Ekaterina Tulskaia

Education and research

Graduated from the Law Faculty of St. Petersburg State University, holds a Bachelor's degree in the program of higher professional education "Law" and a Master's degree in the program "Civil Procedure, Arbitration Procedure".

Work experience and practice

Ekaterina started her professional career as a leading specialist in one of the largest banks in Russia, dealing with legal audit, legal due diligence and structuring transactions with holding companies of medium and large businesses in various industries, preparation of legal opinions in the field of land, tax, administrative and commercial law. She also practiced law as an attorney at a Russian consulting firm, managing litigation projects.

The key area of practice of Ekaterina Tulskaya is litigation in the field of insolvency and corporate disputes, including successful settlement at pre-trial stages and interaction with state authorities. Her deep understanding of business processes and management decisions allows her to develop complex litagation strategies, successfully ensuring their implementation.

Ekaterina Tulskaya focuses on preventive protection of legal entitiesand individuals, providing advice and drafting legal opinions to prevent the bankruptcy of a company and prosecution of its owners and managers, or to minimize existing risks.

Among Ekaterina’s most significant projects are the following:

• representing of the interests of the world's largest retail chain selling furniture and household goods in a dispute with the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation and the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, which filed a claim challenging the repayment of a loan totaling almost 13 billion rubles as transferred to a resident of an unfriendly state in violation of the sanctions legislation;
• representing of the interests of the world's largest retail chain selling furniture and household goods in a dispute over the recovery of damages caused by refusal to build a shopping center and design a transport interchange;
• protection of the interests of the leading chain of medical clinics in the North-Western region in a dispute with the Committee of Property Relations of St. Petersburg on the termination of the lease agreement on investment terms due to violation of deadlines for the design of a medical facility;
• representing an Italian company, a supplier of high-tech water treatment equipment, in a bankruptcy case’s separate dispute over invalidation of international commercial contracts worth over 600 million rubles;
• representing the interests of the general manager of one of St. Petersburg's major construction companies in a dispute over bringing him to subsidiary liability for more than 6 billion rubles at the request of systemic bank;
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• representing the beneficiary of a large dealership business consisting of a group of companies in a dispute over the interception of corporate control;
• development and adoption of a plan for the restructuring of debts with a total amount of creditors' claims exceeding 100 million rubles in a natural person's bankruptcy case complicated by an inheritance element and the location of person's property in foreign jurisdictions;
• development of an investment strategy and support of the acquisition of a large agro-industrial complex which was undergoing bankruptcy proceedings. As a result, the bankruptcy case against the city-forming enterprise was terminated, and valuable assets were transferred to the investor;
• representing a member of an investment company in a corporate conflict arising in connection with the implementation of an IT business financing project;
• defense of interests of a developer-company beneficiary in a dispute over release of arrests imposed in a criminal case for the purpose of selling the company's assets and dismissal of the bankruptcy case for a total amount of claims of about more than 200 million rubles;
• advising on and developing of a strategy for defending the heir of an English citizen in a dispute over contesting a will in favor of a dishonest agent and recovering the embezzled inheritance assets worth over 50 million rubles.

She speaks English.