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About us

Our Advocate Bureau was founded in 1999 when several practicing advocates grouped together to form a joint advocate practice.

Nowadays, Advocate Bureau is comprised of advocates and lawyers who are the specialists in different areas of law and are rendering qualified legal assistance to Russian and foreign clients, basing on statutory principles of advocates’ independence and of advocates’ secrecy guaranteed by the law.

All the advocates of the Bureau are members of the Advocate Chamber of Moscow and are following the rules and standards of advocate practice as well as norms of the code of advocate’s professional ethics and high requirements to quality of legal assistance rendered by advocates. Advocate Bureau "Grishayev, Malyarenko and Partners" is included in the Register of Advocate Organizations of the City of Moscow.
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Andrey Grishayev
Senior Partner
Advocate
Advocate (since 1992), a member of the Advocate Chamber of Moscow. Practice areas: contract law, real estate, investments and construction, disputes resolution.
Speaks French and English.
Graduated with honors from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (1988). Since 1988 till 1992 was in the diplomatic service.
Dmitry Malyarenko
Managing Partner
Advocate
Advocate (since 1993), a member of the Advocate Chamber of Moscow.
Practice areas: contract and corporate law, M&A, foreign investments and project financing, disputes resolution, natural resources and real estate.
Speaks English.
Graduated with honors from the Lomonosov Moscow State University (1991) and training course at Asser College Europe at T.M.C Asser Institute (the Hague, the Netherlands).
Robert Simonyan
Senior Partner
Advocate
Advocate (since 2003), a member of the Advocate Chamber of Moscow.
Practice areas: transaction structuring, real estate, contract law, land law, investments and construction, disputes resolution.
Speaks English and Armenian.
Graduated from the Rostov State University (1996).
Ivan Alferov
Advocate
Advocate (since 2003), a memberof the Advocate Chamber of Moscow.
Head of Litigation Practice.
Practice areas: disputes resolution, contract law, insolvency and bankruptcy, land law, real estate, investments and construction.
Speaks English.
Graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University (2002), postgraduate program of the Lomonosov Moscow State University (2005). PhD in Law.
Ekaterina Bonch-Bruevich
Advocate
Advocate (since 2002), a member of the Advocate Chamber of Moscow.
Head of Corporate and Tax Practice.
Practice areas: contract law, corporate law, M&A, taxation law, disputes resolution, legal regulation of securities market, project financing and foreign investments.
Speaks English.
Graduated with honors from the Saint Petersburg State University (1997), postgraduate program of the Saint Petersburg State University.
Galina Vavilova
Advocate
Advocate (since 2005), a member of the Advocate Chamber of Moscow.
Practice areas: contract law, family law, consumers’ rights protection, real estate transactions, disputes resolution.
Speaks English.
Graduated from the All-Union Correspondence Institute of Law, Khabarovsk Department (1988).
Elena Vasilieva
Advocate
Advocate (since 2002), a member of the Advocate Chamber of Moscow.
Practice areas: contract law, labour and migration laws, legal regulation of non-commercial organizations, disputes resolution, real estate transactions, transactions with sea and inland navigation vessels.
Speaks French and English.
Graduated from the Kutafin Moscow State Law University (2002) and Moscow State Linguistic University (1997).
Maxim Dyatlov
Advocate
Advocate (since 2012), a member of the Advocate Chamber of Moscow.
Practice areas: contract law, insolvency and bankruptcy, disputes resolution, real estate transactions.
Speaks English.
Graduated from the Moscow State University of Land Management, Faculty of Law (2006).
Anna Skorbenko
Advocate
Advocate (since 2003), a member of the Advocate Chamber of Moscow. Head of Real Estate Practice.
Practice areas: transaction structuring, real estate transactions, contract law, land law, investments and construction, disputes resolution.
Speaks French and English.
Graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the MFA. The International Law School (1999).

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SERVICES

The Advocates of the Bureau provide legal assistance to Russian and foreign clients of the Bureau, taking advantage of their complex knowledge of the Russian legislation and of the legal practice.

Our practical skills and experience in performing due diligence and deal structuring, as well as in participation in disputes resolution, serve to /provide success realization of our clients’ projects.

