Topic of this issue – Public procurement revolution

Column by Elena Sokolovskaya - 94 by 44

Purchasing from a single supplier: new aspects of the contract system

Olga BELYAEVA, Senior Researcher, the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation; Doctor of Laws

Freedom of the client when determining the subject matter of a tender. Analysis using procurement of medical goods as an example

Elena VOSKRESENSKAYA, Associate, Pepeliaev Group, Sergey KLIMENKO, Associate, Pepeliaev Group

Tenders in legislation on public procurement and in civil legislation

Denis BALAKIN, Expert, National Association of Procurement Institutes

Forged bank guarantees in the public procurement sector

Roman SERB-SERBIN, Senior Associate, Pepeliaev Group, Nikita BALDAKOV,

Junior Associate, Pepeliaev Group

The law on the contract system: to enter into an agreement or to perform an obligation?

Sofia FILIPPOVA, Associate Professor, Department of Commercial Law and Basics of Law, Lomonosov Moscow State University; PhD in Law

Question and answer: Federal Law No. 44-FZ: transition period

Arseny PRIKHODKO, Counselor of Justice, 2^nd class, Master of Private Law, PhD in Law; Evgeniya PEPELOVA, Head of Legal, AIG Russia

In focus:

Article 178 of the Criminal Code: version N

Andrey SHASTITKO, Head of Competition and Industrial Policy Department, Faculty of Economics, Moscow State University; Director, Centre for Research of Competition and Economic Regulation, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; Member of Non-for-Profit Partnership ‘Supporting Competition’

Why Russia is not the US? On new tools offered by the antimonopoly law for collective protection

Oksana KOVALEVA, Head of Tax and Administrative Law, Legal Directorate, Gazprom Neft

Boris GALEEV, Senior Legal Advisor, Tax and Administrative Law, Legal Directorate, Gazprom Neft

Civil law and antimonopoly regulation of exclusive rights: a tool for choice?

Elena PAVLOVA, Head of IP Legislation, Private Law Research Centre at the President of the Russian Federation; PhD in Law

Vitaly KALYATIN, Head of IP, RUSNANO; Professor of Russian School of Private Law; PhD in Law

Maria SUSPITSINA, Senior Expert, Comparative and International Private Law Department, Private Law Research Centre at the President of the Russian Federation

Hot topic

Practice of obtaining preliminary consent for M&A transactions

Vasily MAKOVKIN, Senior Manager, Ernst & Young

Restrictions in distribution agreements with regard to the territory and buyers

Valentin PETROV, Associate, international law firm Jones Day; PhD in Law

The Slavic gambit

Anastasia ROSTISLAVOVA, Chief Expert, Department Supervising Governmental Agencies, Tula Branch of the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service