Elena Poleonova

The main operating areas of the bureau are legal support in bankruptcy proceedings, arbitrazh and civil disputes, transaction support.

The “Olevinsky, Buyukyan and Partners» Bureau of Legal Affairs” (before rebranding — “NBZ Group”) was founded in 1993.

A team of lawyers and economists of NBZ Group, having become the core of the “Olevinsky, Buyukyan and Partners” Bureau of Legal Affairs, has been working on the market of legal services for more than twenty-five years. In spring 2016 we celebrated a decade of working under the name of the “Olevinsky, Buyukyan and Partners” Bureau of Legal Affairs. Over these years we have earned the reputation of a professional and reliable partner. Our perfect knowledge and competent application of laws are the best guarantee of success in the work.

There are over 80 employees in the bureau of legal affairs. The company’s headquarters is located in Moscow, regional offices are in Saint Petersburg and Voronezh.

Our specialists are graduates from the top higher education institutions of Russia: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow State Law Academy, Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow Power Engineering Institute and others.

Our leading specialists have MBA certificates, qualification certificates of professional accountants, auditors and appraisers. All our employees keep constantly advancing their professional skills, participate in training events held in the bureau of legal affairs, as well as organized by specialized agencies. Regular professional advancement allows us to follow-up trends in consulting business and use its modern techniques and standards in our business.

Our team: twenty-five academically trained lawyers, including four with the Candidate Degree in Law Sciences. Twenty-two specialists with academic degree in economics, including two with the Candidate Degree in Economics. Six specialists with academic degree in accounting.

The Head of the bureau of legal affairs — Edward Olevinsky — has a Candidate Degree in Law Sciences, an author of articles and monographs on insolvency and legal regulation of business activities. He heads the Expert Council of the National Alliance “Russian Union of Self-Regulatory Insolvency Practitioners (RSSOAU)”. Eduard Olevinsky is a member of the Sub-Committee for Crisis Management and Problem Debts of Committee for Business Security of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Russia.

The core operating areas of the «Olevinsky, Buyukyan and Partners» Bureau of Legal Affairs where we are justly considered one of the most experienced advisers are legal support in bankruptcy proceedings, arbitrazh and civil disputes, transaction support. We consult our clients in the issues of application of the corporate, tax, commercial, criminal law standards.

Lawyers of the bureau of legal affairs provide legal support of corporate management, merger and takeover transactions, represent the interests of clients in the disputes with tax authorities. A team of our Company specialists acquired a solid experience rendering assistance to clients in enforcing the assets of the debtor: we provide full-range legal support of bankruptcy proceedings, as well as support in enforcement proceedings.

The leading Russian experts in the field of public and social communications pitch in with the work on projects that cause a massive public outcry and mass media attention. The strength of our team is in flexibility and diversity, which helps us to solve almost any client's problem in legal terms.

The «Olevinsky, Buyukyan and Partners» Bureau of Legal Affairs closely cooperate with one of the most known and reputable self-regulated organizations of insolvency practitioners “Interregional Centre of Experts and Professional Managers” (MTsPU). Specialists of the bureau of legal affairs are engaged in legal support of the work of MTsPU insolvency practitioners that gives us the opportunity to create a unique professional community, bringing together leading experts in the field of law, economics and management. This is the comprehensive approach that allows us to successfully act as an integrator in bankruptcy proceedings, providing formation and effective operation of a diversified team of professionals.

During the time of existence of our professional community, we have successfully completed more than one hundred projects, united by a common project-oriented principle of working. Among them there is support of insolvency proceedings and business revival after restructuring of: "Farmatsentr" (Moscow), "Rosneft — Kemerovonefteprodukt" (Kemerovo), "Research Institute of Tire Industry" (Moscow), "Energiya Vostoka" (Vladivostok), protection of the rights of shareholders in hostile takeover of industrial enterprises "Pobeda" (Moscow) and MPNU "Energotekhmontazh" OAO (Open Joint Stock Company) (Tula region), participation in support of issuance of "Gazprom" (Moscow) eurobonds, legal support of complex transactions for acquisition of companies ("Samarskoe Obyedineniye Keramiki"), and others.

Since 2008, the bureau of legal affairs has been cooperating with the Russian Centre for Coordination of Legal Assistance Pro Bono, providing free counselling to non-profit organizations. In 2010, the bureau of legal affairs became the first Russian law firm, that received the official status of a “friend of 2010 European Pro Bono Forum”, and every year we confirm the status of a friend of the European Forum. For us it is important to be able to support those persons who made assistance their actual profession.

The credo of our team is constant development: we keep improving the set of offered services and work on the new innovative approaches. Employees of the bureau of legal affairs are ready to develop individual cooperation scheme for each client and take personal responsibility for their performance.

