The M&A and Corporate Law Practice provided comprehensive legal support to a consortium of sellers in a transaction involving the sale of a controlling stake in LLC "Gorodskoy Supermarket" to JSC "Tander", the operating entity of PJSC "Magnit"
Tatyana Mikhralieva, Junior Associate in the International Trade and Customs Law Practice at EPAM Law, was elected Deputy Chair of the Committee on Customs, Transport and Logistics of the Russian-German Chamber of Commerce (VTP)
The “PROFI Dictate” competition was held for the first time in 2025 and was aimed at law students from Russian universities who demonstrated outstanding performance in the VIII All-Russian Legal Dictation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Effective January 1, 2023, Ilya Novoselov, lawyer at Litigation & Arbitration Practice, has been appointed as Counsel to the Moscow office of EPAM.
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.
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.
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.
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.
EPAM litigation team defended FGUP Morsvyazsputnik, the only Russian provider of Inmarsat satellite services, in disputes with a mala fide counterparty.
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.