A company's IPO is an indication of its maturity, but it is easy to violate the strict requirements of US laws when preparing financial statements. Rod Tuvaev, Head of sanctions law practice at Alliance Legal Consulting Group, explains how to prepare Russian companies for an IPO.

A new "frame of reference" is emerging in the relationship between control bodies and supervised persons

Nikita Rozhentsov's article on the courts' pivotal decision for mining companies

On 1 November 2020, a reform of oversight activities, the so-called regulatory guillotine, came into force. The problem was that each type of oversight was not prescribed according to a standard matrix, but individually for a particular agency. The reform announced by the President of the Russian Federation is designed to make an inventory of obsolete regulations from the Soviet era and adopt new ones in line with the current principles of establishing mandatory requirements.

In courts, issues often arise that require special knowledge in the field of handwriting and forensic document examination. An article by Olga Podoprigorina, Sergey Ovechkin and Ksenia Amdur.

Alina Manina spoke at the Pravo.ru conference "Bankruptcy - 2021: regulation and court practice".

The Constitutional Court celebrates its birthday on 30 October. It turns 30 years old. In recent years, the court has increasingly focused on the work of lawyers and related legal relations. In 2021, it issued three such rulings. We decided to collect the most significant legal positions of the Constitutional Court during the 30 years of its existence. Office searches, searches in pre-trial detention centres, jury questioning, pocket defenders, censorship of correspondence, reimbursement of lawyer's expenses.

Реалии отечественного уголовного судопроизводства таковы, что следует разделять предусмотренное государством законодательное регулирование вопроса о привлечении топ-менеджеров к ответственности и то, каким образом судебно-уголовная система подходит к вопросу оценки доказательств обвинения. Одним из основополагающих принципов уголовного процесса является принцип вины, который означает, что лицо подлежит уголовной ответственности только за те общественно опасные деяния и наступившие общественно опасные последствия, в отношении которых установлена его вина.

The government wants to take advantage of the recently adopted amendments to the law on state appraisal and give eight types of forensic examinations to the exclusive competence of state forensic organisations. The draft decree concerns expert examinations in criminal cases and cases of disputing the cadastral value of real estate. Experts are sceptical about the latter initiative. They warn that "monopolization" of the appraisal will lead to an increase in the workload of state experts and will have a detrimental effect on the adversarial nature of the process in such cases.

Since covid, the real estate industry has made a qualitative leap to a new level: not only are new approaches and technologies appearing in construction, but also in regulation and practice. Key legislative initiatives, digitalisation and global trends were discussed at the conference "Development and construction: legal issues".