Our client has concluded a contract with a Cypriot company that manages a network of shopping centers in Russia. The standard arbitration clause, the inclusion of which in the contract was insisted upon by the Cypriot company, stipulated that disputes are resolved by an ad hoc arbitral tribunal, while the judge must have a certificate…
Our client specializing in the supply of chemical products from Finland, in January 2022 filed a request for participation in the tender in the framework of the Procurement Law No. FZ-223. According to the results of the tender in February 2022, the client was recognized as the winner, but in early March the Finnish manufacturer…
The budgetary institution applied to our client for services to prepare the application and collect missing documents to obtain licenses for the use of aquifers. The services were rendered, the client prepared an application, received the necessary documents, and informed the customer on what additional documents should be submitted with the application. The customer did…
The municipal enterprise ordered our client to reevaluate groundwater reserves. The work was divided into four stages. After our client began providing services in the first stage, the municipal enterprise’s subsoil use license was revoked due to its own fault, making further work impossible, and the contract was terminated. Our client demanded payment for losses…
In case A56-61873/2021, the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region decided to grant our client’s claim for unjust enrichment. After the litigation, we appealed to the court with the requirement of reimbursement of court costs, including expenses for extrajudicial expertise. The court of first instance awarded the cost of legal services from…
In December of 2017, one of Aspectum. clients was held accountable for the violation of the currency control legislation due to a failure to obtain the foreign currency earnings to its bank account for the goods sold to a buyer in Belarus. The foreign buyer did not pay for the goods because of the financial…
On November 19-20, 2018, the international conference “Russian Law Development. Access to justice in Eurasia” was held at the faculty of law of the University of Helsinki (Finland). The conference was attended by Aspectum. partner, Mikhail Antonov, who presented a report on access to justice in the Russian arbitration courts.
“Aspectum.” sponsored the international conference “Law theory development during the interwar period (1918-1939) in Eastern and Central Europe”, which was held on May 21-22, 2018 at the law faculty of Higher School of Economics in Saint-Petersburg (HSE St. Petersburg). The conference was attended by more than 30 foreign and Russian lawyers. The organizing Committee was…
Mikhail Antonov, “Aspectum.” partner attended a conference organized by the International Association for Judicial Independence and Peace on June 20-22, 2018. At this conference, which was held at the University of London Law School. Mikhail as a Russian law expert presented a report on Evaluating Judicial Independence in Russia. During the conference amendments to the…
In 2016, one of our clients performed boat repair works under a government contract with the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (the customer). The work under the contract was accepted by the customer, but the military agency did not agree on the amount of expenses incurred. Based on the report…
