On April 21, 2025, VERBA LEGAL will hold a webinar "Vendors' Exodus from Russia: Court Practice Development Tendencies".

On April 15, 2025, VERBA LEGAL will hold a webinar on "Tax Aspects of Marketing Activities".

On April 2, 2025, Statute Law School will be holding its fourth FIN HYPE LAW 2025 Conference.

VERBA LEGAL lawyers offer active support to applicants through the Legal Charity Platform, having maintained the leading position for the second month in a row.

On February 27, VERBA LEGAL held a business breakfast on "Sanctions Enforcement in 2025: Key Risks and Strategies". As part of the event, experts addressed the pressing issues relating to business regulation and adaptation to sanctions restrictions.

On February 25, 2025, VERBA LEGAL held a business breakfast to discuss regulatory matters relevant to the Russian life sciences sector. The participating experts covered a wide range of issues - from changes in the regulatory regime governing strategically important medicines to the impact of sanctions and the specifics of taxation.

Tatyana Neveeva, VERBA LEGAL’s Managing Partner, has made the list of arbitrators of Asia Pacific International Arbitration Chamber (APIAC), a new international arbitration body established in 2023 in Singapore and focused on resolving trade disputes involving parties representing the Asia-Pacific Region.

In 2024, an action group comprising VERBA LEGAL Law Firm, the National Medical Knowledge Base of the Association of Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Developers and Users and Digital Medicine Company, supported by Roche Moscow JSC, conducted an analytical survey to assess the approaches employed in Russia and abroad to granting access to and processing big data in healthcare, focusing on local regulatory barriers and international practices.

VERBA LEGAL has been ranked among the leaders of the Individual Ranking by the Pravo 300 Legal Directory.

At the forum called "Ready-to-Eat Food Market: New Regulatory Recipe," lawyers, businessmen and food industry professionals discussed quality and safety of ready-to-eat meals and statutory regulation of packaged food production.

PREQVECA, a Russian news and analysis agency, released its 2024 rankings of advisers of the Russian M&A market on www.Mergers.ru, a website dedicated to Mergers and Acquisitions in Russia.

From 13 to 16 May, 2025, the inaugural Russian International Arbitration Congress (RIAC) is scheduled to take place in Moscow under the auspices of the Russian Arbitration Center (RAC). VERBA LEGAL will act as the leading partner of the event and hold its own conference as part of it.

On April 21, 2025, VERBA LEGAL will hold a webinar "Vendors' Exodus from Russia: Court Practice Development Tendencies".

On April 7, 2025, the Paris Arbitration Week (PAW) hosted a session entitled “Access to Justice: Common Concerns and Remedies of Western and Sanctioned Parties”.

From 7 to 11 April 2025, Paris will host Paris Arbitration Week, a key event for the international arbitration community traditionally drawing together practicing lawyers and specialists to discuss topical issues in arbitration.

On February 27, 2025, the award ceremony for leading IPO market players was held as part of IPO Conference – 2025 hosted by Cbonds, PREQVECA and Mergers.

Senior Partner Alexander Panov will speak at 16th International Eurasian Pharmaceutical Forum 2025.

The X RAA Arbitration Online Competition - an annual student competition in the format of game-based court proceedings (moot-court), dedicated to the topical issues of civil law and international commercial arbitration, organised by the Arbitration Association and RAA 25 - will take place soon.

On February 11, 2025, the Government of the Russian Federation published Directive No. 280-r, approving the signing of a new Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) between Russia and the UAE.

Litigation practice alert

On 11 February VERBA LEGAL forum ‘Litigation Triathlon. Dispute Resolution in 2025’, which became an important event for heads of legal departments and business owners.

Counsel Aleksey Darkov at the 13th International IP Forum

On February 20, 2025, ICC Russia will host a conference International Contracts and Logistics: Incoterms 2020 In Action

Conference IPO-2025, the main event of the IPO, SPO and pre-IPO market, will take place on February 27.

Senior Associate Anastasia Myrsina will act as judge in several face-to-face rounds of the 14th All-Russian Crystal Themis Moot Competition.

VERBA LEGAL lawyers secured reversal of the court order on issue of a writ for enforcement of the arbitral tribunal’s award

Resolution No. 2-П of 21 January 2025 in Uspekh in Case on the transferor’s tax consequences when paying the share actual value by real estate

On December 18, the VEB Centre hosted the award ceremony for the leaders of Russia’s new national rating of legal advisers on development projects, organized by Expert RA and Expert Business Solutions with support provided by VEB.RF.

Lawyers of the VERBA LEGAL Sanctions Practice managed to obtain another Belgian Treasury license to unfreeze assets.

The 15th National Award ceremony was held yesterday in the framework of Pravo-300 rating, traditionally honouring the Russian legal market leaders.

The long-awaited RAA Legal Guide rating results were published today, in observance of Lawyer’s Day.

The VERBA LEGAL tax practice team consisting of Counsellor Evgeniya Zainchukovskaya, Senior Associate Andrey Sheptiy and Paralegal Altana Lidzhieva explains the essence of consequences

On 28 November 2024, Minsk will host the Law in the Modern World forum, the major platform for discussing legal issues in the Republic of Belarus.

