Our Business
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Legal Services
Sidorov Khokhlov Uskov (SKU) assists clients in developing new businesses and acquiring already existing firms in Russia and other former Soviet republics. We prepare due diligence reviews of investment projects in such sectors as mineral resources, infrastructure development, construction, and agribusiness. Our lawyers advise clients on trade regulations, structure corporate and international business transactions, and represent them in commercial litigation and arbitration proceedings.
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Tax and Audit Services
SKU’s certified Russian auditors perform conversions of Russian accounting statements into GAAP or translate them in the reverse direction. Our tax and accounting specialists provide turn-key tax and accounting services until the client forms its own accounting team. We also structure clients’ business activities for maximum tax management efficiency.
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Business Consulting Services
SKU provides business advice to clients on investment opportunities in a wide range of economic sectors and assists them in negotiating projects with business partners and regional authorities. Our lawyers and tax consultants not only collaboratively guide clients in conforming business planning to taxation law, and also clarify related political and economic issues.
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International Business
SKU has established ties with law firms and tax consulting firms in each of the former Soviet republics and is able to provide professional services in practically every major commercial area of that vast region. Through its U.S. office, SKU also assists U.S. firms in expanding their business operation to Russia and all the countries forming the former Soviet Union, and we help Russian companies to establish business relations with U.S. firms.
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About Us
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SKU Group
Sidorov Khokhlov Uskov (SKU) is an international group of professional service companies providing integrated legal, business, and tax consulting services to international firms and individual investors doing business in Russia and the other former Soviet republics or investing capital there. We have been servicing our clients since 1998.
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Our Mission
We are committed to increasing foreign investments in the economies of all the countries that formerly constituted the Soviet Union, to developing economic cooperation with these countries, and to promoting the involvement of the foreign private sector in trade and investment in the entire region.
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Our Professionals
Almost all our lawyers and tax consultants speak fluent English, and many of them have received their graduate training from U.S. or European law schools and business schools. We bring experience, creativity and insight to every client relationship. Our services are individually tailored to our clients’ needs.
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Russian Business Center in Washington
Russian Business Center in Washington, D.C. was established to promote economic cooperation between Russia and the United States, to assist American businessmen in entering the Russian market by informing them about recent developments in Russian law regulating foreign investments. We identify and assess business and investment opportunities, promote new U.S. exports to Russia, and facilitate the establishment of business ties between Russian and U.S. firms.
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For Investors
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Regulation of Foreign Investments
Our professionals advise clients on regulation of foreign investments and help them to structure their business operations in compliance with legal norms. We advise clients on the benefits of doing business in Russia’s special economic zones. We inform clients on recent development in Russian law regulating circulation of land, extraction of mineral resources, and customs control. We structure corporate and international business transactions so as to safeguard client investments and to expatriate the investments.
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Business and Investment Projects
We actively seek out business and investment projects in the former Soviet region for our existing and potential clients. We identify new projects for our clients, assess the viability of these projects, and help our clients to negotiate deals with their new business partners, and we provide further legal, business and tax consulting services to those clients who decide to pursue the projects identified by us.
Invest in Russia Events
SKU organizes and sponsors events in Russia and other countries to help foreign businessmen better understand today’s Russian economy, to inform them about positive changes in the investment climate in Russia, to create a broad and frank exchange of views on questions of cooperation with Russia, and to demonstrate that Russia can be approached as a reliable and promising business partner.
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