M&A and Corporate

The 30 lawyers that comprise our M&A and Corporate practice advise both leading multinational and CIS-based clients on matters relating to both cross-border transactions and local corporate and regulatory issues. The depth and size of our practice allows us to service multiple transactions/matters simultaneously and our partner/senior to associate ratio enables us to provide our services in the most cost-effective manner.

In addition, most  of our lawyers are educated, trained and some even qualified in the UK and US and we regularly cooperate on complicated cross-border transactions with leading London and New York firms such as Freshfields, Linklaters, Clifford Chance, White & Case, Skadden Arps, Shearman Sterling, Latham Watkins and many others.

We advise on corporate issues, mergers and acquisitions, antitrust, and regulatory matters for a number of industries including the insurance, media, banking, energy, transportation, telecommunications and fast-moving consumer goods industries. We carefully monitor legal and practical developments to ensure that our clients are kept abreast of compliance obligations and changes in law that may have an impact on their business.

We represent clients before antimonopoly authorities, central banks, securities and stock exchange regulatory bodies, tax and customs agencies, as well as other government organizations in Russia and Ukraine.

Our services include:

• corporate formation, structuring, and regulatory compliance (including the formation and structuring of holding companies and other special purpose vehicles );
• due diligence;
• drafting and analyzing sale purchase agreements, shareholders' agreements and other related transactional documents;
• negotiation and drafting of commercial contracts;
• structuring of foreign direct investments, joint ventures, partnerships and strategic alliances;
• advice on antimonopoly and banking regulations;
• procurement of licenses and permits, registration with state authorities;
• advice on employment law.