KOVALEV TUGUSHI & PARTNERS

Kovalev, Tugushi & Partners law firm is one of the strongest and most experienced litigation teams in Russia, known and recognized for achieving the highest results in resolving large-scale commercial disputes and supporting complex bankruptcies. Over two decades, we successfully defend a broad range of Russian and foreign corporations throughout the Russian Federation, as well as in the CIS, Europe and Asia. Many court cases became precedent setting cases and qualitatively changed our clients' way of doing business.

Our legal team has an impeccable expertise and confidently handles cases in arbitration courts at all levels, including the Russian Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court. The lawyers have notable experience of representing clients in foreign arbitration institutions: SCC, ICC, CAM, CAS, CIETAC, LCIA, HKIAC, DIAC, as well as in national arbitration institutions: the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation and the Russian Arbitration Council. The team has significant experience in ad hoc arbitration under UNCITRAL rules, and is also extensively qualified in civil and criminal cases before the courts of Switzerland, the Netherlands, Cyprus, BVI. Our team is also highly proficient in corporate, sanctions, labor and tax law. Since 2001 we are successfully practicing in a number of the following sectors: finance and banking, IT and fintech, insurance, real estate and construction, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, transportation and logistics, agribusiness and agriculture, fuel and energy, sports, private equity.

The Firm is acknowledged by the majority of national and international Rankings, surveys and rankings: Pravo-300, Kommersant, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, RAA, Forbes, Legal 500, IFLR1000, WWL, Client Choice, Best Lawyers, etc. 4 years consecutively, the Firm has been ranked among the first groups in the federal surveys of Pravo.ru both in the area of bankruptcy and litigation. In 2022, our team took the absolute 1st place in terms of the total amount of claims in arbitration disputes. In November 2023, the Firm was included in the Forbes Ranking: Best Russian Law Firms - 2023, and traditionally, in 2024, we received dozens of nominations in the Kommersant Publishing House Ranking.
  • №2
    BANKRUPTCY:
    TOP LEADERS BY AVERAGE PROJECT AMOUNT (LARGE PRACTICES, 2025)
  • №2
    LITIGATION:
    TOP LEADERS IN TERMS OF OVERALL PROJECT VALUE (2024)
  • №3
    CORPORATE LAW:
    LEADERS IN CORPORATE CONFLICTS (2024)
  • Pravo-300, 2017-2025
    2025 - 🏆 The Firm was recognized in 12 categories:

    🥇 Band 1:
    • Bankruptcy (High-Market Disputes)
    • Bankruptcy (Restructuring and Consulting)
    • Dispute Resolution in Courts of General Jurisdiction
    🥈 Band 2:
    • Arbitration (Major Commercial Disputes - High Market)
    • Private Equity
    • Agribusiness and Agriculture
    • Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare
    🥉 Band 3:
    • Corporate Law (High market)
    • M&A (High market)
    • Criminal Law
    • Tax Counseling and Disputes (Mid-market)
    • Labor and Migration Law (Including Disputes)
    2024 - 🏆 The Firm’s lawyers were recognized in 30 nominations.
  • Rossiyskaya Gazeta, 2023-2025
    2025 - 🏆 The Firm’s lawyers were recognized in 28 nominations:

    🥇 Band 1 (the most “top” specialists in the relevant practice)
    • 24 nominations
    🥈 Band 2 (excellent specialists worthy of any recommendation)
    • 1 nomination
    🥉 Band 3 (very good specialists)
    • 3 nominations
    The ranking included 22 nominations: 19 main and 3 special nominations. 10 firm professionals were included in 9 practice areas.

    In 2025, the ranking received 3,500 submissions from law firms across the country.
  • Forbes Ranking, 2023
    2023 - 🏆 The Firm was included in the Forbes Ranking: Best Law Firms in Russia.

    Positions in the Ranking according to 6 criteria:
    • №6 - total amount of all disputes for the year
    • №11 - number of court decisions
    • №12 - media mentions or citations
    • №17 - revenue per lawyer
    • №17-20 - share of disputes with the state
    • №18 - total revenue
  • Kommersant, 2019-2025

    2023 - 🏆 The Firm was recognized in 40 nominations of the Federal Ranking “Leaders of the Russian Legal Services Market”:


    • Best Legal Practices: 15 nominations
    • Best Industry Practices: 11 nominations
    • 🥇 Band 1 – 18
    • 🥈 Band 2 – 7
    • 🥉 Band 3 – 1
    • ⭐ Best Lawyers and Rising stars: 7 lawyers across 14 nominations
  • Experts of Law. Best Legal Advisors, 2024
    2024 - 🏆 The Firm was recognized in two nominations of the first ranking of development projects from VEB.RF, Expert RA, Expert Business Solutions and Expert magazine.

    Nominations:
    • Litigation and Arbitration;
    • Regulatory issues (antitrust law, sanctions law and others).
    Analysis was made of development projects worth 10 billion rubles or more.
  • The Legal 500 EMEA, 2020-2021
    2022 - 🏆 The Firm was recognized in two nominations:

    Tier 4️⃣:
    • Restructuring and Insolvency
    Tier 6️⃣:
    • Dispute Resolution: Litigation
    Kovalev, Tugushi & Partners handles contentious bankruptcy-related matters and asset recovery issues; its team has extensive litigation experience. For cross-border work, the group is also adept at providing advice on Russian law issues relating to proceedings abroad.
  • Arbitration Association (RAA), 2022-2023
    2023 - 🏆 The Firm was recognized in five nominations:

    🥇 Band 1 (Leading Practice):
    • Bankruptcy and Restructuring
    • Dispute Resolution / Litigation (State Courts)
    🥈 Band 2 (Progressive Practice):
    • Criminal Defense of Business
    🥉 Recommended:
    • Pharmaceutical Law and Healthcare
    • Insurance Law
  • Forbes Club Legal Ranking, 2021-2022
    2022 - 🏆 The Firm was recognized in 11 nominations:

    🥇 Band 1 - The Leader:
    • Prevention of Subsidiary Liability
    🥈 Band 2 - Leading Firm:
    • Dispute Resolution
    • Reputational Defense
    • Support of International Disputes
    • Protection of Personal Assets and Business in Russia /Restructuring
    • Family Law / Marriage Contracts
    🥉 Band 3 - Recommended Firm:
    • Criminal Defense
    • Real Estate and Construction Transactions
    • Luxury Goods and Art Transactions
    • Inheritance Planning
    • Asset structuring abroad

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