KIRILL BERKOVSKY
COUNSEL
11 лет активной арбитражной практики
KIRILL IS A PART OF KOVALEV TUGUSHI & PARTNERS LITIGATION TEAM.
HE REPRESENTS CLIENTS IN COMMERCIAL AND CORPORATE DISPUTES AND REGULARLY SPEAKS BEFORE THE COURTS IN RUSSIA.

KIRILL HAS SUBSTANTIAL EXPERTISE DEFENDING CLIENTS IN COURSE OF INSOLVENCY PROCEEDINGS.
BEFORE COMING TO THE LAW FIRM, KIRILL WORKED SUCCESSFULLY IN EGOROV PUGINSKY AFANASIEV & PARTNERS LAW FIRM FOR SIX YEARS.
KIRILL IS THE AUTHOR OF NUMEROUS PUBLICATIONS AND COMMENTS IN THE LEADING LEGAL AND BUSINESS MASS MEDIA.
PROJECTS:
  • Representation of Bankruptcy Creditor (Client) in bankruptcy cases. The cost of the project consists of the total volume of debtor creditors register— $0,9 bln – RUB 59.7 bil, the Client's interest is to account its claims and do not account claims of other Creditors, as well as to secure the Client's interests during bankruptcy proceedings. RESULT: The total amount of the Client's claims accounted in the register is RUB 9.7 billion. The possibility of obtaining investment rights or rights to property. Compensated enforcement of the right of claim to the debtor in favor of the majority creditor.
  • Representation of a Bankruptcy Creditor in bankruptcy cases. The total claimed amount is more than $0,4 bln – RUB 25.7 bil. The objective of the project was to distribute the debtor's assets in a fairly manner and to satisfy the creditor's claim to the fullest extent possible.
  • Protection of the interests of the bankruptcy creditor on certain issues in cases of bankruptcy of large metallurgical enterprises of Russia.

    The total amount of claims is over $0,25 bln –RUB 15 bln (the aggregated amount of claims included in the register of claims of the debtor's creditors, for which the Client is subject to secondary liability)

    The uniqueness of the project: this dispute has already been considered by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and sent to the court of original jurisdiction for a new consideration.

    RESULTS: As a result, an effective strategy of protecting the interests of the bankruptcy creditor with respect to the conditions for the sale of the debtor's/bankrupt's property in bankruptcy proceedings.

    Protection of the Client in this separate dispute concerning the disputes on transactions did not allow opponents to create additional prerequisites for filing an application to bring the Client to secondary liability. With the participation of the Council's specialists, a number of expert studies have been prepared, justifying the absence of grounds in the actions of the Client for bringing him to justice.
  • Runs a landmark case the main distinctive feature of which is that the Prosecutor's General Office of the Russian Federation has never requested the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation for changing the territorial jurisdiction of the dispute before, with respect to civil disputes; however the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation refused the Prosecutor's General Office to change the territorial jurisdiction. The Court of Appeal also cancelled the seizure of the accounts and property of the development group of companies approved by the court of first instance. The lawyers have prevented the risk of erosion of business activities of the whole development group and the economy of the whole industry in the Far East.
    The total amount of claims is over $0,5 bln – RUB 33 bln.
Languages: Russian, English.
KIRILL BERKOVSKY
COUNSEL
E-MAIL: BESTLAWYERS@KTAPLAW.RU