Since it was founded in the early eighteenth century by the Russian tsar Peter the Great, St Petersburg has always had a distinctly international outlook. This week it will see an influx of international and local lawyers, who are in town for the third CIS Local Counsel Forum. From the booming oil markets of Russia and central Asia to the fast-growing international business community in Ukraine, the conference will cover some of the world’s most rapidly developing economies and legal markets.
Organized by RULG-Ukrainian Legal Group and hosted by Russia’s Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners – the firm was the subject of a profile that featured in Legal Week last year – the forum brings together lawyers from local and international firms in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan and beyond.
