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Ivan Savvidi, co-owner of the Rostov-on-Don airport, decided to invest into the assets himself and may block the investments by “Renova”, that was chosen by the regional authorities. Arthur Rokhlin, Partner of the Law Firm "YUST", gave the “Vedomosti” newspaper an expert’s commentary on this case (06.07.2012, No. 124 (3138)).

Currently the creditor, who has claim rights towards joint and several debtors, faces a number of difficulties when exercising his rights within the framework of bankruptcy procedure. Such difficulties originate from the fact that bankruptcy legislation does not govern such situation specifically. The judicial authorities also apply a variety of approaches. Is the creditor entitled to initiate bankruptcy proceedings against all joint and several debtors or only against one of them? How do the rights of the creditor and of the surety regarding the debtor, who has partially settled the debt, correlate within the framework of bankruptcy proceedings? Specialists of the Law Firm "YUST" – Partner, Advocate Artem Kukin and Lawyer Rodion Smirnov – answer these and other questions in the article “Bankruptcy procedures regarding joint and several debtors” (“Corporate Lawyer” magazine, No. 5, 2012).

A webinar “Employment disputes with the participation of trade unions” for the readers of the “Labour disputes” magazine was held on July 3rd. Advocate Anna Kotova-Smolenskaya, Doctor at Law, Associated Partner of the Law Firm "YUST", was the speaker of the webinar.

Alexander Petrov, Advocate at the Law Firm "YUST", gave Pravo.RU an expert’s commentary on the draft law, which introduces a number of amendments to the Penal Procedural Code, Administrative Procedural Code, Civil Procedural Code of Russia, AOCRF, the Laws “On digital signature”, “On information, information technologies and protection of information” etc.

An article by Egor Svechnikov, Lawyer at the Law Firm "YUST", was published in the “Ekonomika I Zhizn (Economy and Life)” newspaper (No. 24, 2012). The article explains whether the amount of unconditional prohibitions on agreements between economy subjects, which are fixed by the Competition Protection Law, decreased.

Today, the Board of the SCA of Russia has revoked the ruling and the decisions of the Moscow District courts, which took the side of the tax authorities. The latter presumed exception to the “five per cent rule”, which makes the tax accounting easier. In the court session, the tax authority’s position was called illegal and illogical. Igor Pastukhov, Advocate and Tax Advisor of the Law Firm "YUST", represented the taxpayer’s (Procter&Gamble) interests.

Arthur Rokhlin, Partner of the Law Firm "YUST", took part in the “To be discussed” program on the “Zakon TV” television channel. The amendments to the real rights part of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, submitted to the State Duma, were the theme of the program.

The SCA of Russia considered a case, the essence of which is a good illustration of how important it is to produce a resolution on surety-related disputes. The courts took the opinion that the surety’s obligation to conform to the currency legislation and change of the governing law is an unfavorable consequence, which terminates the surety obligation. The supervision judges did not agree with this. Vasiliy Raudin, Lawyer of the Law Firm "YUST", gave Pravo.Ru an expert’s commentary on this case.

On May 29, 2012, the Federal Court of Arbitration of the Far Eastern District left unchanged the decision by the Fifth Arbitration Court of Appeal and the ruling of the Court of Arbitration of the Southern Sakhalin Region, according to which a former shareholder of “Kompaniya “Tunaycha”” LLC had not been able to contest the sale of the charter capital share owned by him earlier. Lawyers of the Law Firm "YUST" – Advocate Alexander Yevdokimov, head of Arbitration Court Practice, and Lawyer Yulia Karpova – represented the interests of the purchasers of the charter capital share of “Tunaycha”, and the interests of the Company itself.

The VI International Scientific Conference “Sports law: perspectives of development” was held on May 30 with the support from the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation. Representatives of the Ministry, of the leading Russian universities, lawyers of the Organizing Committee “Russia 2018”, football clubs and noted sports lawyers took part in the event. Mikhail Prokopets, Head of sports law practice of the Law Firm "YUST", represented the Firm.