Practices Corporate practice. M&A

Corporate practice. M&A

Mergers and acquisitions (М&A) in Russia, CIS countries and abroad:

  • Comprehensive advice on sale and purchase of business
  • Comprehensive transaction support to foreign investors in Russia and Russian clients abroad
  • Represent buyers and sellers under M&A transactions
  • Perform comprehensive legal due diligence
  • Create a transaction risk matrix
  • Develop a legal structure for the transaction
  • Develop a plan and schedule for conducting and closing the transaction, negotiate terms and conditions/memorandum of understanding (terms sheets, MoU, LOI, etc.)
  • Prepare a complete package of transaction documents (share sale and purchase agreements, disclosure letters, etc.)
  • Act on conducting and closing transaction, recording performance of assumed obligations..

Set up and act on strategic alliances, consortiums and joint ventures (JV):

  • Develop the JV’s legal structure taking intra-group requirements of the participants into account
  • Develop a plan to set up a JV, including an algorithm and measures to obtain approvals from regulatory agencies and creditors
  • Prepare package of documents required to set up a JV and conduct its business (agreements on formation/establishment, incorporation documents, shareholder agreements (SA), put/call options etc.)
  • Legal advice on setting up a JV and establishing corporate management procedures for the JV (local management and supervision regulations, etc.)
  • Issues related to becoming a member of the JV management body

Restructuring

  • Develop a targeted corporate plan to restructure companies or a group of companies
  • Develop a detailed flowchart for restructuring, and justification for proposed solutions
  • Generate a new corporate structure, and optimize the corporate management system
  • Support the transfer of company assets and obligations to a new structure
  • Prepare documents of incorporation and corporate resolutions/approvals

Corporate management:

  • Develop and optimize a corporate management system in Russian companies
  • Build the corporate management system in accordance with investor requirements
  • Ensure compliance with the requirements of regulatory agencies

Legal risk management:

  • Evaluate and manage risks in M&A transactions, financial transactions and business restructuring
  • Make recommendations
  • Risks chart of statutory regulation, covenant and default position risks
  • Comprehensive legal due diligence.

Bank lending and corporate borrowing:

  • Act on any financial or credit transactions
  • Preparatory documentation: term sheets, mandate letters, etc.
  • Develop the transaction’s legal structure taking the proposed collateral into account
  • Prepare loan and collateral documentation and legal opinions
  • Participate in negotiations, legal advice on how to conduct corporate events
  • Advice on procedures for conducting and closing of transactions

Transaction support with regard to public and private offering of securities:

  • Legal procedures to restructure a company or a group of companies to comply with requirements applicable to public and private placement of shares and other securities
  • Develop and implement a plan on company compliance with the requirements for transparency of corporate management
  • Prepare corporate resolutions on placing securities
  • Comprehensive legal due diligence, inter alia, in order to include provisions on the company’s legal status in an investment memorandum and a securities prospectus
  • Legal advice on stock and other securities issue, transactions for their placement or restructuring
  • Legal advice for financial institutions:
    • banks
    • credit organizations
    • professional participants of the securities market
    • insurance companies
    • payment system operators
  • Legal advice for investors:
    • institutional investors
    • pension funds
    • asset management companies
    • investment holding companies
  • Legal advice on attracting investment:
    • bank lending
    • syndicated lending
    • structured financing
    • public placement of securities
    • securitization
    • project financing
    • leasing
    • real estate project financing
  • Evaluate and manage legal risks:
    • legal due diligence
    • evaluation of standing
    • analysis of covenants
    • credit portfolio analysis
    • leasing portfolio analysis
    • investment portfolio analysis
  • Restructuring and bankruptcy of financial institutions:
    • restructuring obligations
    • restructuring leasing portfolio
    • restructuring investment portfolio
    • legal advice on bankruptcy
  • Legal advice on issues regarding taxation of finances and securities
  • Legal advice on issues regarding corporate procedures
  • Support in disputes on the financial market

Corporate disputes:

  • Disputes arising out of breaches of contracts and warranties
  • Disputes regarding interpretation of agreements
  • Disputes between shareholders / participants
  • Disputes arising out of M&A transactions

Anti-corruption legislation compliance system (“Anti-corruption Compliance”):

  • Introduce mechanisms into the corporate procedures system that target compliance with requirements of Russian and foreign legislation (FCPA, UKBA)
  • Develop and provide legal advice on issues regarding in-house anti-corruption control systems taking international legislation into account
  • Legal advice on introduction in the company system of in-house communication regarding observed violations (hot line)
  • Legal advice on issues regarding the vetting of counterparties for business integrity (compliance due diligence)
  • Conduct compliance audits with respect to conformity of in-house anti-corruption systems to international legislation
  • Legal advice on issues of risk compliance evaluation and management

Clients 28

Projects 94

  • Representing interests of MTS in the transaction on acquisition of a group...

  • Serving the client’s interests and providing legal support in a...

  • The project of legal support provided to the client in its business...

  • Legal due diligence of a large industrial chemical factory in the Perm...

  • Legal due diligence of foundation and key aspects of operation of APK...

  • Legal consulting of the international company manufacturing lawn-mowing and...

  • Consulting on incorporation of a company in Russia for selling of products...

  • Consulting on specific tax aspects of transactions involving purchasing of...

  • Providing consulting services to an international company rendering...