On 28 November, Andrey Sheptiy, Senior Lawyer of Tax Practice at VERBA LEGAL, will speak at the event of Vedomosti business newspaper: Tax Results of the Year.

VERBA LEGAL has been committed to rotation of managing partners, and everyone who is ready to take on the role has a chance to bring something new to the company’s development.

Oleg Khuazhev, Senior Partner, and Evgeniya Zainchukovskaya, Counsel of Tax Practice, analysed in their article ‘Personal Funds as an Effective Way to Protect Business Assets’

On 27 November 2024, Minsk will host Competition of Jurisdictions: Where and How to Resolve Disputes in New Reality, an international conference dedicated to the development of international arbitration under sanctions.

Marat Samarsky, Counsel of Sanctions Law Practice at VERBA LEGAL, shared his opinion on the impact of the new package of sanctions on Russian banks in a live broadcast on the RBC Investments channel.

On 21 November 2024, the US Treasury announced another set of blocking sanctions against a number of Russian financial institutions and specialised depositories, as well as officials of Russian companies and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.

Today, the live stage of MGIMO Law Championship, a national legal contest for students of Russian law faculties, took place.

VERBA LEGAL protected the historical territory of the synagogue of Madregot, a religious organization of progressive Judaism in the Tyumen Region.

Alexander Rudyakov, Senior Partner of VERBA LEGAL, speaks on legal market trends and the right ways to communicate with colleagues and clients at Pravo.300

Commentary from Tatyana Neveeva, Managing Partner, and Nikita Zhemchugov, Senior Lawyer, for Pravo.ru

Analytical Opinion on Development of Bankruptcy Proceedings with Foreign Companies’ Assets

The VERBA LEGAL tax practice team consisting of Counsellor Evgeniya Zainchukovskaya, Senior Associate Andrey Sheptiy and Paralegal Altana Lidzhieva explains the essence of substitution and its tax consequences.

VERBA LEGAL Partner Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Counsel Marat Samarskiy, Senior Asossiate Anna Sidorenko, and Asossiate Ivan Dubrovsky discuss whether the interested parties will be able to pursue the project, and what political and legal barriers they may face.

Commentary for Forbes from Evgenia Zainchukovskaya, Counsel & Head of Tax Practice, and Andrey Sheptiy, Senior Lawyer

On the 23rd of November 2024, the new rules for appointment of the insolvency officers in the bankruptcy proceedings initiated by FTS will enter into effect.

During the workshop, the experts will analyse the potential of real land plots of Moscow based on SWOT principle.

On the 18th of October 2024, Air Law Conference organised by the National Association of Air Law and Institute of Air and Space Law AEROHELP will be held in Dubai.

VERBA LEGAL corporate practice team consulted Х5 Group in the acquisition of 100% equity share in LLC MAY24.

Alexander Kuznetsov, VERBA LEGAL Partner of the capital market and bank financing practices will take part in the conference as a moderator of session “Issuers: expert outlook”.

VERBA LEGAL was listed among top three legal firms.

The 16th Russian Private Equity Congress and the 12th Forum of Venture Investors – an important event dedicated to private equity industry and venture financing in Russia and CIS will be held on the 26th of September.

Tatyana Neveeva, Managing Partner of VERBA LEGAL, in an article for RBC.Pro describes new grounds for investors to have their assets released from the Treasury of Belgium and Luxembourg.

VERBA LEGAL Council of Partners made the decision to appoint Tatyana Neveeva to the position of managing partner

The bankruptcy law has been seeking the ways to counteract concealment of assets by use of figureheads over the years. In prevention of this phenomena, the Supreme Court has elaborated the concepts of asset holder, fictitious owner, concealment of the transaction parties. This phenomenon is based on Strohmann theory, which means a “straw man” in German legal doctrine.

19 September, ICC Russia held the traditional summit dedicated to settlement of construction and infrastructure disputes through international arbitration.

Alexander discussed the topic of representations and warranties with KKMP Partner Alyona Kucher and Bartolius Law Office Advisor Sergey Budylin.

VERBA LEGAL will facilitate the Pharmaceutical Law workshop to be attended by Advisor Marat Samarsky and Senior Lawyer Anastasia Myrsina. The workshop will be moderated by Senior Lawyer Karina Kolobova.

When leaving for a sea regatta, you first switch your instant messengers to “temporarily out of touch”. Tatyana Neveeva, Senior Partner of VERBA LEGAL, is confident: yachting is not an obstacle to work, and you can close deals and win cases even on board.

VERBA LEGAL once again announces the accession of new partners and welcomes Kirill Ponasyuk and Artem Rubanov to its team.

VERBA LEGAL Corporate Practice advised on the acquisition of Soda Chlorate, the single Russian producer of caustic potash (liquid, flaked), potassium carbonate, hydrochloric acid and synthetic acid.

Alexey Darkov, IP Practice counsel and author of IP Litigation TG channel, will discuss with colleagues the specifics of resolving patent disputes. We are going to cover both standard cases of infringement of exclusive rights, and disputes over authorship with employees, and service objects.

