Zoloev Alexandr

Practice Areas

• Arbitral (commercial) and civil litigation.
• Business and civil law.
• Bankruptcy of individuals and legal entities.
• Defense in economic and corruption-related criminal cases, criminal-law protection of businesses, and representation of victims in criminal proceedings.
• Defense of executives and controlling persons (CDL) in criminal cases arising from subsidiary liability, corporate governance, and bankruptcy — Articles 195, 159, 160, 176, 177, 201, 327 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
• Defense in criminal tax cases involving evasion of taxes, duties, and customs payments — Articles 198, 199, 199.1, 199.2, 194 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
• Administrative law, including comprehensive support in interactions with government authorities.

Education

• 1998–2003. Faculty of Law, Kemerovo State University.

Reputation and Professional Activities

• Member of the Executive Committee of the Sverdlovsk Regional Branch of the Association of Lawyers of Russia.
• Author of scholarly publications.
• Author of articles and commentaries for federal and regional legal and business media outlets.

Professional Experience

He commenced his legal career in 2003 with service in the Prosecutor's Office of Kemerovo Oblast (Kuzbass region), successively holding positions as Assistant District Prosecutor and subsequently Assistant City Prosecutor of Novokuznetsk.

He was admitted to the Bar in 2011. He provides qualified legal assistance to businesses and private clients in matters of ongoing legal support, asset protection and management, bankruptcy, family and succession law. He also represents clients in economic criminal cases.

Representative Matters

• Provided legal support in the bankruptcy proceedings of Monotrans LLC, a major manufacturer of mining equipment, including challenging transactions to recover assets into the bankruptcy estate. Among the first in Russia to employ vindication as a means to invalidate a chain of transactions designed to dissipate the debtor's assets.
• Protected the rights of foreign shareholder companies of a major Siberian industrial holding (enterprises in coal mining, machinery, and agribusiness) in the context of a corporate conflict, including disputes over ownership of shares and equity interests.
• Represented the State Corporation "Deposit Insurance Agency" in the bankruptcy proceedings of one of the largest regional banks, Novokuznetsk Municipal Bank JSC. Provided comprehensive support throughout the proceedings, including coordination of the bank's in-house legal team. Within the same project, secured recovery of substantial arrears (nearly RUB 130 million) from Soyuz-Zagorye LLC, with enforcement against a cottage development.
• Successfully defended Bamtonnelstroy JSC against claims challenging transactions involving the alienation of equity interests in the authorized capital. The complexity of the matter stemmed from the expert's inability to determine the age of the minutes due to "aggressive thermal exposure." Notwithstanding this, the claims against the client were dismissed.
• Among the first in Russia to establish the possibility of introducing the supervision procedure in bankruptcy based on arrears owed to an arbitrazh trustee for remuneration and court costs arising from a prior bankruptcy case (FAТ-M LLC project). In the prior bankruptcy case involving the same debtor, successfully challenged transactions and recovered assets into the bankruptcy estate.
• Protected the head of a construction company during pretrial investigation on suspicion of large-scale tax evasion (Part 1 of Article 199 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The criminal case was terminated at the investigative stage.
• Defended a former Deputy Governor of Kemerovo Oblast charged with large-scale extortion. As a result, the charges were reclassified to a less serious offense, the imposed sentence was fully offset by the term of house arrest, and the client was released in the courtroom.