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Author Archives: Максим Сухотерин

31.05.2017 Максим Сухотерин courts, foreign judgment, Kazakhstan court fee

Recognition and enforcement of judgments of foreign courts in Kazakhstan

General Provisions

Article 501 of the Civil Procedure Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan provides that decisions, resolutions and rulings on the approval of settlement agreements, judicial orders of foreign courts are recognized and enforced by the courts of the Republic of Kazakhstan, if recognition and enforcement of such acts are provided for by legislation and/or an international treaty, ratified by the Republic of Kazakhstan, or on the basis of reciprocity.

10.05.2017 Максим Сухотерин cession the right, Russian Civil Law

Consequences of fixing in the contract a ban on the assignment of rights under Russian Law

Before answering this question, it is necessary to clearly delineate the types of obligations that the party or parties are required to cede to a third party. The current Russian civil legislation makes it possible to distinguish three types of such obligations, the assignment of claims on which leads to different legal consequences depending on the position of the debtor or the prohibition of cession in the contract:

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Taito Heikkinen,
Honorary consul of Kazakhstan to Finland,
Managing Director, Tieto-Oskari Oy, Finland
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Dmitriy Becker,
Georgievsk, Stavropol Krai,
Russia
Dear Maxim,
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Many thanks.

Tamir Lazarov,
Tel-Aviv, Israel
Great thanks to Mr. Maxim Sukhoterin for qualitatively done work on upholding of interests of the company in courts of all instances (including the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan) on the lawsuit with the Kazakhstan National company which ended with reclamation of goods on the amount more than 90 million tenges. The line item of judicial protection was built competently and resulted in positive result. Excellent work!

Serik Nurmaganbetov, Director
“Company A70” LLP, Aktobe, Kazakhstan
I have been served in the Karaganda branch of SION & Partners Law Firm at Mr. Ivan Omarov for many years and I`m very grateful to him for the high-quality help in various legal issues. I trust him and I consider him the reliable and experienced attorney.

Raisa Fatukhina,
Bereznyaki Sanatorium LTD, Director, Karaganda region, Kazakhstan
I want to express my deep sincere gratitude to the office of the law firm SION & Partners in Astana and personally to the lawyer assistant – Anna Mircheva for the great help in participating in the resettlement program of compatriots to Russia, and also for organizing the search in archival institutions of the Arkhangelsk region of Russia and the restoration of very important historical documents reflecting events more than 70 years ago. I want to note the highest professionalism of employees, responsibility, attentive and creative attitude to the matter.
Many thanks to SION & Partners for their real help in solving very important and significant legal issues!

Elena Ikonnikova,
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Our company applied for SION & Partners Law Firm to clarify some questions on Corporate Law and Construction Law in Kazakhstan. We worked in close cooperation with Mr.Maxim Sukhoterin. Despite the limited time and number of issues, we have received detailed and informative responses from SION & PARTNERS. Our collaboration based on trust, empathy and honest communication.
Look forward for the future cooperation.

Ioannis Vasiliadis,
Finance Department, METKA EGN Limited, Great Britain