Author 4], Senior Associate · Tax Controversy
Article 54.1 in 2026: how the unjustified-benefit doctrine is being applied to foreign-owned groups.
January 2026
Reading time · 6 min
Legal update · Tax
By [Author 3], Counsel · Intellectual Property
Defending a Russian trademark portfolio against bad-faith filings: the post-2022 playbook.
February 2026
Reading time · 9 min
Practice briefing · IP
Practice analysis · Restructuring & Insolvency
When the situation calls for
careful attention — that is what we do.
careful attention — that is what we do.
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