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Managing Partner
Alexander Nadmitov

About

Alexander Nadmitov has 20 years of experience in legal support of corporate and financial transactions in excess of US $ 1 billion, where he represented various parties, including buyers and sellers, shareholders and management, borrowers and financial institutions. Mr. Nadmitov has also represented parties in complex commercial and corporate disputes over US $ 300 million in arbitrazh courts, foreign courts and international arbitration tribunals.

Alexander specializes in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, shareholder agreements and joint ventures, finance transactions, private equity and venture capital, support for fintech and blockchain projects, personal data, antitrust law, dispute resolution in courts and international arbitration. Among his clients are large and medium-sized Russian and foreign companies and banks, as well as investment funds, venture capital companies and private clients.

Prior to establishing the Firm, Mr. Nadmitov was a partner with a Russian law firm. Before that Alexander worked as an associate in corporate, finance and dispute resolution and dispute resolution departments of leading international law firms,. He began his legal career in a litigation department of a Russian law firm.

Alexander Nadmitov is the President of Harvard Club of Russia. Prior to being elected to his current position on June 30, 2021, Alexander has served as the vice-president and executive Secretary  of Harvard Club of Russia since 2009. Mr. Nadmitov served  as the HCR President in 2016 - 2018.

Alexander received a LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School, where he completed the International Finance concentration and won the Addison Brown Prize in Private International Law in 2004. Mr. Nadmitov holds a Magister Juris degree from Oxford University. He spent a year as a post-graduate Chevening Scholar at Essex University. Mr. Nadmitov also obtained Master in Law and Bachelor in Law degrees from the Peoples Friendship University of Russia.

Alexander is an expert at the BRICS Antimonopoly Center established under the aegis of the HSE-Skolkovo Institute for Law and Development. He has also given a number of lectures as a part of the Financial Transactions course and English contract law course at the Faculty of Law of the Higher School of Economics.Currently, Alexander teaches the course "Legal Foundations of the introduction of Artificial Intelligence technologies in Modern Public Administration" at the Faculty of Law of the Higher School of Economics. He also taught the WTO Dispute Resolution course at the Russian Academy for Foreign Trade (RFTA), regularly serves as a member of the jury of the Model WTO international competition, which has been held under the aegis of the RFTA since 2012 every two years. Also takes part in legislative activities.

In January 2020, Chambers & Partners ranked Alexander Nadmitov among the recommended lawyers in FinTech Legal in Russia.

Alexander Nadmitov is also the arbitrator of the Caspian Arbitration Society and the arbitrator of the Russian Arbitration Center at the Russian Institute of Modern Arbitration.

Education

  • Master of Laws (LL.M.), Harvard Law School (USA) (Concentration in International Finance Law), Addison Brown Prize in Private International Law
  • Master of Laws (M. Juris), University of Oxford (England), Associate Editor, Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal
  • Postgraduate student, University of Essex (England), EU and England Corporate Law, Chevening Scholarship
  • Bachelor and Master of Jurisprudence (with Honours), Faculty of Law, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

Publications

  • Author of the article "Liberalization for Entrepreneurs", Vedomosti, no. 89 (4816), 2019,
  • Co-author of the article “Derivatives Regulation in Russia”. Futures and Derivatives Law Report, Thomson Reuters, vol. 39, issue 4, 2019;
  • Author of the article  «Special zones for oligarchs. How domestic offshore companies win the race for capital», Forbes magazine online, 28 February 2019,
  • Co-author of the chapter “Antitrust Regulation in the PRC” in the book “Legal Basis of Business in China”, Publishing House of the Republic of South Ossetia, 2018;
  • Co-author of the article "Performance of Derivative Transactions Through the Central Counterparty". Russian Law Journal 6.1 (2018);
  • Co-author of the article “How to Convince a Bankruptcy Trustee to Abandon a Lawsuit that is Unfavorable for a Bankrupt Bank”. Legal Insight Magazine, no. 5 (61), 2017;
  • Co-author of the article “The Legality of Demolition of Unauthorized Buildings in Administrative Procedure”. Legal Insight Magazine, no. 2 (48), 2016;
  • Co-author of the article “New in the Practice of Using Discretionary Trusts”. Legal Insight Magazine, no. 2 (38), 2015;
  • Co-author of the article “WTO: How Membership has Changed Rules in Russia”. International Financial Law Review, no. 4, London, 2013;
  • Author of the book “Russian Sovereign Debt Restructuring”, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrucken, 2013;
  • Co-author of the chapter about Russia, ‘Real Estate Finance: Law, Regulation & Practice’, LexisNexis, London, 2008.

