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The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation (SCRF) issued a Review of the court practice dated 25.12.2019 (Review), in which it de facto set out new rules on affirmation (execution) of the shareholders’ decisions in the limited liability companies (LLC, or “OOO”, in Russian). It also covers the cases when there is a sole shareholder in an LLC.

The Managing Partner of "Mosgo and Partners" law firm Oleg Mosgo has been appointed deputy chairman of the Legal Committee of the Russian-German Chamber of Commerce (AHK). Voting took place today at the office of the AHK in the business centre "Fili-Grad".

Mosgo & Partners has been accredited to a unique platform for exchanging business opportunities – the ABO Platform.

On December 02, 2019 the Federal Law “On introduction of Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation” No. 405-FZ (“the Law”) has come into force. The Law amends the Administrative Offences Code of the Russian Federation and introduces fines for violation of personal data protection legislation. Particularly, the noncompliance with the so‑called “personal data localization” shall be subject to administrative liability of personal data operators.

"Mosgo and Partners" is among the winners of the most reputable & authoritative Pravo-300 ranking of the year 2019 in "International commercial transactions / Customs and foreign currency regulation". Our law firm is included into the first – and the most prestigious – band.

From 01 September 2014, the Russian legislation provides that several directors can be appointed in a company. In other words, the “four-eyes principle” of company management, widespread in Europe, can now be used in Russian companies, although with some peculiarities.

Regulation of Sanitary Protection Zones (SPZ) in Russia has always been imperfect and obscure. Definition of the SPZ, its regime, classifications and regulatory limits were originally set out insanitary and epidemiological rules (SanPiN), which did not provide adequate regulation of a number of important issues and led to various problems.

Russian legislators promote digital rights (DRs). DRs will have special regulation with some peculiarities. While scholars continue their disputes on what DRs are and what their place in the system of legislationis, we decided to emphasize several most important and prominent features of DRs according to the to-be legislation.

One of the functions of an LLC and a JSC is the limitation of founders’ (participants’ / shareholders’) liability to the amount of their contributions to the charter capital of the company.However, in some cases, such limitation ceases to work, and the founders along with the directors and other controlling persons will be liable for the company's debts. This type of liabilityis called secondary liability, which means the lability only if there is not enough assets of the company to pay off debts.