Russia’s oil-driven economic revival is generating a flood of corporate work and surging demand for City partners. Richard Lloyd reports on Moscow’s white-hot legal market 
Although Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has been in Moscow since 1992, its office in the Russian capital is still rather modest. Around 30 lawyers handle a typical Skadden diet of high-end corporate finance work. But reinforcements are available at short notice. The firm has Russian visas for every one of its 115 lawyers in London, to avoid the usual overnight delay in visa processing whenever extra English and US-qualified lawyers are needed on the ground in Russia.
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