  • Consulting on setting up of a permanent representative office and tax...

  • Legal support in the transaction where the Borlas Group of Companies sells...

  • Consulting on implementation of the project of setting up a training center...

  • Conducting of legal due diligence of Russian companies (coal companies)...

  • Preparing of an expert opinion on the project including a legal and...

  • Legal support in implementation of the project for acquisition of two Russian...

  • Consulting of Lanex, a Czech company, on setting up of a joint venture with...

  • Comparative analysis of the taxation of the branch, representative office and...

  • Setting up of a Russian-Spanish joint venture for launching Russia-based...

  • Consulting of the Chinese company on corporate approvals of transactions.

  • Participation in the project involving legal support in acquisition of the...

  • Consulting of the company on investment projects in Russia: acquisition of...

  • Handling several projects of the client and conducting legal due diligence...

  • Studying of all aspects related to the business of the target companies...

  • Legal support in the accreditation of the US Company’s branch – the...

  • Legal support in organizing of local manufacturing of spare parts for the...

  • Conducting of legal due diligence investigations of Russian companies (5...

  • Consulting on taxation and editing of the license agreement and the...

  • Legal support in the transaction on raising funds for Permtranszhelezobeton...

  • Setting up of a joint venture with participation of RUSNANO for implementation...

  • Legal support in the transaction on the bank’s purchasing of a block of...

  • Preparation for the transaction connected with acquisition of shares of...

  • Legal support in the dispute regarding the right to the stake in PIS LLC.

  • Assessment of the possibility of performing construction works in the...

  • Preparation of a legal opinion on privatization of shares of Apatit, JSC.

  • Restructuring of the Group of Companies, which combines oil-and-gas...

  • Protecting interests of MGTS, PJSC, in corporate disputes with minority...

  • Conducting legal due diligence of the legal entities and assets (real property)...

  • Representing the client’s interests in the "Setting up of the Boguchany...

  • Restructuring of the relationships of the participants of the project for...

  • Legal support in the additional issue of shares of TOPAZ, CJSC, including...

  • Devising and deployment of the plan aimed at changing of the corporate...

  • Restructuring of the group of fiberglass producing companies for the...

  • Comprehensive due diligence investigation of the All-Russian Design and...

  • Initiating of bankruptcy and legal support provided to several subsidiaries...

  • Conducting of due diligence investigation of the company – one of the...

  • Conducting of legal due diligence of the international airport in Nizhny...

  • Legal support in implementing of a project aimed at building a regional hub...

  • Conducting due diligence and legal support in the transaction on...

  • Protecting interests of the debtor and shareholders in the bankruptcy...

  • Consulting on the client’s reforms as a part of the ongoing restructuring...

  • Representing interests of Russian owners in the transaction aimed at...

  • Preparation of a memorandum on certain amendments to the RF Civil Code...

  • Integrated legal support of the project on setting up of a joint venture...

  • Conducting of pre-investment legal due diligence of the company’s assets...

  • Preparing a legal opinion on the procedure and risks associated with...

  • Protecting interests of a large distribution company in connection with the...

  • Protection of interests of a large distribution company regarding the theft...

  • Legal support in the transaction conducted by a group of companies to sell...

  • Conducting of comprehensive due diligence; diagnostics, preparing of an...

  • Deployment of a compliance system in a large Russian state corporation.

  • Conducting of advocatory investigation in a large chemical company...

  • Developing of a step-by-step algorithm of the actions aimed at transfer of...

  • Participation in the project for preparation for a transaction by a famous...

  • Legal support in reorganization of the holding company, including...

  • Preparing documents for a transaction in acquisition of shares of an...

  • Consulting on devising and deployment of a compliance system for a large...

  • The legal forensics of the actions performed by the former top management...

  • Audit and adoption of the non-disclosure rules in a Russian Insurance...

  • Representing interests of a private Russian investor in the transaction for...

  • Comprehensive legal support in the transaction when a large bank purchases...

  • Assessment of tax implications resulting from different options of transfer...

  • Legal support in preparing and signing of a credit facility agreement...

  • Legal support in the transaction for an amount of 90 million dollars: a...

  • Preparing Russian law-related memorandums covering the aspects pertaining to...

  • The intra-group transaction in purchasing of assets for an amount exceeding...

  • Legal support in the project "Violation of the fiduciary duties by the...

  • Acquisition of one of the largest shopping and entertainment centers in...

  • Preparing documents for the transaction in purchasing of shares of a Russian...

  • Preparation of the stock purchase-and-sale agreement.

  • Legal support in setting up a joint venture with a major producer of...

  • Preparing of an option agreement.

  • Serving the interests of a major private company in the electric power...

  • Legal support in a transaction for selling of its block of shares by the...

  • Conducting of legal due diligence of the assets intended for acquisition by...

  • Representing the client’s interests in a transaction for acquisition of...

  • Devising of an internal system of allocation of authority for signing...

  • Preparation of a purchase and sale agreement governed by English law, legal...

  • Conducting of legal due diligence of the target company.

  • Preparation of basic contractual documents for a transaction in acquisition...

  • Launching of a "hotline" in the international automotive holding as a part...

  • Legal support in implementing of the project aimed at compliance risk...

  • Legal support in implementing of the project aimed at restructuring of a...

  • Devising options for restructuring of the client’s business with...

  • Devising and implementation of the plan for restructuring of the group of...

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