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MEDIA AND TELECOMS

Lidings provides clients with comprehensive legal support on a wide range of issues related to legislative regulation of the telecommunications sector. Our practice team combines excellent knowledge of global trends in the legal regulation of this socially significant sector with domestic expertise and thorough understanding of the Russian market. Our clients include leading international media holdings, publishing houses and radio stations as well as advertising agencies and telecommunications companies actively developing their presence in Russia.

RECENT DEALS

• Advising American multinational media-company conglomerate Viacomon granting the right to use a group of trademarks of US TV channels and programs to Russian companies
• Legal support of the Russian part of the deal on alienation of 25% of shares of a holding company, member of the Kokoc Group, group of Internet-marketing companies, within corporate reorganization
• Advising a large French company specializing in outdoor advertising and design of promotional constructions Defi Group S.A.S. on the procedure of dismissal of its Russian subsidiary General director and appointment of the new General director
• Representing interests of the RosBusinessConsulting (RBC) media holding in court, protection of the company’s reputation and recovery of compensation
• Advising a large Chinese telecommunication holding on restructuring of its share in the Russian subsidiary company established to introduce complex high-speed mobile Internet communication network in Russia
• Advising Nokia Solutions and Networks the client and its affiliated companies on certain aspects of commercial activity from the standpoint of Russian law
• Advising international digital advertising company Total Media on the issues of taxation and currency control in Russia
• Advising English media company Telegraph Media Group in relation to staff changes in its Moscow reporter station
• Advising largest French radio station Radio France in the process of settling a number of labor disputes with its employees
• Advising Swedish telecommunications company TeliaSonera in relation to lease agreement with a major foreign developer
• Advising Chinese provider of telecommunications equipment ZTE Corporation in the process of establishing the company's research and development center in the Russian Federation

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