Since 2008, AstapovLawyers International Law Group has extended its network to Russian Federation through the announcement of a new office in Moscow. This decision marks a new and extremely important stage in the firm’s operations in Russia proving our ability and expertise to work on complex cross-border transactions and offer top quality legal solutions in the country.
We offer to our clients a strong team which is able to provide a high level of service, giving pragmatic and commercially-oriented advice on legal and commercial issues.

Our Moscow office is staffed by locally qualified lawyers who rely on our international capacity which enables us to handle large scale transactions and disputes while ensuring local expertise.
We focus on international arbitration and litigation, mergers and acquisitions, corporate and commercial, international taxation and financing. In addition to these core groups we have lawyers experienced in competition, investments, real estate, international trade, information technology, intellectual property, commercial investigations, constitutional and human rights. We also have expertise across all industry sectors. In Russia our special industry focuses include energy, oil and gas, agriculture, food production and companies of the financial sector.
Our clients in the region include international financial institutions, international and domestic corporations, across a range of industry sectors.

The quality of our team is consistently recognised by international publications in addition to Russian ratings:

• Ranked 21st among the Top Russian law firms – Vedomosti/Pravo.Ru
• TOP-10 in the field of litigation – Vedomosti/Pravo.Ru
• TOP-20 in the M&A field – Vedomosti/Pravo.Ru
• Competition Law Advisory Firm of the Year in Russia 2010 - Corporate INTL Magazine
• Highly Commended - Top Tier Firms 2011– InterContinental Finance Magazine’s (ICFM).
• Mergers & Acquisitions Law Firm of the Year - The DealMakers Law Awards 2011.
• Oleh Malskyy, AstapovLawyers’ Partner was recommended in the field of Antitrust law in 2010 – Best Lawyer.
• Andrey Astapov, AstapovLawyers’ Managing Partner, was recognized as “internationally recognized and outstanding’ arbitration expert” - Who’s Who Legal CIS in 2010 and 2011.
• Arbitration, Litigation & Dispute Resolution Law Firm of the Year- Lawyers World Magazine.

Moscow office is personally headed by AstapovLawyers’ Managing Partner Andrey Astapov, who recently moved to Moscow to lead on the Firm’s most dynamic practices.