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Bringing a claim in Russia? You can estimate your potential court fees and related litigation expenses before starting the proceedings.

You can check your situation using the MAGENTA Legal Court Fee Calculator.

When planning litigation in Russia, court fees are only one part of the potential cost. For claims involving a foreign element, additional expenses may arise in connection with notarisation, legalisation of documents, translations, document delivery and other procedural requirements.

At the same time, many online court fee calculators focus on a single stage of the proceedings. If a case proceeds to appeal or cassation, the fees for those stages have to be calculated separately.

The MAGENTA Legal Court Fee Calculator is designed to provide a broader view: it allows users to estimate potential court fees across the proceedings, from the first instance through cassation, and to account for certain related expenses at the same time.

What can the calculator estimate?

The calculator is primarily designed for monetary claims in Russian commercial courts. It can be particularly useful when assessing the potential costs of disputes involving Russian securities and financial assets, including Russian depositary receipts (DRs), dividends and shares.

Depending on the circumstances, such claims may concern:

• unpaid dividends and other securities-related payments;
• depositary receipt conversion;
• forced transfer or crediting of shares;
• damages and other monetary claims.

By entering the relevant claim amount and other parameters, users can obtain a preliminary estimate of the applicable court fees.

One calculation for the different stages of proceedings

One of the key features of the MAGENTA Legal calculator is that it allows users to look beyond the fee payable at the first-instance stage.

A dispute may continue through several levels of judicial review. If that happens, additional court fees may become payable at subsequent stages.

For budgeting purposes, it is therefore useful to consider the potential cost of the proceedings as a whole rather than looking only at the initial filing fee.

The calculator allows users to estimate the potential court fees from the first instance through cassation, providing a more comprehensive view of the possible fee burden over the course of the proceedings.

This can be particularly useful when deciding how much budget to allocate for a potential dispute and when comparing different litigation scenarios.

Additional expenses in disputes involving a foreign element

Court fees are not necessarily the only procedural expenses that need to be considered.

For claims involving foreign parties, documents or evidence from outside Russia, additional formalities may be required. Depending on the circumstances, these may include:

• notarial actions, including the preparation of a notarial protocol recording the contents of a website;
• apostille or consular legalisation of documents;
• translation of documents and notarisation of translations;
• delivery of documents and other logistics-related expenses.

The MAGENTA Legal calculator allows users to include estimates for these types of expenses, helping to build a more practical preliminary litigation budget.

Why estimate the costs before filing?

Litigation costs can affect decisions at several stages of a dispute – from assessing whether to bring a claim to determining the potential budget for the proceedings.

A preliminary calculation can help answer practical questions such as:

• How much will the initial court filing cost?
• What additional court fees could arise if the case proceeds to appeal or cassation?
• What expenses may arise from preparing documents for a Russian court?
• How much should be budgeted for translations, notarisation and legalisation?
• What is the potential overall procedural cost of bringing the claim?

The calculator does not replace a case-specific assessment, but it can provide an initial financial framework for planning litigation in Russia.

Estimate your potential court costs

The MAGENTA Legal Court Fee Calculator is available online and can be used to obtain a preliminary estimate of court fees and selected related expenses.

You can check your situation using the MAGENTA Legal Court Fee Calculator.

If you have individual questions or require legal support, our Telegram Bot is available for direct assistance.

You can also reach our team via the contact form on our Website.

The calculation is preliminary and provided for planning purposes only. MAGENTA Legal fees, expert costs and other case-specific expenses are not included in the calculation.