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Associate partners at the Law firm "YUST" Anna Kotova-Smolenskaya and Alexander Bolomatov took part in the 5th CIS Local Counsel Forum in Minsk on June 23rd – 25th, 2010

The court of Savelovsky district of Moscow sustained the lawsuit of the OJSC “Scientific and production venture “Respirator” to M.V.Yu. to define the patent holder and rule the patents for two inventions partially invalid.

The fourth annual IP Conference titled “Intellectual property: recent developments in court practice, problems and solutions” and organized by the Association of European Businesses was held on the 10th of June in Moscow.

Evgeny Zhilin, associate partner at the Law firm "YUST", took part in the Russo-German round table titled “Relationship of confidence between advocate and client as the base of civil rights and liberties.”

Mikhail Prokopets, a Senior Lawyer at the Law Firm “YUST”, and Dmitry Zhubrin, an Associate at the Law Firm “YUST”, participated in the Fourth International Research-to-Practice Conference on Sports Law held on May 31, 2010, at the Moscow State Law Academy named after O.E. Kutafin.

The Law Firm “YUST” organized a general corporate event for its employees at Zavidovo Holiday & Leisure Center (Tver Region) from May 23 till May 25.

The “Labour Disputes” magazine (№ 5, May 2010), that focuses on matters of settling labour conflicts, published an interview with Anna Kotova-Smolenskaya, associate partner at the Law firm “YUST” and member of the magazine’s Council of experts, as well as an article by Irina Charkova, lawyer at the Firm.

Law Firm YUST has successfully represented owners of Mechel preferred shares in an SPO

On April 22, 2010, a regular panel discussion was arranged under the auspices of the Swiss Russian Forum. The panel discussion was held in the Federal Chamber of Lawyers of the Russian Federation. The discussion focused on topical issues of international commercial arbitration, bank secrecy, and taxation.

The award by the Moscow City Court of Arbitration of 26 October, 2009, and the ruling by the 9th Arbitration Court of Appeal of 18 January, 2010 on case No. А40-75872/09-90-462, where claims by ООО “SEVTEKHNOTRANS” were satisfied to hold invalid the resolution by the tax authority to bring to liability for the commitment of tax violation, the resolution on refusal to reimburse VAT and the order to pay a tax, levy, penalty, fine, remained unchanged by the resolution made by the Federal Moscow District Court of Arbitration of 09 March, 2010, No. КА-А40/1698-10.