Baker McKenzie pledged in March to spin off its Moscow and St. Petersburg offices in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but the slow pace of disentangling these operations enabled a partner to present under the firm’s name Wednesday at an international legal conference in St. Petersburg that featured a welcome message from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Moscow partner Vladimir Efremov presented on a panel at the 10th annual St. Petersburg Legal Forum on “The balance of public and private interests in the conditions of mutual restrictive measures,” according to a program from the event obtained by Law.com.

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