Advocate practice of the Bureau is in successive progress in all basic trends of legal assistance, pursuing interests of our clients, legal and physical persons.
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  • ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICE
    • representation of interests in proceedings on administrative offence cases
    • legal support in the course of governmental or municipal inspections and control procedures
    • legal advice on administrative law matters and on relations with governmental and municipal bodies
    • legal advice on licensing of various types of activities and on obtaining authorization documentation and permits
    • representation of interests within administrative procedures of governmental services rendering
    • legal advice on customs regulations
    • preparation of applications, petitions, complaints and other procedural documents in the course of administrative procedures
  • CONTRACT LAW
    • legal advice and assistance in the course of clients’ negotiations
    • legal due diligence of contracting parties’ status and of their rights/title to the subject of a transaction
    • legal advice on contractual structure of transactions (transactions structuring) on the basis of the parties’ intentions, regulatory requirements and legal and other risks
    • legislation and corporative compliance in connection with contracts execution and performance
    • legal advice on matters of contractual provision on security for due performance of obligations, drafting and preparatory work, various legal support in preparation and coordination of contracts, agreements and other transaction documentation
    • legal support in contract implementation by the contract parties
    • legal assistance in resolution of disputes arisen out of contracts and agreements, including contracts enforcement and debts collection
  • CORPORATE PRACTICE
    • legal advice on choice of corporate and legal form of prospective entrepreneurial activities, and structuring of existing business
    • legal due diligence of corporate status of legal entities and of rights of their shareholders (participants)
    • drafting constituent and other corporate documents and internal regulations, as well as local normative acts
    • advice on various legal matters related to activities of corporate management bodies and on other corporate matters
    • legal support of transactions with corporate stocks and shares in authorized capital of commercial companies
    • legal support of convening and holding shareholders (participants) meetings, meetings of Board of Directors and other management bodies of companies
    • representation in court and arbitration disputes on corporate matters
    • legal advice on anti-monopoly regulations matters, antimonopoly compliance and clearance
    • legal advice on establishment and activities of non-commercial organizations including charity organizations and educational establishments
  • DISPUTES RESOLUTION
    • representation of clients’ interests in different kinds of disputes in courts of general jurisdiction and arbitration courts (tribunals), in arbitration proceedings including the international commercial arbitration
    • legal advice to clients and analysis of the counterparties’ positions, assessment of legal perspectives and risks of legal disputes
    • pre-judicial claim work, assistance in out-of-court dispute resolution, mediation and reconciliation procedures
    • elaboration and preparation of legal position and procedural documents in the course of legal proceedings
    • participation in court and arbitration hearings on the case
    • enforcement of court acts and arbitration awards
    • legal advice and representation of interests in bankruptcy proceedings
    • disputing illegal decisions and actions (failure to act) of governmental and municipal bodies, as well as of governmental and local officials
  • EMPLOYMENT AND MIGRATION PRACTICE
    • legal advice on various matters of labour law and migration legislation
    • drafting of employment contracts and of local normative regulations on employment relations
    • representation of clients’ interests on labour disputes and migration cases, including representation in courts and agencies of Federal Migration Service
    • legal assistance in employment of foreign citizens in the Russian Federation
  • Investment projects
    • legal due diligence of investors’ status and their rights to an investment project realization
    • legal advice on choice of legal model of investment project realization, including structuring of business and (or) transactions
    • participation in investors’ negotiations with other parties involved
    • legal support in governmental-private partnership projects implementation
    • legal advice on issues of investment projects realization
    • drafting of contracts and other legal documents determining terms and conditions of investment projects realization
  • REAL ESTATE AND CONSTRUCTION
    • legal due diligence of rights to land plots and to other real estate objects
    • legal support of sale and purchase transactions, lease, mortgage (hypothec) and other transactions with real estate
    • legal advice on acquiring rights to publicly and municipally owned land plots and other real estate (privatization transactions)
    • legal advice on cadastral registration matters and on state registration of rights to real estate objects
    • legal advice on real estate development, property management and utilities supplies
    • advice on various legal matters of town planning, urban and project design and of construction activities
    • legal support of building contracts and any other types of contracts in the field of construction (reconstruction) and real estate development
    • legal advice on agricultural lands turnover
    • legal advice on natural resources use and management
  • TAX PRACTICE
    • legal advice on taxation matters, tax reporting and accounting matters
    • legal advice and support to clients in the course of tax audit, preparation of objections to acts of tax audit and participation in consideration of tax audit materials by tax authorities
    • preparation of statements of appeals and complaints to tax authorities, participation in consideration of appeals and complaints by the tax authorities
    • representation of clients’ interests in court proceedings on tax disputes
    • preliminary legal analysis and estimation of tax consequences of contracts conclusion; advice on related legal and tax risks
    • legal advice on currency regulations and currency control matters compliance with regulations on anti-money laundering and prevention of terrorism financing

Contacts


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Ac. Sakharov Prospect


e-mail: reception@gmplaw.ru

Postal address:
P.O. Box 291, 35, build 2 Myasnitskaya str.,
Moscow, Russian Federation, 101000

SOCIETY

Advocate Bureau “Grishayev, Malyarenko and Partners” consistently realizes principles of social responsibility, mutual respect and support in relations with society. Charity, care about professional and social development of advocates and employees, legal advice pro-bono, support in professional formation of high legal schools students within programs of their student practice and probation work, all these are essentials of our practice.
Advocate Bureau “Grishayev, Malyarenko and Partners”, with respect and gratitude to the Charity Fund “Gift of Life", and to the Art Rehabilitation Center “Maria’s Children” marks its long-term experience of co-operation with these organizations, including initiative “Charity instead of Souvenirs”.