Vladimir Lechtman

Two Cleveland law firms are major players with the Putin administration in Moscow

CLEVELAND, OH – An exclusive EJBNEWS investigation has uncovered that two global law firms headquartered in Cleveland have contracted with oil companies and a bank owned by the Russian government without first registering under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) with the U.S. Department of Justice (USDOJ). Nothing about the Cleveland law firms of Jones Day LLP and Squire, Patton & Boggs LLP representing the Russian government is hidden. In fact, each firm boasts of handling multi-billion dollar mergers, sales and cross-border transactions for the Russian government and other foreign nations for decades. A search of the FARA page on…

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