Protecting Your Business in Russia
What You Need To Know

Invitation to a conference
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 8.30 am – 10.30 am

La Représentation Commerciale de la Fédération de Russie en France
49 rue de la Faisanderie 75116 Paris

Texte en anglais

Protecting their business in Russia is a subject of interest for French companies and investors concerned by abusiness environment that is sometimes perceived as uncertain and arbitrary.

In addition to regular commercial risks, any business entering the Russian market has to deal with specific riskssuch as company raids, bad faith local partners, attacks on trademarks and trade names and other intellectualproperty, unfaithful competition, including aggressive and massive hiring of personnel, etc.

Preventive and curative risk management actions are not only highly advisable but are efficient. Although Russiais a relatively "young" business place, remedies, including legal remedies, are available and should be used.Dialogue Franco-Russe, Deloitte and Hogan & Hartson are pleased to invite you to this breakfast seminar inorder to provide you with ideas and examples of issues and actions.

Speakers

Sébastien Allaire, Partner, Certified Fraud Examiner, CIA, CISA, FCCA, Deloitte, Paris, is part of Deloitte’s riskmanagement service.

His practice focuses on the identification and prevention of fraud. He assists largebusinesses on strengthening their anti-fraud systems in France and internationally. He recently participated inroundtables on fraud risks organized by the IFACI (Institut Français de l'Audit et du Contrôle Internes), theAMRAE (Association pour le Management des Risques et des Assurances de l’Entreprise) and the DFCG(Directeur Financier et du Contrôleur de Gestion).

Xenia Legendre, Partner, Hogan & Hartson, Paris, is of Russian origin and has practiced law in France for thepast 17 years.

Xenia has extensive experience of advising clients on the structuring of merger and acquisitiontransactions, joint ventures, and restructuring projects.

Julianna Tabastajewa, Counsel, Hogan & Hartson, Moscow, advises on intellectual property protection andlitigation, competition law, media law and franchising.

She also has extensive experience in domestic litigationsand arbitrations in Russia. Throughout her career, Julianna has represented major Russian and internationalcompanies in sophisticated copyright, trademark, patent, and domain disputes, including several successfulprecedent cases for Quelle AG, Volkswagen AG, Audi AG.

Julianna has contributed significantly to new domainregulations in the Russian Federation and has written extensively on the subject. She is also actively involved inintellectual property legislation development initiatives in Russia as an authority of the Anti-piracy Committee ofthe State Duma (legislative assembly) of the Russian Federation.

Registration

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About Dialogue France-Russe

The Dialogue Franco-Russe association was created in 2004 in order to facilitate franco-russian relations.

The association supports and organizes various strategic industrial, cultural and commercial partnerships between Franceand Russia, it facilitates exchanges between French and Russian small- to medium-sized companies, it participates inFranco-Russian projects with the UN, UNESCO and the European , it promotes bilateral relations in theeducational, scientific, cultural, environmental, tourist and sport arenas and it encourages the study of the French andRussian languages.


About Hogan & Hartson

Hogan & Hartson is a leading international law firm founded in Washington, D.C., in 1904 with more than 1,100 lawyers throughout Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States.

Effective May 1, 2010, Hogan & Hartson LLP and Lovells LLP will combine to form Hogan Lovells.  

The combination is subject to the firms obtaining thenecessary regulatory clearances.

Find out more at www.hhlaw.com