BORIS KUZNETSOV, 62, the recipient of the prestigious
CIS Lawyer of the Year award, is one of the most
celebrated human rights lawyers in Eastern
Europe.
After
graduating from the renowned St. Petersburg’s
University law school, Mr. Kuznetsov was
assigned as the chief of the Siberian Criminal
Investigations Department of the USSR Federal
Government.
For twenty
years Mr. Kuznetsov held senior law enforcement
posts in the criminal justice system. He also
lectured throughout Eastern and Western Europe.
Kuznetsov
& Partners’ clients list reads like a
"Who’s Who" in politics and
entertainment. Kuznetsov served as counsel for
the Speaker of the Russian Parliament, Victor Shumeyko, and recently emerged victorious
representing the legendary ballerina Maya
Plisetskaya in a high profile libel case.
Kuznetsov & Partners also represented some of
the largest Russian and Western oil companies,
banks and government agencies including Shell
Oil Corp., MARS Chocolate Co. as well as the
Embassy of the United States in Moscow.
Kuznetsov
& Partners practice before the United
Nations Commission for International Trade Law (UNCITRAL),
Convention on Settlement by Arbitration of Civil
Law Disputes, International Chamber of Commerce,
Permanent Court of International Justice,
Soviet-Spanish Treaty of Commerce, United
Nations Economic Commission for Europe, London
Court of Arbitration, Soviet- Finnish Treaty of
Commerce, International Centre of Settlement of
Investment Disputes, International Chamber of
Commerce, and International Court of Justice.
Mr. Kuznetsov
serves as expert for the International Committee
of the Russian Parliament (Duma) and appears in
Who is Who in Russia (1997, 1999) and
International Who is Who (1998-1999)
directories. He a recipient of numerous
Government awards and professional recognitions
for his work in furthering Russian legal
reform. He has greatly contributed to exposing
Russian money laundering in the US and Western
Europe in 1999, and was instrumental in passing
of a recent landmark anti-money
laundering law by the Russian Parliament.
