Ancestral conflict in Natura Siberica appears to be over

Three children of the founder of the cosmetics company Natura Siberica Andrey Trubnikov – Dmitry and Ekaterina from their first marriage and Elizaveta from the second – received 20% in each of the three legal entities of the group – Natura Siberica LLC, Agafia’s Tasty Products LLC and Siberian Helicopter LLC “.

According to SPARK-Interfax, these transactions were completed on December 30, 2022. It also says that for the remaining structures of Natura Siberica (First Solution, Planet Organika, Organic Shop Rus, Kamchatka Mama, Severnaya Kosmetika, Black Rock), applications have been submitted to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities for amendments to the constituent documents, extracts on them will be ready in mid-January.

A source close to Natura Siberica says that in this case, we are also talking about the transfer of shares in these companies to Trubnikov’s children. Vedomosti failed to get comments of the latest. Law firms representing their interests declined to comment, citing official secrecy. The official representative of the cosmetic company refrained from commenting until the end of the process of entering into the inheritance.

The conflict between Trubnikov’s relatives began immediately after the businessman’s death in January 2021. His children began to claim shares in the group’s companies, as well as the widow Anastasia Trubnikova, who at the time of the death of the founder of Natura Siberica was in divorce proceedings with him. She also tried through the courts to obtain recognition of her children as her husband’s dependents with the allocation of a share in the inheritance to them, but the courts refused her this requirement. Now the hereditary conflict can be considered resolved, says a source close to the company. He clarifies that legally all litigation between the heirs will end within a month. According to him, the transfer of shares in the structures of Natura Siberica to Trubnikov’s children became possible after the court declared the businessman’s marriage to his third wife Anastasia invalid.

This is also confirmed by a person close to one of the participants in the corporate conflict in a cosmetics company: he claims that the Dorogomilovsky inter-district prosecutor filed a lawsuit to invalidate the marriage. True, according to him, the Kuntsevsky District Court refused to satisfy his demands, but in November 2022, the court of appeal overturned this decision. A month later, the definition of the latter survived in cassation. On the website of the Moscow City Court there is a card of the relevant case, the dates of decision-making on it coincide with what was said by the interlocutor of Vedomosti, but the documents themselves were not published due to a court ban. Based on the fact that Trubnikov’s children began to receive certificates of the right to the corresponding part of the inheritance, it can be assumed that the final composition of the heirs has finally been determined, says Dmitry Galantsev, managing partner of the Propositum Law Office.