Doing business is like an art. Doing business in Russia is a special art which requires very specific knowledge and skills. Among other issues this implies providing business with an adequate level of legal protection.

Lidings is an independent Russian full service law firm that specializes in rendering legal services to foreign companies doing business in Russia or planning to enter the Russian market and representing foreign companies in dispute resolution with Russian counterparts. After a number of years of our practice we gained comprehensive knowledge of different areas of law, and more importantly we developed invaluable experience of uncovering and mitigating various risks connected with business activities in our country. This experience is based on our judicial practice as we initially practised mainly litigation and arbitration in Russian and international courts. Our mission is to legally protect your business / our Clients’ business in Russia.

Our focus on working with foreign business is explained by the fact that the Russian legal market lacks high-quality law firms that are capable of dealing with foreign Clients. We adhere to the western standards of rendering legal services both in the form and in the content of results of our work.

We offer our Clients several vital legal solutions for every stage of their business activities in Russia:

• Start Up
• Ongoing Legal Support
• Business Expansion
• Dispute Resolution

Every stage includes a combination of services necessary to achieve the highest business goals in Russia. We think this gradation is more transparent and understandable for our Clients. Besides, it helps us to create the multi-practice teams of experts corresponding to our Clients’ needs.

Our services have already been helpful for such companies operating in Russia as: ExxonMobil Corp. (USA), 3Ì Worldwide (USA), CEVA Logistics (USA), Imperial Tobacco Group PLC (UK), Multivac (Great Britain), ArkeX Ltd.(Great Britain), Oxfam (Great Britain), Royal Dutch Shell (UK, Netherlands), ING Group (Netherlands), Zeppelin GmbH (Germany), GEA Group (Germany), Calyon Rusbank (France), Sperian Protection (France), Calkan Group (Turkey), Zorlu Group (Turkey), Seiko RUS LLC (Japan), Pioneer (Japan), Yokogawa (Japan), Dina Denta Med (India), Jafferjee Brothers (India), Hydro (Norway), Foxconn Technology Group (Taiwan), CJ Corp. (South Korea), Autoliv East Europe AB (Sweden), Scomi Oiltools (Malaysia), Filuet Cyprus Ltd. (Cyprus), Provea (Switzerland) and others.

We do believe that it is impossible to protect one company’s business separately. That is why Lidings organizes and takes an active part in seminars and conferences, publishes books and articles on legal items of current importance. Lidings is a member of a number of business associations and global legal networks including the American Chamber of Commerce, the Russian-Turkish Association of Friendship and Business (RUTiD), the Finnish-Russian Chamber of Commerce and the International Lawyers Network. We aim at making business in Russia safer for foreign investors.

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