In 1998 – 1999 a team of Jurinflot lawyers prepared an analysis of the legal and tax environment that exists in Russia and the Sakhalin Region in order to determine the proposed structure of the Sakhalin Development Agency (SDA) whose objectives were to arrange financing for and to operate regional and municipal infrastructure projects; the analysis included tax law, budgetary law, banking law, property right protection, licensing requirements, insurance, security interests, land ownership, registration, and mortgage laws, issues of conflict and coordination between federal, regional and municipal laws; recommendations for structuring and governance of SDA were prepared; recommendations on amendments to existing laws and regulations were also made; the work was done on instructions from an Alaska government agency and funded by USAID program; the work was performed and the ensuing report was prepared and presented to the beneficiary (the Administration and the Duma of the Sakhalin Region) jointly with William T. Robinson PLLC, Seattle, Washington (USA).
Since 1996 the firm has been advising a number of Western investors on acquisition of companies in Rostov Region, registration of shares and protecting the shareholders’ rights, managing the investment, structuring contractual arrangements and on all related issues of Russian commercial law, banking laws, licensing, taxation, privatization, litigation, legal relationships with regional authorities etc, advising the same clients and their Russian partners on the formation and organization of a Financial and Industrial Group (FIG) in southern Russia.
Members of Jurinflot co-authored federal government’s official draft of the new Russian Code of Merchant Shipping which entered into force on 1st May 1999, and the first Commentary to the Code.
In 1996 - 1997 Jurinflot developed and implemented a scheme and an international structure for an investment management company based in New York and Ireland for investment in Russian securities through a leading Moscow bank.
In 1996 the firm prepared a full set of standard agreements and forms for a leading bank in Moscow, advising the bank on a number of industrial investment projects.
In 1998 Jurinflot lawyers advised a Russian financial group on sale of majority shares in a major transport company and prepared the documentation on the transaction.
The firm drafted legal opinions on requests from law firms such as Norton Rose, Sinclair Roche and Temperley, Stephenson Harwood, Baker and McKenzie, Holman Fenwick and Willan, Denton Hall, Shaw and Croft, Ledingham Chalmers, Setterwalls and others.
Legal opinions were prepared for domestic and foreign banks such as EBRD, ING, SURZUR, Societe Generale, Cornelius Investment SA, Meespierson NV, Moscow Narodny Bank, Skandinavska Enskilda Banken AB (publ.).
Jurinflot advised on international joint ventures for Gazprom and Lukoil, a number of international joint ventures and bareboat charter (i.e. lease) arrangements in fishing industry, and international joint ventures in shipbuilding industry.
The firm drafted a trust agreement and related official documents for the management of the Russian nuclear ice-breaker fleet.
The firm has represented foreign creditors in bankruptcy proceedings of banks Imperial, Inkombank, Unexim, of shipping companies, fishing fleets etc.
A Jurinflot lawyer was a member of the State Expert Commissions on Sakhalin-1 and Sakhalin-2 oil projects.