We would like to thank our general sponsor, Herbert Smith LLP, its Moscow Representative Office, and especially its attorneys Alexei Roudiak, Margarita Slavina and Danil Guryanov, owing to whose financial support MGIMO Team will participate in the Pre-Moot Rounds in Munich, Düsseldorf, Paris and Leuven.

We would also like to thank MGIMO University, its rector Anatoly Torkunov and the non-budget fund of Alisher Usmanov, owing to whose financial support MGIMO Team will participate in the Oral Rounds of Vis Moot 2010 in Vienna.

We would also like to thank the Department of Private International and Civil Law of MGIMO University and its chairman Aleksey Kostin for providing technical and organizational support to MGIMO Team.

We would also like to thank the web-portal CISG.RU and its owner, Oleg Semenov, for providing technical support in hosting the website of MGIMO Team and providing the CISG literature to the team members.