DMITRY TUGUSHI
SENIOR PARTNER, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
26 years of active dispute resolution and bankruptcy experience
e-mail: d.tugushi@ktaplaw.ru
Dmitry Tugushi is a leading practitioner of law in the area of bankruptcy proceedings, financial organization, and asset recovery. Dmitry has more than 26 years of experience in dispute resolution focusing on complex corporate disputes and construction disputes.
Dmitry Tugushi is recognized as having a systematic approach to dispute resolution who is efficient in applying his profound knowledge of Russian law in practice.
Dmitry is an attorney – at -law and a member of the IBA, he is an author on different issues in the area of bankruptcy and asset recovery in Arbitrazhnaya praktika and Yurist kompanii.
From 2011 to 2017, Dmitry was a leading advisor of court and arbitration (commercial) court and bankruptcy practices at Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasyev and partners law firm, and led a team of lawyers.

THE PERSONAL RANKING:
  • Russian Gazeta, 2023-2025
    • I group: Commercial court proceedings (since 2023)
    • I group: Bankruptcy (since 2023)
    • I group: Proceedings in courts of general jurisdiction (since 2023)
    • I group: Criminal law (since 2023)
  • Kommersant, 2020-2025
    • Bankruptcy (2025)
    • Dispute Resolution: Litigation, Courts of General Jurisdiction (2024)
    • Criminal Law (2023)
    • Financial and Banking Law (2021–2022)
    • Transport and Logistics (2020–2022)
    • Commercial Law (2020–2022)
  • Pravo-300, 2019-2024
    • Dispute Resolution: Commercial court proceedings, Large-Scale Disputes (since 2019)
    • Bankruptcy (since 2019)
    • Dispute Resolution: Litigation, Courts of General Jurisdiction (since 2020)
    • Criminal Law (since 2021)
  • The Legal 500, 2021
    • Restructuring and insolvency (noted as a key partner in the firm's practice)
    • Dispute resolution: litigation (noted as a key partner in the firm's practice)
  • Client Choice Awards, 2021
    • Asset Recovery
  • Best Lawyers, 2021-2022
    • Arbitration and mediation
    • Insolvency and reorganization law
Dmitry has represented the interests of governmental and large for-profit companies such as:

Energy companies as part of the system of RAO UES of Russia: Orelenergo, Kolenergo, Samaraenergo, Saratovenergo, Bryanskenergo.
Banks in the bankruptcy proceedings: Sbs-Agro, Saint-Petersburg bank of reconstruction and development.
State corporations: Agency for restructuring of credit organizations (ARCO), Deposit insurance agency (DIA).
Other large companies and groups of companies:
Gazprom, British American tobacco, Zhukovsky machine-building plant, Zabaikalsky mining-and-processing integrated works, Irish bank resolution corporation, Zabsibgazprom, Zarubezhneft, Volgotanker, Rogsibal, Basic element industrial group, Immofinanz group ag, IrAero, Sukhoi aviation holding company, Tyumenpromgeofizika, Mechel, Military memorial company, Moscow biennale art foundation, Trinfiko investment group, Eurokommerz factoring company, Klin meat-processing plant, Unicredit bank, Uralsib group of companies.
Dmitry is the author of numerous articles on bankruptcy and debt restructuring in Russian (Vedomosti, Arbitrazhnaya praktika (Arbitrage practice), Yurist kompanii (Lawyer), expert, etc.) and international legal publications.

As a manager, he participated in more than 500 cases. Among his clients are Eurokommerz, Irish bank, Sukhoy, Efes, Conde nast.

He has also spoken at numerous conferences devoted to insolvency and debt restructuring problems in Russia. In 2009, Dmitry was the primary Russian speaker in Ukraine on issues of bankruptcy and company law, speaking at three international conferences in Kyiv and Yalta. He was a special guest of the Ukrainian bar association, representing the Russian legal community.

He speaks English and French.

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  • Mr. Dmitry Tugushi
    Senior Partner, Attorney-at-law

    Dmitry has more than 20 years of experience in dispute resolution focusing on complex corporate disputes and construction disputes.

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