Dispute Resolution and Bankruptcy Practice

Duvernoix Legal has considerable experience in successful defense of the clients' interests in arbitration and federal courts of all levels, including the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation and the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, as well as in arbitration courts (ICAC), in various categories of cases. Our specialists provide comprehensive legal services in the field of corporate, labor, family, civil and administrative law.

The lawyers of the practice have extensive experience in bankruptcy cases of individuals and legal entities, including credit organizations and developers. We cooperate with leading self-regulatory organizations of arbitration managers, professional experts in the field of valuation and accounting, which allows us to comprehensively represent the interests of the client in bankruptcy proceedings. The practice's clients include the largest construction and industrial companies in St. Petersburg. Employees of our practice have experience of representation in bankruptcy cases in various regions of Russia, including St. Petersburg, Moscow, Ufa, Vladikavkaz, Krasnodar and Samara.

We strive to provide high-quality services and effectively protect the interests of clients in dispute resolution and bankruptcy, based on our rich experience and deep knowledge in relevant areas of law.

• Confidential client – individual: debt collection in the amount of 100 million rubles with the imposition of security measures in the form of arrest of the largest shopping center in Vladikavkaz;
• CJSC “SK “Temp”: recovery of losses from the bankruptcy trustee in the amount of 40 million rubles and losses in the amount of 11 million rubles from the former director of the debtor;
• Confidential client – legal entity: refusal to the bankruptcy trustee to recognize invalid the client's transaction for the purchase of a plant management company in Samara, formerly part of the largest city enterprise;
• Confidential client – bank creditor: exclusion from the list of bank creditors’ claims of the claims of first-priority bank controlling persons in the amount of 1 billion rubles;
• Confidential client – credit organization: cancellation of judicial acts of the Arbitration court of North-Western district with the performance of a new judicial act on the inclusion of a credit organization's claim for 450 million rubles as the third priority claim;
• Confidential client – foreign investor creditor: conclusion of a settlement agreement in the bankruptcy case with the participation of a Russian bridge bank (claims more than 4 billion rubles) and the retaining the client’s control over the largest shopping center in Ufa;
• Aleksandr Nikolaevich Yarchuk – co-owner of Kubantorgbank JSC, Firma Graviton LLC: termination of proceedings in the bankruptcy case of an individual with the corporate claims of 8 billion rubles;
• Rodion Aleksandrovich Yarchuk, co-owner of the Greenhouse-Pro complex: obtaining a refusal to recover damages in the amount of 709 million rubles from the client. outside the bankruptcy case;
• Confidential client – car dealer debtor: protecting the interests of a person controlling the debtor in a dispute on the recovery of corporate losses in the amount of 631 million rubles in a bankruptcy case;
• Confidential client – foreign investor creditor: search for a person controlling the debtor assets and analysis of transactions made with such assets in order to bring the real beneficiaries of the debtor to subsidiary liability in the amount of more than 980 million rubles;
• Confidential client – state contractor debtor: refusal to include the claims of the general contractor in the amount of 639 million in the register using the netting mechanism for several work contracts and construction projects;
• Individual client: refusal to recognize in a bankruptcy case a transaction for the sale and purchase of shares in Park-Hotel St. Petersburg LLC worth RUB 794 million rubles invalid and the establishment of debt in the register for 61 million rubles to adjust the value of the share based on the reports of the Big Four audit company;
• Individual client – owner of the "Army Store": obtaining a refusal to recognize a transaction  for the purchase and sale of commercial premises worth 289 million rubles invalid in a bankruptcy case;
• Head of Prime Finance Bank JSC: challenging transactions for the formation of reserves in accordance with the instructions of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation in the amount of more than 100 million rubles;
• Confidential client – food retailer: protection of transactions for the sale of a business (supermarket chain) worth 168 million rubles in the bankruptcy case of Intertorg Trade House.