Capital Legal Services announces development through Russian offices of Castren & Snellman
Castrén & Snellman Attorneys is closing its offices in Russia and will continue to support its clients on the Russian market by deepening cooperation with law firm Capital Legal Services (CLS). The teams of C&S Russian offices will join CLS and will provide support to clients together.
Capital Legal Services will continue to actively develop as an independent law firm with deep expertise in the fields where support is most demanded, and is capable of offering high quality services to clients in Russia.
‘We are happy to have found a respected partner in Russia with the drive and excellent plans to develop local client work even further. Client service will continue seamlessly despite the change as our key personnel transfer to CLS. We are confident that we will be able to offer our clients as good, if not even better, service through the extensive services and expertise of this strong local firm’, said Heidi Paalanen-Koev, Castrén & Snellman’s partner in charge of the Russian offices.
‘We are very happy to welcome new colleagues to our team, with their many years of experience in providing reliable support to Finnish and other foreign companies doing business in Russia. By combining the strengths of our firms, we can offer clients top grade service, allowing all clients to continue doing successful business on the Russian market, which can sometimes be a challenge indeed’, said Capital Legal Services LLC’s Managing Partner Vladislav Zabrodin.
‘Our experience is that our clients value the partnerships we have with top-tier local law firms and the high quality of our own work. Our international business strategy has proven highly successful, and our cooperation with CLS will support this strategy’, said Sakari Lukinmaa, Managing Partner of Castrén & Snellman.
Capital Legal Services (CLS) is a leading Russia full-service law firm founded in 1999. Their offices are located in Moscow, St Petersburg and Helsinki.
Chambers & Partners, Legal 500 and Russian rating agency PRAVO.Ru recommend CLS as a legal adviser for companies doing business in Russia and distinguish the firm’s high expertise in such areas of law as corporate/M&A, real estate, public-private partnership and infrastructure, project finance, intellectual property, fintech, dispute resolution and private wealth. CLS has won the prestigious ROSINFRA award for its achievements in top public-private partnership projects in Russia.
Castrén & Snellman (C&S) established its St Petersburg office in 1994 and expanded its operations to Moscow 2007 as its clients’ businesses grew. C&S particularly distinguished itself advising clients in cross-border mergers and acquisitions in Russia.
https://www.castren.fi/
https://www.cls.ru
For more information, please contact:
Sakari Lukinmaa, Managing Partner, Castrén & Snellman, +358 20 7765 391
Heidi Paalanen-Koev, Partner in charge of Russian offices, Castrén & Snellman, +358 20 7765 358
Vladislav Zabrodin, Managing Partner, Capital Legal Services, +7 921 962 79 74