M&A
- Interaction with registrars and depositaries, secretarial companies in relation to non-resident companies, interaction with Federal Antimonopoly Service and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation
- Vast experience in conflict negotiation and mediation
- Experience in legal support of transactions under Russian, English, Cyprian and Hong Kong laws
- Strong Tax and Insolvency practices allow us to comprehensively assess clients’ risks
Sanctions
- Comprehensive risk analysis and mitigation considering both direct statutory prohibition and existing business practice
- Cooperation with banks and investment advisors
- Working across international jurisdictions, cooperation with local legal advisors
- Finding practical solutions
M&A
- Letters of intent, non-disclosure and non-compete agreements
- Term sheets including ones related to a holding structure using legal entities/trusts in foreign jurisdictions
- Analysis of tax risks and development of transaction structure recommendations considering tax implications
- Due Diligence
- Sales and purchase agreements (SPAs) or other transactions for acquisition/disposal of interests
- SHAs (including options, representations and warranties, approval of loans and investments, etc.)
Sanctions
- Advising on sanctions imposed by the USA, EC, UK and other foreign jurisdictions
- Advising on fine-tuning business processes considering Russian anti-sanction measures
- Analysis of sanction risks by counterparties and servicing banks
- Analysis of risks of breaching US export controls and secondary sanctions
- Assistance in working out sanction compliance
- Requesting clarification from regulatory authorities (e.g. US OFAC, BIS, UK HM Treasury, FCDO, DIT, EU regulators, etc.)
- Sanction Due Diligence for a construction and mining company
- Supporting transactions under Russian and English laws considering other applicable jurisdictions (Jersey, Cyprus, Hong Kong): shareholder agreements, security issues in loan agreements, Due Diligence, listing regulation and disclosure requirements compliance etc.
- Supporting and coordinating investment and legal advisors in preparing for IPO process on major international stock exchange markets
- Interaction with state authorities in order to prepare legal opinions for regulatory acts, participating in State Duma subject committees working groups
- Interacting with registrars, depositaries and secretarial companies in relation to non-resident companies, interaction with Federal Antimonopoly Service and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation
- Supporting operations of the client’s offshore companies, assisting in resolving corporate law issues
- Supporting major M&A projects by preparing shareholder agreements, conducting Due Diligence, and supervising the actual transactions Participating in major credit projects in relation to loan security and stock exchange regulation compliance (black-out periods)
Basic information
Ekaterina’s key competencies are international M&A transactions, business corporate restructuring, syndicated lending, expert analysis of medium and big business development strategies, legal support of international expansion, forming up corporate management systems and internal business processes, advising on corporate law and management matters as well as matters of securities markets and corporate laws and regulations.
She supports transactions under Russian and English law as well laws of other applicable jurisdictions, has an excellent command of English, and is experienced in cooperation with major stock exchanges, FAS, FFMS, MEDT, Ministry of Finance, State Duma and other government authorities of Russia,
From 2004 to 2008, Ekaterina acted as the research supervisor of an expert group on corporate laws and regulations and corporate management at the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Russia. She headed the drafting of the Concept for Development of Corporate Laws and Regulations of the Russian Federation for a Period up to the Year 2008 approved by the Government of Russia. Ekaterina is an expert at the Skolkovo Business School and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Legal Insight magazine.
Specialization
corporate law
sanctions law
M&A
capital markets
legislation
ESG
Experience
25 years of practicing law including more than 14 years as an in-house lawyer;
2008 to 2014, corporate management director of LLC En+ Management;
2004 to 2008, corporate management counsellor of OJSC TNK-BP Management:
2000 to 2004, Head of Legal Department of SRO NAYFOR, member of the Management Board
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