SERGEY IVANOVICH KOMARITSKIY - Director. Graduated from the Moscow State University Faculty of Law. Candidate of Legal Sciences (1980). Has extensive academic and practical experience. Former researcher at the All Union Scientific Institute of the Ministry of Interior of the USSR. Two years tenure as law professor at the Moscow State University Faculty of Law. One year as law professor at the International Law Faculty of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. Has taught civil law at the Russian Postgraduate School for Private Law for the past three years.

Started practicing law in 1989. Specializes in privatization transactions, real estate law, contract law, commercial court procedure, judicial protection of the right of ownership and other in rem rights of immovables. Represents clients' interests in courts of all instances and arbitral tribunals on all matters of civil and commercial law.

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LEONID VITALIEVICH KLUEV - Partner. Graduate of the Sverdlovsk Juridical Institute. Candidate of Legal Sciences (1984). Has extensive legal research and teaching experience. Author of several scientific publications. Has practised law since 1979. Specializes in the law of obligations, corporate law and civil procedure. Represents clients' interests before courts of all instances and arbitral tribunals. Working knowledge of German.

ANDREY GENNADIEVICH LAPTEV - Partner. Graduated from the Moscow State University Faculty of Law (1979). Occupied various positions within supreme state bodies until commencing the practice of law in 1991. Areas of specialization include corporate law, the law of obligations and public international law. Representative of the firm in the Czech Republic. Working knowledge of Czech, Polish and English.

KONSTANTIN MIKHAILOVICH TISHENKO - Partner. Graduated from the Far East State University Faculty of Law in 1985. Candidate of Legal Sciences (1993). Author of several academic publications. Has practised law since 1985. Has provided legal assistance to entrepreneurial activities since 1994. Areas of specialization include bills of exchange, the law of obligations and real estate transactions. Represents clients' interests before courts of all instances, arbitral tribunals and state bodies. Represented the interests of the Czech Republic in the process of state registration of the right of ownership of various immovables in Moscow.

SERGEI VIKTOROVICH DOROKHIN - Senior Legal Advisor. Graduated from the Moscow State University Faculty of Law. Presently a postgraduate student at the Department of Constitutional Law of the Moscow State University Faculty of Law. Has practised law since 1993. Specializes in Russian company law and the resolution of commercial disputes, including disputes involving legal persons not resident in the Russian Federation. Represents clients' interests in courts of all instances and agencies for the enforcement of legal acts, including those dealing with the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgements. Working knowledge of English.

NATALIA VLADIMIROVNA SOKOLOVA - Senior Legal Advisor. Graduated from the International Law Department of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (1993). Has practiced with the law firm Philip Sinel in the offshore region of Jersey.

Specializes in operations with securities, investment projects and financial and currency legislation. Represents clients before commercial courts and arbitral tribunals. Experience in disputes to which foreign citizens or legal persons are a party. Working knowledge of French and English.

PETER JOHN SAHLAS - Associate Member. Graduated from the McGill University Faculty of Law, Montreal, Canada. Attorney and Counselor at Law of the Bar of New York. In addition to English and French, has working knowledge of Greek and Russian.

ALEXEI NIKOLAEVICH ZHILTSOV - Senior Legal Advisor. Graduated from the International Law Department of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. Researcher at the Law Department of the European University Institute, Florence, Italy (1990-1994) and researcher at the Arbitration Department of the TMC Asser Institute for Public and Private International Law, The Hague, The Netherlands (1992-1993). Candidate of Legal Sciences (1998).

Since 1994, head of the Comparative and Private International Law Department at the Research Center for Private Law of the Office of the President of the Russian Federation. Substantial teaching experience: lecturer on private international law at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (1994-1999) and lecturer at Russian Postgraduate School for Private Law (since 1995).

Member of working groups for drafting of Model Civil Code of the Commonwealth of Independent States; Division VII (Private International Law) of the new Russian Civil Code; and the Law of the Russian Federation On State Immunity. Areas of specialization include private international law, international commercial arbitration, comparative civil law, the law of obligations and procedure in commercial courts. Working knowledge of English, Italian and Spanish.

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