Our main task is to ensure the quality of services and the effectiveness of legal assistance to clients in complex Russian and cross-border projects.
Partner
Sergey Lapin

General information

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.

Education

  • Master of Laws (LL.M.), Duke University (USA)
  • Master of Laws (M. Juris), University of Oxford (England)
  • Specialist (jurisprudence), Nizhny Novgorod State University
Services in cross-border projects according to international standards
Partner
Andrey Minyaev

General information

Andrey Minyaev has become a new partner of the firm. He is the head of the firm's Environmental and Land Law practice, including ensuring and protecting the firm's clients' interests in the field of environmental protection and natural resource use, agro-industrial, fishery and forestry complexes, as well as real estate and urban planning. Andrey is also interested in Sports Law.

He has over 20 years of experience in managerial positions in practical and normative (draft law) activities. He has led legal departments of the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia, the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia, the Ministry of Sports of Russia, as well as the Russian Environmental Operator. He was an adviser and deputy head of Rosreestr.

He has a PhD in Law, a second-class state councilor rank (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of January 19, 2015 No. 16).

For over 15 years, he has been engaged in scientific and teaching activities at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, the Moscow State Law Academy, the Higher School of Economics, where he gave lectures and classes on Environmental and Land Law.

He is the author of a number of scientific papers on Environmental and Land Law, including the monograph "Environmental Law: Constitutional Foundations", textbooks and workshops, editor of the collection of regulatory legal acts "Environmental Law of Russia", as well as collections of scientific papers. He is a member of the working group of the Committee on Natural Resources and Environmental Management of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation for the preparation of the Forest Code of the Russian Federation; a member of the Expert Council under the Committee on Land Relations and Construction of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

He was also a member of the Supervisory Board of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA).

Education

  • PhD in Law (2003), Department of Environmental and Land Law, Faculty of Law, the Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia)
  • Specialist (jurisprudence), the Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia)
  • Master of Public Administration under the program of training of the highest level of the reserve of managerial personnel (federal program "Training and retraining of the reserve of managerial personnel 2010-2015"), the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Russia)
Head of the firm's environmental and legal and land law practice, including ensuring and protecting the interests of the firm's clients in the field of environmental protection and the use of natural resources, agro-industrial, fisheries and forestry complexes, real estate and urban planning.
Legal Counsel for Litigation Practice
Sergey Grigoriev

About

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.

Education

  • Specialist (Jurisprudence), RSUH (2002)
Our task is to ensure procedural parity in the most complex commercial and bankruptcy litigation.
Counselor of Criminal Law Practice
Bulat Tugutov

General Information

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.

Education  

  • 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.

We provide effective protection of the company's clients in administrative and criminal law cases in the economic sphere, as well as in the field of enforcement proceedings.
Senior Lawyer, Dispute Resolution Practice
Mikhail Stepkin

About

Michael specializes in litigation of commercial disputes, energy disputes, administrative disputes. He has ten years of experience in the judicial field.

Education

  • Specialist (Jurisprudence), Moscow State Law Academy (2009)
  • Specialist (economist-mathematician), RSAU - Moscow Agricultural Academy
Reliability and professionalism are the cornerstone of our litigation practice!
Legal Counsel for Intellectual Property Practice
Eduard Faizullin

About

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:

  • advising clients on issues of industrial property, copyright and means of individualization, as well as on other issues of intellectual property rights application practice;
  • development of internal documents of clients in the field of intellectual property, including those governing the relationship “the author – the employer”;
  • preparation and submission of applications to the Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent) in order to grant a patent for an invention, utility model, industrial design, as well as applications for state registration of a computer program and database;
  • preparation of draft agreements on the disposal of the right to obtain a patent and exclusive right (on the alienation of the right to obtain a patent, on the alienation of the exclusive right, license, on the pledge of the exclusive right, on changing the composition of patent holders, etc.), on the implementation of R&D, employment agreements in part related to ownership of rights to obtain a patent and exclusive rights, agreements on joint activities.

Education

  • American Bar Association, USA, mediation course, May 2011;
  • Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Law on Unfair Competition and Taxation, Germany, Research, 2005;
  • University of San Diego, USA, Master’s program, 2003, specialization: American contract law, intellectual property law, antitrust law;
  • University of Manchester, Great Britain, postgraduate student, 2003, specialization: Corporate Law;
  • Bashkir State University (BSU), Lawyer, Diploma with Honours, 2000.
20 years of experience in complex projects in the field of intellectual property law is the key to the success of our practice in the field of high technology!
Counselor of Criminal Law Practice
Bulat Tugutov

General Information

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.

Education  

  • 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.

We provide effective protection of the company's clients in administrative and criminal law cases in the economic sphere, as well as in the field of enforcement proceedings.
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