August 4 Main results of the day

The Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region protected the interests of the Principal – the Applicant in the debtor’s bankruptcy case, refusing to establish claims in the amount of 190 million rubles to the competing creditor. As a result of judicial protection of the interests of the Principal for more than two years, lawyers of the “Bureau of Lawyers” De jure” proved that the transactions on the basis of which the claims were made were invalid, concluded with an illegal purpose — to harm independent creditors. Earlier, the opponent’s claims were found to be justified, but after examining the cassation appeal prepared by the Bureau of Lawyers “De jure”, the Moscow District Arbitration Court canceled the judicial acts of the lower courts and sent the dispute for a new consideration. In the second round of the dispute, the Bureau convinced the court in one court session that the evidence presented by the applicant did not have the property of admissibility and relevance, and the transactions had the whole set of signs of nullity. The dispute was also complicated by the presence of numerous judicial acts, by which the creditor’s claims had been recovered from the debtor in his favor and had been included in the register of claims of creditors of guarantors and mortgagors. Despite this, the Bureau proved the absence of a prejudice and the need for an independent legal assessment of the new arguments, which turned out to be so convincing that they left the judges in no doubt about the illegality of the competitors’ claims. The interests of the Principal were represented by Ksenia Stikhina, senior lawyer of the Tyumen branch of the Bureau of Lawyers “De jure”.