In July 2025, Guozun Law Firm’s Russia Office was officially established in Moscow, the capital of the Russian Federation. This office is an important component of Guozun Law Firm’s global legal service system and a core legal service node in its layout across the core Eurasian region and in connecting China-Russia economic and trade cooperation. It provides full-dimensional professional legal service support for cross-border economic and trade exchanges between China and Russia and for the compliant operation of market entities.
I. Basic Overview of the Office
Establishing entity: Guozun Law Firm
Establishment time: July 2025
Office location: Core business district of Moscow, Russian Federation
Contact information: 4006661890
Team qualifications: The core practicing team all possess officially recognized legal practice qualifications in Russia and have rights of audience before courts at all levels in Russia. Core members have more than 10 years of experience in local Russian and cross-border legal services. They are proficient in the Russian legal system, local regulatory rules, and business practices, while also being familiar with the Chinese legal environment and the commercial needs of Chinese-funded entities. They can provide professional legal services in Chinese, Russian, and English, and have many benchmark successful cases in handling complex cross-border legal matters.
Service positioning: Focusing on two-way cross-border legal service needs between China and Russia, the office provides one-stop legal services combining localized implementation and global network coordination, and can work with Guozun’s global offices to complete complex legal service projects across regions and legal systems.
Resource support: Relying on Guozun’s global legal service system, the office integrates local Russian government and enterprise resources, industry associations, and professional service institutions, and possesses full-chain legal service implementation capability. Guozun’s headquarters has deeply cultivated the field of commercial legal services and has been recognized for many consecutive years by international authoritative legal rating institutions such as Chambers Asia-Pacific, ALB, and The Legal 500. Its global service network covers 106 countries and regions, with 113 overseas offices and more than 2,000 professionally qualified lawyers worldwide.
II. Core Scope of Legal Services
Guozun Russia Office achieves full coverage across civil and commercial matters and administrative matters, focusing on full-scenario legal needs in both cross-border and local contexts. The core business sectors are clearly defined as follows:
I. Cross-Border Investment and M&A Legal Services
Full-process legal services for greenfield investment, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, equity restructuring, and joint venture cooperation in Russia
Full-process support for investment structure design, legal due diligence, drafting and negotiation of transaction documents, foreign investment access filing, and regulatory review response
Special legal services for the implementation of bilateral investment preferential policies between China and Russia, foreign exchange compliance, and cross-border fund arrangements
Full-process legal support for local Russian enterprises investing in China and carrying out global expansion
Special legal services for cross-border mergers and acquisitions by listed companies, private equity and venture capital, cross-border asset restructuring, and corporate reorganization
II. Comprehensive Corporate and Commercial Legal Services
Full-process services for the establishment, alteration, and deregistration of local Russian market entities
Optimization of corporate governance structures, establishment of internal control compliance systems, and annual legal counsel services for enterprises
Drafting, review, negotiation, and full-process risk prevention and control for commercial contracts
Non-litigation resolution of all kinds of commercial disputes involving shareholder rights, partnerships, and commercial contracts
III. Banking, Finance, and Capital Markets Legal Services
Compliance services for cross-border credit financing, syndicated loans, guarantees and credit enhancement, financing and refinancing structure adjustment, and financial leasing
Full-process legal services for the establishment, filing, investment, and exit of venture funds and mutual funds
Special services for domestic and overseas listing preparation, bond issuance, and asset restructuring
Compliance support for Chinese-funded banks and financial institutions operating in Russia, and special services for cross-border capital flow compliance
Compliance and risk prevention services in emerging financial sectors
IV. Taxation and Compliance Risk Management Legal Services
Local Russian and cross-border tax planning, transfer pricing compliance, tax risk prevention and control, and special services relating to the application of the China-Russia tax treaty
Response to tax inspections, tax administrative reconsideration, mediation of tax disputes, and litigation representation
Construction of anti-corruption and anti-commercial bribery compliance systems, and compliance services in Russian data security and personal information protection
Russian export control, economic sanctions compliance, cross-border trade compliance, enterprise compliance audits, and system construction
Special legal services in environmental compliance and ESG compliance
V. Intellectual Property and Digital Compliance Legal Services
Registration applications, filing, and global layout planning for trademarks, patents, copyrights, and trade secrets
