Corporate Law / M&A: project expertise
- A full range of legal services for step-by-step business separation between partners in various regions of Russia when a company group simultaneously acquires assets (shares, real estate, rights in action) in Russian regions. Such services include, in particular, development of acquisition schemes, drafting of contracts and internal documents;
- Legal support of the shareholders of a large construction company in the gas sector in Russia and abroad while selling a controlling share for the amount of 150 billion US dollars;
- Representation of oil company shareholders in commercial courts of all instances in a lawsuit for invalidation of share issue. Several years of court proceedings ended up in success at the Supreme Commercial Court of the Russian Federation;
- Legal advice on implementation of a development project for construction of commercial real estate under participation of several regions of Russia;
- Representation of tenants in commercial litigation involving a lawsuit by the Moscow Municipal Property Department for eviction from non-residential premises and recovery of unreasonable gains;
- Representation of small businesses before the Commercial court of Moscow in the lawsuit for invalidation of the auction for the right to conclude a real estate lease contract, whereby such auction was held in breach of the Federal Competition Law;
- Legal protection of a large company distributing cell phones on the Russian market in a case involving a claim by the former participant for his right on a share in the company registered capital;
- Legal support of restructuring of a company group taking a leading position on the Russian market of production, assembly and maintenance of heat-treatment equipment;
- Legal protection of a Russian bank and its shareholders while an attempt of its illegal takeover;
- Legal support of acquisition of shares of a big Russian electric apparatus plant, including subsequent corporate services (legal advice, drafting minutes of meetings etc.) both for the plant and the companies of its group;
- Legal support of sales transactions of shares of a big Russian electric apparatus plant, including M&A projects;
- Legal support of restructuring of a bank holding, including preparation of document package to be filed with the antitrust authority for further notice of acquisition of several dozens of companies belonging to the group;
- Legal support of a transaction aimed at complete business sale (100% shares in the registered capital of a wood company in Karelia) by its owners for the amount of 10 billion euros.