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Stuart Levey, the first ever Under Secretary of the US Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, joins his former colleague Juan Zarate, Global Co-Managing Partner, for a one-on-one conversation...

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP have published an article in the Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation examining the development of English sanctions case law and the growing challenge...

It was impossible to ignore this news, because the requests of our clients for help in solving the issue of fulfilling the annual duty to index wages are still alive in our memory.

The amendments (which were more than 3 years in the making) introduce a number of key changes to the insider trading regime the most important of which are discussed below

A draft amendment to the Federal Law "On Banks and Banking Activities" that allows companies other than credit institutions to accept payments that usually fall under banks’ jurisdiction (the "Payments Amendment") passed its third reading by the State Duma on July 7, 2006.

Experts from VEGAS LEX have visualised foreign exchange restrictions that are regularly introduced since the end of February of this year as special economic measures.

Since March 2, 2022, additional temporary economic measures have been in effect to ensure the financial stability of the Russian Federation.

The Greater Bay Area, which also includes Hong Kong amounts to 28% of all mainland China's GDP.

On August 4, 2011 the Federal Service for Financial Markets of the Russian Federation (FSFM) registered and sent to the Ministry of Justice the Draft Order "On the Amendments to the Regulations of Offerings and/or Trading of Securities of Russian Issuers Outside the Russian Federation".

In order to support the liquidity on the Russian stock market, Russian securities laws have historically provided for certain caps on the number of shares of Russian issuers that could be offered for placement and/or circulation ...

Large Russian companies are donating significant amounts to the fight against the still escalating coronavirus crisis[1]. In addition, other companies have been invited by the authorities

There have been many references to investing in Russia in the financial press recently.

The Ministry of Finance announced the start of the denunciation procedure today. Implementing the instruction of the President of the Russian Federation on the adjustment of agreements to...

In 2018 a number of changes were made to the Russian Civil Code, facilitating certain transactional aspects.

Moscow District’s Commercial Court recently adopted an unprecedented decision, ruling that the debt of an insolvent bank must be repaid by both the bank’s former executive officers and its board members (after the repayment of debts out of the assets of the bank).

On November 1, 2016, the Collegium of the Eurasian Economic Commission introduced substantial changes to the rules for applying the procedure for deferred customs valuation of goods.

On July 31, 2020, Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin signed the Law on Digital Financial Assets and Digital Currency. It comes into force in January 2021.

Despite the fact that most of the upcoming changes in 2020 are more related to small and medium-sized businesses, it is expected that representatives of large businesses will also change.