The CIS London & Partners team has attended Minsk Legal Forum that proved to be a new platform for ‘live non-legal communication in legal circles’. Practicing lawyers and representatives of legal businesses from Europe and Asia have discussed their views on the legal profession and legal business development in various regions. Svetlana London gave a talk on CIS qualified lawyers’ career and business prospects in the UK.
Svetlana London and Kulzhan Mehrabi took part in a round table organised by the Legislation Institute of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan together with Reed Smith law firm. The leading lawyers, solicitors and barristers have discussed various challenges of as well as approaches to developing new Kazakhstani legislation on the basis of the common law principles. Svetlana presented a comparison of English and Kazakhstani law provisions regarding M&A deals.
This topic is of a particular interest to companies and the government of Kazakhstan as well as to foreign investors, especially in relation to Astana International Financial Centre being established.
Our team has participated in the first regional legal forum that took place on 7-8 October 2016 in Voronezh. The forum was organised as a networking platform for lawyers of Central and South regions of Russia.
Svetlana London took part in the ‘Legal firm management: life hacks’ panel by giving a talk on managing quality of the legal services.
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.
