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The Law firm "YUST" expands the range of legal services offered to its clients and launches a new practice group – legal support of art business.

Advocates and lawyers of the Law firm "YUST" participated in the seminar for Russian advocates and in the annual conference “Innovations and Trust” in Zurich (Switzerland).

Mikhail Prokopets, a Senior Lawyer at the Law firm "YUST", took part in the seminar “Jurisprudence by the Sports Arbitration Court (Lausanne) and innovations of international sports law”.

An article by Irina Charkova, a lawyer at the Law firm “YUST”, concerning the procedure of calculating average earnings is published in the September issue of the “Labour disputes” magazine.

The lawyers at the Law firm "YUST" successfully defended the interests of the OJSC “Sterlitamak Machine Tool Plant” in arbitration courts in a dispute over the validity of a transaction.

An article by Anna Kotova-Smolenskaya, associate partner at the Law firm "YUST", and Natalia Gornostay, lawyer at the Firm, was published in the August issue of the “Labour Disputes” magazine.

The Federal Arbitration Court of the Moscow District by its ruling of 14.07.2010 upheld the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court of 12.01.2010 and the ruling of the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal of 29.03.2010. By these the Arbitration Courts obliged the Russian Federal Interregional Inspectorate for Large Taxpayers No. 7 to credit the excessively charged sum of 223 million roubles of VAT towards future VAT payments

The Federal Arbitration Court of the Moscow District by its ruling of 13.07.2010 upheld the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court of 23.12.2009 and the ruling of the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal of 17.03.2010. These ruled invalid the tax authority demand to pay tax, penalty fee and fine, the decision to charge tax, penalty fee and fine from the monetary funds of the taxpayer, and the collection letters, and also charged the tax authority for interest that the sums of the tax, penalty fee and fine, which the tax authority had excessively (illegally) charged, accrued.

In the year 2010 the Law firm "YUST" received the highest appraisal from the Global Competition Rеview magazine in the area of antimonopoly legislation – the English edition estimated the level of legal practice of the Firm as “Elite”.

“Limits on legionaries: an analysis of the practice”, an article by Mikhail Prokopets, a Senior Lawyer at the Law firm "YUST", is published in the June issue of the “Labour Disputes” magazine that covers the matters of practice of settling labour disputes.