We offer a full range of premium legal services which ensure successful business operation in Russia and abroad
About us
Opinio Juris (Latin, literally) – legal opinion, or opinion of lawyers.
Reflects fundamental concept in International Law – convincement in lawfulness to ensure acceptance of a certain practice as based on the norm of law.
What do we propose?
‘Opinio Juris’ Legal Group
is an association of highly qualified, experienced and passionate lawyers whose goal is to ensure legal support for fruitful commercial activities via application of both Russian and International Law.
We consult on a wide range of business activities including contractual obligations, international trade law, real estate and construction.
Legal Consulting
We provide comprehensive support for judicial and arbitral disputes as well as enforcement proceedings including based on foreign judicial and arbitral decisions.
Dispute Settlement
We ensure effective corporate procedures: from choosing the legal form for your business project to reorganisation and possible participation in bankruptcy proceedings.
Corporate Procedures and Insolvency
What do we propose?
‘Opinio Juris’ Legal Group
is an association of highly qualified, experienced and passionate lawyers whose goal is to ensure legal support for fruitful commercial activities via application of both Russian and International Law.
We consult on a wide range of business activities including contractual obligations, international trade law, real estate and construction.
Legal Consulting
We provide comprehensive support for judicial and arbitral disputes as well as enforcement proceedings including based on foreign judicial and arbitral decisions.
Dispute Settlement
Corporate Procedures and Insolvency
We ensure effective corporate procedures: from choosing the legal form for your business project to reorganisation and possible participation in bankruptcy proceedings.
What do we propose?
‘Opinio Juris’ Legal Group
is an association of highly qualified, experienced and passionate lawyers whose goal is to ensure legal support for fruitful commercial activities via application of both Russian and International Law.
We consult on a wide range of business activities including contractual obligations, international trade law, real estate and construction.
Legal Consulting
We provide comprehensive support for judicial and arbitral disputes as well as enforcement proceedings including based on foreign judicial and arbitral decisions.
Dispute Settlement
We ensure effective corporate procedures: from choosing the legal form for your business project to reorganisation and possible participation in bankruptcy proceedings.
Corporate Procedures and Insolvency
‘Full-Service’ Support
Our team provides legal support for a commercial contract throughout its ‘being’: from drafting, negotiations and conclusion to enforcement and settlement of disputes by means of various conciliatory, arbitral and judicial procedures.
In order to provide a full range of services outside our team’s expertise we routinely collaborate with highly qualified experts in various fields, including financial, customs and administrative issues.
We cooperate with colleagues in post-Soviet countries and a number of other foreign jurisdictions to provide competent and timely response to any request for legal support in commercial activities.
External Experts
Foreign Partners
Professional Development
Members of our consolidated team auspiciously combine legal practice with active participation in both business and professional community as well as with tuition and research. It ensures sustainable professional development and strengthens highly specialised knowledge thus contributing to the first-rate quality of provided services.
Practice:
Oleg Podgornyi
Managing partner
Oleg provides legal assistance in a wide range of issues dealing with real estate and construction. He ensures full-service support for projects in the field of construction and operation of commercial real estate.
Possesses more than 15 years of professional and managerial experience in the field of real estate and construction.
Skilled in crisis management and guiding commercial negotiations, including with foreign partners.
Oleg graduated from Kuban State University, Faculty of Law, in 2007.
In 2018 obtained Master’s degree in Law (diploma with honours in programme ‘Legal Regulation and Dispute Resolution in the field of International Civil Turnover’).
Languages: Russian, English.
o.podgornyi@opiniojuris.group
Practices:
Tatiana Novikova
Partner
Tatiana is an expert in international commercial contracts and sanctions compliance.
Has been teaching Private International Law and related courses for more than 15 years.
Has experience as a legal adviser and a head of legal department of a joint-stock company operating in the field of construction and real estate.
Arbitrator of the branch of the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation in Krasnodar.
Tatiana graduated from Kuban State University, Faculty of Law, in 2006 (diploma with honours).
