Can the outcome be guaranteed in advance?

No. Documents, risks, deadlines and legal options can be assessed, but the result depends on the facts and on the decisions of the competent authorities.

Do you advise on U.S. law?

No. The Russian lawyer advises on Russian law and handles Russian proceedings. Questions of U.S. state or federal law, procedure and admissibility are for counsel admitted in the relevant U.S. jurisdiction.

A conflict check on a short, non-confidential description of the matter. Sensitive documents are exchanged only after scope and a secure channel are agreed.

Area of practice

Cross-border dispute audit before filing

Before a claim is filed in either country: limitation periods under each law, the applicable law, and the contradictions between what has already been said in Russia and what will be said in the United States.

Your earlier Russian filing is evidence

A claim, a defence, a bankruptcy statement or an explanation filed in Russia may be read by a U.S. court as an admission of when you knew what. A U.S. federal court has dismissed a multi-million-dollar claim on limitation grounds using the plaintiff's own earlier Russian filing to fix the date of knowledge. The two countries' proceedings are one chronology, not two stories.

What the audit answers

For each claim: which law governs, when the period started under that law, when it ends, and which document proves each date. Then: what has already been said in Russia, and how a U.S. court would read it. The audit does not promise a win. It tells you whether a path is still open, in which forum, for which claim, and by when — before the cost of a proceeding, not after a dismissal.

This is work we do

Disputes of this shape are part of the office's practice: cases where a cross-border structure had to be analysed under both legal systems at once, and Russian materials had to be read as a foreign court would read them. Each case is its own, so one outcome promises nothing for another — but the work itself, assembling the chronology and checking each period under each law, is familiar from practice.

When this applies

You signed personal guarantees for a company and the dispute has moved abroad

A dispute has already been litigated in Russia and assets or the defendant are in the U.S.

Facts of a fraud emerged later than the first losses

Parties, documents and proceedings are spread across jurisdictions

You are U.S. counsel and need the Russian filings read for what they concede

What the lawyer does

Assembles one chronology across both countries

Fixes the start of the limitation period for each claim under each applicable law

Reads prior Russian claims, defences and statements for what they may concede

Checks applicable law and forum before the forum is chosen

Maps assets by country and assesses whether a future judgment can be enforced

What to have ready

Guarantees, contracts and their signing dates

Creditor demands and correspondence about them

Every Russian court document, including your own claims and defences

Bankruptcy documents, if any

Correspondence showing when you learned what

Assets by country

Where it usually goes wrong

The limitation period has expired and this is discovered in court

Your own earlier position becomes proof of knowledge

The forum is chosen before the applicable law is checked

Fraud is pleaded in general terms rather than specific facts

Parallel proceedings in two countries undermine each other

Next step

Review the documents, deadlines, jurisdiction and a realistic legal position

A consultation helps you see the structure of the dispute and the available steps — without promising an outcome.

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