On 1 April 2019, Petrol Chilikov team grew by two lawyers – Roman Abu Salekh and Alexander Nazarov.   Prior to joining Petrol Chilikov Roman worked for a large international law firm, where he advised clients on structuring M&A transactions and energy law issues. Roman also was a head of legal department at the Russian branch of an international manufacturer of medical devices. Roman...

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On 25 March 2019, one of the most prestigious conferences in the sphere of arbitration - Russian Arbitration Day 2019 – took place in Moscow.   Olesya Petrol spoke at the event on the issue of arbitrability of matrimonial disputes. This issue was an expected continuation of Olesya's speech at the Russian Arbitration Day last year on arbitrability of inheritance...

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On 23–24 March 2019, Petrol Chilikov, the Russian Arbitration Center and the Law Faculty of the Lomonosov Moscow State University held the tenth Moscow Pre-Moot – training rounds to the XXVI Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. 24 teams from Austria, Belarus, Germany, Moldova, Russia, Turkey, France attended the event in this year.   On 22 March 2019, on the eve...

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On 15-19 May 2019, Olesya Petrol and Egor Chilikov spoke at the XI St. Petersburg International Legal Forum.   On the first day of the Forum, Olesya Petrol spoke at the round table titled “Reasonableness as a principle of civil law”, where use and construction of the term “reasonableness” was discussed. The topic of Olesya's speech was “The standard of a reasonable man in tort...

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On 6 March 2019, Petrol Chilikov organized a discussion session on “Feminist Legal Studies: A Critical Look” at the International and Comparative Law Research Center. Olesya Petrol and Elena Mazetova talked on “Feminist Legal Studies”, a hotly debated topic in Western legal discourse, and shared their views on related practices of Russian courts. Then Egor Chilikov led a public...

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Effective from 1 March 2019 Elena Mazetova joined Petrol Chilikov as an associate partner.   Prior to joining Petrol Chilikov, Elena was a head of international disputes and compliance in Yandex, where she took part in a number of landmark and precedent-setting projects. Prior to this, Elena worked for one of the largest Russian law firms and in a law practice of a Big Four company.

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On 11-12 February 2019, a seminar on “Succession planning and inheritance disputes: Russian practice in the light of changes of the Civil Code and foreign alternatives” was held in Moscow under the auspices of the M-Logos Law Institute. Olesya Petrol, the partner of the Petrol Chilikov, lectured at the event.   During her lecture on “Inheritance and Spouses’ Property” Olesya...

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A regular round table to discuss current legal issues of bankruptcy took place on 14 December. At the event Olesya Petrol, the partner of the firm, spoke on influence of spouses’ pre-bankruptcy division on creditor rights.

Program of the event may be accessed here. Video is available here.

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The Russian Arbitration Center organized the II student competition on the arbitration of corporate disputes named after Professor V.P. Mozolin for students from all Russian universities. The competition is held in the format of a moot court. The competition included oral and written parts, where participants have to consider a number of topical issues of corporate and procedural law....

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The competition is held with the aim of promoting the study of private law and developing practical skills for further professional activities of the students.

The competition consists of an absentee round where moot-judges - leading scientists, lawyers, and retired judges - estimate procedural documents, a lawsuit and a response, and an in-person round in the format of a moot...

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