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Russia  Moscow, 121357, Vereyskaya Plaza 2, Vereyskaya str. 17, office 616 Russia  St.Peterburg, 190031, Efimova str. 4a, office 730	The law firm Zhigachov & Christophoroff has been actively involved in matters of corporate law for ten years. As legislation and legal practices develop, the complexity and scale of the tasks facing our clients increase. Whereas requests relative to ordinary consulting dominated during the first half of the 1990s, in the last few years our clients turn to us more and more often for the development of a more sophisticated corporate management system. Such work supposes the detailed analysis of relationships between shareholders and the management, working out system of restraints and counterbalances inside the management structure, and the detailed description of procedures involved in decision-making and the responsibilities associated with different positions. By turning to the lawyers of our firm and its partners outside of Russia, first for initial advice and then regular support, Russian entrepreneurs are planning the future expansion of their business at home or abroad with greater frequency and professionalism.      Unfortunately, no preventive measures can completely exclude the eventuality of a conflict among share holders, participants in the corporation, owners of the business and the hired management. With regard to such matters, our lawyers have successfully defended a large number of cases before the courts of Moscow, the Region of Moscow, the Northwest region, Ural, north of the Russia and other regions, representing the interests of different parties in this kind of conflict.      A special attention should be paid to state-owned companies and ones with state participation. Being consulting the largest state-owned companies on their corporate life, our lawyers must resolve extremely complicated legal problems which are at the conflict of civil law, and public law, including budget law, problems which suppose drafting up corresponding normative acts.