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Nadezhda Orlova has participated in the fourth London-based conference dedicated to legal firm management and organised by the International Bar Association.

Sergey Ermolenko has commented in CEE Legal Matters on a case where the court considered the legality of the state corporation's demand for the presence of tender participants in the ratings of the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners.

FBK Legal?s lawyers have participated in the Seventh Tax Online Marathon organised by CFO CAFE. Fintaxtop.

As part of an agreement between FBK Legal and the Russian Gas Society for the improvement of Russian oil and gas, construction and land legislation, Nadezhda Orlova, Natalya Lezhennikova and Elena Shkadova have participated in a roundtable arranged by the State Duma Energy Committee headed by Pavel Zavalny.

Zakon.ru has published Ekaterina Subbotina?s article on benefits of a tax clause. The lawyer explored the broad and narrow sense of a tax clause, explained which type of a tax clause has recently become a hot topic and why that happened. Ekaterina suggested looking at the problem from the point of view of a conscientious taxpayer: should such a taxpayer include a tax clause into contracts and are there any situations when it can really help? The expert analysed the most wide-spread arguments against tax clauses and the ways to protect yourself from tax risks under the civil law, as well as shared her objections to those critical opinions. In addition, Ekaterina spoke about the main problem of judicial practices in cases concerning tax losses, recommended how to reply to objections from defendants in such proceedings and listed cases when a tax clause can have a significant effect on insurance against a tax risk based on FBK Legal?s experience in tax support of contractual arrangements.Zakon.ru has published Ekaterina Subbotina?s article on benefits of a tax clause.

FBK Legal?s tax consulting lawyers have given a lecture on IT law for the Legal IT Club. The lecture was dedicated to IT business taxation and structuring in Russia.

Elizaveta Kapustina and Anna Aktanaeva have given a lecture titled ?Property Liability of Members and Shareholders in Case of Company Bankruptcy: Losses and Subsidiary Liability? at Nachitka, the seventh annual international week of workshops organised by the Moscow Department of the Russian Association of Lawyers and the Faculty of Law of the Lomonosov Moscow State University.

FBK Legal?s tax consultants have held a webinar at the CFOCAFE | FinTax.Top platform to share their insights into business structuring: business splits, tax compliance, tax planning (special territories) and intercompany transactions.

Alexander Grigoriev has participated in the All-Russian Tax Forum organised by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation. He contributed to a discussion about a tax clause as a way to protect property interests from unlawful actions of counterparties.