Commentary by Olga Kalinchenko, Senior Consultant of Alliance Legal CG Legal Practice Department for Pravo.ru legal information portal. The government has approved and decided to submit to the State Duma several draft laws concerning illegally constructed buildings as well as the regulation of individual housing construction (IHB). Citizens will be given an opportunity to avoid demolition if they themselves bring the construction in line with city planning regulations. "Pravo.ru asked lawyers how necessary and effective the new laws would be.

Commentary by Ignat Gorshtein, Senior Consultant in Alliance Legal CG's Legal Practice Department, for the legal information portal Pravo.ru.

Commentary by Alina Paltseva, Head of Bankruptcy Practice at Alliance Legal CG, for the Pravo.ru information and legal portal. The number of bankruptcies of individuals is growing, but this institution still fails to live up to expectations, recent statistics from the bankruptcy registry show. At the same time, the restructuring of a citizen's debts is becoming less and less popular. Why this is the case is explained by legal practitioners. Also, the statistics show who initiates consumer bankruptcy proceedings most often and which regions have taken the lead in them, leaving Moscow and St. Petersburg far behind.

On 03 October 2017, the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation discussed and approved draft amendments to procedural laws which should significantly reduce the workload of the courts, simplify and speed up court proceedings. Ignat Gornshtein, Senior Consultant at Alliance Legal CG, shared his opinion on the usefulness of the draft law.

It is widely believed that 90% of refusals to register information on the founder (participant) or head of an organisation can be explained by formal breaches of the law on state registration of legal entities. But in 2016 special grounds for refusal were added to it. Most directors and founders still do not know them. Therefore, the refusal to register, and the reasons for it, may come as a complete surprise to applicants. Nikita Rozhentsov, senior consultant in the legal practice department of Alliance Legal Consulting Group, will explain how to select the right director or founder (participant) of a company.

On 12 September 2017, a scientific and practical conference "Tax Policy and Tax Disputes 2017" was held in Moscow, which was attended by the Head of Alliance Legal CG Grishin A.S. and Senior Consultant of Alliance Legal CG's Legal Practice Department Rozhentsov N.S. The conference was organised by Pravo.ru portal

"Fraud is the most "popular" criminal-legal corpus delicti among crimes in the sphere of economic relations. And this can be explained by its universal nature, which allows law enforcement agencies to qualify crimes in the sphere of economy in all their diversity under Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the RF. This "diversity" often becomes the cause of competition of criminal law corpus delicti".

"The founders of Alliance Legal Consulting Group were not afraid that a long-standing friendship would be an obstacle to doing business together. And they weren't wrong. The secret of the company's success is not only a business based on friendship, but also on strict quality control of services." Dmitry Fesko, Evgeny Karnoukhov, Nikolay Popov: "We do not create unhealthy competition within the team.

Alliance Legal CG carried out a complex restyling of the company's logo and corporate identity. Alliance Legal CG has been providing legal support and protection for big business and state corporations under Russian and international law since 2010 and has a history of successfully resolving complex property and corporate conflicts.

Alina Paltseva, Head of Bankruptcy Practice at Alliance Legal CG, and Ignat Gornstein, Senior Counsel at Alliance Legal CG, attended a series of professional training seminars organised by the Institute of Development of Modern Educational Technologies on 223-FZ, 44-FZ and 275-FZ, held from 17 to 19 July 2017.