Svyatoslav specializes in representing clients in dispute resolution and dealing with private law issues of contract law.

He is a lecturer at the Civil Law Department of the Russian State University of Justice.

Russian State University of Justice, National Research University Higher School of Economics

• Defense of the interests of an employer - a well-known multinational company, one of the world's largest producers of everyday goods - against an employee claiming to recognize the fact of acquiring an occupational disease, to establish the fact of an industrial accident and to recover moral damages.
• Representation of an acquirer of the rights of a major developer on issues related to completion of construction of problem projects. Developing a mechanism for the investor to complete construction of a problem project (under-construction), participation in the insolvency (bankruptcy) case of the developer while considering all creditors' claims, analysis of the bankruptcy case, formation of practice at the level of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on the issue of inclusion in the register of claims of construction participants for money or an apartment in the presence of a terminated agreement (this issue has not been resolved until 2022); support of the investor (acquirer of the developer's rights) in completing the construction of a problem project: establishment of an organization, holding of meetings of creditors and meetings of construction participants, counteraction with state and municipal authorities.
• Effective representation of a major regional developer in illegal takeover cases, including 1 bankruptcy, 5 arbitration, 15 civil, 3 administrative and 3 criminal cases related to one goal - restoration of the powers of the sole executive body and recovery of real estate with a market value of over 200 million rubles.
• Successful support of a subcontractor dispute on recovery of a debt from an Italian company, during which it was possible to prove the exclusive jurisdiction of the Russian court in accordance with Article 248.1 of the Arbitration Procedural Code of the Russian Federation, despite the arbitration clause established by the parties to transfer all disputes to the ICC (Paris) and the applicable Belarusian law.
• Successful support of disputes in representing a major Russian fishing company - recovery of damages and negative sanctions in the total amount of about 50 million rubles. In one of the disputes, the adviser managed to prove that the supplied fish planting material was contaminated with bacteriological and infectious diseases, therefore, in order to minimize the risk of infection of healthy individuals, it was necessary to eliminate the supplied fish planting material of improper quality.
• Support of consumer disputes on behalf of one of Russia's largest fashion retailers, as well as the largest car dealer in Russia - an official dealer of BMW, Rolls-Royce, Infiniti, Hyundai, Chery. Our team successfully protects businesses from consumer extremism. We systematically monitor cases of unfair consumer behavior, form and update the register of consumer extremists, and, if necessary, prepare appeals to court presidents and other representatives of the judicial system in order to draw attention to the issue of consumer extremism, ensure that the case is considered taking into account all the circumstances and protect the interests of clients from abuse of right.
• Comprehensive development of local regulations governing labour relations for the largest regional developer: compliance policy, internal labour regulations, regulations on trade secrets, regulations on personal data protection, regulations on contractual and claims work, regulations on employee bonuses, recruitment regulations, draft employment contracts, job descriptions.
• Successful defense of a top manager's interests in a litigation to challenge an illegally imposed disciplinary sanction in the form of a reprimand, recovery of unpaid bonus and moral damages against the employer being a well-known international pharmaceutical company. The adviser managed to prove not only that the disciplinary sanction was imposed illegally and unreasonably in order to induce the top manager to resign from the company due to a labour conflict with the employer, but also that, in the course of the litigation, the employer had fabricated a document on the full payment of the bonus to the employee.