Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 20:43:07 GMT Server: Apache/1.2.4 rus/PL21.0 Last-Modified: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 10:39:31 GMT ETag: "26b75-2e4c-3306e3e3-koi8-r" Content-Length: 11852 Accept-Ranges: bytes Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=koi8-r Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:01 GMT Vary: accept-charset, user-agent Iniurcolleguia Bar - About The Company Iniurcolleguia Maritime Law Office
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Maritime Law Office presents a brief press release of Iniurcolleguia, its parent Bar, which might interest you.

INIURCOLLEGUIA
Specialized Bar

Founded in Moscow back in the 30-s, "Iniurcolleguia" nowadays is one of the major and prominent law firms practising both Russian and Private International Law.

There are now over 100 lawyers and approximately similar number of support personnel in our firm. Iniurcolleguia has branch offices in the North-Western (St. Petersburg), the Urals (Ekaterinburg) and the South (Stavropol) Regions of Russia. We are represented in the Ukraine (Kiev, Sevastopol), the Baltic States (Riga), the Middle Asia (Bishkek), the Caucasian States (Tbilisi).

Our stable and long-standing international contacts in Europe and North America as well as a extensive network of our corresponding lawyers all over the world, including Australia, Middle East and Africa make it possible to represent the interests of our clients in any part of the world and on a wide scale of issues.

Our practice includes all aspects of modern law such as Incorporation of Companies, Finance, Banking, Taxation, International Trade, Customs Law, Property, Insurance, Civil Law, Commercial Law, Inheritance Law, Maritime Law, Family Law and Criminal Law.

As for the past few years our country has gone through radical political and economic changes considerably increasing requirements upon the quality of services. We mostly concentrate on ensuring individual approach to our clients' demands and combine it together with the prompt respond and efficiency of legal aid.

Governmental institutions, foreign diplomatic offices, both Russian and foreign banks, associations, companies, entities, non-profit organizations as well as individuals are among our clients.


Companies and Commercial Activity


Companies and commercial activity are one of the most important sphere of our work, which includes the questions of planning and putting into operation various entities; choosing proper structural legal form for a new commercial entity including drawing up statutory documents and going through necessary formalities as well as solving problems of setting up, merging and reorganizing companies, issues of annual and extraordinary meetings of shareholders, buying control of a company, closing and liquidation of private and state-owned companies.

The services of the same range of legal services are provided to our clients on setting up and acquiring a company and opening bank accounts abroad.

Our lawyers pay special attention to establishing and developing foreign business in Russia. Our experience in establishing entities with foreign investments in the form of representative office, company limited and joint-stock company accumulated and updated over the years, ensures the satisfaction of particular needs of our clients. Foreign businessmen obtain our legal advice on various legal and commercial issues of establishing companies as well as issues of business activities, carried out on the territory of Russia. Immediately after a company has been set up, it obtains our permanent legal support on all aspects relating to its commercial, financial and taxation activity.

As for international trade, we provide support in maintaining and documenting relations between domestic and international contracting parties and work out terms of various agreements. We deal with cases of international sale and purchase of various goods, draw up contracts and conduct negotiations, settle all kinds of disputes arising between the commercial parties. We provide legal advise on export-import control, investments, currency regulations and customs legislation as well as trade licensing.


Finance and Securities


Finance and securities is an area in which we act for both foreign and national financial institutions, commercial structures and individuals when concluding financial deals, executing sets of documents on credit, securities and loans. The services rendered by us include advices on common civil and banking law—promissory notes, other securities and credit contracts.

Sellers and purchasers of securities seek our advice on antimonopoly legislation, setting up control over another company, repulsing attempts to establish control over their own company.


Real Property


Real property as one of the most promising directions of commercial activity also needs permanent legal "escort". Our firm deals with all legal aspects pertaining to design projects, construction and financing of commercial, industrial and dwelling property. Both home and foreign investors are always welcome to our legal advice on the issues of legislation and standard acts applied to the investments they wish to make in real property; its financing, budget and state taxation of the real property and legal grounds of selling (privatization) and leasing of state or municipal real property in each particular region. We cooperate with the leading auditing firms, independent appraisers, property funds conducting a proper preliminary inspection of the objects to be acquired.


Taxes


Taxes and attended problems affect everyone's (from large corporations to individuals) interests. We consult on issues of structure and planning of all taxes—income tax, profit tax, value added tax, other federal and municipal taxes. We protect a client's interests in disputes with the authorities in respect of inspections and penalties provided by law.


Commercial Disputes and Arbitration


Iniurcolleguia responds to all litigation needs that the company or individual proprietor may have and deals with all types of disputes, including commodity, construction, maritime, transportation, the protection of intellectual property rights, professional liability, employment, shareholders disputes involving both court of justice work and arbitration courts in the Russian Federation. We also handle fraud, negligence and breach of duty claims.

Our lawyers lay special emphasis on disputes relating to all aspects of international trade and maritime and insurance matters in international arbitration, particularly, in Moscow, New York, London, Paris, Geneva and Stockholm.

The clients are assisted in examining the risks, benefits and costs of litigation and on reviewing other means of dispute resolution. We advise on the procedural, jurisdictional and strategic issues encountered in a lawsuit.


Employment Law


Employment law and issues attended acquire significant importance in the life of our society and therefore we permanently deal with the disputes arising in employment area and civil law contracts. We undertake protection of employees in all issues dealing with executing employment relations, drawing up collective and personal employment contracts, illegal sacking.

Employers are advised how to avoid lawsuits and how to reduce liability or settle labour conflicts.


Private Clients


Relatively new and prospective area of services rendered by Iniurcolleguia's lawyers is "personal" (family) lawyer, whose services could be hardly overestimated.

Our lawyers provide a competent advise in various matters, including criminal and civil cases, investigation of all types of accident and settlement of claims for personal injury, damage to property, insurance indemnity, payment of pension benefits to any individual seeking legal attention.

In the cases arising from traditional matrimonial relations—marriage contracts, divorce, division of common property, protection of the interests of children, collection of alimony—we guarantee our clients comprehensive protection of their rights.

Foreign nationals also take advantage of our services. We protect their interests on the territory of the Russian Federation, act on their behalf, draw up legal documents, advise on legal issues and represent them in judicial bodies.


Inheritance Cases


Inheritance ñases became traditional for our firm from the moment it was established. Over five thousand citizens apply to us annually and we offer them the full list of our services in estates both opened abroad in favour of Russian citizens and those opened in RF in favour of foreign citizens.

We conduct a wide range of genealogical research, searches for burials and archival documents, heirs and relatives both on the territory of the Russian Federation and abroad. Heirs are provided with the required legal aid to protect their rights and interests in estates opened in any country of the world. We were entrusted by the governmental authorities to represent abroad the interests of Russia in a number of significant matters.


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