Representation and litigation support

Prime legal renders full range of legal services connected with representation in the Arbitration court.

We enjoy vast experience in the area of judicial defense of rights in cases of disputes arising from conclusion and performance of contracts and agreements, collection of contract debts, recognition of ownership rights; demanding and obtaining property from another’s illegal possession; recognition of acts of state agencies to be invalid, etc.

Prime Legal renders full range of legal services connected with representation and litigation support:

• Initial consultation. Analysis of documents;
• Execution of a claim or other pre-trial procedure for settlement of the conflict
• Drafting and filing of a statement of claim, opinion on a statement of claim, other proceedings documents;
• Representation in a court. Participation in court sessions. Defense of client’s rights
• Drafting of an amicable agreement project;
• Participation in appeals proceedings in an arbitration court;
• Participation in the procedure of the execution of judicial acts by the Service of Bailiffs;
• Suspension of executive proceedings;
• Forcible execution of judicial acts;
• Resolving disputes with officers of the law.

In accordance with the Chapter 4 of the Arbitration-procedural code of RF:

The scope of jurisdiction of an arbitration court shall extend to cases on economic disputes and to other cases connected with the exercise of business and other economic activities. Arbitration courts shall settle economic disputes and shall try other cases with the participation of organizations which are legal entities, of citizens engaged in business activities without forming a legal entity and having the status of an individual businessman obtained in the procedure established by laws (hereinafter referred to as "individual businessmen"), and in the instances provided for by this Code and other federal laws, with the participation of the Russian Federation, the subjects of the Russian Federation, municipal formations, state bodies, bodies of local self-government, other bodies, officials, and formations which do not have the status of a legal entity, and citizens which do not have the status of an individual businessman (hereinafter referred to as "organizations and citizens"). Other cases may be likewise referred by federal law to the scope of jurisdiction of arbitration courts.

Arbitration courts shall try cases within the scope of their jurisdiction with the participation of Russian organizations, citizens of the Russian Federation, as well as of foreign organizations, international organizations, foreign citizens and stateless persons engaged in business activities, or organizations with foreign investments, if not otherwise provided for by an international treaty of the Russian Federation.

Arbitration courts shall try in action proceedings economic disputes and other cases arising from civil legal relations which are connected with the exercise of business and other economic activities by legal entities and individual businessmen, and in the instances provided for by this Code and other federal laws by other organizations and citizens.

Arbitration courts shall try in administrative proceedings economic disputes, arising from administrative and other public legal relations, and other cases connected with the exercise by organizations and citizens of business and other economic activities:

• on disputing normative legal acts concerning the rights and legitimate interests of an applicant in the area of business and other economic activities, where federal laws refer their consideration to the competence of an arbitration court;
• on disputing non-normative legal acts of state power bodies of the Russian Federation, state power bodies of the subjects of the Russian Federation, bodies of local self-government, decisions and actions (omission to act) of state bodies, bodies of local self-government, or other bodies and officials which concern the rights and legitimate interests of the applicant in the area of business and other economic activities;
• on administrative offences where federal laws refer their consideration to the jurisdiction of an arbitration court;
• on the recovery from organizations and citizens engaged in business and other economic activities compulsory payments and sanctions, unless federal laws provide for another procedure for the recovery thereof;
• other cases arising from administrative and other public legal relations where their consideration is referred to the jurisdiction of an arbitration court.

Arbitration courts shall try in special proceedings cases on establishing facts of legal importance for the arising, changing and terminating of the rights of organizations and citizens in the area of business and other economic activities.

Arbitration courts shall try in compliance with Chapter 30 of this Code cases:

• on disputing awards of arbitration tribunals with regard to disputes arising in the course of the exercise of business and other economic activities;
• on issuing writs of execution concerning compulsory execution of arbitration awards with regard to the disputes arising in the exercise of business and other economic activities.
• on recognizing and executing decisions of foreign courts and foreign arbitration awards with regard to disputes arising in the exercise of business and other economic activities.

Special Jurisdiction of Cases in Respect of Arbitration Courts

Arbitration courts shall try cases:

• on insolvency (bankruptcy);
• on disputes related to the establishment, reorganization or liquidation of organizations;
• on disputes related to the denial of state registration or evasion of state registration by legal entities and individual businessmen;
• on disputes between a shareholder and a joint-stock company, between participants of other economic partnerships and companies arising from the activities of economic partnerships and companies, save for labour disputes;
• on the protection of business reputation in the area of business and other economic activities;
• other cases arising in the exercise of business and other economic activities, in the instances provided for by federal laws.