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Business environment in Russia is steadily improving through the last years.  Being the emerging market Russia is attracting foreign investors establishing or expanding their business in Russia. In order to establish or expand their presence in the Russian market, foreign investors open representative and branch offices and incorporate Russian companies as wholly owned subsidiaries or joint ventures with Russian partners.

When entering the Russian market or expanding the presence, it is important for the foreign investors to select the most appropriate legal form of their presence in accordance with their aims, objectives and current business structure. Foreign investors can choose from a number of different forms of business presence in Russia, from representative offices and branches of foreign companies to a number of legal forms of the Russian companies.

Further, after start of operations many investors face another issue - employment of foreign specialists for the work in Russia and inviting foreign visitors. At this stage professional legal assistance in obtaining working authorization documents and business visas may be required.

During the life cycle, representative and branch offices as well as Russian companies require certain legal assistance related to the change of name, change of address, replacement of Director, etc. In a number of cases foreign investors exit the Russian market and then high-quality legal support is needed again while liquidating business presence in Russia. 

All above cases require professional assistance of the experienced lawyers.  Relying on strong expertise of our lawyers and well developed network of partner firms we are able to offer our clients "turn-key" legal solutions in the field of Russian legislation.