The Legal 500

Within Banking and finance Other recommended firms

Within Moscow , tier 4

Newly promoted partner Alexey Shinkarenko heads the practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers CIS Law Offices BV, which recently won several new clients. Among these, it advised National Telecommunications Group on its $900m disposal of a majority stake in National Telecommunications to Rostelecom Group.

Within St Petersburg, PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal LLP is a third tier firm,

PricewaterhouseCoopers CIS Law Offices BV advises on general corporate and commercial matters for clients such as Mazda, Heineken and Russian Standard. The experienced Evgeniy Gouk heads the St Petersburg office.

Within Employment, PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal LLP is a third tier firm,

PricewaterhouseCoopers CIS Law Offices BV recently hired Anna-Stefaniya Chepik from Goltsblat BLP, where she had led the employment practice, and senior associate Maria Landau from Salans.

Within Energy and natural resources, tier 4

PricewaterhouseCoopers CIS Law Offices BV’s team head Yana Zoloeva specialises in energy, oil and gas deals and infrastructure projects. Senior associate Vladimir Sokolov brings valuable insight to the team due to previous positions at Gazprom and Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources.

Within Tax , PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal LLP is a second tier firm,

PricewaterhouseCoopers CIS Law Offices BV is able to draw on its specialist tax consultancy expertise to provide truly holistic service. The tax law disputes team is led by Yana Proskurina, who is ‘a great expert in the tax litigation field’, ‘always up to date with recent trends’, and has ‘excellent knowledge of tax court practices’.