TEAM / MANAGING PARTNER
Founder and managing partner of Kovalev & Partners LLC. Sets the strategy in large and non-standard matters: corporate disputes, transactions, insolvency and tax disputes.
Vladimir Kovalev founded Kovalev & Partners LLC in 2015 and has run the firm ever since. Lawyer Kovalev handles matters where several legal layers meet at once: a dispute with a partner drags in a share valuation, a company's insolvency brings subsidiary liability and challenges to transactions, a tax audit carries the risk of a criminal case. That is why one team works on a matter rather than separate departments, and the managing partner holds the strategy as a whole.
Beyond legal practice, Vladimir Vladimirovich Kovalev chairs the Perspektiva Association of Lawyers, Advocates and Insolvency Practitioners, chairs the board of directors and serves as vice president for development of Bank Yoshkar-Ola, and founded and chairs the Wings of Dreams charitable foundation. He is the firm's most quoted expert, with comments in Vedomosti, Izvestia, RBC, RB.RU, RIA Novosti and Gazeta.Ru.
A corporate lawyer deals with relations inside and around a company: shareholder conflicts, challenges to resolutions, expulsion of a partner, restoring control over a business, and deals to buy or sell companies. Vladimir Kovalev runs such matters from negotiations to the Supreme Court and has supported major retail M&A deals, including X5 Group's acquisition of the Amba chain in Khabarovsk Krai. More about the practice →
An insolvency lawyer runs the procedure on the debtor's or the creditors' side and defends directors and owners against subsidiary liability claims that try to shift company debts onto individuals. Vladimir Kovalev completed the insolvency practitioner training programme and understands the procedure from the inside: challenging transactions, the register of claims, working with the administrator, tracing diverted assets. More about the practice →
A tax lawyer supports field and desk audits, prepares objections to the audit report, and appeals additional assessments to the higher authority and the commercial court. Under Vladimir Kovalev's leadership the firm had an additional assessment of RUB 93.5 million in arrears and RUB 26.4 million in penalties cancelled after a field audit. More about the practice →
A new practice lawyer Kovalev develops personally: legal audits of AI services, contracts for developing and deploying artificial intelligence, transactions in digital currency and digital financial assets, legalising mining and registering with the Federal Tax Service, defence against account freezes under Law 115-FZ. Vladimir Kovalev's dissertation research is on the digitalisation of justice. More about the practice →
A mediator helps the parties settle without court; a crisis manager reorganises a company's operations when its obligations can no longer be serviced. Vladimir Kovalev combines both roles: part of the corporate and family disputes he closes by agreement, and for distressed assets he proposes a plan that keeps the business alive. More about the practice →
The consultation with Vladimir Kovalev is free when an engagement is signed: he tells you whether the matter has prospects, which scenario is more advantageous and roughly what running it will cost. The firm does not take on a hopeless case for the sake of a fee.
For each matter Vladimir Kovalev assembles a team: the firm's lawyers, attorneys of the Kovalev, Malyutov, Tsypkalo & Partners Bar Association, valuers and auditors. The client knows who drafts the position, who attends the hearing and whom to call if something is urgent.
IN THE MEDIA
Comment31 July 2024Finance and banking
Vladimir Kovalev, lawyer, Kovalev & Partners LLC
Banks must screen transfers and suspend suspicious operations; where money is sent to an account on the Central Bank's blacklist without notifying the customer, the bank must refund the whole amount — within 30 days for domestic transfers and 60 days for international ones. An analysis of the two-day cooling-off period.
Comment26 July 2024IT, telecoms and digital
Vladimir Kovalev, lawyer, Kovalev & Partners LLC
While mining remains in the shadows, it is difficult to supervise market participants or to go to court to protect infringed rights. Professional miners will be entered in a special register, and limits on energy consumption will be set for individuals.
Comment25 July 2024Real estate and land
Vladimir Kovalev, lawyer, Kovalev & Partners LLC
The city is asking the court to declare more than 1,300 sq m in a historic building at 5 Dobroslobodskaya Street an unauthorised structure, with a penalty of RUB 10,000 a day. The expert lists the hallmarks of an unauthorised structure and explains the city's systematic drive against them over the past three years.
Comment18 July 2024Finance and banking
Vladimir Kovalev, lawyer, Kovalev & Partners LLC
The courts awarded White Box LLC damages caused by the unlawful freezing of its account under the pretext of anti-money-laundering rules. The expert notes that the bank did not rely on the indicators set out in Central Bank Regulation No. 375-P and did not notify the competent authorities.
Comment18 July 2024Corporate law
Vladimir Kovalev, lawyer, Kovalev & Partners LLC
Customs recalculates the value declared by the importer, and duties are then charged on the new figure. In one example, Holding Finance Broker faced three adjustments on the same goods; such a decision can be reversed only in court.
Comment18 July 2024Reputation and criminal
Vladimir Kovalev, lawyer, Kovalev & Partners LLC
Defamation — the dissemination of knowingly false information — is a criminal offence under art. 128.1 of the Criminal Code. How it differs from insult, which is an administrative offence under art. 5.61 of the Code of Administrative Offences.
QUESTIONS
Vladimir Vladimirovich Kovalev is a lawyer and the managing partner of Kovalev & Partners LLC. Work that requires advocate status is handled by attorneys of the Kovalev, Malyutov, Tsypkalo & Partners Bar Association under a cooperation agreement with the firm.
Large and non-standard ones: corporate conflicts and M&A deals, corporate insolvency and subsidiary liability, high-value tax disputes, digital asset issues. In other matters Vladimir Kovalev sets the strategy and appoints the responsible lawyer.
Call +7 (499) 460-63-47 or describe your matter through the form on the site. The consultation is free when an engagement is signed; meetings take place at the Moscow office on Michurinsky Prospekt or online.
Lawyer Vladimir Kovalev chairs the Perspektiva Association, chairs the board of directors and is vice president for development of Bank Yoshkar-Ola, and chairs the Wings of Dreams charitable foundation. Legal practice remains his main work.
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The consultation is free when an engagement is signed: Vladimir Kovalev will tell you whether the matter has prospects and how to build the work.