Highlights

In court, the lawyers of Jus Aureum managed to prove the absence of grounds for bringing the general director to administrative liability for the alleged violation, as the list and the deadline for presenting the documents requested had been set by the tax authority itself, rather than by the legislation on taxes and duties.

In case No. А40-139187/2015, lawyers from Jus Aureum achieved the dismissal of the statement of claim of MK Sodruzhestvo LLC for recovery of unjust enrichment from Giproplast Engineering CJSC.

Upon the application of lawyers from Jus Aureum, the Arbitrazh Court of the City of Moscow levied a judicial penalty on a company that had not returned debt to the plaintiff in the course of the year after it was sentenced to do so by a decision of the court which entered into legal force in case No. А40-119766/2014.

On November 10, 2015, by decision of the Arbitrazh Court of the City of Moscow in case No. А40-128776/2015, the decision of the IFNS of Russia No. 21 for the city of Moscow, issued in regard to the company Alkomir, which was engaged in wholesale trade in alcoholic products, was declared invalid.

As a result of the involvement of the Office's lawyers in resolving a disputatious situation, the matter was settled with payment from SK VTB Strakhovaniye (a top 10 insurance company in Russia) of insurance compensation to the Medical Center POSEIDONIA (Larnaka, Republic of Cyprus), which had carried out expensive treatment of an insured person in the compression therapy division.

The Arbitrazh Court of the City of Moscow adopted a decision in case No. А40-101314/2015, by which a penalty in the amount of over 12 million rubles was recovered in favor of a client of the Office – a company engaged in international shipments.

The 20th Arbitrazh Appellate Court (in the city of Tula) considered an appeal by Vector Group LLC against the decision of the Arbitrazh Court of Bryansk Region in case number No. А09-751/2015 for recovery from Torgovaya Kompaniya Megapolis JSC of more than 24 million rubles in losses caused by a fire.

Jus Aureum’s lawyers upheld the property interests of the client by preventing its takeover by a front party posing as a shareholder in the company, whereby an entry on the termination of Gidroplast-Engineering CJSC could have appeared in that register and the malefactors could have illegally obtained control over its assets.

The Arbitrazh Court of the Moscow Circuit has rejected a cassation appeal lodged by Montazhspetzstroi Limited Liability Company in Case No. А40-119766/2014 opened upon an action brought by SovInterAvtoServis OJSC for the recovery of an advance payment in the amount of more than RUB 66 million following the respondent’s failure to do contracted construction work on the IVECO concern’s dealership in the Moscow Region.

The Office acted as legal consultant to Megapolis Holdings (Overseas) Limited in a transaction for the sale of a 31.8% participatory interest in the charter capital of Albion-2002 LLC (the holding company for the trading network Bristol) in favor of the subsidiary structure PJSC DIXIE Group – JSC DIXIE YUG for 1.78 billion rubles.