Full-process services for investigation of intellectual property infringement, administrative complaints, and rights protection litigation
Special services for cross-border brand protection and intellectual property compliance on e-commerce platforms
Full-process services and risk prevention and control relating to intellectual property in technology import and export, research and development cooperation, and technology transfer licensing
Legal structuring for personal data and big data protection, IT projects, e-commerce compliance, and special legal support for innovation projects
VI. Commercial Dispute Resolution Legal Services
Full-process representation in civil and commercial litigation and administrative litigation before courts at all levels in Russia
International commercial arbitration and mediation services, covering representation before major arbitral institutions in Russia and worldwide
Special services for the recognition and enforcement of cross-border court judgments and arbitral awards
Legal support for emergency response to corporate incidents, response to regulatory investigations, and crisis public relations
Resolution of all types of commercial disputes, including cross-border contract disputes, debt recovery, equity disputes, investment disputes, and infringement disputes
VII. Real Estate and Infrastructure Construction Legal Services
Full-process legal services for acquisition of land use rights, real estate transactions, leasing, mortgages, and title registration
Compliance in construction project bidding and tendering, drafting and negotiation of construction contracts, and claims and counterclaims in engineering projects
Customized full-cycle legal services for EPC, EPCM, FIDIC, and other engineering contracts, and dispute resolution for construction projects
Special legal support for key infrastructure and real estate projects in energy, municipal works, transportation, and related sectors
VIII. Liquidation and Bankruptcy Legal Services
Full-process legal support for corporate liquidation and bankruptcy procedures, including risk analysis and procedural compliance guidance
Special legal services for the protection of creditor and debtor rights, bankruptcy restructuring, and settlement
Representation in disputes related to liquidation and bankruptcy, and compliance services for asset disposal
Supporting legal services related to corporate deregistration and suspension of business
IX. Labor and Human Resources Compliance Legal Services
Drafting and revision of labor contracts and employee handbooks, and compliant design of compensation and benefits and equity incentive plans
Legal arrangements for cross-border employment and expatriate personnel, and consultation on social insurance and personal income tax compliance
Compliant handling of economic layoffs and dismissals, and representation in mediation, arbitration, and litigation of labor disputes
Construction of full-process human resources compliance systems and special training for enterprises
X. Special Legal Services for Key Industries
In light of Russian industrial characteristics and the hotspots of China-Russia investment cooperation, the office provides customized legal services for key sectors including energy and minerals, infrastructure construction, processing and manufacturing, cross-border e-commerce, digital economy, agriculture, forestry, cultural tourism and hospitality, biomedicine, shipping, and logistics.
III. Core Service Capabilities
Localized practice capability: The team possesses full practice qualifications officially recognized in Russia and has a deep command of the Russian local legal system, judicial practice, regulatory policies, and business practices. It can provide full-process and full-scenario localized compliance legal services, precisely adapt to Russian market regulatory requirements, and has rich practical experience in local projects.
Dual-jurisdiction cross-border service capability: The core team possesses professional service capabilities in both Chinese law and Russian law, and can precisely connect with the two-way legal needs of Chinese-funded enterprises going to Russia and Russian enterprises entering China. It efficiently resolves compliance pain points across legal systems and regions and removes legal barriers and communication obstacles in cross-border cooperation.
Global network coordination capability: Relying on Guozun Law Firm’s globally integrated legal service system, the office can coordinate with the China headquarters and global branches to realize multi-jurisdictional and cross-regional legal service collaboration, meet clients’ full-cycle legal needs in their global expansion, and achieve “one-place engagement, global response.”
IV. Significance of the Establishment and Development Direction
The establishment of Guozun Russia Office has further improved Guozun Law Firm’s global legal service network layout, filled a key gap in its service presence in the core Eurasian region, and opened an efficient channel for cross-border legal services between China and Russia.
At present, bilateral economic and trade cooperation between China and Russia continues to deepen, and the demand for professional legal services in two-way investment, cross-border trade, energy cooperation, infrastructure projects, digital economy, and other fields continues to grow. In the future, Guozun Russia Office will continue to deepen its presence in the Russian local market, strengthen its professional service capabilities, optimize its full-chain service system, provide compliant, professional, efficient, and full-dimensional legal services for Chinese and foreign market entities, and support the high-quality and stable development of bilateral economic and trade cooperation between China and Russia.