We are including short pieces from the Special Sponsors of the Conference: HeinOnline, Westlaw International and Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasiev & Partners (EPA&P), all of whom will be represented in Saint-Petersburg. Do take the opportunity to meet them during the week and come to hear their presentations on Tuesday afternoon.


Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasiev & Partners (EPA&P) is a national law firm specializing in commercial and business law in Russia and internationally. Founded in 1993, EPA&P has extensive experience in corporate law, commercial litigation, and international affairs. To serve our clients' interests, we have offices in Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, and Philadelphia (United States).

Our clients include some of the largest Russian and international companies. Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasiev & Partners has been entrusted to represent the interests of the Russian Federation in foreign courts with respect to a number of legal matters. Our lawyers have provided litigation services in more than 35 countries worldwide, including the US, Great Britain, France, Sweden and Switzerland.

Our attorneys are qualified in Russian and International law. They have distinguished backgrounds in government and academia. In order to best serve our clients, EPA&P lawyers develop an in-depth understanding of our clients' business and consistently work to determine and solve their problems. All of EPA&P's resources are dedicated to serving our clients. The attorneys at Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasiev & Partners form a strong team, empowering each individual to excel in his/her area of expertise in reaching a common goal.

All EPA&P lawyers have graduated from prestigious law schools. Many of them have received additional legal qualifications in the US and Great Britain.

The firm’s working languages are English and Russian, but our lawyers can also work in German, French and Spanish.

A number of EPA&P attorneys are active members of the American Bar Association and the International Bar Association. Most of Russian attorneys are members of local Bar Associations – associations of high-qualified lawyers, which provide members with access to leading experts and up-to-date information as well as top-level professional development and network-building opportunities.

EPA&P lawyers are regularly engaged as consultants on different law aspects by executive, legislative and judicial branches of the Russian Federation and also by Russian and foreign social organizations.

Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasiev and Partners is a founding member of the Russian-American Business Council in Moscow. EPA&P is also an active member of the U.S.-Russia Business Council, the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia, Canadian Business Association in Russia, and the Finnish-Russian Chamber of Commerce.

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William S. Hein & Co., Inc. has been serving the library community for more than 80 years as a legal publisher, reprinter, subscription agent, and secondhand book dealer. As the world's largest distributor of legal periodicals, combined with our extensive reprint publishing program which provides access to previously unavailable legal classics and United States Government and United Nations documents, researchers regularly turn to Hein for their secondary legal research needs.

We welcome you to explore our website to learn more about the company and our products and services.

HeinOnline - Hein's Premiere Online Product Today, with more than 75 million pages of law and law-related research material stored digitally, Hein is changing the world of online research with HeinOnline, our award-winning collection of law and law-related materials. Now in more than 3200 locations in over 150 countries, HeinOnline is bringing previously unavailable content to the online research community in a fully-searchable, image-based format.

Shannon Hein, Sales Manager, will be delighted to meet you at the conference or alternatively please visit our website at http://www.wshein.com/ and the dedicated website for our online service at http://heinonline.org/ or send your enquiry to order@wshein.com



Westlaw International is Thomson Legal and Regulatory's (TLR) premiere online research tool for the international legal community. Westlaw International enables legal professionals to retrieve cases, statutes, and other documents from TLR's vast global library of legal, news, and business materials in a matter of seconds.

Westlaw International combines essential, authoritative information resources with the technical innovation of Westlaw - the leading online legal information service in the United States. By combining materials from renowned content providers such as Sweet & Maxwell, ELLIS Publications, Lawbook Co, Carswell, and West Group, Westlaw International offers you a unique collection of trustworthy legal and regulatory information.

Westlaw International Advantages

• A subscription based service giving you access to selected Case Law, Legislation, Law Reviews, Treaties, and Directories organised by topical and jurisdictional libraries
• Editorially enhanced and reliable content in an easy-to-use Web browser interface
• Current, accurate and user-friendly

Our local Westlaw representatives based in Russia – Diane Blofield, Nick Mole, and Quim Massana – are looking forward to meeting you at this year’s conference.

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The LexisNexis Group provides information to legal, corporate, government and academic markets, and publishes legal, tax and regulatory information, via online, hardcopy print and CD-ROM formats. The global legal and information division of Reed Elsevier plc, LexisNexis Group combines dozens of brands that are leaders within their respective markets, including Butterworths, Les Editions du Juris Classeur and Martindale-Hubbell®.

LexisNexis Group is the global legal publishing arm of Reed Elsevier, the Anglo-Dutch world-leading publisher and information provider. Sister business units provide global science, business-to-business and education publishing services for their markets.

LexisNexis Group unites strong brands, pioneering technologies and premium information for customers in the legal, corporate, government and academic markets. More than two-thirds of its revenue is generated in the North American marketplace. At the same time the Group is the market leader in the United Kingdom and the British Commonwealth and major publisher in the legal, tax and regulatory markets in Continental Europe and Latin America.

The Group is divided into four main operating units: North American Legal markets, U.S. Corporate and Public markets, Martindale-Hubbell and the International Division. The division which comprises the Group's publishing assets, is regionally organized, in Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. These include the market-leading Butterworths companies in the UK and British Commonwealth, Les Editions du Juris Classeur in France, and many other companies that are household names in their markets.

The Group's products are available via the World Wide Web, dial-up online, CD-ROM and hardcopy print. The thousands of titles available via LexisNexis Group products offer access to some of the most recognized and authoritative sources in the world today.

A trusted source, LexisNexis Group offers targeted Web information solutions that can be integrated into customer business processes and systems. LexisNexis Web and dial-up online solutions combine searchable access to more than three billion documents from thousands of sources with leading edge systems and tools for managing this content. LexisNexis delivers a high quality resource with which to build legal research and knowledge-management solutions for the entire enterprise.

The Lexis® service, the first commercial, full-text legal information service, began in 1973 to help legal practitioners research the law more efficiently. The companion Nexis® news and business information service launched in 1979 to richen research with recent and archival news and financial information. Since that time, the service has grown to become the largest news and business online information service, including comprehensive company, country, financial, demographic, market research and industry reports. Providing access to thousands of worldwide newspapers, magazines, trade journals, industry newsletters, tax and accounting information, financial data, public records, legislative records, data on companies and their executives makes the LexisNexis® service an indispensable tool for gathering information and providing accurate answers.

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