WHAT THE FIRM SAYS

The partners of Yukov, Khrenov and Partners began their advocacy work in 1992, and have represented major Russian companies in the state arbitration courts of Western Siberia, Eastern Siberia, Ural and The Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation. Work has included acting in corporate and private disputes and bankruptcy cases. Many of the cases handled in this time have turned out to be precedent setting cases.

The Law Office Yukov, Khrenov and Partners was established in 2003 and has extensive experience in the main areas of business advocacy and international affairs. The firm provides its clients with legal assistance at an international level.

Clients include leaders of the Russian business world, including investment, banking, oil production, gas-supply, industrial production, electrical energy industry and real estate.

Dispute resolution: disputable matters of commercial contracts; legal protection of ownership rights (restitution of property, legal recognition of ownership rights, challenging the arrests of property and their sale, challenging refusals to register ownership rights, and legal protection of rights in collateral obligations); injunction procedures and freezing orders; tax disputes (claims to find tax bodies' acts and decisions illegal, and dispute resolution in administrative procedures).

Corporate/M&A is considered to be among the firm's core practices, with experienced specialists offering effective solutions in highly controversial and complex situations. The corporate disputes practice includes disputes with registrars, resistance to hostile takeovers and disputes on asset and shares ownership.

Energy resources/electricity regulation: special regulations in the sector, pre-trial disputes on supply of fuel for power stations, trial disputes concerning compulsion to enter energy supply contracts, matters of electricity transmission and distribution, the power tariffs' establishment, recovery of damages for destruction of generators, challenging of privatization of power stations, etc.

Real estate and construction: legal support for the complex development of territories, and structuring of sale-purchase and investment deals; disputes on the legal status of land parcels and buildings; construction disputes.

Business general legal support: drafting all kinds of contracts; participation in negotiations on signing of contracts and other issues; legal support in privatization procedures; composing tax strategy; tax advising; investments' legal support; due diligence.

Intellectual property: consulting on legal protection of IP rights; fighting counterfeit products; IP dispute resolution.

Antitrust: representing clients' interests in state bodies in antitrust investigations; court disputes on the legality of actions and acts of the state anti-monopoly service.

Corporate/banking bankruptcies: legal protection of property rights in insolvency procedures, return of assets being the property of the state; legal protection of rights and interests in bankruptcy procedures, including major banking bankruptcies, comprehensive legal support of bankruptcy procedures, eg legal services for external managers and creditors, recovering debts from third parties, voidance of debtors' transactions, claims for subsidiary responsibility of managers and shareholders for their actions leading to bankruptcy.