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Capital Legal Services is strengthening it’s Antitrust practice
- Service: Antitrust Law
- Date: 28.09.2017
Andrey Astanin has joined the Capital Legal Services team as Of Counsel of the Antitrust practice. Andrey’s portfolio consists of approximately 100 successfully completed cases including high-profile antitrust cases where he represented interests of Russian and international companies in the Russian FAS (Federal Antitrust Service) and commercial arbitration courts.
Andrey specializes in cases on violation of antitrust, advertising, trade and mining laws, as well as administrative proceedings. He has vast experience in advising companies and state corporations on application of procurement law, including development of documents regulating procurement activities of major companies, performance of particular procurement procedures, disputing procurement procedures, as well as tenders for entering into concession agreements.
Andrey’s successfully completed cases include disputing a decision and order of the antitrust authority passed in respect to a federal retailer in connection with discrimination of suppliers and imposition of unfavorable conditions; successful representation of a major credit institution and major insurance companies following local antitrust authorities’ claims of entering into anticompetitive agreements on the market of voluntary joint collective insurance of bank loan debtors; successful participation in cases on violation of advertising laws and performance of acts of unfair competition both on the side of defendants and on the side of a complaining party, one of the three largest communication operators; disputing tariffs of monopolists, owners of cable communication lines; representation of a company arranging private flights in connection with restriction of competition by the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia), etc.
In 2010, Andrey graduated from International Private Law Department of Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL), (2010) completed an eighteen-month internship at the University of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn).
Andrey has experience of working as both an in-house associate in a major telecommunication company and an adviser in law firms, as well as a head of practice.
Managing Partner of Capital Legal Services Vladislav Zabrodin gives the following comment on the appointment of Andrey Astanin: “We are happy Andrey has become a part of Capital Legal Services. He is a highly persevering and competent lawyer capable clearly grasping the essential needs of a client. I believe he will easily integrate into our closely knit team.”
Andrey Astanin adds, “For me, it is a great honor to join the professional team of a leading law firm setting ambitious goals for itself, striving to the top positions in all spheres and meeting the contemporary realities of what business needs.”