Immediate engagement
The attorney enters the case, gains access to the client and the file, and stops the impulsive explanations that so often become evidence.
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White-collar criminal defence
A criminal case against a business rarely appears out of nowhere: it usually grows out of a tax audit, a corporate conflict or a counterparty’s complaint. We trace where the case came from and build the defence there.
- Handled by
- Attorneys of the bar
- Stages
- From pre-investigation check to cassation
- Urgent line
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The defence is conducted by attorneys of the bar association: the warrant of attorney, attorney–client privilege and access to the client are secured in full. You sign the legal-assistance agreement directly with the attorney.
What we do
- Defend clients in economic and tax crime cases.
- Support pre-investigation checks: explanations, interviews, production of documents.
- Attend searches and seizures, and challenge how they are conducted and what is seized.
- Prepare executives and staff for interrogations and attend them as defence counsel.
- Challenge the opening of a case, custody measures, and freezes on assets and accounts.
- Act for victims of crime: criminal complaints, civil claims within criminal cases.
- Seek review of convictions and judgments.
Typical situations
- After a tax audit, the file has been passed to the investigative authority.
- The office has been searched; equipment and documents seized.
- The director is invited “just for a chat” without a summons.
- A partner in a corporate conflict has filed a fraud complaint.
HOW THE WORK IS BUILT
How the work is built
Tracing the case’s origin
We examine the tax, insolvency and corporate background: such disputes are often resolved where they started, not in the criminal arena.
The line of defence
Motions, challenges to investigative actions, expert evidence, position on custody and asset freezes.
Trial and appeals
Conduct of the case in court, appeal against conviction, newly discovered circumstances.
WHO HANDLES IT
Attorneys in this practice
Attorney since 2009, chairman of the bar association since 2019. Criminal and commercial litigation, personal and corporate insolvency.
More about their experience
- Education
- Graduated from the Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics (MESI) with a degree in Law. Completed professional retraining at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics under the unified insolvency-practitioner programme (crisis management). Postgraduate student at the Moscow Innovation University.
- Practice
- A practising attorney since 2009, specialising in criminal and commercial law and in personal and corporate insolvency cases.
- At the bar association
- Chairman of the Kovalev, Malyutov, Tsypkalo & Partners Moscow Bar Association since 2019.
In the profession since 2011, called to the bar in 2019. Civil, commercial and corporate disputes, criminal defence, real estate, business support, insolvency.
More about their experience
- Education
- Graduated in 2011 from the Odessa National Law Academy (law degree). In 2017 completed a master’s programme at the Crimean Law Institute, a branch of the Academy of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation.
- Practice
- Working in the profession since 2011, including more than ten years in courts of general jurisdiction and commercial (arbitrazh) courts of first instance and appeal, among other roles as a judge’s assistant. Called to the bar in 2019.
- Focus
- Representing individuals in civil matters; extensive experience of commercial and corporate disputes, real-estate transactions, ongoing legal support of businesses and insolvency cases.
QUESTIONS
Frequently asked questions
Who do I sign the agreement with?
The legal-assistance agreement is concluded directly between you and the attorney; the fee is paid into the bar association’s cash office or bank account (art. 25(1), (6) of Federal Law No. 63-FZ on the Bar).
What should I do during a search?
Call us, ask to see the warrant and copy its details, sign nothing you do not understand, and give no explanations before your defence counsel arrives. Objections are entered in the record together with the attorney.
I am invited “for a chat” without a summons. Should I go?
You are not obliged to appear without a summons, and an “off the record” conversation almost always ends in an explanation later used as evidence. The right order is to clarify your procedural status and to go with counsel.
Do you guarantee the outcome?
No — no one may promise the outcome of a criminal case. We assess the prospects and tell you straight what defence options exist and what each one achieves.
Can seized equipment and documents be returned?
Yes — that is a distinct strand of the defence: motions for the return of seized items and for copies of documents the business needs. In economic-crime cases Article 164.1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure expressly restricts seizure of electronic data carriers, and we rely on that.
NEXT STEP
Let’s discuss your situation
The consultation is free when an agreement is signed: that is where we say whether the case has prospects and how the work would be built.