Lidings traditionally supports 10th Moscow pre-moot for the Willem C. Vis Moot Competition annually taking place in the Russian capital on the dawn of spring. This year’s event is scheduled to take place on March 22-24 traditionally hosted by the Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Lidings supports the first ever Global Arbitration Review’s event in Russia, the GAR Live Moscow 2019 conference, taking place on March 21st at Moscow’s InterContinental hotel.

Partner of the Lidings’ Intellectual Property practice Boris Malakhov will take part in an IP Forum. Russia and CIS traditionally organized by infor-media Russia in the beginning of spring. Taking part for the 20th time the event proved to be one of the best independent platforms bringing together government authorities, business representatives and leading legal experts allowing them to share experience, discuss current legislative framework in the field of IP and important recent and expected trends in its development. The event will take place on 21-22 March 2019 at Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya Hotel.

Associate of the Lidings’ Intellectual Property practice Anastasia Skovpen will take part in LAWASIA Business Law Forum scheduled to take place on 14-17 of March, 2019, in Manila, the capital of the Philippines.

Partner of the dispute resolution practice at Lidings Alexander Popelyuk will speak at the FinLegal-2019 Conference: Litigation, Bankruptcy and Subsidiary Liability in the Financial Sector, organized by the Banking Review Magazine. The event is scheduled to take place on March 14th 2019 in Moscow and will gather lawyers of major Russian and international companies and experts of the leading national and international law firms to discuss relevant issues of dispute resolution and court practice in the sector of banking and finance.

Lidings once again takes top positions as the leading legal advisor in the areas of Dispute Resolution, Corporate and M&A, and Life Sciences in Russia as a result of the best law firms’ research annually conducted by Chambers and Partners Europe.

On January 21, 2019, the National Data Protection Commission (CNIL) of France fined Google LLC for 50 million euros for violating the requirements of the GDPR. This is the largest penalty imposed on the GDPR since its entry into force on May 25, 2018 so far.

The World Trademark Review, professional publication annually identifying the most prominent lawyers around the world focused on trademark legal issues, once again lists Lidings’ Managing Partner Andrey Zelenin among the best lawyers in Russia.

Partner of Lidings’ dispute resolution practice Stepan Guzey will act as an expert at the annual conference International Disputes & Asset Recovery Involving Russian & CIS Parties scheduled to take place in London on 29 and 30 of January, 2019.