OUR TEAM

Vladimir Mekler, senior and managing partner
Listed in the Moscow Bar’s Book of Honors.
Decorated with an order of “Fidelity to Attorney’s Duty”.

Graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1980. Lawyer, member of Moscow City Bar since 1980. Vice-chairman of the Presidium of the Moscow City Bar Association from 2003 to 2010.
He specializes in legal practice on major business, including support and structuring of extraordinary complex contracts, cross-border contracts among others; systems of corporate governance and legal structuring development and optimization with regards to criminal and antitrust legislation; legal support of mergers and acquisitions; corporate disputes settlement; organization and coordination of legal representation and defense in multi-episode economic and property crimes.

Larisa Kosheleva, partner
Labor Veteran.
Honored Jurist of the Russian Federation.
Listed in the Moscow Bar’s Book of Honors.
Decorated with an order of “Fidelity to Attorney’s Duty”.

Anatoly Nikitin, partner
Graduated from Moscow State Law Academy in 1992. Attorney, member of Moscow City Bar since 1992.
He specializes in legal support of business and private sector of real estate, building construction and real estate investment, including juridical aspects of participatory construction and all kinds of disputes over these fields with representation in general and commercial courts of all instances.

Anatoly Kleimenov, partner
Member of the International Association of Young Lawyers.
Member of the Jewish Law Association.

Graduated from the Moscow State Law Academy in 1993. Attorney, member of Moscow City Bar since 1994. Got his Juris Doctor degree in 2011 from Institute of State and Law RAS; his doctoral dissertation is “Adversarial nature of American Civil procedure”. He is the author of a book under the same title and a number of articles in leading Russian law magazines. He specializes in legal services in the fields of civil and commercial procedural law, administrative law, contracts law, medical and criminal law. He represents both individuals and organizations in general jurisdiction and commercial courts of all instances and in the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation.

Igor Semerikov, attorney
Graduated from the Moscow State Law Academy in 1998. Attorney, member of Moscow City Bar since 2004.
He specializes in legal services in the fields of legal practice on investment construction, including risk identification and analysis; representation and legal defense of clients in their relations with counter parties, state agencies and public officers; court representation in disputes over sale, delivery, lease, service, labor contracts, disputes over validity of concluded contracts, their termination or alteration, disputes over imposition of administrative sanctions, debt enforcement and legal practice on challenging state authorities decisions and actions (inaction).

Marina Kochetova, attorney
Graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1999. Worked in multiple Russian legal entities of various forms of incorporation. Attorney, member of Moscow City bar since 2013.

Specializes in legal support of business and private individuals, including legal support and structuring of transactions, representation in commercial courts and courts of general jurisdiction, as well as representation before public authorities. Provides consultations on commercial and business law. Provides legal support in the field of health law.

Anna Kosiborod, attorney Graduated from International University in Moscow in 2000. Attorney, member of Moscow City bar since 2013.

Specializes in comprehensive legal support of legal entities and groups of companies, including legal support of day-to-day operations; implementation of proper documentation procedure, as well as transactional, complaint-based and litigation-based procedures; due diligence on complex transactions and business as a whole; consultations on shared-equity construction, investment and real estate relations, corporate law and administration, including administration of non-profit organizations; disclosure based on securities regulation. Represents persons and legal entities before public authorities, local administration, as well as in arbitrazh (commercial) courts and courts of general jurisdiction on civil and administrative matters as well as matter pertaining to civil and arbitrazh (commercial) procedure.

Dmitry Nikitin, attorney
Graduated from the Moscow Economics, Politics and Law Institute Law School in 2007. Attorney, member of Moscow City Bar since 2009.
He specializes in legal services in the fields of legal practice on investment construction, including risk identification and analysis; representation and legal defense of clients in their relations with counter parties, state agencies and public officers; court representation in disputes over sale, delivery, lease, service, labor contracts, disputes over validity of concluded contracts, their termination or alteration, disputes over imposition of administrative sanctions, debt enforcement and legal practice on challenging state authorities decisions and actions (inaction).

Mikhail Mekler, attorney
Graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 2011. Attorney, member of Moscow City Bar since 2012.

He specializes in the field of civil and administrative law, including health law. He provides consultations on European Court of Human Rights operations and proceedings, completed a course of studies in European Court of Human Rights.