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22/02/2023
SEAM­LESS Leg­al ex­perts re­cog­nised by the Pravo-300 rank­ing 2023
SEAM­LESS Leg­al ex­perts have earned re­cog­ni­tion by the Pravo-300 in­di­vidu­al rank­ing re­leased on 21 Feb­ru­ary 2023. The most reput­able Rus­si­an na­tion­al rank­ing has awar­ded 12 SEAM­LESS Leg­al law­yers across...
Press releases
17/02/2023
Anti-crisis reg­u­la­tion in com­mer­cial real es­tate: tak­ing the 2022 ex­per­i­ence...
17 Feb­ru­ary 2023
Publication
15/02/2023
Tender for re­new­ables pro­jects in Rus­sia: dead­lines and con­di­tions an­nounced
The Com­mer­cial Op­er­at­or of the Rus­si­an whole­sale elec­tri­city mar­ket has an­nounced a tender for the se­lec­tion of pro­jects for the con­struc­tion of gen­er­at­ing fa­cil­it­ies op­er­at­ing on the basis of re­new­ables.Tenders...
Publication
03/02/2023
Rus­sia in­tro­duces rules al­low­ing per­sons from "un­friendly" states to be...
On 17 Janu­ary 2023, Pres­id­en­tial De­cree No. 16* (the "De­cree") came in­to force, al­low­ing, un­der cer­tain con­di­tions, the votes of per­sons from so-called "un­friendly" states to be dis­reg­arded in the course...
Publication
20/01/2023
2022: Le­gis­lat­ive de­vel­op­ments im­pact­ing the phar­ma­ceut­ic­al and med­ic­al...
Since Feb­ru­ary 2022 busi­ness in Rus­sia has been af­fected by dra­mat­ic polit­ic­al and eco­nom­ic events. Mil­it­ary ac­tion and sanc­tions have giv­en rise to lo­gist­ic­al, man­u­fac­tur­ing and repu­ta­tion­al chal­lenges...
Publication
23/12/2022
SEAM­LESS Leg­al ad­vises Mayr-Mel­nhof Group on di­vest­ing its Rus­si­an busi­ness
The Mayr-Mel­nhof Group (MM), one of the world’s lead­ing man­u­fac­tur­ers of card­board and fold­ing boxes, has sold its com­pan­ies in Rus­sia with two pro­duc­tion sites in St. Peters­burg and Pskov to Gran­elle...
Deals
06/12/2022
SEAM­LESS Leg­al re­cog­nised by Pravo-300 2022
We are more than happy to share our first re­cog­ni­tion as SEAM­LESS Leg­al by the na­tion­al rank­ing Pravo.ru-300. This year SEAM­LESS Leg­al has earned 17 re­cog­ni­tions, in­clud­ing Band 1 award for the In­sur­ance...
News
02/12/2022
SEAM­LESS Leg­al ad­vises Nis­san on Rus­sia exit
SEAM­LESS Leg­al team has ad­vised ma­jor Ja­pan­ese car man­u­fac­turer Nis­san on its exit from Rus­sia.SEAM­LESS Leg­al team was led by firm’s man­aging part­ner Jean-François Mar­quaire, sup­por­ted by loc­al part­ners...
Deals
25/10/2022
New re­stric­tions on trans­ac­tions with shares and par­ti­cip­at­ory in­terests...
On 15 Oc­to­ber 2022, Pres­id­en­tial De­cree No. 737* (the “De­cree”) was pub­lished which, among oth­er things, es­tab­lished an ad­di­tion­al list of trans­ac­tions or op­er­a­tions re­quir­ing per­mis­sion from the...
Publication
19/09/2022
New re­stric­tions on trans­ac­tions in­volving par­ti­cip­at­ory in­terests in Rus­si­an...
19 Septem­ber 2022
Publication
05/08/2022
CRE-100: Artashes Ogan­ov among the best com­mer­cial real es­tate law­yers
5 Au­gust 2022
Press releases
15/06/2022
The former Mo­scow of­fice of CMS to con­tin­ue work­ing as an in­de­pend­ent law...
On 15 June 2022, the former Mo­scow of­fice of the in­ter­na­tion­al law firm CMS an­nounces the start of work as an in­de­pend­ent law firm un­der the new brand name SEAM­LESS Leg­al.Over 80 col­leagues of the Mo­scow of­fice con­tin­ue work­ing as one team, led by Man­aging Part­ner Jean-Fran­cois Mar­quaire and Seni­or Part­ner Le­onid Zubar­ev.We keep ad­vising our cli­ents across all 23 prac­tices and sec­tors: We lean on 30 years of ex­pert­ise and an im­pec­cable repu­ta­tion as part of an in­ter­na­tion­al law firm. We have al­ways abided by strict pro­fes­sion­al stand­ards and will con­tin­ue provid­ing ser­vices of the highest qual­ity. Jean-Fran­cois Mar­quaire, Man­aging Part­ner: “We are proud of hav­ing been able to cre­ate and pre­serve a united team with a friendly cor­por­ate cul­ture and re­spons­ible at­ti­tude to our busi­ness.”Le­onid Zubar­ev, Seni­or Part­ner: “Our new brand SEAM­LESS Leg­al most ac­cur­ately re­flects the ap­proach to work that has de­veloped over the years in our firm – in­teg­rity and co­her­ence, im­pec­cab­il­ity, con­tinu­ity and un­in­ter­rup­ted sup­port to our cli­ents at any time."
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