Debt recovery and litigations

We usually start with negotiations and a pre-trial claim. This comes often to be enough! A well-drafted claim on the letterhead of a law firm indicates the seriousness of your intentions and the high competence of the lawyers engaged. The counterparty realizes the need to participate in legal proceedings, spend time and money - and agrees to your demands without bringing the dispute to court.

Our lawyers will receive a court decision and an enforcement order. We will contact the tax authorities and find out in what banks the debtor has its accounts, contact the banks directly or through the bailiff service and make sure that you receive the awarded money.

If the counterparty persists, we will collect the necessary set of the documents and submit it to the court, request interim measures (for example, ask the court to block the debtor’s bank accounts), participate in every court hearing and defend your interests.

In any legal proceeding we also demand for compensation all possible penalties and lawyers’ fees. So often the compensations cover all legal costs and our clients do not spend a penny for the litigation.

We will win commercial disputes and debt recovery cases (example: a client does not pay), corporate cases (example: a CEO causes losses to the company), employment disputes (example: a dismissed employee demands re-employment and compensations), disputes on intellectual property (example: a competitor uses your trademarks).

Russian subdivision of a European manufacturer of road construction materials regularly contacted our lawyers to collect debts from unscrupulous buyers.

Our lawyers made the pre-trial work: at the first stage, reasoned claims were sent to unscrupulous counterparties. The claims contained a legal description of the violation, measures that would be taken by lawyers in case of failure to pay (appeal to court, block accounts, collect all possible penalties, fines and expenses etc.), as well as the demand for the debt recovery.

In most cases, the debts were repaid on the basis of a pre-trial claim. With some debtors debt restructuring agreements were signed, providing the repayment of the debt in installments.

Regarding other debtors, lawsuits for the payment of the debt, penalties and lawyers’ fees were filed to arbitration courts.

In some cases, the share of penalties and compensations exceeded 20%, thus covering all legal expenses of the client.

As a result of the litigation, enforcement orders were obtained, and the debt was recovered.

The lawsuit success rate was 100%.