The Petrol Chilikov team is taking part in an insurance moot court tournament – a simulated litigation organized by the loss adjusters firm KLR. The moot court competition is held between law firms, with the spectators and referees being experts of insurance, reinsurance, brokerage companies and adjusters. The firm’s Partner Egor Chilikov presented at a semi-final that took place on...

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Alexander Yagelnitskiy, Petrol Chilikov Counsel, was a speaker at the discussion session "Compensation for Moral Damage: Problems and Prospects," on the fourth day of the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum. Representatives of the Russian Supreme Court, the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the S.S. Alekseev Private Law Research Center under the Russian...

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The ICC YAF roundtable was held at the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum online. Olesya Petrol presented at the panel devoted to complex arbitration (consolidation and joinder). Read more here.

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Olesya Petrol held a series of lectures for Master's students of Plekhanov Russian University of Economics on the indemnity for and calculation of damages in Russian and international court disputes. The lectures were organized as part of the university's program for training professionals in the field of appraisal activities and verification of appraisal reports. More about the Masters...

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Civil Law journal was founded by graduates and professors of the Russian School of Private Law in 2018 and is now one of the most respected regular professional publications in the field of civil law. Andrey Egorov, professor and director of the Center for Comparative Law at the Higher School of Economics, is the editor-in-chief of the journal.   Our firm’s Counsel Alexander...

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Partner Olesya Petrol spoke at the session of the regular conference of St Petersburg Bar Institute. The theme of the conference was "NON-lasting Values: Business, Friendship, Family. Olesya's presentation focused on good and bad faith actions of spouses in bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy situations. Olesya explained which spousal transactions may be deemed harmful and which are legitimate,...

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Partner Egor Chilikov recorded a lecture on "Litigation and arbitration dispute management abroad: how to achieve efficiency, reduce expenses and time limits?" for LF Academy legal education project. Egor explained how parties can control the process and how to build the right pre-litigation strategy, i.e. preparation and gathering of evidence, how to succeed on the case, reduce the...

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During the webinar of the Civil Law Scholars’ Club called "Family Law: Perspective of a Civil Law Scholar", Olesya Petrol, a partner of the firm, and Andrey Egorov, Chief Editor of the Civil Law journal:

• Application of the rules of the Russian Civil Code governing transactions to family law transactions: marriage, nuptial agreement, acknowledgement of paternity, adoption, alimony...

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Annual Meeting of the ABA International Law Section is being held online this year. Partner Olesya Petrol spoke during the session titled "The Battle for Home Court Advantage - Strategies and Pitfalls". The panelists discussed tactics for running parallel actions in different jurisdictions at the risk of anti-suit injunction being issued in one of them, possible blocking the post-verdict...

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