The team, which includes three partners, comes from the legal department of global accountancy giant PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Real estate lawyers Konstantine Kouzine and Maxim Kuznechenkov and corporate lawyer Igor Makarov all join the firm as partners, bringing with them a team of 19 other fee earners.
Rafael Jimenez-Gusi, executive committee liaison for the CIS, commented: "All three new partners will assume leading practice development roles that will contribute significantly to the reputation and competitiveness of both our real estate and transactional capabilities in this very important market."
The Russian offices of Bakers offer a full service of practices split between offices in
Bakers launched in