Legal support for the acquisition of a series of commercial assets in Moscow by Danish investment fund Baltic Property Trust (trade and business centres).

Setting up relations between strategic foreign investors entering the business at 60% and shareholders retaining 40% of the business, where the 40% shareholder retained control over the company’s operative activities. Development of an Agreement between shareholders fixing the order of payment for the strategic investor’s share in the business using a leading Swiss bank as escrow agent. Organisation of the transaction closing.

Representation of interests of American businessmen as complainants of fraud against their Russian partners in a timber processing business in Russia. The Russian partner was convicted by a verdict of the court and part of the investment was returned.

Representation of an American client – venture investor in Russia – at the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. The Court rendered one of its milestone judgments, declaring an article of the Russian Bankruptcy law contrary to the Russian Constitution, based on the provisions of the European Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of 1950. The judgment dated 2000 is still often cited by the lawyers and academics.