Practice

Our lawyers constantly meet new challenges of modern time, extend and enhance our legal practice while our experience continues to grow.

Melnichuk’s Law Firm provides a wide range of legal services to its clients including the following services:

Legal business consulting

• Contract law: writing contracts, amendments and additions under current contracts
• Advising on contract law issues involving compliance with the legislation and customary business practices
• Contract disputes: negotiating, executing, modifying and dissolving contracts
• Representing clients in the contracts negotiation: agree to a contract, edit the contracts and make amendments
• Expertise of proprietary ownership and limited property rights with the interest of the owner, buyer and pledgee
• Validating property rights, identify grounds for challenging ownership, act in registry rectification cases
• Privatization expertise of state and municipal property

Tax

• Counseling on the Russian tax aspects
• Tax legal due diligence
• Assisting clients to resolve disputes with tax authorities and represent them before courts in respect of tax matters
• Counseling clients on requirements issued by tax authorities (request for documents, tax disputes, ending of tax concessions, etc.)
• Expert opinion on legal compliance of actions (idleness) or decisions delivered by tax authorities
• Tax legal due diligence of business transactions including the development of contractual agreements with respect to tax consequences

Corporate law

• Corporate procedures
• Mergers, takeovers and acquisitions
• Comprehensive legal due diligence of companies
• Support of business buy/sell transactions
• Company restructuring
• Legal structuring of the existing business
• Counteraction against hostile takeover of business

Copyright and Intellectual property

• Legal protection of intellectual property
• Trademark protection
• Legal support of innovation activities

Real estate law

• Legal support of real estate transactions
• Consulting in land law issues
• Legal support of the work related to investment into real estate

Customs Law

• Counseling and defense in the matter of Customs compliance
• Representation clients in disputes with Customs

Enforcement of Judgments and Legal Remedies

• Representation recoverers and debtors in the course of law enforcement

Administrative Law

• Representation clients in legal proceedings on administrative violations

Litigation and Appeals

• Representation and advise clients who are or may become involved in a lawsuit or appeal as a result of a dispute in the state courts
• Representation and advise clients who are or may become involved in a lawsuit or appeal as a result of a dispute in the arbitration courts