The State Duma of the Russian Federation approved a bill (Bill) providing amendments to the legislation on the protection of competition in the first reading.

On 2 December 2021 the results of the annual Pravo-300 law firms’ ranking were announced at an awarding ceremony at the Lotte Hotel in Moscow. Lidings’ top position among the leading legal advisors in Russia once again reflected by the ranking results.

Lidings’ dispute resolution practice partner Stepan Guzey will take part in the 13th International Conference Russia as a Place for Dispute Resolution: New Era of International Arbitration. The event organized by ICC Russia will take place on 2 December 2021 in Moscow.  

Electronic document management in the area of labour relations is not new and has been actively used by companies for years already.

The Supreme Court provided clarifications on why during the moratorium on bankruptcy, the penalty cannot be paid even in disputes with consumers, in which cases the software update entails the seller's obligation to compensate the cost of the goods and why even a resident of the apartment is considered a consumer.

Ministry of Industry and Trade prepared a draft on amending the Regulations of the Russian Government No. 1289 of 30 November 2015. Under the draft the drugs from the List of Strategically Important Drugs produced in a foreign country shall be rejected to supply by the customer if there is at least one offer to supply a drug produced (all manufacturing stages) exclusively in the territory of the Eurasian Union member states.

7th Annual Legal Risk Management conference will take place in Moscow 18-19 November 2021. The event is organized by Dialog Management. Lidings lawyers will take an active part in the event’s program.  

Partner and Head of the Lidings’ Intellectual Property practice Boris Malakhov will take part in an annual conference entitled Intellectual Property - 2021 organized by Pravo.ru. 

On 28 October 2021, the Russian Constitutional Court passed a decision in which it examined Art. 110 para. 1 of the Russian Commercial (Arbitrazh) Procedure Code for compliance with the Constitution and clarified when right holders shall not reimburse legal costs to a defendant if the court reduced the compensation.