Articles from Amsterdam & Partners LLP

Amsterdam & Partners LLP, acting as international counsel to Armenian businessman and philanthropist Samvel Karapetyan, condemns today’s court order extending his detention, understanding it as a clear demonstration of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s tightening grip over the judiciary.

Robert Amsterdam, Founder and Managing Partner of Amsterdam & Partners LLP, has been hired to join the legal team of Ulugbek Shadmanov. The legal team is headed by Mr. Amsterdam’s longtime colleagues, Marc Agnifilo and Zach Intrater, the Founding Partners of Agnifilo Intrater LLP.

On January 25, just one day after a Russian plane was shot down carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war, members of Ukraine’s Verkhona Rada said that they intend to move forward to pass a controversial bill aimed at banning the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The timing of the announcement, says Robert Amsterdam, represents “a shocking display of political opportunism on a day of national tragedy.”

Warning of the Ukrainian government’s imminent passage of the controversial Draft Law 8371, the law firm of Amsterdam & Partners LLP is today releasing a new white paper detailing sweeping abuses of human rights and violations of religious freedom by the Ukrainian government aimed against their client, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC).

Please replace the release with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions.

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) has announced the appointment of international lawyer Robert Amsterdam of Amsterdam & Partners LLP to assist the international response to escalating attacks by the Government of Ukraine.

The law firm of Amsterdam & Partners LLP has been retained by Vadym Novynskyi, a Ukrainian citizen, religious figure, former Ukrainian parliamentarian from Mariupol and founder of the Smart Holding Group, to defend against a series of politically motivated attacks by the Ukrainian government.

Following the announcement by the Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia of the filing of criminal charges against entrepreneur George Bachiashvili for alleged misappropriation of cryptocurrency and legalization of illegal income, Mr. Bachiashvili’s legal team at Amsterdam & Partners LLP denounced the frivolous nature of the case.

Today the law firm of Amsterdam & Partners LLP is launching a new book titled, “Web of Influence: Empire of Deceit Series, Book II,” which presents a highly detailed investigation into the abuses and legal violations taking place across hundreds of US public charter schools linked to the controversial Turkish imam Fethullah Gülen.