The PBN Company is a leading expert on intellectual property rights protection and anti-counterfeiting, which is a multi-billion dollar problem in Russia, the CIS and Baltic States.

The firm handles government relations, public affairs and crisis communications activities for a number of high-profile intellectual property disputes for such clients as Diageo (SMIRNOFF), Anheuser-Busch Companies (BUD) and Philip Morris Companies (APOLLO-SOYUZ), among others.

The PBN Company established and manages the Coalition for Intellectual Property Rights (CIPR), a private-public partnership dedicated solely to protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights in the CIS countries and Baltic States. CIPR's Corporate Members include some of the world's most famous trademarks in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, luxury goods, computer and tobacco industries. CIPR's Associate Members include a wide range of international and regional business, trade and anti-counterfeiting organizations, which combined represent thousands of IP rights holders.

Through its work on IP issues, The PBN Company has close working relationships with INTERPOL, World Intellectual Property Organization, World Customs Organization, International Trademark Association, and the CIS Interstate Council on Intellectual Property, among others.