On 5 February 2014, Russian lawmakers proposed amendments concerning the registration of limited liability companies (“LLC”). The amendments will eliminate the requirement to pay at least half of the registered capital upon registration and shorten the deadline for full payment of registered capital from one year to two months from registration. The changes strive to reduce the start-up time for new ...
Natalya Menshikova, Julia Zaletova and Irina Anishchenko have contributed the Russia chapter to the 2013 edition of Getting The Deal Through – Arbitration. The article gives an overview of the laws and institutions, agreements and proceedings before and after the issuance of awards in Russia. It is reproduced with the permission from Law Business Research Ltd. who first published the ...
SPECHT BÖHM Associate, Florian Heindler, has published an article in the leading Russian journal Competition and Law entitled, “Private Enforcement and Choice of Law in the European Union”. The article focuses on the specific conflict of laws rules concerning tort claims arising from violations of competition law as set out in EU Regulation No. 864/2007 (“Rome II”). The article was triggered ...
On the 13 December 2011 the meeting of the Austrian Economic Forum took place in the famous Moscow restaurant Petrowitsh. The firm hosted this event where numerous representatives of Austrian corporations got together. The Austrian Economic Forum was founded in September 2008 by Austrians who were active in Russia for years. The Austrian Economic Forum serves Austrian corporations as a platform ...
By invitation of the Austrian ambassador, Dr. Margot Klestil-Löffler, members of the firm, Dr. Leopold Specht and Florian Heindler, presented key changes to corporate law provisions that will be introduced in an upcoming revision of the Russian Civil Code. The presentation on 26 January 2011 was based on insights gained through the firm's active participation in the Working Group on ...