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.

Under the Federal Law “On drugs circulation” (Law), information on state registration of drugs in Russia shall be publicly available.

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.

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’ Corporate and M&A practice Associate Julia Kuzmenko and Intellectual Property practice Associate Anna Kuminova will speak at the annual conference entitled Pharmaceuticals — 2019: Legal Aspects. The event organized by Pravo.ru will take place in Moscow on April 11th at the Marriott Royal Aurora hotel.

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 December 13, 2018 Russian State Duma has passed in the third reading a draft law empowering the state healthcare control (supervision) body (Roszdravnadzor) to conduct test purchases (“Draft law”).