Information for the Press re: the Marc Fogel Release
American teacher Marc Fogel, 63, released from prison in Russia to the United States.
12 February 2025
21 January 2025
Valery Eremenko Elected as Chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Eurasian Cooperation Center
On January 21, 2025, a meeting of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Eurasian Cooperation Center (ECC) was held, during which Valery Eremenko, Co-Head of the Litigation and Arbitration Practice at EPAM Law, was elected as Chairman of the Committee.
22 January 2025
EPAM Law Team Acts as Legal Advisor for Financing the Moscow – St. Petersburg High-Speed Rail Construction
The Banking and Finance, Capital Markets practice team at EPAM Law provided legal advisory services to the management company CJSC "Lider" in the financing of the high-speed railway (HSR) construction project connecting Moscow and St. Petersburg.
20 January 2025
EPAM Law Announces Key Appointments
As of 1 January 2025, Oleg Buyko, Lev Vasiliev, and Denis Golubev (litigation and arbitration practice), as well as Ekaterina Verle (real estate and construction practice), have been appointed as partners at EPAM Law.
10 December 2024
EPAM Law Successfully Defends Stockmann’s Interests in Dispute with Bankruptcy Administrator of IPK Atlas
The Litigation and Arbitration Practice team at EPAM Law has successfully defended the interests of Stockmann JSC in a dispute with the bankruptcy administrator of IPK Atlas LLC (formerly Podium Market LLC) regarding the invalidation of transactions involving Stockmann’s acquisition of certain assets from Podium Market.
24 November 2023
EPAM Law Succeeded in Suspending Bankruptcy Manager in Major Case
EPAM’s Litigation Practice in St. Petersburg successfully represented Global Metcorp, a UK steel brokerage firm, in bankruptcy case against Torex LLC, a former leading steel supplier.
15 August 2023
EPAM Again Defended the Interests of Unilin, Part of Mohawk Industries Inc. - the World’s Largest Flooring Company
EPAM attorneys successfully defended the interests of Unilin in cassation court. Unilin, part of Mohawk Industries Inc., the world’s largest flooring company had a case against Tarkett Rus, which had violated competition laws by creating obstacles to other flooring manufacturers entering the market.
14 March 2023
EPAM Lawyers Successfully Defended AB InBev Efes in a 730 Million Roubles Dispute, Significant for the Entire FMCG Market
On 14 March 2023, the Commercial cassation court of the Moscow Region upheld the previous decisions to dismiss the claims of food distributor Palmira Volga, in a case concerning recovery of more than RUB 730 million in "under-received discounts" and "incentive payments" provided by the distributor to retail outlets from one of Russia's leading brewing companies, AB InBev Efes JSC.
30 January 2023
EPAM Attorneys Defended the Interests of Global Metcorp in the Bankruptcy Case of a Steel Supplier
EPAM attorneys defended the interests of the British company Global Metcorp, part of the international group of steel brokers, in the bankruptcy case of the steel supplier LLC Torex.
23 January 2023
EPAM Defended the Interests of Unilin, Part of Mohawk Industries Inc. - The World’s Largest Flooring Company
EPAM Attorneys successfully defended the interests of Unilin, part of Mohawk Industries Inc., the world’s largest flooring company in a case against Tarkett Rus, which had violated competition law regulations by creating obstacles to other flooring manufacturers entering the market.
1 January 2023
Ilya Novoselov Appointed as Counsel at EPAM
Effective January 1, 2023, Ilya Novoselov, lawyer at Litigation & Arbitration Practice, has been appointed as Counsel to the Moscow office of EPAM.
19 October 2022
EPAM Lawyers successfully defended AB InBev Efes in a 730 million roubles dispute, significant for the entire FMCG market
On 17 October 2022, the Ninth Commercial Court of Appeal in Moscow upheld the decision to dismiss the claims of food distributor Palmira Volga, in a case concerning recovery of more than RUB 730 million in "under-received discounts" and "incentive payments" provided by the distributor to retail outlets from one of Russia's leading brewing companies, AB InBev Efes JSC.
1 July 2022
EPAM Announces New Appointments at Its Moscow Office
On July 1, 2022, Roman Malovitskiy (Banking & Finance, Capital Markets Practice) was promoted to Partner, while Tatyana Boyko (M&A and Corporate Practice) and Stanislav Dobshevich (Litigation Practice) were both promoted to Counsel.
8 June 2022
EPAM Attorneys Represented the Interests of Northern Capital Gateway Consortium
EPAM litigation attorneys represented the interests of Northern Capital Gateway Consortium, the Pulkovo airport operator in St. Petersburg, in the dispute with the major fuel company Nevsky Mazut.
18 April 2022
EPAM Attorneys Continue to Successfully Defend the Interests of Novartis in a Case Involving Unfair Competition on the Part of the Distributor of the Generic Nilotinib Drug
On April 18, 2022, the Ninth Arbitrazh Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the Moscow Arbitrazh Court, which ruled in favour of the international pharmaceutical corporation Novartis, which was represented by the legal team of EPAM. The court rejected Mammoth Pharm's demands to cancel both the decision and order of the Federal Antimonopoly Service in a high-profile case of unfair practices of a generic drug distributor who was producing generics in violation of a patent.
25 February 2022
EPAM Defends the Only Russian Provider of Inmarsat Satellite Services in Multi-Million Dollar Disputes With a Mala Fide Counterparty
EPAM litigation team defended FGUP Morsvyazsputnik, the only Russian provider of Inmarsat satellite services, in disputes with a mala fide counterparty.
14 February 2022
EPAM Defends Novartis in a Precedent-Setting Case Over Unfair Competition by a Generic Distributor
EPAM’s competition and litigation team of lawyers has successfully defended the interests of multinational pharmaceutical corporation Novartis before the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia and in court in a case involving a breach of the competition protection law by a distributor that commercialised a generic drug in an infringement of the patent rights to the original drug formula.
20 January 2022
EPAM Successfully Represents a Coalition of Russian Web-Companies Avito, Drom, CIAN, 2Gis, IVI, Zoon, Profi and Tutu Against Yandex - Russia’s Largest Search Engine, Reaching a Settlement in Court
A landmark case in the digital segment in Russia was resolved on 19th January 2022, with the Moscow Arbitration Court approving the settlement agreement between Yandex, the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (FAS) and the claimants in a dispute over unequal conditions promoting Yandex’s own search results, rather than searches provided by third-party services . Yandex unfairly prioritized its own searches through the exclusive use of enriched search capabilities.