We are delighted to announce that The Legal 500 once again recognised CIS London & Partners LLP as a Tier 1 Foreign Law Firm in London for Russia. The Legal 500 in their UK edition referred to our firm as follows:
CIS London & Partners LLP provides tax, family and probate advice to Russian, Kazakh and Georgian clients in the UK, and also handles corporate and commercial matters for international clients requiring legal expertise of the Russian and CIS market.
Managing partner Svetlana London is ‘consummately professional, displays great attention to detail and takes enormous care with clients’ needs’
Senior Associate Valeria Ivasikh is welcomed as a recommended lawyer for 2016.
CIS London & Partners team attended the 10 European-Asian Law Congress that took place on 9-10 June 2016 in Ekaterinburg, Russia. This year the topic of the congress was ‘Law, politics and economics in the modern world: changes of the XXI century’. Svetlana London gave a talk on international and national legal business standards and participated in a panel session that discussed problems of international and national business regulations in the modern world.
Svetlana London was invited as a guest lecturer by the Law Department of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv to give a talk on English law and legal career development to the students and academic personnel. Svetlana presented a review of the main principles of the Anglo-Saxon law and discussed legal career perspective on the local and international market.
CIS London & Partners run an information session on MBA (Legal Services) within the Education and Career exhibition in Almaty, Kazakhstan on 8 April 2016.
Svetlana London, managing partner of CIS London & Partners, gave a talk on the main aspects of the MBA programme and answered the questions of potential students.
Svetlana London was invited as a guest speaker to KAZGUU University, one of the leading law universities in Kazakhstan. The two day joint event was held for the staff, professors, Ph.D. candidates and postgraduate students of the University. Svetlana gave a talk on English law and career development and had very positive feedback from the audience.
Svetlana London and Valeria Ivasikh of CIS London & Partners LLP have attended Russian Midlands Business Club’s “Success in Russia” seminar on 23 March in Birmingham, where Svetlana addressed the audience with an overview of Russia and other CIS countries’ legal framework.
In particular, Svetlana touched on Russia’s recent data protection and media ownership restrictions, as well as the more general matters of ongoing civil law reform and legal due diligence of Russian companies.
Svetlana London gave a talk on ‘Technical updates: Advising Internationally Mobile Russian Clients’ within STEP’s Advising International Russian Clients seminar, kindly hosted by KPMG in London.
CIS London & Partners team attended the Eastern Ukrainian forum of the Ukrainian Bar association that took place on 11-12 March 2016 in Kharkov. The forum consisted of several panel discussions and a business breakfast where Svetlana London presented the unique MBA (Legal Services) program. It was a delight to see the audience being genuinely interested in the topic.
