«O2 CONSULTING» LLC - Rise above all. We are there for you.

We provide our clients IP project support in various areas: protection, registration, transfer of IP, use of intellectual property rights, including copyrights, trade marks and inventions. We have vast experience of working with clients operating in innovative IT development areas. We understand all aspects of business protection in terms of commercial secrecy and the nuances of securing title to privately developed software. We also perform due diligence of IP, prepare a contractual framework of any complexity under Russian and foreign law (including franchising agreements, licence agreements and contracts with developers), provide support in negotiations and disputes, and advise on regulatory matters. Our ability to pool the best specialists from various practice areas on project teams provides our clients with integrated IP solutions under the laws of various jurisdictions, with optimal regulatory and tax arrangements and taking into account the specific nature of the given...

O2 Consulting specialists advise clients on various employment maters. We have a solid understanding of employment regulation specifics and our vast experience helps us find out-of-the-box solutions in this area to maintain balance in the relations between employer and employee. Successful and extensive experience in judicial and extrajudicial resolution of employment disputes on the side of both employers and employees and conflict settlement skills allow effective ways to be found for conflict prevention and resolution. We also help big and medium-sized businesses with employment audits, legal aspects of restructuring related to large-scale employee dismissals and transfers, and with development of a layoff optimisation strategy. Our lawyers support clients in conflict situations, including ones related to dismissal of management, and in regulatory audits of compliance with employment and immigration laws. We prepare for our clients comprehensive documents, individual documents...

The O2 Consulting team includes litigators with impressive experience in supporting various commercial disputes. We successfully provide support at any stages of conflicts or disputes, including conducting complex negotiations and various pre-judicial settlement options. Leveraging our strengths - considerable experience, spotless reputation, high ethical standard and comprehensive professional competences - we are able to act as intermediaries in reaching a compromise. When a dispute progresses to the court stage, our key advantage is strategic planning of the client’s defence and an effective tactical position in the dispute. We work in commercial courts, general jurisdiction courts, arbitral tribunals/international commercial arbitration.

Our team includes specialists with expertise in competition protection and anti-monopoly law. Their experience covers various areas: cartels, economic concentration, proper competitive behaviour, dominance, advertisement and state procurement. Main operating areas: Assessment of anti-monopoly law violation risks of proposed transactions, in business restructuring, building and controlling dealer networks, entering new product and geographical markets Consulting on various anti-monopoly matters Preventive audit of company’s contracts and operations for possible violations of anti-monopoly law. Developing anti-monopoly compliance. Representing companies in case an anti-monopoly authority considers cases related to violation of anti-monopoly law and administrative cases Representing companies in disputes with the regulator (including contesting orders, writs and administrative regulations) Support in obtaining approval of transactions from the Russian Federal Antimonopoly...

The O2 Consulting team has many years’ experience of supporting projects in the area of private capital, including protection of the interests of wealthy families and individuals. Our clients are successful people who are prominent leaders in a wide range of spheres, including top managers, owners of big businesses, patrons of the arts, creative professionals, fashion and sports professionals, private entrepreneurs and investors. O2 Consulting provides the following services in this sphere: Advising on legal and tax issues in structuring the ownership of a business and making investments Supporting transactions to acquire private properties and luxury goods Developing various instruments for holding and managing private wealth, including trusts and family funds Assisting in organising clients’ relations with investment managers, financial institutions and auditors

O2 Consulting is a recognised expert in corporate and individual international taxation, including tax structuring of commercial activities and/or asset holding outside Russia. We provide cross-border tax planning services for individuals and corporations, develop international corporate tax structures for business ownership, create tax models for carrying out commercial activities or making investments in foreign jurisdictions. Our professionals have considerable hands-on experience of working with Russian and foreign corporations, providing tax advice and supporting tax disputes in foreign jurisdictions, which ensures an integrated approach to fulfilling tasks of any kind or implementing transactions with a foreign element. We offer unique solutions in selecting the optimal jurisdiction to set up a business, with regard for the tax specifics of each country involved. We liaise on a permanent basis with tax authorities in various countries, which helps our clients access...

O2 Consulting provides fully-fledged accounting services to its clients: Overall financial accounting and tax accounting for Russian companies, preparing and submitting reports Ongoing advice on the RAS financial and tax accounting methodology and reporting Advice on application of the IFRS

O2 Consulting is a legal counsel of many recognised Russian and international retailers and FMCG companies. Clients seek our support in resolving issues of any kind pertaining to support for their trade operations in Russia and abroad, as well as assistance in competition law, regulation, taxation, brand protection and in other areas pertaining to this sector. We provide integrated legal support to our clients and, in particular, help them build relationships with suppliers and lessors; we advise our clients on matters of certification and excise taxes, develop loyalty programs, defend the interests of our clients in commercial, administrative and labor disputes and in cases over the protection of consumer rights.

Our experts have considerable experience in legal, financial and tax structuring and integrated support for real estate projects and transactions of various complexity and in various business areas, including support for industrial construction, transactions with major agricultural assets and land, commercial and warehouse properties, Olympic infrastructure facilities, business and shopping centres. We support development projects at all their stages. Our team participates in implementing real estate projects in Russia and abroad, at all stages from an integrated due diligence of an asset to registration of rights. We advise clients on a wide range of real estate project issues, including tax and regulatory aspects, specifics of residential construction, various types of lease, specifics of and restrictions on land use; we perform specialised legal audits to identify and mitigate project risks. Our clients include commercial banks, developers, engineering and construction...

O2 Consulting provides legal services on any issues arising in foreign trade. We assist our clients in optimising export and import processes, advises clients on their interaction with customs authorities and application of international economic sanctions, represent clients in trade negotiations and in disputes with contracting parties and state regulatory authorities.