Defended PhD thesis in scientific council at the Southern Federal University in the field of “Civil Law, Business Law, Family Law, Private International Law” in 2009; received academic title of ‘associate professor’ in 2014.
Languages: Russian, English, French.
Trained in general and specific issues of mediation.
Author of 90+ research papers.
For many years had been acting as a judge and coach at both Russian National and International Rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition; coach of student team at the William C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot and the Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot Court; bench member at the M. G. Rosenberg International Commercial Arbitration Moot.
Member of the Russian Association of International Law, Russian Association of Lawyers.
t.novikova@opiniojuris.group
Practices:
Stepan Kuts
Lawyer
Teaches International Law and related courses.
Stepan provides legal assistance to Russian and international companies on a wide range of issues related to insolvency, consults in the field of Corporate Law.
Stepan graduated from the North Caucasian Branch of the Russian State University of Justice in 2021 (Bachelor’s degree, diploma with honours), obtained Master’s degree in Law in 2023 (diploma with honours).
Has a working experience in Russian judicial system (system of arbitration courts).
Currently working on a PhD thesis in Public Law.
Languages: Russian, English.
Stepan was mentioned in top-10 best speakers of the Russian National Rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition; participated in the William C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot.
s.kuts@opiniojuris.group
Practice:
Maria Gigineyshvily
Academic advisor
Maria is an expert dealing with international legal projects and mediation.
Has been teaching International Law and several related original courses (in legal status of transnational corporations, problems of accountability for breaches of law in international business, etc.) for more than 10 years.
Repeatedly accompanied delegations to the “YugAgro” agricultural exhibition.
Has experience as a legal advisor of a joint-stock company with international shareholders, coordinated negotiations with foreign investors in agro-industrial field.
Maria graduated from Kuban State University, Faculty of Law, in 2010.
Defended PhD thesis in scientific council at the Kuban State Agrarian University in 2013.
Languages: Russian, English, French, Italian.
Trained in general and specific issues of mediation.
Author of 40+ research papers.
For many years had been acting as a judge at both Russian National and International Rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition; coach of student team at the Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot Court.
Member of the Russian Association of International Law.
m.gigineyshvily@opiniojuris.group
Practice:
Anna Migacheva
Academic advisor
Has been teaching Civil Law and related courses for more than 15 years.
Anna consults Russian and foreign companies on a wide range of Civil Law issues, develops legal positions for judicial disputes and arbitration.
Anna graduated from Kuban State University, Faculty of Law, in 2005.
Has a working experience as a legal advisor for a constructing company.
Defended PhD thesis in scientific council at the Kuban State Agrarian University in the field of “Civil Law, Business Law, Family Law, Private International Law” in 2008; received academic title of ‘associate professor’ in 2019.
Languages: Russian, English.
Has been acting as a chair of school and university Competitions in Law for many years.
Arbitrator of the branch of the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation in Krasnodar.
Acted as a bench member at the M. G. Rosenberg International Commercial Arbitration Moot.
Author of 50+ research papers.
a.migacheva@opiniojuris.group
Practice:
Elvira Myagkova
Lawyer
Teaches Private International Law and related courses.
Elvira ensures the enforcement of both Russian and foreign judicial decisions and arbitral awards within the territory of the Russian Federation.
Elvira graduated from the North Caucasian Branch of the Russian State University of Justice in 2017 (Bachelor’s degree), obtained Master’s degree in Law in 2019 (diploma with honours).
Experienced in administration of higher legal education.
Currently working on a PhD thesis in Private Law.
Languages: Russian, English.
Coordinates cooperation of ‘Opinio Juris’ Legal Group with partners from the Commonwealth of Independent States and other foreign countries, providing clients with support on the enforcement of Russian judicial decisions and arbitral awards abroad.
e.myagkova@opiniojuris.group
Practices
We provide exhaustive support for projects in the field of construction and operation of real estate at all stages. Our Legal Group routinely collaborates with expert organizations and real estate companies to deliver comprehensive solutions.
