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Rustam Kurmaev specialises in acting for financial companies and corporations in litigations and on aspects of corporate legislation and land relations.  Rustam has extensive experience of acting for both Russian and foreign clients in arbitration and general jurisdiction courts. He has taken part in many disputes in the spheres of insurance, banking and finance, disputes connected with rights to real estate and land relations and other disputes pertaining to civil and commercial law. Rustam takes an active part in major due diligence projects for both Russian and foreign companies.

The Legal 500 EMEA 2010: “Rustam Kurmaev demonstrates an especially deep knowledge of Russian civil procedure and the principles of international arbitration”.

Some recent projects conducted under the guidance of Rustam Kurmaev:

• Acting for Matra Petroleum in a series of corporate disputes over the rights to stakes in a Russian oil-extraction company;
• Representing Vimpelcom in a corporate dispute with respect to a transaction to acquire non-residential premises in Novosibirsk;
• Acting for Volkswagen Group Rus in a series of disputes relating to termination of dealership agreements, debt recovery and seizure of over 120 luxury vehicles;
• Acted for Gillette in a series of disputes for recovery of the cost of freight lost during general cargo shipment from China to the UK;
• Acted for Swedwood (IKEA) in litigations over a contractor’s inappropriate performance under a contractor agreement to build a plant and collection of monies under the bank guarantee issued to secure return of a prepayment;
• Advised Citibank in a dispute with Schindler arising out of fund claims against a bank guarantee, issued to secure the return of an advance payment remitted for construction and installation works.
• Successfully resolved over a hundred disputes for  Caterpillar Finance and Scania Leasing associated with seizure of leasing equipment provided on the basis of domestic and international leasing agreements.
• Owner of a retail and office centre in the Moscow Region - Acted for participants in the company in a number of disputes relating to unlawful actions on the part of the General Director in selling the only valuable asset to affiliated structures. As a result of our actions to have a criminal case initiated against the former General Director and to have operational search actions conducted to prove the affiliation between the former General Director and the buyers, we were able to prove in the arbitration court that the transaction withdrawing the asset was invalid on the basis of articles 10 (abuse of rights) and 168 of the RF Criminal Code and articles 44 and 45 of the Federal Law “On Limited Liability Companies”.
• Major Russian manufacturer of software for the Russian oil extraction industry - Settled a complex corporate dispute between several participants holding participatory interests in different legal entities on the most favourable terms for the client. Used the mechanism of arbitrary transactions for risk securitisation.
• Major Russian publisher and distributor of multimedia software, computer games, teaching programs and video output in Russia and the CIS - A combination of a multitude of pre-investigation checks in Russia and Cyprus proved an effective tool for obliging the other side to conclude an agreement with the client  on buying up the block of shares belonging thereto.
• Major Russian film company, TV distributor and independent film distributor - Acted for the owners of the business in a corporate conflict with the former management. Represented their interests in disputes for recovering losses from the company’s management and acted for them in a criminal case against the former management in connection with multiple abuses of power thereby.

Rustam has been a member of the Moscow City Bar since 2003. He is fluent in Russian, English and French.

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