The Competition and Litigation Practice team of EPAM successfully defended the interests of the largest Russian IT company Yandex in the Moscow Arbitrazh Court. The Court rejected Google’s lawsuit in which the corporation requested to cancel the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia’s (the FAS) conclusions.
Litigation and WCC teams at EPAM successfully defended the interests of Allianz Insurance against a group of fraudulent lawyers who filed claims against the company for over 1 billion rubles.
Daria Sergeeva has joined the team at the St. Petersburg Office of EPAM as a Senior Associate in the intellectual property, technology, media, and telecommunications practice (Intellectual Property/TMT).
Sergey Kalinin has joined EPAM as a Counsel and Head of Tax Practice in Russia.
EPAM won the tender as legal counsel for issuing mortgage-secured bonds under a pilot project entitled “Mortgage Securities Factory” - a new tool launched by the Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending (AHML) to refinance mortgage loans.
The Federal Law dd. 30 December 2015 No. 461-FZ “On Amending of Art. 17 of Federal Law “On the Securities Market” and of Federal Law “On Mortgage Securities” came into force on 10 January 2016. The law was initiated by the Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending and drafted by Banking & Finance, Capital Markets Practice of EPAM.
EPAM managed to have the Rostov Region Arbitrazh Court cancel the decision holding Yakhta-club Center LLC administratively liable. This success was a key stage in the implementation of a comprehensive strategy to protect the client’s interests.
EPAM' Competition Practice team has successfully defended the large container carrier Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) before the FAS of Russia in a high-profile case related to concerted actions of international sea and ocean container carriers.
Victoria Burkovskaya, PhD, professor, partner of EPAM has been appointed as Co-Chair of the Business against Corruption Center of Public Procedures.
The Competition Practice team of EPAM successfully defended the interests of the largest Russian IT company Yandex against Google’s market abuse in relation to pre-installed app stores for devices on the Android operating system.
On October 1, 2015 Mikhail Kazantsev, Partner of EPAM, was appointed public business Ombudsman on de-offshorisation and capital amnesty by the office of Boris Titov, Business Ombudsman under the auspices of the Russian President.
In June 2015, the US logistics company XPO Logistics announced the acquisition of a controlling stake in the French company Norbert Dentressangle SA. The antitrust practice team at EPAM represented XPO in connection with obtaining clearance from the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia, and was able to secure a positive decision from the FAS in record-breaking time.
EPAM’ сompetition team managed to obtain the Federal Antimonopoly Service’s approval for the acquisition of the controlling stake in FC URALSIB for the Firm’s client.
EPAM Litigation Lawyers managed to settle the corporate conflict with the former owners of Vitino Sea Port and Belomorskaya Oil Terminal that had lasted for over two years, as well as have the property of Vitino Sea Port and Belomorskaya Oil Terminal returned and released from third-party claims.
The Banking & Finance and Capital Markets Team at EPAM has successfully completed the legal support of another securitization of mortgage assets for the Housing Finance Bank (AO Bank ZhilFinance).