The main session of 25th Annual Course on International Law Librarianship “The New Russia: Law and Legal Information” will take place in St. Petersburg on September, 10-14. In addition to the conference in St Petersburg, there will be an optional extra programme in Moscow on Friday 15th and Saturday 16th September.
We are please that today the Federal Arbitrage Court of Moscow Region has cancelled their earlier refusal to confirm amicable agreement between Eurocement and the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia. We can now look forward to this agreement being finally confirmed very shortly...
In a hearing today, the Federal Arbitrage Court of Moscow Region declined to confirm the amicable agreement tat had been reached between the Federal Antimonopoly Service (“FAS”) and OJSC Eurocement Group in June 2006. The reason for the non-approval by the Court was that the FAS is not empowered to conclude such amicable agreements...
On June 30, 2006 the Federal Anti-monopoly Service of Russia (“FAS”) and Eurocement Group signed a settlement of the dispute concerning the violation of the antitrust laws. Its details were announced today at a joint press conference held by the director of the FAS, Igor Artemiev, the President of Eurocement Group, Mikhail Skorohod and the Chairman of Eurocement Group’s law firm, EPAM, Dimitry Afanasiev.
Eurocement Group and the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (FAS) have signed an amicable agreement in settlement of a dispute concerning alleged violation of antitrust laws. This agreement was announced by the Deputy Director of the FAS, Andrey Tsyganov, and Dimitry Afanasiev, lawyer for the cement holding company.
A group of American students from the Davidson College (North Carolina) – one of the best US private schools - visited the Moscow office of leading Russian law firm, “EPAM”.
The vessels were detained in the Spanish port as a result of a request by EPAM, which is representing the interests of the Russian Federation in this matter. The arrest of the trawlers is a provisional measure necessary to prevent their illegal use by the persons accused of fraudulently taking possession of them and to prevent their possible resale of the vessels to new owners.
Today, the Arbitration Court of the Murmansk region has granted the claim of the OJSC “Archangelsk Trawler Fleet” (“ATF”) seeking recovery of property from illegal ownership. The court has found that the defendant – the Mauritanian company, Societe De Promotion De La Peche, has illegal ownership of the fishing vessels, “Capitan Kononov”, “Yuozas Alexonis” and “Trawlmeister Mogutov” and that right of ownership belongs to the ATF.
EPAM lawyer, Elena Krotova-Sebag, took part in the “Intellectual Property: protecting the trade mark ” conference in Moscow on 29-30 May. She spoke on franchising as a means for the commercialization of intellectual property rights.
The Arbitration court of Moscow dismissed a suit by the Russia Partners Fund against the management of the OJSC EUROCEMENT Group which sought damages to cover financial losses which it claimed had been caused in company by mismanagement. EPAM, the leading Russian law firm, represented the interests of the OJSC EUROCEMENT Group
The Arbitration Court of Moscow annulled the order of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, №272 of November 30, 2005, which had included the OJSC EUROCEMENT Group (“EUROCEMENT”) into the register of business entities that own more than 35% market share of certain goods. It also that its name be removed from the above mentioned monopoly register.
Russian lawyers visited U.S. federal court in Miami where they had an opportunity to observe jury selection process in a civil case.
Senior lawyer at EPAM, Daniil Petrov, takes up a position as head of the Property Management Department of Joint Stock Company "Russian Railways".
Participants at the conference included representatives of the state authorities, legal counsel from some of Russia’s largest companies and experts from some of Russia’s leading law and consulting firms.
Igor Pachosik was born in 1976 in Leningrad. In 1998 he graduated cum laude from the Law Department of the Saint-Petersburg State University. Since 2006 he has been an aspirant of Commercial Law Department of the Saint-Petersburg State University.