In 2022, in a large food company, corporate control passed from foreign owners to Russian management. To optimize costs, the company decided to restructure its operations, including the transfer of all administrative and managerial functions to the head office in St. Petersburg. In this regard, the position of legal counsel at a production enterprise in…
Our client ordered equipment from a supplier to support his production activities. The terms of the order were agreed upon by the parties through an exchange of letters and e-mail messages without drawing up a contract in the form of a single written document. The goods did not arrive within the agreed time frame, so…
One of our clients has done work for a large industrial enterprise on the software configuration of production equipment. After receiving the final service report, the customer stopped contacting, without paying the contractor the remaining part of the cost of the main volume of work accepted by the act, and without confirming the additionally performed…
On April 18-19, 2024, the International Scientific Conference “Religion, Worldview and Pure Doctrine of Law” was held at the Faculty of Law of the Higher School of Economics – St. Petersburg, the sponsor of which was our bureau. The conference was devoted to the discussion of the development of fundamental jurisprudence in the context of…
A company engaged in the construction of seagoing vessels ordered equipment from a subcontractor to equip a seagoing vessel supplied under a state defense order contract to a state customer. Since the equipment was not delivered on time, the company demanded the return of the unspent advance. The subcontractor, without disputing the violation of the…
Within the framework of the insolvency case of a construction company, the bankruptcy trustee applied to a citizen who was listed as the general director of this legal entity with requirements to transfer the accounting, reporting and other documentation of this legal entity, as well as seven cars and other material assets belonging to the…
The results of the ranking of law firms “Pravo-300”, the largest study of the Russian legal market, within which the council of heads of legal departments of large Russian and international corporations, based on an in-depth analysis of law firms’ projects and client reviews, forms the “Pravo-300” rating, have been published. In 2023, Aspectum, according…
The client of our bureau has assumed obligations under a state contract with an educational institution, but was unable to fulfill these obligations on time. In this regard, the educational institution terminated the contract and applied to the Administration of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of St. Petersburg with a demand to include the contractor in…
The company under several contracts performed a set of works for the customer to prepare for drilling water wells and develop relevant projects. For all contracts, except one, the work was accepted and paid for. The customer refused to accept the work only for the site for which they could not obtain drilling permits in…
One of our company’s clients is engaged in the manufacture of expensive gift watches. As part of one of the orders, a batch of watches was manufactured and transferred to a legal entity-customer on the terms of a 50% prepayment. The customer accepted the watches they ordered, but was in no hurry with the payment,…
Under the contract for the performance of survey and design work, the customer did not pay our client the cost of this work, although the work itself was accepted without comments. The customer referred to difficulties with funding from the budget and asked to wait. For a long time, our client waited, but in the…
As a result of the audit of the documentation in our client’s company, serious financial irregularities were revealed on the part of former employees who previously held senior positions. In one of the cases of violations, it was established that the former deputy general director of the company, while working in the company, created a…
