The President’s Decree No. 364 dated 22 May 2023 on Amending the President’s Decree No. 430 dated 5.07.2022 (“On Repatriation by Residents – Participants of Foreign Economic Activity – of Foreign and Russian Currency”) (the “Decree”) has been published.
Read in detail in the alert at the link:
https://stonebridgelegal.ru/media/files/Alert_President_decree_on_substitute_bonds_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