On 28 April 2023, the Russian President signed a law that introduced amendments to the Law On Foreign Investments in Strategic Assets (Law No. 57) aimed at strengthening control over foreign investments in Russia and making penalties for the breach of Law No. 57 more severe.
Read in detail in the alert at the link:
https://stonebridgelegal.ru/media/files/Alert_Russian_foreign_investment_regime_May__ENG.pdf
Draft law No. 1059849-7, which supplements Federal Law No. 160-FZ On Foreign Investments in the Russian Federation, dated 9 July 1999, with a new Article 20 (1), is currently under consideration in the State Duma. The article introduces a legal mechanism allowing Russian purchasers who bought shares (equity interests) in Russian companies previously owned by foreign investors to refuse, subject to a number of conditions, to perform their obligations to return the assets to foreign investors under buyback options and other similar agreements.
21.07.2025