Legal agency JUS COGENS

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Status

In 2007, JUS COGENS Legal Agency was rated high by the Expert RA Rating Agency for provision of services in the intellectual property sector and capital markets, being awarded 7th and 8th places in the rating of Russian law firms.

In the Top-List of the Delovoy Kvartal (Business Quarter) magazine (No. 7, March 3, 2008) JUS COGENS Legal Agency ranks 8th in the company consolidated revenue and ranks 9th in the revenue from legal services provided by Ekaterinburg-based law firms in 2007. The number of clients serviced by the agency within the appraisal period brought 2nd place to JUS COGENS.

JUS COGENS Legal Agency takes pride in its top-rated status among law firms operating in the Urals and nationwide.

Status

Year 2008. JUS COGENS Legal Agency moves to the forefront, taking place among the ten largest law firms of Ekaterinburg; it ranks 9th in the aggregate turnover and ranks 4th in the number of clients serviced in 2008. JUS COGENS moves up to 7th place in the revenue from legal services (the Delovoy Kvartal magazine (No. 5, February 16, 2009).

Year 2009. JUS COGENS Legal Agency takes 3rd place in the consolidated revenue and in the number of in-house employees, who have a law degree, in the rating of law firms of Ekaterinburg (the Delovoy Kvartal magazine, No. 24, June 28, 2010).

StatusYear 2010. (The Delovoy Kvartal magazine, No. 23 (786), June 27, 2011). JUS COGENS Legal Agency is awarded third place in the nomination of the corporate revenue earned in 2010 and fourth place in the total revenue, in the number of employees with a law degree, and in the office space occupied in Ekaterinburg.

In the rating of law firms operating in the Urals and Western Siberia (the Expert-Ural Analytical Center, No. 14, April 1, 2011) JUS COGENS Legal Agency took 13th place and 6th place among the companies providing legal services in Ekaterinburg.

Year 2011. JUS COGENS Legal Agency entered the list of TOP-50 regional law firms based on the results of 2011 in the pravo.ru rating. JUS COGENS Legal Agency took 28th place based on the revenue among all companies and 5th place among the Ekaterinburg market players. JUS COGENS Legal Agency ranks 25th in the number of lawyers in the regional rating and 5th in the rating of Ekaterinburg firms.

Legal agency JUS COGENS

Angelina Azanova Executive Director of JUS COGENS Legal Agency

Education: Ural State Pedagogical UniversityUral State Law Academy

Work experience: more than 6 years

Field of specialization: Company Law. Registration services

Registration of CompaniesYou have come up with an excellent idea for business; besides, it is your long-life dream to be self-employed and to start up your own business. Do you know how to implement this idea, what to start with, what documents to prepare, and what agencies to contact?

We are very competent in such businesses as:

an Internet store

a store

• a development company

an IT company

a beauty parlor

a restaurant

a travel agency

a transportation company

an advertising agency

newspaper publishing business

Legal support in starting nonprofit companies

Are you interested in social activities? We can help you register a not-for-profit organization or put things right in the documents of the existing nonprofit organization.

Within the Everything is OK Program framework:•We will conduct legal audit of constituent documents of the organization.•We will help in placement of information about your activities at our website. •We have experience in emblem registration with the Ministry of Justice.

In 2011, JUS COGENS Legal Agency launched a campaign under the slogan “Everything is OK!” aimed at helping nonprofit organizations to go through inspections of the Ministry of Justice.

Liquidation of companies

Every year JUS COGENS offers a special program – “Liquidation”

The Liquidation Program will be interesting and useful to you if:•You suspect improper maintenance of accounting records.•The company has accomplished the objectives it was meant for.•The company wants to cease its business.•The company may have to declare a loss at the end of the year.

Registration of trademarks in Russia and abroad, protection of copyright

Legal protection of a brand•Company name•Trademark•Commercial designation

Legal support for joint-stock companies

Yulia PASHKINA,Partner of JUS COGENS Legal Agency Graduate of the Ural State Law Academy (2003)Work experience: more than 10 years. A professional player on the stock market; specialist in the financial market – a qualification certificate of the Federal Financial Markets Service. Wide experience of work in joint-stock company legislation.

Field of specialization: Company Law, Joint-Stock Company Legislation.•Legal assistance in administration of the share register•Organization of general meetings of shareholders•Issuance of securities•Disclosing of information by issuers: preparation of documents and placement of information at the website of JUS COGENS: www.jus-cogens.ru

Land and Real Property Transactions

Eleonora Faizrakhmanova,Partner of JUS COGENS Legal Agency Graduate of the Ural State Law Academy; diploma and Master degree in Jurisprudence (M.J.).Member of the Association of Lawyers of Russia.Work experience: more than 12 yearsExperience in teaching.

Field of specialization: Company Law, real property transactions. Land law. •Registration of the title to land and real property.•Land title transfer.•Registration of titles to residential and non-residential property.•Legal support in real property transactions.•Registration of titles to assets and unfinished construction projects.

IT Law

Member of the Association of Lawyers of Russia.Member of Delovaya Rossiya (Business Russia), a national non-commercial organization.Work experience: 10 years.Field of specialization: Company Law, IT Law (defense of rights of software developers and customers, legal support in investment in IT companies). Inheritance. Business inheritance.

Svetlana Korabel,Managing partner of JUS COGENS Legal Agency

Graduate of the Ural State Law Academy; additional education: lawyer-as-translator (English).

Specialist in the financial market; qualification certificate of the Federal Financial Markets Service Graduate of the Presidential Program-2005. Has the higher economic education.

Legal agency JUS COGENS

620014 Russia, Ekaterinburg city, Khokhryakova Street, 75phone number +7 (343) 222-222-3e-mail: main@jus-cogens.ruwww.jus-cogens.ru