Highlights

Jus Aureum advised Mercury Retail Group Limited (the holding company of the Bristol Group of Companies and the Krasnoe & Beloe Group of Companies)

Jus Aureum advised Mercury Group shareholders in the transaction on the disposal of 100% stake in the capital of Mercury Mining LLC

Jus Aureum advised one of the major distributors of printed goods in Russia in connection with the joint project and transaction related to restructuring of business of major distributors of printed goods in Russia.

Jus Aureum acted as Russian legal counsel for Dixy Group of Companies in a transaction for acquisition from LLC Mcapital of 12 real property assets in Kaliningrad with total area of about 30 000 sq. m.

Advising and legal support of a group holding company of one of the leading FMCG distributors in the CIS in a transaction on sale and purchase of shares in the holding company.

In December 2015, lawyers from Jus Aureum were successful in achieving the abandonment by the Arbitrazh Court of the city of Moscow of a statement of claim by UK Sodruzhestvo LLC in case No. А40-139187/2015 for the recovery of unjust enrichment from Giproplast Engineering JSC by proving that this case was identical to case No. А40-29304/2015, which had been considered earlier.

Now, however, the Russian Supreme Court concluded in Case No. А40-87775/2015 that as interest is paid to a Russian recipient, the Russian borrower should not be expected to pay dividends as a tax agent (Article 269.4 of the Tax Code). The interest in such cases is not to be treated as dividends.