Product

Lawmaking and GR Practice of BGP Litigation offers companies and business associations GR services at both the federal and regional levels.

The practice team focuses on identification and management of regulatory risks, promotion of corporate interests in executive government agencies through lawmaking and by-lawmaking, assisting in approval of scheduled transactions involving entities from unfriendly countries, and obtaining government support.

BGP Litigation is a member of the IRS Advisory Group, a consortium that pools resources of several law firms. Based on our joint experience and combined industry expertise, we offer our clients the opportunity to provide a comprehensive and viable solution to their aims.

Having significant theoretical and hands-on experience, insight into the national strategy for the development of economic sectors and demands of the business community allows our team to develop concepts and draft laws and by-laws, packages of documents at a high professional level, and to support the process of their consideration in the relevant executive government agencies.

A team of experts specialising in 20 areas of law and the ability to call in experts in narrow industry, expert and other issues help to develop optimum solutions for elimination of administrative barriers and creation of a comfortable regulatory environment.

Our clients are leading companies from various economy sectors with high regulatory burden, including oil and gas, metallurgy, agro-industrial, construction, pharmaceutical, credit and financial, telecommunications, alcohol, and tobacco businesses.


Services
Current and retrospective monitoring of rule-making initiatives: from the time of their formation as Ideas to that of their adoption as legislative acts
Identification and analysis of regulatory risks and opportunities due to rule-making initiatives
Identification of optimum ways to eliminate regulatory risks and consideration of regulatory opportunities due to rule-making initiatives
Legal, technical, financial, economic and other examinations of legislative acts and drafts thereof
Development of concepts and drafts of standard regulations, including the requisite accompanying documentation
Development of strategies and road maps for supporting draft legislative acts in executive government agencies
Expert support for promoting draft legislative acts in executive government agencies at all or specific stages of the relevant rulemaking processs
Drafting applications and accompanying documents for approval of scheduled transactions involving entities from unfriendly countries, including the requisite accompanying documentation
Expert support in promoting applications with executive government agencies for subsidies, benefits and other government support
Analysis of opportunities to obtain subsidies, benefits and other state support
Drafting applications and accompanying documents for approval of scheduled transactions involving entities from unfriendly countries, including the requisite accompanying documentation
Expert support in promoting applications to executive government agencies for approval of scheduled transactions involving entities from unfriendly countries
Drafting requests, complaints and other appeals to executive government agencies and support in obtaining responses to these requests

We advised:

A Foreign Oilfield Services Company

within the framework of a deal to offset dividends against a loan debt in the amount of RUB 0.5 bln

Russian Gas Majors

within drafting amendments to various legislative acts in connection with implementation of measures to develop gas production on the continental shelf including participation in working groups of the State Duma Energy Committee

Russian Oil Majors

within introduction of amendments into an International Agreement to regulate tax and legal conditions for implementation of an oil and gas project

Russian Oil Majors

within development of amendments to the Tax Code of the Russian Federation regarding taxation of service risk agreements and management agreements

Russian Oil Majors

within refinement of the taxation scheme for offshore field deposits

A Russian Oil Major

within drafting and performance of an investment agreement with a federal authority for implementation of a major oil and gas project

A Big Foreign Manufacturer and Supplier of Equipment and a Major Foreign Food Company

in obtaining a permit to pay dividends of approximately RUB 1.7 bln in foreign currency to a foreign participant from “unfriendly” country

A Major Foreign Equipment Manufacturer

in the sale of immovable property to the Russian management from a Russian subsidiary company that makes deliveries of and provides maintenance services for company products

A Major Russian Developer

within drafting changes in the water use legislation and legislation on environmental protection as applicable to discharge of wastewater onto local terrain

A Big Foreign Electrical Engineering Company

in the sale of a 100% stake in one of the industrial assets in Russia to a Russian buyer requiring permission from the Russian Government Commission for Control over Foreign Investments

A Big Russian Industrial Company

in improving legislative conditions for implementing special investment contracts

A Russian Investment Company

in the purchase of a 100% stake in a Russian company developing a gold deposit

Team

Pavel Kondukov
Partner, attorney — Tax Advise and Disputes