Full-Service Law Firm

Law Firm Overview

International Legal Corporation “DIGESTA” (“DIGESTA ILC”) has offices located in St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia. We actively operate on the Russian market in the field of legal services oriented mostly towards the International Business Development for Russian companies and private investment protection worldwide, and also towards legal support and strategic positioning of foreign companies and natural persons in Russia and in former Soviet Union Republics.

DIGESTA incorporates the group of experienced lawyers working in Moscow and St. Petersburg offices with assistance of the Managing Partner from the USA, International attorney whose experience exceeds 35 years, and also world-class attorneys and experts in various fields of law, science and technology, working in different countries of the world.

Among DIGESTA’s specialists there are international lawyers with stupendous experience of practice in different jurisdictions and business, deans and scientists from the Universities and experts who are recognized authorities - legal scholars and scientists in many fields of science, they are unique in their scope of knowledge and capacity to offer and implement the most rational solutions.

Extraordinary high level of education and technical training enables the DIGESTA’s specialists work successfully with transboundering companies which have branches and Representations worldwide.

Areas of Law

Areas of Law Description

Our legal services include, but are not limited to the following:

- Subscription Legal Services (Outsourcing)

Subscription legal service is a highly skilled complex support of activity of the company on all legal problems arising in the course of economic activities.

- Legal Consulting

. Consulting on customer rights matter;
. Consulting on establishing any legal forms of juridical persons;
. Assistance in choosing a type of the company you might want to establish with the focus on the specifics of the sector and nature of relationship between contributing participants;
. Assistance in preparation and correct handling of internal documentation;
. Analysis of different documents on their relevance to the existing legislation;
. Drafting of standard documentation;
. Drafting of different types of contracts;
. Preparation of the employee instructions;
. Drafting of the labor contracts;
. Assistance in preparation of claims and statements;
. Analysis of presented documentation with verbal conclusion;
. Legal examination (research) of the full-text documents with the report in writing on findings of the examination;
. Due Diligence, including Due Diligence of land and real estate objects;
. Verbal consultations on the matters of law;
. Consultations on the matters of law in writing;
. Business consulting.

- Intellectual Property

. We render consulting services concerning the author's, patent right, trade mark (service mark), selection achievements, know-how technologies, and etc.;
. We assist in registration of a trade mark (service mark), draw up a balance of objects of intellectual property;
. We make agreements on alienation/transfer of exclusive right (including author's agreements for the order, license agreements, and etc.).

- Support of Real Estate Transactions

Legal support of a transaction is the basis for reliable business. Legal support issues are especially important for land lots and industrial real estate objects. Our Office renders the following services:

. Legal examination of documents;
. Working out of an optimum variant of transaction, consultation on the order of its carrying out;
. Legalization of the property rights for objects and ground areas;
. Preparation and coordination of documents with the state administrative bodies;
. Representation of interests of the client in the state instances.

- Mediation

Mediation procedure is conducted by our experts by some stages:

. organization of the process of negotiations;
. statement of positions of the parties;
. revealing of the main interest of the parties;
. search of true interests of the parties and their possible extreme positions;
. development of the joint decision (search and a combination of alternatives);
. arrangement of agreement;
. signing of the agreement of lawsuit.

- Pretrial Proceedings

On property and non-property disputes:

. Holding negotiations;
. Mediation;
. Legal examination (research) of the full-version documents with the presentation of experts’ report in residence of the customer;
. Forecasting outcomes of the court resolution for particular case based on the attached materials and analysis of the court practice in similar category of cases (expediency analysis for court resolution of the dispute);
. Drafting the claims;
. Drafting the pretrial (pre-arbitrary) warnings;
. Drafting business letters, and the letters to the court on the matters of pretrial proceedings.

- Representation of Interests in the Courts

. The services on resolution of legal disputes in the arbitration courts;
. The services on resolution of legal disputes in General Jurisdiction Courts;
. The services on resolution of legal disputes in the commercial Arbitration courts;
. Executory process.

- Registration and Liquidation of Legal Entity (LLC, CJSC, OJSC) and Sole Proprietor

. Support in creation and registration of legal entities (OOO (limited liability company), ZAO (closed joint-stock company), OAO (open joint-stock company), non-commercial organizations;
. Support in creation and registration of legal entities based on foreign investment;
. Support in registration of Mass Media;
. Support in registration as private entrepreneur (non-incorporated entrepreneur);
. Support in registration of authorized dealership;
. Support in registration of branches and representative offices;
. Support in reorganization of the company (in the form of takeover, accession, division, separation and transformation);
. Registration of legal entities abroad and in offshore zones;
. All the forms of liquidation of a company (official liquidation, bankruptcy, selling, reorganization);
. Ready companies.

- International legal services

International legal services include:

1. Minimization of risks which regard entering into international contracts and applying of international legal regulations by holding of legal analysis and Due Diligence.
2. Composing of business plans (expert’s report) and searching for investors (partners) (International Business Development).
3. Due Diligence of land and real estate objects.
4. Assistance in making contacts with Chambers of Commerce and Industry of different countries.
5. Support of foreign investments
6. Elaboration of contract adjusted to the Customer.
7. Carrying on the before-contract negotiations.
8. The work on security check of the counteragent.
9. Support of the contract on all the stages of its realization.
10. Representation/protection of Customer’s interests in more then 25 countries worldwide.
11. Searching of variants of non-judicial adjustment of conflicts by achieving settlement.
12. Mediation.
13. Representation of interests in the international institutional courts of arbitration and arbitration ad hoc.
14. Searching of international arbiters.
15. Registration of legal entities abroad and in offshore zones.
16. Support in opening and registration of legal entities with foreign investments.
17. Receipt of the extract from Trade registers.

- Additional Services

On your request, our specialists can be helpful at:

. technical processing of documents and powers of attorney (sewing together, certification, copying);
. selection and printing out a set of laws, provisions and executive orders on particular topic you are interested in (taking into consideration the current changes);
. selection of information materials (articles, publications) from press, information bulletins on particular topic;
. collection of data on a juridical person (potential partner) you might be interested in: taxpayer ID, OGRN (basic state registration number), KPP;
. providing legal services at the location convenient for the client (our specialists can visit prospective customers at their office or other preferred location);
. representing Your organization in the negotiations on contracts (agreements) with the appropriate legal diligence.

More Information on Digesta

St. Petersburg, Russia Full-Service Law Firm
Real Estate Lawyers in St. Petersburg, Russia
Contract Legal Services in St. Petersburg, Russia
St. Petersburg, Russia Intellectual Property Lawyer
International Legal Services in St. Petersburg, Russia
About International Legal Corporation "DIGESTA"
Mediation Lawyers in St. Petersburg, Russia
Digesta News and Publications

Office Locations

• Russia - Moscow