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04/12/2017

Westside Law Firm in the ranking of the Legal 500 EMEA 2017

The Legal 500 has published its annual rankings of Europe, Middle East & Africa.

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04/11/2017

Westside Law Firm in the ranking of Chambers Europe 2017

The international lawyer ranking guide Chambers&Partners has published its annual rankings “Chambers Europe 2017”.

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03/14/2017

Did the accident really take place: Inspectors of traffic police will not avoid questioning in court. Westside’s partner Sergey Vodolagin quoted by “Pravo.ru” edition

Inspectors of traffic police, who compile protocols on administrative offences, rarely come to court. Judges do not always call up even witnesses, despite the fact that the "accusation" can be based only on their testimony. In one of such cases, a protocol and a medical certificate were enough for two instances to be sure of the guilt of the driver.  However, the Supreme Court threw it into question and drew attention to the weak evidence base.

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03/09/2017

Westside’s Partner Sergey Vodolagin quoted by Pravo.ru newspaper on legal difficulties of bankers

Control over banks in recent years has become tougher. Employees of credit organizations told "Pravo.ru" what legal difficulties they experience in their activities: the inability to identify the client in the Internet, the interference from Rospotrebnadzor and the complexity of the current emission procedure.

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02/12/2017

VTB is seeking the arrest of assets of Igor Mavlyanov’s family. Westside’s Managing Partner Sergey Vodolagin quoted by Kommersant newspaper.

VTB, expecting to collect more than 2 billion rubles from Igor Mavlyanov, the co-owner of the holding "Jashma", tries to challenge the sale of the debtor’s real estate in the US, including the property in California and Manhattan.

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02/04/2017

In tThe weekly economic magazine "Kommersant – Dengi" has published a new article ofwas published by E. Chirkova: "Between the New Economic Policy (NEP) and the earth"

The article is about the development of the NEP: about the creation of trusts, concessions, joint stock companies, limited partnerships, about corruption, about the collapse of the nobility economy, about inflation and the destruction of the financial system in the twenties.

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