We published a short article in which Tatyana Neveeva, Senior Partner of Verba Legal, explained what prospects individual investors currently have in connection with the changes, and how the practice of obtaining licences is developing.

VERBA LEGAL Corporate Practice advised Rowi, a factoring group (ROWI Factoring Plus LLC and ROWI Technologies LLC), in a transaction between Rowi Group, its founders and a T-Bank Group company (as a majority shareholder of the group).

Experts continue to discuss effective methods of protecting intellectual property with the help of public law mechanisms. Seminar speakers include Alexey Darkov, Counsel, Head of Intellectual Property Practice at VERBA LEGAL.

Senior Associate Anastasia Simonova’s article for RBC.Pro on resolving disputes in international arbitration in current reality.

31 May, Dmitry Malbin, Partner of VERBA LEGAL, will speak in the session ‘Western Companies Have Left, but the Contracts are Still There. Major Rental Disputes 2024’.

On 19 May 2024, VERBA LEGAL took part in Legal Run 2024, an International Charity Race of Lawyers.

Tatyana Neveeva, Senior Partner of VERBA LEGAL, explained in an RBC article how owners of Russian assets abroad act under sanctions

Today is the onset of a major conference of the pharmaceutical industry - the Russian Pharmaceutical Forum named after Semashko.

Legal Challenges for Healthcare Industry - 2024, a forum that annually brings together more than 100 representatives and experts from various areas of Life Sciences, will once again become a platform for dialogue between key market participants.

The VERBA LEGAL dispute resolution practice has experienced a major accession of two strong experts at once: Anton Alifanov as a counsel, and Anastasia Simonova as a senior lawyer.

On 25 April, the Russia M&A Awards ceremony took place as part of the 14th Russian M&A Congress.

The fourth session of Litigation Forum Pravo.ru will be moderated by Tatyana Neveeva, Senior Partner of VERBA LEGAL. We will discuss arbitration clauses, trends in the choice of arbitration institutions, problems of attracting foreign persons to participate in a dispute on the territory of Russia, interaction with foreign colleagues.

A film about our company from the series of films about Russian legal firms was released on the Moscow Lawyers YouTube channel.

The long-awaited Kommersant’s rating ‘Leaders of Legal Services 2024’ was released: the publishing house celebrated the best legal teams and leading lawyers. VERBA LEGAL won as many as 15 awards of the federal rating.

VERBA LEGAL obtained another licence from the Belgian Treasury to unblock assets that were frozen due to the sanctions imposed on the NSD

Legal Insight summarised the study of cases that had changed the legal reality in 2023. The case of our sanctions team on unblocking Euroclear accounts took first place among sanctions disputes of the year.

VERBA LEGAL corporate lawyers acted as legal advisors of one of the buyers of Transfin-M shares

Mergers.ru announced the rating of consultants in the Russian M&A market.

On 7 March 2024, Tatyana Neveeva, Senior Partner of VERBA LEGAL, moderated a round table on international arbitration. 6 countries, 11 speakers and 3 most critical issues.

VERBA LEGAL welcomes new Counsel Alexey Darkov and strengthens its IP practice

For two clients who engaged VERBA LEGAL's sanctions practice to file an appeal with the Belgian Council of State regarding their license denial, the Belgian Treasury overturned the previous negative decision. The VERBA LEGAL team acted swiftly to prepare extensive appeals within a short timeframe.

The findings of the most comprehensive annual research of the Russian legal market have been compiled. On December 7, the top-rated leaders of Pravo-300 were honored at a ceremony. VERBA LEGAL's strong debut was recognized with nominations in 13 categories of the national ranking.

Rossiyskaya Gazeta has released the results of a lawyer and law firm rating. This rating is unique to the Russian legal market – for the first time, the rating questionnaires were not strictly predefined, allowing lawyers to discuss their specializations more expansively. Among thousands of consulting firms, whose operations span across Russia, VERBA LEGAL lawyers have been highlighted 28 times!

The Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre is the preeminent arbitration institution operating continuously within the Hong Kong SAR and is among the most authoritative international commercial arbitrations in the Asian region.

VERBA LEGAL team served as legal consultants in the acquisition of the Orbital office complex (27,271 sq. m.), which is under construction near the Moscow City business district. The acquisition of the business center in “Big City” is among the most significant transactions in the capital's office market for 2023. The complex is one of the few available properties of such scale on the Moscow office market.

VERBA LEGAL acted as legal advisor in the acquisition of the Donbiotech production complex for deep grain processing located in the Rostov Region.

VERBA LEGAL obtained a Euroclear license to unlock assets for a Russian individual investor without a European passport or residency permit. This was one of the initial instances in which the Belgian regulator issued such a permit.

The firm's sanctions practice team confirms the fulfillment of a license that enabled an individual investor to divest securities from Euroclear.

Over 50 professionals have come together to form a new formidable entity in the Russian legal market. Partners Oleg Khuazhev, Alexander Panov, Tatiana Neveeva, and Alexander Rudyakov merged their teams in April this year to inaugurate their proprietary legal brand.