Alexander Nadmitov is an experienced corporate and finance lawyer with over 20 years of expertise in providing legal support for corporate and financial transactions. Throughout his career, he has represented a diverse range of clients, including buyers and sellers, shareholders and management, borrowers, and financial institutions. Mr. Nadmitov has also represented parties in complex commercial and corporate disputes in commercial courts, foreign courts, and international arbitration tribunals.
Alexander specializes in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, shareholder agreements, joint ventures, financial transactions, support for fintech and cryptocurrency projects, personal data protection, antitrust law, and dispute resolution in both courts and international arbitration. His clients include large and medium-sized Russian and foreign companies and banks, as well as investment funds and private clients.
Before founding his firm, Mr. Nadmitov was a partner at a Russian law firm. Prior to that, he worked as an associate in the corporate, finance, and dispute resolution departments of leading international law firms. He began his legal career in the litigation department of a Russian law firm.
In June 2024, Alexander was appointed Director of Clubs and Member of the Board of Directors of the Harvard Alumni Association. He has also been a member of the board of the Harvard Club of Russia since 2009.
Alexander is an expert at the BRICS Antimonopoly Center, established under the auspices of the Higher School of Economics. He taught a course on the legal regulation of Artificial Intelligence technologies at the Faculty of Law of the Higher School of Economics and has delivered numerous lectures as part of the Financial Transactions and English Contract Law courses. Additionally, he taught the WTO Dispute Resolution course at the Russian Academy for Foreign Trade (RFTA).
In April 2023, Alexander was recognized in the federal Kommersant rating among the best lawyers in the category of "Energy and Natural Resources." In January 2020, Chambers & Partners ranked him as one of the recommended lawyers in FinTech Legal in Russia.
Alexander is also an arbitrator at the Russian Arbitration Center at the Russian Institute of Modern Arbitration.
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Mr. Lapin specializes in mergers and acquisitions, securities markets, international arbitration and fintech. Has extensive experience in legal support of transactions of large Russian and international companies and investment banks.
Prior to joining the firm, Sergei Lapin worked as a senior associate at one of the leading international investment banks and as a lawyer at several leading international and Russian law firms. Sergey is fluent in English and French.
Mr. Lapin specializes in mergers and acquisitions, securities markets, international arbitration, and fintech. He possesses extensive experience in legal support for transactions involving large Russian and international companies and investment banks.
Before joining the firm, Sergey Lapin worked as a senior lawyer at one of the leading international investment banks, as well as a lawyer at several leading international and Russian law firms. Sergey is fluent in English and French.
Denis has extensive experience in international arbitration and the enforcement of court decisions in foreign territories, as well as in the areas of international private law, contract law, and public-private partnerships.
Prior to joining the firm, Denis Kazakov also served in leadership legal roles at major Russian holdings. As the head of legal affairs for a management company, he took part in the reform of the special economic zones system in the Russian Federation (SEZ). In collaboration with federal authorities, he provided legal support for all operational processes involved in creating a “one-stop-shop” based on a joint-stock company for managing special economic zones. This included transferring the powers of federal authorities, managing and disposing of real estate assets, obtaining technical conditions for connecting to engineering infrastructure, developing and concluding agreements with SEZ residents, and ensuring the activities of the supervisory and expert councils of special economic zones.
Sergey has the status of attorney. He has significant professional experience in representation in arbitration courts in various categories of cases: corporate disputes, debt recovery and foreclosure of the pledged property, invalidation of transactions and decisions of governing bodies, reclamation of property, recognition of property rights, challenging non-normative acts and actions of state bodies, compensation for losses and unjust enrichment, legal representation in cases on bankruptcy of legal entities, as well as in complex corporate and financial transactions.
Bulat Tugutov is the head of the company's administrative and criminal law practice in the economic sphere, the practice of ensuring the interests of participants in enforcement proceedings.
He is a professional mediator for the settlement of disputes of various categories, including between individual entrepreneurs and legal entities in the economic sphere.
Mr. Tugutov has over fifteen years of practical experience, including in senior positions in the Prosecutor's Office and the Federal Bailiff Service, including the investigation and inquiry bodies.
He holds a PhD in law, the academic title of associate professor, the class rank of Justice Adviser of the 3rd class, and is also actively engaged in teaching at the Russian State University of Justice.
He is the author of over 60 scientific papers in the field of criminal procedure, criminal law, prosecutorial supervision and enforcement proceedings.
Candidate of Legal Sciences, 2014, Department of Criminal Procedure, Justice and Prosecutorial Supervision, Faculty of Law of Moscow State University.
Diploma in the Jurisprudence specialty (with honors), Faculty of Law of Moscow State University.
Michael specializes in litigation of commercial disputes, energy disputes, administrative disputes. He has ten years of experience in the judicial field.
Eduard has the status of a patent attorney of the Russian Federation (registration number 901). He has extensive experience in the field of intellectual property law, namely: