Mr Dean said the normal waiting time can be as long as two years. The arrangement has simplified the Coudert Brothers move, sparing them the necessity of applying for Soviet accreditation, a prerequisite for firms wanting to establish in the USSR. Ipatca, in turn, is providing Coudert Brothers with office space, secretarial staff, a fax machine and other word processing equipment. These, combined with new joint venture laws passed last year, have opened opportunities for Western business.Ĭoudert's, which has 10 years of experience with China's joint venture laws, expects to get a lot of its Soviet-based work from companies wrestling with the new joint-venture laws, and deluged by the voluminous documentation often required.Ĭoudert's USSR office is being opened with the co-operation of a Swiss business organisation, Ipatca.Ĭoudert Brothers expects to be working closely with some of Ipatca's clients. statute provides in part for diversity jurisdiction where an action is between (1) citizens of different states (2) citizens of a state and citizens or subjects of a foreign state and (3) citizens of different states and in which citizens or subjects of a foreign state are additional parties. Early this year, the USSR made sweeping changes aimed at revitalising its stagnating economy. The reason behind the push is the Soviet thaw towards Western investment. Because he speaks and writes Russian, has a masters degree in Soviet studies and has visited the USSR on a number of occasions, Mr Dean was the obvious choice. Mr Dean said the firm had been considering opening a USSR office since early last year. Easyfind International, Inc., was decided by a district court and, like Cresswell, treated a partnership for diversity.
He hoped to be able to service Australian firms in the USSR by performing traditional legal work, and also by acting as a Soviet base for Australian companies with no Soviet office of their own. Speaking from the firm's office in Cincinnatti where he is working to prepare for his departure, Mr Dean said Australian firms were very well-placed to enter the Soviet market, particularly after the visit by the Prime Minister, Mr Hawke, late last year, and the trade agreements signed at the time. It already has one of the most extensive international legal practices in the world. Coudert Brothers will be the only western law firm with an office in the Soviet Union. Mr Dean, who spent two years working in Coudert Brothers Sydney office, will be spearheading his firm's push into the USSR when he opens its Moscow office late next week. Now he is in Cincinnatti, Ohio, in the mid-west of the United States, where the temperatures are sub-zero, en route to the even bleaker climes of the USSR. Early in January, Mr Richard Dean, an associate with the international law firm, Coudert Brothers, was basking in the sunshine of an Australian summer.
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