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Antitrust Law - Corporate Criminal Law & Compliance - Dispute Resolution
Alexander Bezborodov is Partner at ADVANT Beiten's Moscow office and a member of the Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice group. His practice area comprises consultations in the fields of dispute resolution and litigation in state and arbitration courts, particularly in the field of foreign economic and investment activities of companies. He also advises on international trade, civil law and compliance issues.
Alexander Bezborodov graduated from the Department of Comparative Jurisprudence, Faculty of Law of the State University of Krasnoyarsk (Siberian Federal University), Russia, and obtained a Master-of-Laws degree from the University of Passau, Germany, in 2007. Alexander Bezborodov worked at the Moscow office of the international law firm Haarmann, Hemmelrath & Partner (2005-2006) and the Moscow representative office of the law firm CMS Hasche Sigle in Moscow (2006-2008). He has been working with ADVANT Beiten since 2008. Effective January 2016 Alexander Bezborodov was included on the list of arbitrators of the Arbitration Court of the Association of European Businesses (AEB) and a member of the Bar Chamber of Moscow Region.
Publications:
Intellectual property protection in Russia during the crisis: myths and reality
Alexander Bezborodov and Ilya Titov
in: Dispute Resolution, 4/2022
Proposed options may help make the procedure for recovering debt from foreign companies more effective
Alexander Bezborodov
in: Advokatskaya gazeta, 16 June 2021
Lectures:
Online seminar "Disputes arising from independent (bank) guarantees: overview of the current practice of Russian courts", ADVANT Beiten CIS, 28 June 2024
Online seminar "Advertising in Russia: intellectual property protection, social networks, and bloggers ", ADVANT Beiten CIS, 22 May 2024
Lecture "Application of the reduced VAT rate", AHK Legal Committee meeting, Moscow, 18 April 2024
Online seminar "Liability of persons in a single group for obligations to a Russian counterparty", ADVANT Beiten CIS, Moscow, 29 March 2024
Lecture "Holding subsidiaries in Russia liable for debts of parent companies (reverse piercing of the corporate veil)", AEB Webinar "Crisis update: Sanctions and countermeasures. Disputes involving foreign persons in Russian courts: Current challenges and remedies", 16 February 2024
Online seminar "Analysis of current Russian judicial practice on customs disputes", ADVANT Beiten CIS, Moscow, 25 January 2024
Lecture "Current Russian court practice in customs disputes: including dividends paid by the buyer to the seller in the customs value of goods", AHK Legal conference, Moscow, 16 November 2023
Online seminar "Analysis of current Russian court practice in customs disputes", ADVANT Beiten CIS, 9 October 2023
Online seminar "Attachment of assets and other interim measures: current trends in Russian court practice", ADVANT Beiten CIS, 2 August 2023
Lecture "New and old topics under the 11th EU sanction package", Joint meeting of the AHK Compliance, Industrial Production and SME Committees, Moscow, 19 July 2023
Online seminar "Contractual Disputes with Russian Companies: Comparative View of German and Russian Law", ADVANT Beiten CIS, 28 April 2023
Online seminar "Healthcare Update: trends in April 2023", ADVANT Beiten CIS and Antal Talent, 25. April 2023
Lecture "Judicial practice review of the application of the provisions on the occurrence of force majeure circumstances in connection with the imposition of sanctions", AEB Legal Committee meeting, Moscow, 27 March 2023
Online seminar "RUSSIA: Current challenges & options for action", ICC Austria, 7 March 2023
Online seminar "Agreement on restructuring the debts of a counterparty: risks and approaches in court practice", ADVANT Beiten CIS, 3 March 2023
Online seminar "Limitation of liability and arbitration clauses in contracts: trends in Russian court practice", ADVANT Beiten CIS, 16 February 2023
Online seminar "Current situation on the Russian market for medical products", ADVANT Beiten CIS, IMEDA , 22 December 2022
Online seminar "Liability of management and beneficiaries of a Russian legal entity: specifics and trends in judicial practice", ADVANT Beiten CIS, 12 December 2022
Online seminar "RUSSIA: Current challenges & options for action", ICC Austria, 8 September 2022
Online seminar "Resolution of disputes arising from contracts during a crisis (current trends in Russian law)", ADVANT Beiten CIS, 4 August 2022
Lecture "Development of court practice re. companies from "unfriendly" jurisdictions", AEB Legal Committee meeting, Moscow, 26 July 2022
Lecture "Force Majeure and Russians Sanctions Law", JCC Legal & Tax Chapter Webinar "Navigating the Sanctions Landscape from a Swiss Perspective", JCC Switzerland, 28 June 2022
Online seminar "Force Majeure and Russian Sanctions Laws 2022", ADVANT Beiten CIS, 2 June 2022
Online seminar "Moratorium on bankruptcies in 2022: implications for enforcement proceedings, penalties, secondary liability of controlling persons", ADVANT Beiten CIS, 31 May 2022
Online seminar "The effect of EU sanctions on supply chains: overview of the current situation and recommendations for business" ADVANT Beiten CIS, 26 April 2022
Online seminar "Contractual obligations under crisis conditions: draft laws on the impossibility of fulfilling obligations and on the extension of license agreements; trends in court practice", ADVANT Beiten CIS, 12 April 2022
Lecture "Anti-crisis measures in the context of compliance, corporate governance, and risk management", AEB Event "Adaptability: managing small and medium businesses under crisis conditions", Moscow, 8 April 2022
Online seminar "Draft law "Impossibility of fulfilling contractual obligations", DRUW, 6 April 2022
Lecture "Recent cases, where courts based decisions on belonging to "unfriendly states": whether to expect this trend to continue", AEB Legal Committee meeting, Moscow, 25 March 2022
Online seminar "Force majeure, suspension of fulfilment or impossibility of fulfilling obligations, restructuring of debt under contracts", ADVANT Beiten CIS, 17 March 2022
Online Session "On the current situation in Russia", ADVANT Beiten CIS, 4 March 2022
Online seminar "Customs disputes: overview of current court practice and recommendations for business", ADVANT Beiten CIS, 28 February 2022
Lecture "Protecting your business reputation", AHK Corporate Communications Committee meeting, Moscow, 29 November 2021
Online seminar "Disputes with the customs authorities: overview of current court practice and recommendations for business", ADVANT Beiten CIS, 21 October 2021
Lecture "Corona and Procedural Law", DRJV Annual meeting 2021 "German-Russian legal relations during and after Corona", 24 September 2021
Online seminar "License payments are back on the radar of the customs authorities", ADVANT Beiten CIS, 19 May 2021
Online seminar "Practical overview of resolving disputes arising from security transactions: withholdings and security deposits", ADVANT Beiten CIS, 2 March 2021
Lecture "Current case law on securing liabilities", AHK Legal Update 2021, Moscow, 10 February 2021
Online seminar "Legally securing Russian business in a crisis", Swiss Russian Chamber of Commerce, 21 January 2021
