Bankruptcy Law has gone through many changes over the past summer, but perhaps the hottest of them all was published on 29.5.2024 and applies to petitions filed after the date, regardless of the date of the procedure used in the bankruptcy case. We propose to familiarize ourselves with the most significant of them.

On September 8, new state fees came into force for applications by legal entities and individuals to arbitration courts and courts of general jurisdiction. The new procedure applies to any applications and complaints filed with the court from September 9, 2024.

Lidings takes high positions in the new rating of the leading legal advisors in Russia based on the analytical research held annually by the “Kommersant” newspaper. In 2024 the firm is ranked among the TOP leading legal advisors in Russia. 

Lidings Dispute Resolution practice team achieved recognition and enforcement of an arbitration award of the Federation of Oils, Seeds and Fats Associations (FOSFA) in favor of a major German food producer in a dispute against a Russian agricultural manufacturer.

This review is prepared based on the general jurisdiction and arbitration courts’ decisions on the issue of deprivatization (in Russian).

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The article briefly highlights the results of seven years of consumer bankruptcy, analyzes the problem of classifying citizens as honest and bona fide debtors. The author analyzes the practice of refusing to discharge debts due to a significant amount of claims against the debtor or a consistent increase in debt to creditors in the absence of the required level of income, as an independent basis for refusing to discharge debts and comes to the conclusion that the balanced approach proposed by the Supreme Court helps prevent indiscriminate failures. The author examines and highlights key points of the precedent ruling of the Supreme Court on the issues of malicious evasion of repayment of debts.

Lidings in cooperation with Pravo Tech, an innovative educational project in Russia, will run a free webinar Subsidiary Liability in 2023: New Approaches in Judicial Practice scheduled to take place on Friday, 12 May 2023, at 11:00 MSK.

Lidings takes high positions in the new rating of the leading legal advisors in Russia based on the analytical research held annually by the “Kommersant” newspaper. In 2023 the firm is ranked among the TOP leading legal advisors in Russia. 

Lidings’ partner, head of the dispute resolution practice Alexander Popelyuk takes part in the Far East Legal Forum, 6-7 September 2022 at Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.