The pravo.ru portal has conducted a study on corporate law, evaluating the projects run by Russian law firms in terms of the value and number of projects.

For this study, regional law firms submitted 273 projects worth a total of over RUB 1 trillion. Four companies from Saint Petersburg have made it to the top five. These are Kachkin & Partners, Nordic Star Law Offices, Forte Tax & Law, and Legal to Business.

According to the study, since January 2022, Forte Tax & Law has provided support for 31 corporate law projects worth about RUB 40 billion, with the average project value being RUB 1,290 billion. Transactions account for 84% of the number of our projects.

To read the study, click here.

On April 23, 2024, a solemn award ceremony honoring the leaders of the Legal Top 2024 Ranking compiled by the Delovoy Petersburg Publishing House was held at the Palkin restaurant in Saint Petersburg.

Recent decrees of the Russian President are imposing more and more restrictions on payments, settlements, and transactions involving foreign persons. Leading Forte Tax & Law lawyers will host a free webinar to talk about the key restrictions imposed on transactions with a foreign element and share their current experience.

On April 10, 2024, Kommersant released the results of its annual survey—a ranking of Russia’s best law firms. One of the features of this survey is that it assesses not only the best industry practices and ranks individual lawyers. Researchers recognized the expertise of Forte Tax & Law in each of these areas.

On March 19, 2024, the Pravo.ru portal published its annual individual lawyers ranking by area of law. This research is a continuation of the Pravo.ru-300 Law Firm Ranking that was released last December.

We are pleased to announce that two representatives of Forte Tax & Law— Anton Kabakov and Julia Talagaeva—have been elected to co-chair sectoral committees of the Saint Petersburg International Business Association (SPIBA). Julia Talagaeva has become a co-chair of the Legal Committee for the first time, and Anton Kabakov has been re-elected as a co-chair of the Finance Committee.

The November issue of the Zakon magazine has published an article by Anton Kabakov, Partner at Forte Tax & Law, on a most topical issue—the inclusion of dividends in the customs value.

On December 7, 2023, an annual awards ceremony for the leaders of the Pravo.Ru-300 Legal Ranking—the Oscar of the legal world—was held in Moscow. This research is the most authoritative among Russian rankings of law firms.

On December 4, 2023, Rossiyskaya Gazeta released a new annual ranking of lawyers for the first time. A feature of this ranking is that participating in it does not involve filling out any standard questionnaires. Instead, law firms are invited to provide, in any convenient format, information about their key lawyers and the achievements that they consider significant.

The portal Pravo.ru published on February 21 its annual individual ranking of lawyers by area of law as a continuation of Pravo.ru-300 law firm rating, the results of which were announced in December.