Dispute resolution

If you face a corporate conflict, REVERA’s team will help your business to settle the conflict in a most efficient way. We render legal assistance in the following matters:

• Contesting decisions of corporate management bodies;
• Invalidation of major transactions and affiliated parties transactions;
• Non-performance or invalidity of transactions between shareholders involving purchase of shares/stocks;
• Unlawful re-allocation of participatory/equity shares;
• Amendment (registration of amendment) of the articles of association involving inaccurate information;
• Expulsion or desired expulsion of shareholder;
• Failure to furnish information on corporate activities;
• Failure to pay profit/dividend;
• Any other infringement on shareholder’s rights.
   

REVERA law group has developed a wide contact base of foreign partners and created an internal database of court practice and mechanisms for searching assets and counterparties in foreign countries. 

Our team provides legal assistance in the following areas:

• Collection of evidence and information regarding the opponent and their assets in foreign states;
• Selection of foreign partners for the representation of interests in foreign countries, preparation of legal opinion based on foreign law and control of their activities;
• Development of a strategy for disputes in foreign courts.

Primary areas of legal assistance:

• Advising clients and assistance in handling documents in conflict dismissal procedures;
• Develop optimal and efficient strategies to protect employers in labour disputes with employees;
• Representation of clients in disputes with employees seeking reinstatement in employment or change in definition of cause of dismissal;
• Representation of clients in disputes with employees seeking to collect emoluments or other payments;
• Representation of clients in disputes seeking to bring employee to material accountability for any damages inflicted on employer;
• Representation of clients in disputes involving employee’s violation of NDA (non-disclosure agreement), divulgence of employer’s commercial secrets;
• Representation of clients in disputes involving employee’s violation of NCA (non-compete agreement).

Our lawyers are ready to provide legal assistance in the following areas:

• IP monitoring and risk analysis
• Representing client’s interests in case of detection of any infringement of IP rights by your competitor

Main areas of legal assistance:

• Representation of interests in disputes arising from software development agreements, license agreements such as developer-customer / developer-publisher / developer-licensee disputes;
• Representation of interests in disputes arising from other agreements related to the creation of copyright objects (websites, works of art, etc.);
• Representation of interests in disputes related to the infringement of trademarks and trade names exclusive rights;
• Advising and representation of clients in disputes related to the domain names;
• Advising and managing DMCA-based copyright or trademark infringement disputes regarding mobile apps;
• Advising and support in the prevention of apps piracy;
• Representation of interests in antitrust and competition law disputes related to the use of trademarks;
• Representation in disputes related to the infringement of the exclusive rights to industrial property.
   

Our services:

• Representing client during the pre-trial stage, in particular preparation of claim (cease and desist letter), response to claim; correspondence with competitor; negotiating over a pre-judicial resolution of dispute;
• Representing client in the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center under the UDRP procedure with respect to claims involving infringement of trademarks and domain name registration;
• Representing client in the Ministry of Antitrust Regulation and Trade (MART) with respect to disputes involving infringement of trademarks, in particular use of similar designations in domain names;
•  Support in disputes involving infringement of trademarks, contestation of trademarks in the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), national courts of European Union countries, Great Britain, USA, and Russian Federation;
• Consulting and analysis of prospects of disputes with competitors, criteria of similarity (up to confusion) between trademarks and domain names; of procedures and prospects of contestation of trademarks, preparing recommendations to mitigate dispute risks;
• Consulting and analysis of signs of unfair registration/use of trademarks or domain names.

Our team is ready to provide legal assistance in the following areas:

1. Litigation Strategy & Pre-Trial Dispute Resolution
2. Developing a defense strategy and legal position, assessing risks and prospects for dispute resolution.
3. Preparing legal opinions on dispute resolution prospects within pre-trial settlement procedures.
4. Representing clients in construction disputes before local and international arbitration (commercial and investment disputes).
5. Assisting with international arbitration disputes as local counsel, including document preparation, information gathering, selecting foreign partners and arbitrators, and drafting legal opinions.
6. Pre-trial risk assessment, cost estimation for litigation/arbitration, and proposing alternative dispute resolution options.
7. Negotiation and mediation support for pre-trial settlement of construction disputes.
   • Legal Representation in Construction Disputes
   • Disputes over construction quality, including defect remediation during the warranty period.
   • Claims for payment of completed work, including refusal to sign acceptance certificates.
   • Disputes over additional work performance and payment.
   • Claims for withheld guarantee payments.
   • Claims for penalties and damages due to contract breaches.
   • Disputes over contract formation, unilateral termination, and early contract termination.
   • Legal Protection for Engineering & Design Firms
8. Defending engineering and oversight organizations in disputes over the quality of technical supervision services.
9. Representing interests in disputes related to project design and surveying contracts.

*Court representation is carried out by separately engaged attorneys who are not employees of REVERA.

If you have problems with real estate disputes, we are ready to protect your interests and resolve the conflict. Our team will take on all difficulties in negotiating with the counterparty and provide objective arguments to protect your interests.
 
We provide legal assistance in the following areas:

• Analysis of legal position.
• Formation of litigation strategy.
• Selecting the most effective way to protect the client.
• Preparation of all necessary documents.
• Participation in negotiations. 

We assist clients in resolving the following disputes involving lease contracts:

• Disputes involving dissolution of lease contracts.
• Disputes involving preliminary lease contracts.
• Collection of rental debts.
• Recovery of damages from the lessee/lessor.
• Protection of interests in disputes involving the --improvement of immovable property.
• Protection of lessor’s interests during eviction, protection of lessees in case of eviction.
• Protection of lessees from lessors’ unfair acts.

The REVERA team offers a comprehensive approach to debt recovery, covering everything from pre-litigation settlements and negotiations with debtors to representing clients in courts and arbitration, including international instances.

Our Services:

• Developing a debt recovery strategy
• Pre-litigation debt settlement
• Judicial debt collection
• Enforcement of court rulings
• Debt recovery in foreign courts and arbitration
• Protecting creditors' interests in bankruptcy proceedings