Law in Russia. Berlin - 2013

The annual conference “Law in Russia”, organized by Wegweiser Media & Conferences GmbH jointly with the Embassy of the Russian Federation, was held in Berlin. Successful discussions and round tables took place during the event. Russian and German experts told about the topical conditions for entering into the Russian market and about the development of entrepreneurial activity in Russia. Partner Evgeny Zhilin and Associate Erika Kindsvater represented the Law Firm "YUST" at the event.

Specialists gave their attention to how the medium and small business is conducted in Russia and what forms of state support it receives. Also, the members of the Conference learned about the perspectives of application of the resolution №62 dated 30.07.2013 by the Plenum of the HCA of Russia “On certain matters of compensation of damages by persons who are members of the corporate bodies of a legal entity» from the experts. In particular, the lawyers explained:

- When the dishonesty of the company manager’s actions (inaction) is considered proven;
- What exactly is honesty and reasonableness in performing one’s functions;
- What the upholding of the company’s demand to exact the damages from the manager depends on etc.

See the following publications in addition:

• Business interests. How business can defend its interests during dispute consideration in the WTO.
• A shareholder loses corporate control. The ways to restore it
• On the matter of extrajudicial charging of non-documentary securities
• Shareholder agreement: the draft of the CCRF (Article 67.2) as compared to the German law and court practice
• Breach of the shareholder agreement and ruling the corporate bodies’ decisions invalid
• Voting agreement: the matters of future implementation
• On the matter of reasonable grade of liberty and honesty of the business. Experts discuss the amendments to the CCRF
• The CCRF reform imbues the honesty principle with a new life