Lawyer Efimova Valeria Nikolaevna
Lawyer's firm "Lawyer Efimova Valeria Niklaevna"
Total years of experience :17 years, 8 Months
Legal services for businesses on civil, criminal, and administrative law issues. Representation of interests in various courts. Protection from criminal prosecution for economic crimes, including crimes in the field of securities trading. Assistance in opening accounts and registering legal entities abroad. Legal jurisdictions: United Arab Emirates, Turkey, India, People's Republic of China, CIS countries, Italy, Spain, USA, UK, and others. Drafting of various types of documents, contracts in Russian and English. Legal support of intellectual property, registration of software, registration of patents, trademarks, etc. Assistance in obtaining legalized documents in foreign jurisdictions. Verification of foreign counterparties as well as KYC. Orientation on the application of various sanctions and leveling the risks associated with them. Overcoming the blocking of foreign currency accounts, helping businesses with the application of "parallel import". Legal support in transactions abroad. Representation of interests in international Courts.
Advising large businesses on issues of sanctions law, export/import control, foreign economic activity, Incoterms. Full legal service of foreign economic activity, including legal advice in the field of customs, currency control, tax legislation, application of various norms of international legal acts. Assessment of the specifics of the legislation of various countries: China, Serbia and Montenegro, India, UAE, CIS, Turkey, Kingdom of Thailand, EU countries, UK, USA, etc. Representation of the company's interests in cases related to bringing to administrative responsibility. Conducting claims work in relation to foreign counterparties. Supervising the full range of drafting various documents in English on issues of interaction with imported suppliers. Conducting negotiations in English with contractors and their representatives. Representation of the company's interests in the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, international courts, administrations and departments. Advising on the application of international legislation, conflict of laws rules, international Conventions, Directives and acts. Understanding the basics of English law. Registration of legal entities and opening of accounts abroad. Sanctioned Due Diligence, KYC. Relief of risks associated with the blocking of foreign currency accounts of companies in foreign banks and the transfer of funds, as well as risks associated with the introduction of various sanctions and a ban on the import of products into the Russian Federation, legal services on the application of "parallel import". Development of various bilingual contracts: Dealer, distribution, agency, trilateral contract, contract of transportation, storage, production contract for own brand, contract for the manufacture of products from raw materials, etc. Development of a system for checking and leveling possible risks that prevent the import of counterfeit products into the Russian Federation, as well as the misuse of trademarks. Working with the intellectual property of the company. Identification and support of software and trademark registration in the relevant country. Study of local legislation in the field of intellectual property rights protection.
Legal support of intellectual property registration issues (trademarks, pink color protection), legal expertise of license agreements, as well as software. Protection of rights to domain names, legal maintenance of the IT sphere, including the development of regulations for blocking offending sites, the development of local acts, legal registration of the developed software in the ownership of the company. Representation of interests on the threat of blocking a mobile application in the Apple Store. Support of issues of documentation and permits for the provision of trademarks and other intellectual property objects of the company for use. Preparation of documents and submission for registration of industrial designs and utility models to the Federal Institute of Industrial Property, interaction with Rospatent. Representation of the company's interests in the Intellectual Property Court. Development of the company's policy in the field of counterparty verification, as well as NDA.
Drafting of all types of procedural documents (statements of claim, statements in the order of special proceedings, a statement in the order of simplified proceedings, petitions, appeals, cassation and supervisory complaints, responses to the statement of claim, complaints about the actions/inaction of officials, appeal of Decisions on bringing to administrative responsibility), representation of clients' interests in courts of general jurisdiction, Magistrates' courts of St. Petersburg and Leningrad region, Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and Leningrad region. Advising individuals and legal entities on legal issues: housing, family, administrative, contractual relations, compensation for damage as a result of a traffic accident, disputes arising from the operation of the Law "On Consumer Rights Protection", collection and counteraction to debt collection under loan agreements, receipts, bank agreements, loan agreements, lease agreements, contracts of assignment. Advising clients on housing issues: registration as a person in need of better housing conditions, privatization of housing, provision of municipal housing (for orphans and children left without parental care, large families and other privileged categories of citizens), eviction and de-registration of persons, provision of housing when the house is recognized as an emergency, collection of documents and placement of persons on various public housing programs operating both in St. Petersburg and abroad, for persons in need of assistance in improving housing conditions. Representation of interests in the federal courts of St. Petersburg, the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg, the Thirteenth Appellate Arbitration Court, the Arbitration Court of the North-Western District, the Arbitration Courts of the districts. Conducting claim and claim work in the holding. Protection of interests under supply contracts, legal analysis of contracts. Conclusion of favorable settlement agreements, competent and effective negotiation with counterparties regarding the conclusion of settlement agreements, deferral and installment payments, offsets. Adjustment and control of creditors, provision of weekly reports and development of a unified legal position on debt collection deterrence. Collection of accounts receivable (about 150 suppliers) and counteraction to collection of accounts receivable (about 50 creditors), representation of interests in the Offices of the Federal Bailiff Service of the Russian Federation, district offices for combating economic crimes of the city of St. Petersburg in the framework of criminal proceedings against unscrupulous counterparties of the company (under Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Fraud"). The presence of court rulings on the cancellation of the decisions of the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, on the reduction of the amounts of penalties and representation costs, on the termination of proceedings in the case. Adjustment of the work of the holding's judicial department, development of a legally competent approach to reducing the company's court costs in the framework of conducting arbitration cases (reduction of state duty expenses). Working with 1C program v.8., Qutlook program. Work in multitasking mode (3-4 court sessions per day in the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region).
While working, I started working as a legal assistant in the Russian Federation. By the end of my studies at the Institute, I worked as a lawyer in a pharmaceutical holding company in the Russian Federation. During my studies, I gained practical experience in various fields of Russian law. Then, I independently began to study private international law, had the opportunity to apply it in the course of my further work.
