Forte Tax & Law and Avant hosted a joint business breakfast last Friday. This event was intended mainly for HR managers and company executives from Technopolis and addressed the HR and legal aspects of hiring and dismissal. Over 45 guests attended this business breakfast.

A Legal Discussion Club meeting was held on June 28, 2018 at St. Petersburg International Business Association (SPIBA) to debate the curious decisions rendered by Russian courts to settle disputes related to real estate. Anna Yakovleva, Senior Associate at Forte Tax & Law, SPIBA Legal Committee co-chairman, and Ekaterina Belyaeva, Junior Associate at Forte Tax & Law, were speakers at this meeting.

Anna Yakovleva, Senior Associate at Forte Tax & Law, spoke last Wednesday, May 23, 2018, at an event organized by the Finnish-Russian Chamber of Commerce and dedicated to questions of compliance and director liability.

The Constitutional Court of Russia finally published its ruling on a case partially validating “parallel” import. This case involved PAG, a Russian company which imported Sony trademarked products into Russia without Sony’s consent and was required to destroy these products as counterfeit

Delovoy Peterburg has published an article on Legal Forecasts or How the Market of Legal Services is Entering a Golden Age. Legal consultants discussed with Delovoy Peterburg journalists the changes expected in the legal market in 2018 as well as trends already noticeable on this market.

Anton Kabakov, Partner at Forte Tax & Law, spoke about tax practice and outlined the characteristics typical to tax law in 2018. “Tax law is the most dynamic area of law. Hundreds of amendments are introduced to tax laws every year. The main trend in 2018 is the “fight against the shadow economy” or the improvement of tax collection thanks to the fight against the shadow sector and the whitewash of the economy” comments Anton.

Anna Yakovleva, Senior Associate at Forte Tax&Law, commented on the prospects of labor law developments. Anna noted that “as if to bestow a “New Year’s gift”, the Ministry of Labor has scheduled most of its inspections in the first quarter of 2018. These labor inspections will be conducted as per a new format involving checklists, while the old practice of “one fine per single violation” will remain in place. Courts will, as a result, be flooded with cases challenging inspection results. We also expect tougher criminal sanctions on employers for delay in wage payments as well as in migration disputes arising from the 2018 World Cup.”

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With 60% of the votes, our esteemed senior associate Anna Yakovleva ended up among the four elected chairmen.