We send our most sincere greetings of Happy New Year 2016 and Merry Christmas to all our clients, friends, colleagues, and business partners. Let there be peace and prosperity for everyone! We confidently look into the future, knowing that all the temporary difficulties will be successfully overcome by hard work and persistence.

On December 23, 2015 Alexander Linnikov was appointed to the Supervisory Board of SPECSTROYBANK.

On the Day of Legal Assistance to Children November 20, 2015 the LEAD Consulting attorneys in association with the office of the Plenipotentiary Representative for the Protection of Rights of Children in the Moscow Region held a pro bono session of providing free legal help and advice to families raising several children. Alexander Linnikov, Sergei Sadovoy, Leonid Karpov, and Madina Ruzmetova held a meeting with multi-child families and families, raising disable children. The event was attended by the President of the Association of Multi-Child Families of the Moscow Region Elena Fominykh.

On November 20, 2015 the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of Russian Federation held a round table on issues of legal regulation of the departure of Russian children from the territory of the Russian Federation. The LEAD Consulting partner Alexander Linnikov attended the event organized by the Committee of the Council of Federation on Constitutional Legislation and State-Building and the Commission of the Public Chamber on Support of Family, Children and Motherhood.

On November 19, 2015 the first meeting of the Board of Directors of MMB Project Rus, Ltd. - joint venture between Metropolitana Milanese and the Russian Millenium Bank - took place in Moscow.