Private clients

PRIVATE CLIENTS

We provide comprehensive legal assistance to private clients on a wide range of issues across various jurisdictions, represent clients in family disputes and disputes concerning children, protect the rights of business owners and top managers in economic disputes, develop and support the creation of complex domestic and international structures for owning and managing private wealth and business assets.

Profound industry-specific expertise and the extensive geography of our partnerships and projects allow us to take on tasks and challenges of any level of complexity, related both to the professional and family life of our clients.

The practice specialises in rendering services to private clients in the following areas:

Family Law Inheritance planning Tax structuring Investment Relocation Labour Law Immigration Law Protection of the rights of beneficiaries and top management White collar crime defence

Drafting of nuptial agreements, property division agreements, alimony agreements and agreements on bringing up children, and support for their notarisation.
Prevention of financial risks and other unfavourable consequences of divorce.
Acting in court in cases involving divorce, recovery of alimony, division of property, disputing nuptial agreements, determination of place of residence of and contact with children, establishment of paternity, deprivation and restriction of parental rights.
Support on disputes over return of unlawfully moved and retained children under the 1980 Hague Convention, over children travelling outside the Russian Federation for holidays or education, and relocation of one of the parents and other cross-border disputes over children.
Interaction with the court bailiffs on recovery of alimony and imposition of liability for improper payment.
Risk analysis during bankruptcy of spouses, imposition of secondary liability and lodging of creditor’ claims.
Asset search.
Negotiations and mediation.

Analysis of a client’s family and business situation, development of a strategy for handing an estate on to future generations.
Advice on recognition and enforcement in the RF of nuptial agreements, agreements on division of property, wills and other documents executed abroad.
Analysis of the structure of and grounds for possession of capital. Recommendations on formalising rights to and documents on assets.
Analysis of a corporate document in relation to family law and inheritance documents.
Preparation of legal opinions for foreign courts and notaries on Russian family law issues.
Drafting of wills, joint wills of spouses, inheritance agreements.
Structuring of possession of personal and business assets, including by setting up a personal trust, inheritance trusts, foreign trusts and foundations.
Support for division of inheritance estates, including drafting of agreements between heirs.
Support for probate in foreign jurisdictions.
Acting for heirs during inheritance cases, including cross-border inheritance.
Acting for heirs in their relations with guardianship and wardship authorities on approval of transactions with the participation of minor heirs.

Advice on selecting an optimal investment jurisdiction.
Support for acquiring assets abroad.
Taxation advice.
Advice on private capital investment and venture capital.
Support for M&A transactions, establishment of joint ventures.

Advice on selecting an optimal investment jurisdiction.
Support for acquiring assets abroad.
Taxation advice.
Advice on private capital investment and venture capital.
Support for M&A transactions, establishment of joint ventures.

Advice on relocation, including the tax, migration and currency legislation, and choice of jurisdiction.
Analysis of risks and consequences of relocation from the perspective of family and inheritance law: assessment of the possibility of mutual recognition of nuptial agreements concluded in a foreign jurisdiction and in the Russian Federation, wills, other agreements, family and inheritance planning instruments, and their harmonisation.
Receipt of tax resident status.
Support for obtaining a second citizenship, rejection of RF citizenship, a residence permit in foreign jurisdictions, including by means of investment.
Notification of authorised bodies on second citizenship, residence permit, removal from registration in the Russian Federation.
Opening of personal and company bank accounts.
Support for real estate transactions.
Registration of a business and establishment of foreign companies for holding and managing private capital.

Structuring of labour relations with top management. Advice on recruiting for top positions, negotiations with employers over incentive plans and KPIs.
Assistance in obtaining immigration documents for highly qualified specialists and their family members.

Assistance in obtaining a residence permit and Russian citizenship.
Regular advice to foreign citizens (preparation of annual notifications, help in undergoing medical checks and fingerprinting).
Provision of support on difficult aspects of immigration law (loss of citizenship, correction of errors in immigration documents, grounds for obtaining RF citizenship by the simplified procedure).
Emergency assistance if foreign citizens are detained at passport control, legal support if entry into the country is not permitted.

Representation in cases on protection of honour and dignity, including in family law relations.
Support in disputes over being held secondarily liable.
Support in disputes over recovery of damages.
Acting for shareholders in corporate disputes.
Preclusion of management company risks exacerbated by bankruptcy procedures.
Support for personal bankruptcy procedures, including cross-border ones.

Legal support and protection for heads and owners of organisations during pre-investigatory inspections, preliminary investigations and court hearings.
Performance of advocate searches to establish, verify and register specific facts and circumstances.
Timely assessment of criminal law risks deriving from civil law relations and preventive measures before investigatory acts on the part of law enforcement bodies.
Advice on the legislation on combating legalisation of criminally derived proceeds, combating corruption and observation of relevant mandatory procedures.
Advice on minimising criminal risks in bankruptcy cases.