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BGP Litigation’s Industrial Practice demonstrates a deep understanding of the business objectives and operational nuances of companies within the industrial sector. With over 20 years of experience, our team provides legal support to industrial enterprises at all crucial stages of their activities – from onboarding new investors and structuring holding entities, to securing funding for business expansion, negotiating complex contracts, addressing regulatory risks, and handling the acquisition and disposal of assets.
Services
Legal audit of industrial assets
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Our team conducts audits tailored to clients’ objectives. These include identifying risks related to lack of title to production and infrastructure assets, assessing delineation of industrial site boundaries, ensuring compliance with sanitary protection zones, verifying the permits required for production activities are in place, and preparing risk maps and action plans for their mitigation.
Securing rights to movable, immovable property, and intellectual propertyerty
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Our practice assists in securing rights to an entire property or specific industrial facilities that lack formal title documentation. We also handle land rights to plots occupied by industrial facilities, incorporating land-use economics. Our firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology Practice provides for protection and management of all IP assets belonging to industrial enterprises.
Supporting investments in new facilities
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  • Drafting project finance agreements

  • Preparing memoranda on ownership rights to shares/equity of the client

  • Preparing memoranda on initial permits and regulatory documentation for construction and project operation

  • Preparing memoranda regarding rights to movable and immovable property

  • Preparing memoranda on risks within contractual documentation

Drafting of complex contracts and legal support for investment projects to expand business
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Our lawyers have extensive experience of drafting comprehensive contractor agreements governed by both domestic and foreign law, including use of standard contracting documentation

Industrial safety
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Failure to comply with industrial safety regulations can result in financial losses reaching hundreds of millions of roubles, as well as reputational risks that can reduce a company’s share value. Moreover, it poses the risk of criminal liability being imposed on senior management and business owners.

  • Legal advice on industrial safety
  • Representation before Rostekhnadzor, the State Labour Inspectorate (GIT) and other public authorities
  • Defence in administrative cases
  • Challenges to orders, acts and decisions issued by public authorities
  • Participation in investigations of workplace accidents
  • Court representation in industrial safety-related disputes
  • Defence in criminal cases involving industrial safety

Environmental risks: legal advice, audit and dispute resolution
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High-profile disputes over environmental damage reveal increased activity from Rosprirodnadzor, including a consistent rise in recoverable damages, imposition of civil liability for harm caused, and making owners of hazardous enterprises responsible for eliminating accumulated harm. These trends highlight the significance of environmental risks to businesses.

  • Specialised advice, including provision of a “third” opinion
  • Support during inspections by state authorities
  • Representation in environmental disputes


Commercial contract support
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  • Advising on all legal aspects of commercial activities, including foreign trade
  • Support for companies in contractual activities, including development of complex and non-standard contracts
  • Auditing of existing contractual frameworks and provision of recommendations for optimising standard contract templates
  • Structuring of contractual relations with counterparties, including analysis and drafting of distribution agreements, supply contracts and leases
  • Risk analysis and identification of legal remedies for contract negotiation, execution, breaches, and termination
  • Supporting negotiations with counterparties  

Products

We advised:

One of Russia’s Biggest Chemical Enterprises

in development of contractual documentation for construction of a plant under the EPC model with a foreign contractor and execution of a contract worth over RUB 70 bln

A Majority Shareholder

in a high-profile deprivatisation case, defending interests against claims from the Russian Federation Prosecutor General’s Office regarding recovery of shares in Russia’s biggest methanol producer

Glavstroy Corporation

in matters related to redevelopment of industrial territories in Moscow and the Moscow Region

A Russian Manufacturer of Industrial Resins

in the development of contractual documentation for preparing basic plant design and a licensing agreement with a foreign contractor, as well as execution of contracts worth over RUB 2 bln

A Major Russian Industrial Holding

in the process of restructuring ownership structures worth over RUB 30 bln into a foreign trust, including obtaining all the requisite regulatory approvals

A Russian Industrial Group

in acquisition of a group of European scientific and industrial companies worth RUB 3 bln from a foreign shareholder

A Russian Research Institute

in development of contractual documentation and implementation of a project for construction of a facility to produce specialised objects as per parallel design documentation development rules, construction and installation works, and supply regulations

Leading Industrial Companies

in projects concerning formalisation of rights to enterprises as property complexes and real estate property as complex assets (over 30,000 properties)

A Manufacturing Association, Part of a Major Moscow Construction and Production Holding,

in a dispute with the Moscow City Property Department and the Moscow branch of Rosreestr regarding rights to a land plot on Danilovskaya Embankment

A Company Engaged in Developing and Implementing Technical Solutions for Increasing the Capacity of Ore Processing Plants,

in a dispute with one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of fertilisers (part of one of the biggest chemical groups) over recovery of a penalty for contract non-performance

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