Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners (EPA&P; Russian: Его́ров, Пуги́нский, Афана́сьев и партнёры (ЕПАиП)) is an established international law firm in the CIS with offices in Russia, UAE, Ukraine, Belarus, and associated offices in London and Cyprus.
[6] The firm was founded by Nikolai Egorov,[a] Dimitry Afanasiev, and Boris Puginsky in Moscow in 1993, when Western corporations were beginning to expand into the post-Soviet states.
[11] To support the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2004, Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners represented the interests of a Russian diplomat and two GRU agents who were arrested on 19 February 2004 in Qatar for the assassination of Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, who was a separatist leader from Chechnya who was murdered in Doha, Qatar, and gained the release of the diplomat; however, the two GRU agents, stood trial in Qatar and, on 30 June 2004, received life sentences for murdering Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev but, in December 2004, the two GRU agents were transferred back to Russia to serve their terms in Russia.
[7][9] In July 2011, Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners merged with the international law firm Magisters.
[2] In 2015, firm chairman Afanasiev was awarded "European Managing Partner of the Year" by The Lawyer European Awards.