With the opening of a new office in Moscow in 2008, the AstapovLawyers International Law Group had extended its network to the Russian Federation. This expansion heralded a new and extremely important milestone in the firm’s operations in Russia and testified to our ability and expertise to negotiate complex cross-border transactions and offer top-notch legal solutions to the country.

We provide our clients with a competent team of legal experts who are highly capable of offering sound legal and commercial advice and finding practical solutions. 

Our Moscow office is staffed by regionally qualified lawyers who complement our international capabilities to handle large-scale transactions and disputes while ensuring local expertise.

We focus on international arbitration and litigation, mergers and acquisitions, corporate and commercial law, international taxation and financing.  In addition to these core groups we also have lawyers experienced in competition law, investments, real estate, international trade, information technology, intellectual property, commercial investigations and constitutional and human rights. We are also highly proficient in a multitude of industrial sectors both international and domestic.  In Russia our industrial expertise focuses particularly on energy, oil and gas, agriculture, food production and companies of the financial sector.

Our clients in the region include both international financial institutions and international and domestic corporations in a wide range of industrial sectors.

The quality of our team is consistently acclaimed by international publications in addition to Russian ratings.