We act for clients working across nearly all industry sectors, such as financial institutions, energy, mining and commodities, transport, technology and healthcare.
We have specialist experience of advising clients on Russian and multi-jurisdictional projects and have developed particular strengths in the following areas:
mergers and acquisitions;joint ventures;due diligence;investment projects;business set-ups, corporate restructuring and winding-up;private equity;general corporate advisory;corporate governance;regulatory.We advise our clients on all aspects of merger and acquisition transactions. We assist in structuring corporate transactions, preparing due diligence reports, drafting and negotiating transactional and various security documents. We assist in related anti-trust, foreign investment restrictions and other regulatory issues.
Russian laws provide for cases when an acquisition of a particular Russian enterprise may require prior approval from the Russian regulatory authority. In addition, Russian law on foreign investments in strategic industries allows a foreign investor to establish control over a Russian enterprise conducting activities in a sector deemed as strategic only after preliminary approval has been obtained. We provide legal advice to investors on whether the acquisition of a stake in a Russian company would trigger the requirement to obtain a regulatory consent.
We provide advice to our Russian and international clients on setting up and registration of companies, representative offices and branches in Russia.
We offer expertise on various day-to-day operations of companies including shareholders' meetings, preparation and registration of corporate documents.
We have expertise and experience in legal due diligence of various Russian legal entities; whether we are providing assistance to a seller in planning a due diligence process or assisting a buyer with examining legal aspects of a particular business.
It is widely proven that a properly communicated improvement in corporate governance raises the investment appeal of a company and, thus, creates shareholder value through share price appreciation.
We work with companies to provide assurance that their legal risk management strategies are effective. In this respect, we provide the following services:
carrying out legal assessment of existing corporate governance practices;reviewing selected areas of governance structures, such as board of directors and its committees, for compliance with regulatory requirements;analysing the efficiency and transparency of holding structures;preparing company-specific solutions and recommendations for improvement of existing structures
