Svyatoslav Mikhailov

Svyatoslav Mikhailov

Lawyer

Corporate and contract law, intellectual property protection

Svyatoslav specializes in corporate, contractual law, as well as intellectual property protection. He has over 10 years of experience working as a lawyer in major Russian companies. 

Representing clients in arbitration courts, Svyatoslav also conducts pre-trial claims work and supports projects in the field of protecting clients' rights on the Internet.

Svyatoslav graduated from the Civil Law Faculty of the All-Russian State Academy of Foreign Trade (VAVT), Moscow (Russia).

He is fluent in English.

Selected projects:

  • Successful representation of the owner's interests in a court dispute with a government agency regarding the recognition of part of a building as an unauthorized construction. The court decided to refuse to agency’s claim to to demolish part of the building, saving more than 10 million rubles to the owner.
  • Advising on a transaction involving the sale of real estate between affiliated companies with the value more than 100 million rubles. During the transaction, one of the companies successfully underwent a tax audit for VAT reimbursement of 20 million rubles.
  • Successful representation of the company’s interests in arbitration courts regarding disputes over penalties amounting to over 30 million rubles