Russia's market for mergers and acquisitions came into being in the early 1990s when mass privatization of state-owned property gained momentum. More specifically, it was not until after the Russian financial crisis of 1998 that mergers and friendly takeovers took place in Russia. Up until then...

An analysis of corporate governance practices would be impossible without understanding the corporate governance development in the context of Russian and world practices. With a certain degree of arbitrariness, the following main phases of its development can be distinguished

The coronavirus crisis and the measures taken by national governments to combat the pandemic have led to an acute situation in the field of insolvency of companies. Assessments of the situation vary, and there are many reasons for this: the continuation of the pandemic, the introduction of...

One of the apparent aftermaths of the 2007–2009 global economic crisis was a lack of coordination between supervisory financial authorities. The previous general supervisory requirements had been found to be inadequate, raising a whole host of questions about its effectiveness. The ‘too big...