Legal support for the seller in a transaction on a sea port and oil transshipment business sale in the north-west of Russia. The business had international structure. Our contribution to the project comprised of: - transaction structuring;
- preparation and coordination with the buyer's consultants of all the agreements supporting the transaction including: the term sheet, confidential and exclusivity agreement,
- share purchase agreement, etc.;
- arrangement of settlements between the parties using a leading Swiss bank as an escrow agent;
- contributing to the closing transaction (the transfer of the company share ownership to the buyer) in Holland and Switzerland.

Structuring of a client’s business of the production and sale of fire-protection equipment into a holding structure for the purposes of more effective management of the business as well as to attract a strategic investor or issue bonds.

Representing the Buyer's interests in a transaction on share acquisitions in a bank listed among the Russian top twenty banks, including: carrying out legal due diligence, identifying the existing legal risks for the buyer, contributing to the transaction structuring, participation in the preparation and coordination of decisions supporting the transaction, etc. The bank’s share value was worth 2 bln. US dollars. Our legal due diligence report served as a basis for a positive decision made by the credit committee of the bank, funding the transaction.

Legal support in the transaction under which a Russian bank obtained funds from NATEXIS, bank, France, the funds to acquire production equipment from a French manufacturer under the security of the French government for a packing factory in Russia. Our client was a lessee of the equipment acquired from a foreign counterpart by the lessor, a subsidiary of the Russian bank funding the transaction.

Legal due diligence on a client’s business - the largest Russian mineral water producer, recommendations on business restructuring and proper documentation of the ownership structure to increase the business value and, thereafter, attract financing from international banking institutions (EBRD).

Legal due diligence on a group of companies, members of a major Russian port structure in the south of Russia, to optimize the group structure and enhance its investment attraction in anticipation of the company IPO. Among other tasks, the project’s scope included: analysis of the legal risks associated with the business of the group companies and with the status of the primary (economically significant) assets. The ways to minimize and eliminate such risks were proposed along with the recommendations as to the group’s further development strategy options and selection of the group’s legal management framework and organizational structure.