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“Law is the utmost expression of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the society”
Samuel Johnson
The Law Office «Olevinsky, Buyukian and Partners» was established following the rebranding of the legal departments of the NBZ Group in the spring of 2006.
The team of the NBZ Group specialists, who are now the core of the Law Office «Olevinsky, Buyukian and Partners», has over ten years of experience in the legal services market. Over the years, we have earned the reputation of a professional and trustworthy partner whose excellent knowledge and competent application of laws guarantee successful work.
The Law Office has a staff of over 70 employees, some of whom have PhD degrees in Laws and Economics. Our senior specialists hold MBA certificates and qualifications of professional accountants, auditors, and appraisers. All our employees are committed to increasing their professional level and expertise and implement the latest contemporary consulting business techniques and standards.
The director of the Law Office, Eduard Olevinsky, has PhD degree in Law and is the author of numerous articles and monographs on bankruptcy law, an arbitrage bankruptcy commissioner of the highest (third) category, a member of the Expert Board for Insolvency and Financial Restructuring at the Russian Ministry for Economic Development.
The Law Office «Olevinsky, Buyukian and Partners» works in close cooperation with the leading Russian self-regulating organization of insolvency trustees in Russia — «Interregional Center of Experts and Professional Executives», The lawyers of the legal bureau assist the Center’s commissioners in the key projects, facilitating the formation of a unique professional community that unites the leading experts in law, economics and management that can manage crises effectively.
This comprehensive approach allows us to act as a successful integrator in bankruptcy proceedings, forming and ensuring effective work of an efficient cross-functional team of professionals.
Since our professional community was established, we have successfully completed over 100 projects united by a common principle of project work organization. They include bankruptcy process assistance and business revival after restructuring at such companies as «Pharmacenter» (Moscow), «Electronstroy» (the Moscow region), «Rosneft-Kemerovonefteprodukt» (Kemerovo), ZAO «Ecomet – S» (the Leningrad region), the Tire Industry Research Institute (Moscow), «Energiya Vostoka» (Vladivostok), «Vtoraya Pyatiletka» (the Krasnodar region); protecting the shareholders’ rights during hostile takeover bids for such companies as «Pobeda» (Moscow) and «Energotekhmontazh» (the Tula region); participation in developing the restructuring program for the gas distribution system of «Rostovoblgaz» (Rostov-on-Don).
The key areas of expertise of the Law Office «Olevinsky, Buyukian and Partners» are consultations in financial management, organizational consulting, legal advice, accounting and HR outsourcing. When it is required by our projects, we involve the leading Russian PR specialists.
Over the years, we have accumulated considerable experience in cooperating with Russian and international businesses, the government agencies, and the authorities in various Russian regions.
Few law firms can boast such a solid practical experience and expertise of handling cases of varying degree of difficulty at both arbitration and general jurisdiction courts.
We place great value on our impeccable business reputation and are committed to cultivating civilized and long-term relationships with clients. For instance, after resolving an arbitration dispute, we normally offer our clients continued legal support for their business on special terms. Our main objective is to provide the client with the optimal business development conditions.
The combination of the knowledge and expertise of our specialists in various fields of law enables us to develop unique solutions to the most complex problems of our clients.
Our credo is continuous development: we keep expanding the range of the service we offer while also working on developing unconventional approaches to solving problems. Our specialists will come up with an individually tailored cooperation agreement for each client and assume personal responsibility for the results of their work.
Since 2008 the Law Office «Olevinsky, Buyukian and Partners» has been cooperating with the Russian Pro Bono Clearinghouse, founded in 2007 in Moscow by the Public Interest Law Institute (PILI) with the assistance of the American Bar Association (ABA/ROLI). The Law Office became the first Russian Law company, which expressed its readiness to provide Pro Bono services within the Russian Pro Bono Clearinghouse. «Blokadnik» (Victim of siege of Leningrad) non-profit organization, which united citizens who survived the siege of Leningrad during the years of the Great Patriotic War, and the Russian Teachers Support Fund — the organizer of «The teacher of the year» and «The leader of education» All-Russian competitions — became our first paternalized organizations within the Pro Bono program.
Managers and partners of the Law Office are permanent analysts of the leading Russian business mass media — «Kommersant», «Vedomosti» newspapers, «Business FM” radio station, «Expert -TV» and «Zakon-TV» TV-channels. Eduard Olevinsky has its own column in the «Russian business-newspaper».
Members of the Law Office’s «Olevinsky, Buyukian and Partners» Board of Directors on a regular basis participate in important business events, confirming their reputation of experts in the area of financial sanation and bankruptcy. In 2008 the Law Office «Olevinsky, Buyukian and Partners» became an official sponsor of the IV Annual International Conference of the Association of European Insolvency lawyers and accountants specializing in corporate recovery and bankruptcy (INSOL Europe), which was held in Saint-Petersburg. The Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors Eduard Olevinsky spoke at this conference with a report «The rights of preferred creditors in Russia», where he described the problems of creditors’ interests protection and suggested the ways of conflict resolution between the demands of creditors.
In February 2010 the Chairman of the Law Office’s «Olevinsky, Buyukian and Partners» Board of Directors Eduard Olevinsky and the managing partner of the company Aleksander Kolchin presented papers at the «Investigation of financial condition of insolvent debtor — correspondence between obligations, powers and liability of insolvency officers» conference, organized by the Ministry of economic development of the Russian Federation with the assistance of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Association of International Insolvency lawyers (INSOL International).
In June 2010 the Law Office «Olevinsky, Buyukian and Partners» became a legal partner of the «Judicial debt restructuring. Institute of Bankruptcy of Individuals in Russia» First All-Russian Conference, which was conducted on the eve of the Federal Law’s «On rehabilitation procedures applied to the individual-debtor» commencement. The Chairman of the Law Office’s «Olevinsky, Buyukian and Partners» Board of Directors Eduard Olevinsky presented at the event his report entitled «Bankruptcy of individuals. Will the borrower need additional legal protection after the enforcement of the law?». Eduard Olevinsky noted that a well-established infrastructure of inexpensive and qualified assistance provided to citizens-debtors is necessary for efficient work of the institute of consumer bankruptcy. Mobile residential properties are needed for vacation of housing that is a mortgaged property, as well as availability of arbitration court for the most remote points of Russia. There shall be no obstacles for bankruptcy assets increasing at the debtor’s receipt of shares of companies. The law on bankruptcy of individuals will become a reliable legal protection from unfair borrowers — this is the guarantee of efficiency of the institute of consumer bankruptcy. «Judicial debt restructuring. Institute of Bankruptcy of Individuals in Russia» Conference received a great public feedback and was covered by leading Russian business publications.
Our team’s strength lies in its universality and versatility, which helps us resolve virtually any problem for a client within the framework of the legal means.
We are always open to negotiations; you only have to begin the process of negotiating and we will take it from there and handle all the possible difficulties from the day you first contact us.
Contacts
Moscow office:
101-V Prospekt Mira, Moscow, Russia, 129085
Phone: +7 (495) 609 6666
Fax: +7 (495) 648 1240
E-mail: info@newbizrussia.ru
Saint Petersburg office:
office 204, 3 Chapayva str., Saint Petersburg, Russia, 197046
Phone: +7 (812) 702 1561
Tula office:
office 403 (4th floor), 112 Sovetskaya Str., Tula, Russia, 300041
Phone: +7 (4872) 36-18-16,
+7 (910) 942-52-53
Voronezh office:
office 25, 38 Stepana Razina Str., Voronezh, Russia, 394036
Phone: +7 (4732) 96-96-45
+7 (910) 241-11-26
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