Partner of Lidings’ dispute resolution practice Stepan Guzey will act as an expert at the annual conference International Disputes and Asset Recovery Involving Former Soviet Union Parties scheduled to take place in London on 28 and 29 of January 2020.

On December 25, 2019 the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation adopted the Judicial Review on certain issues arising in the application of law on business companies.

On July 9, 2019 the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation approved the Resolution. № 4 “On the application of private international law by the courts of the Russian Federation” (hereinafter — the Resolution).

The new review of the most notable patents disputes in Life Sciences in EAEU, CIS and Eastern Europe.

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Under the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1556 dated December 14, 2018 (hereinafter — Decree No. 1556), monitoring system of the medical drugs circulation should become effective from the January 2020 with the exception of medical drugs for healing high-cost ICD diseases, which have already been monitored from October1, 2019.

On December 2, 2019, Federal Law No. 405-FZ entered into force. This act significantly increases administrative liability for violations of the requirements on the localization of databases containing personal data of Russian nationals. The localization requirement was first introduced into the Russian legislation in 2014 and imposed an obligation to locate servers with the personal data of Russian nationals only in the territory of the Russian Federation.

Lidings’ Partner of the Criminal Defense practice Stepan Guzey will take part in a conference dedicated to the Criminal Law Defense of Business. The event organized by Pravo.ru will take place in Moscow on 12th of December 2019 at Ararat Park Hyatt.

Ritz Carlton Moscow, December 5th 2019. The results of the annual Pravo.ru-300 law firms’ ranking were announced at an awarding ceremony at the Ritz Carlton Moscow.

On November 28th 2019 Moscow will host the Award-Winning Ceremony of the first Russian award in the intellectual property sphere — the IP Russia Awards. The event is to take place at the Mansion on Volkhonka, one of the city’s most outstanding historical locations.