Ratings

The team of the bureau of legal affairs six times was included in the group of the strongest law firms in "Bankruptcy" practice of the annual federal rating of law firms "Pravo.Ru-300".

Since 2014 the bureau of legal affairs has been included in the list of the strongest law firms in the rating of "Kommersant" named "Leaders of the Legal Services Market." In 2016 the bureau of legal affairs was included in the list of the best law firms in legal branches in the nominated category “Bankruptcy” of the rating. In 2019 Edward Olevinsky was personally regarded in the nominated category "Bankruptcy".

International Rating Chambers Europe 2019 and 2018 noted the bureau of legal affairs as one of the best law firms in Russia in the nominated category “Restructuring / Insolvency: Litigation» (Legal representation in the restructuring and bankruptcy cases). Edward Olevinsky was personally regarded in the nominated category “Restructuring / Insolvency: Litigation” Chambers Europe-2019.

International rating Best Lawyers 2017, 2018 and 2019 recognized Edward Olevinsky as one of the best Russian lawyers in the nominated category “Insolvency and Reorganization Law” (Insolvency & Restructuring).

In 2018 the Legal Representation Practice team was regarded by the federal rating of law firms "Pravo.Ru-300" in the nominated category "Settlement of Disputes in Courts of General Jurisdiction» and was included in the top 10 litigators based on the number of cases in arbitrazh courts. In 2017 and 2016 the practice was also regarded in the nominated category "Dispute Settlement", in 2017 it was included in the top 10 litigators. In 2015, it was regarded in the nominated category "Civil Proceedings".

In 2019 the bureau of legal affairs was included in the list of the best law firms, based on rating of PH (Publishing House) "Kommersant". The Practice head Elena Poleonova was regarded in the individual rating in the nominated category "Commercial Law". In 2018 Elena Poleonova became one of the best lawyers in commercial and labour law.

In 2017 the M&A practice head Yury Fedorov received a personal reference of rating of PH "Kommersant" named "Leaders of the Market of Legal Services" as one of the best lawyers in investment and financial disputes.

Every year, since 2014, the M&A practice has been recommended by international rating IFLR 1000 in the nominated category “Corporate and M & A”.

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Elena Poleonova was born in Kazakhstan in 1968. She graduated with honours from the Karaganda State University, with specialty "Jurisprudence".

In 90-s she worked in the Prosecutor's Office of the Karaganda Region and in Karagandaglavsnab (Karaganda Main Procurement Office).

Since 2001 Elena has been working in NBZ, and after the rebranding of legal departments of the company in spring 2006 she joined the newly organized structure — the “Olevinsky, Buyukyan and Partners” Bureau of Legal Affairs."

Within a year the lawyer Elena Poleonova became the head of the Legal Department.

Elena Poleonova coordinated work on one of the most successful projects of the Bureau of Legal Affairs — support of FGUP (Federal State Unitary Enterprise) Research Institute of Tire Industry (NIIShP) bankruptcy

Like most research centres of the Soviet era, NIIShP was planned unprofitable company. In 90-s NIIShP mired in debt. In 2001, when the total debt amounted to about 68 million rubles, one of the NIIShP’s creditors initiated the bankruptcy proceeding. In the course of external management two new legal entities were founded on the basis of NIIShP, the work was quite successful, an investor was found for the company. Suddenly, it was reported that all the assets of NIIShP allegedly had already been sold before. Elena Poleonova had no doubt those were the forged documents relied on by those pretending to the Institute — or rather its land, located in the centre of Moscow. The opponents initiated legal proceedings in Tatarstan — they understood that in Moscow they would lose. Despite thorough preparation of documents for all court sessions, in Tatarstan the case was lost in all three instances.

Then the lawyers instructed by Elena Poleonova prepared a statement to the Supreme Arbitrazh Court of the Russian Federation, which detailed the circumstances of the case and provided all the possible arguments in favour of the legitimate owners of the NIIShP’s assets. In April 2006, the Russia's highest judicial authority — the Presidium of the Supreme Arbitrazh Court of the Russian Federation — cancelled the resolution of courts of all the lower instances and dismissed the invading company's claims to the Institute. Thus, the dispute case over the rights to the NIIShP’s assets came to an end. This resolution of the SAC (Supreme Arbitrazh Court) Presidium knew no equals, since the vast majority of such cases, even in case of a positive decision, is sent for retrial to the arbitrazh court of a lower instance. In order the SAC to rule so unambiguously, the rightness of one of the Parties was to be absolutely clear for the court, and this clarity was a consequence of the long, professional and hard work of the lawyers.

Elena Poleonova became a partner of the bureau of legal affairs in 2008.

This year, Elena Poleonova was included in the list of the best Russian lawyers of the Best Lawyers international rating in the nominated category “Litigation”.

She is married, she has got a daughter.

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