Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners
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| Headquarters | Moscow |
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| No. of offices | 6 |
| No. of attorneys | 31 partners,[1] 300 attorneys[2] |
| Major practice areas | General practice |
| Revenue | 2019: 163 mil. €.
2012: 118 mil. €.[3] 2011: 97.2 mil. €.[4] 2009: 90 mil. € [5] |
| Date founded | 1993 |
| Founders | Nikolai Egorov, Dimitry Afanasiev, Stanislav Puginsky |
| Website | epam |
Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners (EPA&P; Russian: Его́ров, Пуги́нский, Афана́сьев и партнёры (ЕПАиП)) is an established international law firm in the CIS with offices in Russia, UAE, Ukraine, Belarus, and associated offices in London and Cyprus.[6]
History
[edit]The firm was founded by Nikolai Egorov,[a] Dimitry Afanasiev, and Boris Puginsky in Moscow in 1993, when Western corporations were beginning to expand into the post-Soviet states.[11]
To support the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2004, Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners represented the interests of a Russian diplomat and two GRU agents who were arrested on 19 February 2004 in Qatar for the assassination of Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, who was a separatist leader from Chechnya who was murdered in Doha, Qatar, and gained the release of the diplomat; however, the two GRU agents, stood trial in Qatar and, on 30 June 2004, received life sentences for murdering Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev but, in December 2004, the two GRU agents were transferred back to Russia to serve their terms in Russia.[7][9]
In July 2011, Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners merged with the international law firm Magisters.[2]
In 2015, firm chairman Afanasiev was awarded "European Managing Partner of the Year" by The Lawyer European Awards.[12][11]
Locations
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[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Nikolai Dmitrievich Egorov (Russian: Николай Дмитриевич Егоров; born 26 April 1947, Leningrad, Soviet Union) served in the Northern Fleet from 1966 to 1969. Egorov, who graduated in 1975 from the law faculty of Leningrad State University as one of the closest friends of Egorov's classmate Vladimir Putin, reintroduced Putin in the early 1990s to Anatoly Sobchak who, as mayor of Saint Petersburg, was a client of Egorov's law firm. From 1984 to 1992, Egorov headed the Department of Civil Law at Saint Petersburg University where he taught Dmitry Kozak. In September 1992, Nikolai Egorov co-founded the company CJSC JV "Petrointeroil" (Russian: АОЗТ/ЗАО СП "Петроинтеройл") together with Sergey Roldugin, Nikolay Khrameshkin, Vladimir Dmitrievich Yakovlev, Andrey Bulutanov and the other co-founders: the Swedish company Arne Larrson & Partners, Kronstadt Terminal JSC, Tyumenpetroleum JSC, the Baltika Trading House, and St. Petersburg Intertrade LLP (SPb Intertrade) (Russian: ТОО "Санкт-Петербург Интертрейд" ("СПб Интертрейд")), which Egorov founded in January 1992 placing Andrey Bulutanov as general director and gave Egorov a 17% stake with the controlling 50% stake held by the Vladimir Putin headed and Saint Petersburg based Mayor's Committee on Foreign Relations. In 1993, Egorov co-founded the St. Petersburg based Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Marx Law Firm (EPAiM) which was later renamed Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners (EPA&Partners): the "Marx" in the former name was from the American Bruce Marks.[7][8][9][10]
References
[edit]- ^ EPA&P website: Partners
- ^ a b Egorov and Magisters merge to create CIS giant
- ^ The Lawyer European 100, 2012 Archived 2012-06-24 at archive.today
- ^ The Lawyer Euro 100, 2011 Archived 2014-02-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Egorov equity partners trouser £5m profit shares
- ^ Legal 500
- ^ a b Lloyd, Richard (29 November 2007). "The firm that came in from the cold". LegalWeek. Archived from the original on 10 March 2014. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
- ^ Orth, Maureen (October 2000). "Russia's Dark Master: Vladimir Putin, Russia's new president, won the admiration of his people for his iron grasp on power. Then came the Kursk submarine crisis. Will the Kremlin's mystery man be able to rein in a massively corrupt oligarchy, or will he wake the ghost of Stalin?". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on 22 October 2017. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
- ^ a b Pribylovsky, Vladimir (December 2015). "ЕГОРОВ Николай Дмитриевич" [Egorov Nikolay Dmitrievich]. anticompromat.org (in Russian). Archived from the original on 17 November 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
- ^ "EPA&Partners: Overview". www.epam.ru. March 2001. Archived from the original on 13 March 2001. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
- ^ a b "About". EPAM. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
- ^ "The Lawyer European Awards: Ireland's A&L Goodbody takes top honours". The Lawyer. 13 March 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2017.