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.

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”).

The Federal law No. 290 “On international companies” (hereinafter — the Law on international companies) and the Federal law No. “On special administrative districts” have come into effect on 3 August 2018. These laws adjusted procedure of redomiciliation and created special administrative districts on the islands Oktyabrskiy and Russkiy.