Our passionate team of problem-solvers has extensive experience in supporting various real estate transactions (including land plots, non-residential premises, large industrial and social infrastructure facilities), as well as representing the interests of owners and other rights’ holders in government agencies and various judicial instances.
Our passionate team of problem-solvers has extensive experience in supporting various real estate transactions (including land plots, non-residential premises, large industrial and social infrastructure facilities), as well as representing the interests of owners and other rights’ holders in government agencies and various judicial instances.
Our International Trade Lawyers provide efficient support for international commercial contracts at all stages, including negotiations with foreign partners, development and approval of a draft contract, contract execution support and dispute resolution.
Our Legal Group cooperates with external experts on currency, tax, and customs legislation, providing clients with a full range of services in the area.
The exclusive competence of the practice is sanctions compliance, within the framework of which commercial organizations are provided with risk assessment and development of an original strategy for safe transactions with foreign partners with due regard to changing restrictive measures.
Our Legal Group cooperates with external experts on currency, tax, and customs legislation, providing clients with a full range of services in the area.
The exclusive competence of the practice is sanctions compliance, within the framework of which commercial organizations are provided with risk assessment and development of an original strategy for safe transactions with foreign partners with due regard to changing restrictive measures.
We help our clients on issues of participation in conciliation procedures (negotiations, mediation, judicial reconciliation), including complicated procedures in various combinations of mediation and arbitration.
Our mediators have obtained specific competence in the field of commercial mediation and drafting mediation agreements with focus on business considerations.
Our mediators have obtained specific competence in the field of commercial mediation and drafting mediation agreements with focus on business considerations.
Dispute Resolution Lawyers successfully defend rights and interests of commercial organizations in judicial disputes and arbitration proceedings, provide the risk assessment of the case in court.
Our lawyers have extensive experience in representing clients within economic disputes in all judicial instances, as well as in Russian and foreign arbitrations (arbitration proceedings).
Our key subject areas are contractual obligations, corporate issues, investment projects, real estate and construction, etc.
Our lawyers have extensive experience in representing clients within economic disputes in all judicial instances, as well as in Russian and foreign arbitrations (arbitration proceedings).
Our key subject areas are contractual obligations, corporate issues, investment projects, real estate and construction, etc.
Our Enforcement Proceedings’ Lawyers contribute to the execution of judicial decisions and arbitral awards in various regions of the Russian Federation.
‘Opinio Juris’ Legal Group intently cooperates with partners in the Commonwealth of Independent States and in a number of other foreign countries, effectively ensuring the recognition and enforcement of foreign judicial decisions and arbitral awards on the territory of the Russian Federation, as well as Russian judicial decisions and arbitral awards abroad.
‘Opinio Juris’ Legal Group intently cooperates with partners in the Commonwealth of Independent States and in a number of other foreign countries, effectively ensuring the recognition and enforcement of foreign judicial decisions and arbitral awards on the territory of the Russian Federation, as well as Russian judicial decisions and arbitral awards abroad.
We provide legal support to clients in all issues of Corporate Law: corporate procedures and restructuring, activities of chief executive bodies of a legal entity, etc.
As the part of support to investment projects, lawyers of the practice carry out a set of measures for the institutionalization of business, including creation and design of the corporate structure of the project.
As the part of support to investment projects, lawyers of the practice carry out a set of measures for the institutionalization of business, including creation and design of the corporate structure of the project.
Our Insolvency’s Lawyers advise and accompany clients on issues of participation in bankruptcy proceedings on the creditor’s side, including issues of initiating or joining the procedure, evaluating the activities of bankruptcy manager, challenging the debtor’s transactions, etc.
We effectively assess risks and represent interests of clients in the field of bringing to subsidiary liability on the side of the creditor, the responsibility of bankruptcy manager.
We effectively assess risks and represent interests of clients in the field of bringing to subsidiary liability on the side of the creditor, the responsibility of bankruptcy manager.
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