Lidings’ Dispute Resolution practice Partner Alexander Popelyuk will speak at the seminar entitled An Update on Recent English and Russian Law Developments organized by the British-Russian Law Association (BRLA). The event will take place on May 14th 2019 at the Four Seasons hotel in Saint-Petersburg and will coincide with the International Legal Forum.

Lidings’ Managing Partner, Head of the pharmaceuticals and healthcare industry practice of the firm Andrey Zelenin will speak at the 25th Russian Pharmaceutical Forum annually organized in Saint Petersburg by the Adam Smith Institute with Lidings’ support. The jubilee event will take place on 14-15 of May 2019, traditionally hosted by one of the city’s central locations — Corinthia Hotel.

The Russian pharmaceutical industry has recently become the field for serious patent-related battles between large foreign producers of original drugs and Russian manufacturers of generics.

Subject to the Federal law (the “Law”) effective from April 1, 2019, the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation will no longer issue state pension insurance certificates (SNILS) due to abolition of all SNILS paper certificates and plastic cards.

Lidings’ dispute resolution practice partner Stepan Guzey will take part in the 6th Russian Arbitration Association (RAA) Conference. The event will take place in Moscow on April 25th 2019 at the Marriott Grand Hotel.

Partner of the Lidings’ Intellectual Property practice Boris Malakhov will take part in the All Russian Conference on Intellectual Property in Pharma Market: Protection of Rights and Court Practice in 2019. Organized by the Agency for Socio-Economic Development the event will take place in Moscow on April 23rd 2019 at the Ararat Park Hyatt Hotel.

Lidings’ Partner in Dispute Resolution practice Stepan Guzey takes part in a meeting with lawyers of Chelyabinsk Region’s Companies organized by the Chelyabinsk Bar Association on April 18th 2019.

On March 15th 2019 Lidings has conducted its traditional Spring Legal Brunch for its clients and partners. The meeting devoted to the Topical Issues of Employment Law took place at Lotte hotel in Moscow and gathered over 30 attendees — representatives of large Russian and international companies.

Starting from March 11, 2019 checklists (lists of audit questions) forms have come into effect to be applied during inspection of compliance with requirements of Russian migration laws by legal entities and individual entrepreneurs, who.