TerraLex member for South Africa, Fairbridges, maintains its top ranking. Fairbridges has repeated its 2012 success as "Administrative Law Firm of the Year" in South Africa awarded by Corporate INTL Global Awards in 2013.

The word outsourcing has become a staple of Russian business language, but is still not encountered in Russian law. Generally, outsourcing contrasts with the leasing of personnel in that outsourcing involves certain business processes being contracted out to an external service provider. Outsourcing is typically used to transfer processes that are vital for the company’s activity but are of an auxiliary nature to its core activities: for example, IT, HR processes and payroll.

Major foreign trading companies have been active on the Russian market for more than 15 years. With them, they have brought Western standards of doing business, including, among other things, offering financial incentives to distributors and stores in the form of bonuses, premiums and retrospective discounts.

In the proceedings that are analysed below, the receiver challenged the amount of RUB 85,411,328 which had been transferred from the Debtor’s account to the Creditor’s account, and asked that the transaction be invalidated. The consequence of this would be the Creditor being obliged to refund the above amount to the Debtor’s account.

The Russian Supreme Commercial Court’s approach to the landlord and tenant sector is marked by its balance. In its attempts to tailor its approach to the developing practice on the Russian market, the Court is trying to meet the needs of both tenants and landlords.

In modern world, an important trend promoting ethical business practice is for civil society to regulate itself when resolving legal disputes. The increased burden on the courts and a growing number of business entities and disputes between them have resulted in increased attention to different types of dispute resolution procedures.

Medical devices in Russia are feeling the heat from the state’s interest in the industry. This interest has not only resulted in a series of new regulations passed over the last few months. There are also several very exciting drafts now under discussion.

Russia - On January 25, 2013, the Plenum of the Supreme Commercial (‘Arbitraiton’) Court ruled on specific aspects of case law regarding lease disputes.

This article explores some general differences between the employment and labour law system in Canada, and in particular the province of Québec, and the labor and employment law system as it exists in the United States of America.

Spanish laws protect subcontractors and suppliers of materials, who have taken part in a construction project, but are unable to receive payment from the main contractor or builder. Using this legal remedy has recently become widespread, and proving useful in certain circumstances.