Per Berglöf
Partner Advokatfirman Delphi
Attorney at Law
Education
LL.M. Uppsala University 1978
Business area:
Energy, Financial Sector, Industrial Goods
Area of expertise:
Banking and Finance
Corporate Law
Corporate Governance
Corporate Recovery
Mergers and Acquisitions
PPP (Public Private Partnership)
Private Equity
Securities
Other information
Per Berglöf is a Partner in the Stockholm office of Delphi and head of the company’s Corporate Finance Law Department – a team of 30 lawyers handling mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance and corporate law.
He was one of the founding partners and has been a partner of the Delphi office in Stockholm since 1984.
For the past 15 years Per Berglöf has mostly worked as head and team leader of a number of M & A projects, both public and private. Per Berglöf has been lead Swedish counsel in a number of cross border deals representing both domestic and foreign corporate clients
Per Berglöf has also been lead counsel in a number of major Swedish Joint Venture Projects in the Energy and Construction businesses. Per Berglöf also regularly advises in financing and corporate law and he is continuously representing major companies listed on stock exchanges in Sweden (Nasdaq OMX) and abroad. He is also involved as head of projects of major outsourcing projects, principally in respect of business transfers.
Per Berglöf is listed by Who is Who’s Legal as one of the leading Corporate Governance Lawyers in Sweden. Per Berglöf has for several years been named as a leading M&A lawyer in Sweden by Chambers The World Leading Lawyers and PLC –Which Lawyer?.
Per Berglöf is a frequent lecturer at international conferences organised by and different conference institutions organising seminars and workshops about M&A, Due Diligence processes, Corporate Governance and outsourcing. He is a member of the Swedish Bar Association and the International Bar Association. Per Berglöf is Senior Vice-Chair of the Corporate and M&A Law Committee within IBA’s Corporate Law Section. He has been chairing a number of sessions at IBA annual conferences especially within the field of public M&A and cross-border transactions.
Office
Stockholm
Contact information
Advokatfirman Delphi
Direct phone: +46 8 677 54 10
per.berglof@delphi.se
Vassily Rudomino
Senior Partner, ALRUD Law Firm
Vassily Rudomino, Senior Partner and a co-founder of ALRUD Law Firm, is the Head of ALRUD Corporate/M&A, Competition/Antitrust and Dispute Resolution practices. He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO). Vassily Rudomino is a member of the International Bar Association (IBA), Co-Chair of the IBA European Regional Forum, advocate.
Vassily Rudomino is an expert with profound experience in supporting global international and major local M&A transactions, principally in pharmacy and oil & gas business areas. He is recognized as the foremost legal practitioner in the field of antitrust regulation, dispute resolution and business restructuring and insolvency.
Vassily Rudomino is a member of the Non-commercial partnership “Competition Support Association” focusing on maintaining close cooperation of businesses with the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia and improving the competition law practice. He is a co-founder and a Head of Partnership Council of the Non-commercial partnership “Competition Support in CIS countries”. He is a member of the FAS Russia Expert Council on competition development in retail business, member of the FAS Russia Expert Council on oil and oil products market.
Vassily Rudomino regularly participates in professional conferences and leads workshops for business and legal community both in Russia and abroad; he is the author of articles on acute issues in corporate/M&A law, antitrust regulation and investing which are published in the leading Russian and foreign media.
Vassily Rudomino is fluent in English and Russian.
The Chambers Europe edition recommends Vassily Rudomino for Corporate/M&A and Competition/Antitrust. PLC Which Lawyer? 2010 distinguishes Vassily Rudomino as the foremost expert in Restructuring and Insolvency, Corporate/M&A and Competition/Antitrust.
According to The Chambers Global researchers, Vassily Rudomino is “one of the best Russian lawyers applauded for being always accessible and definitely client-oriented”. The edition recommends ALRUD Senior Partner for his Corporate/M&A work.
PLC Which Lawyer? distinguishes Vassily Rudomino as “a key adviser on competition law (particularly on the M&A side) as well as dispute resolution, general corporate and foreign investments”.
Konstantin Olefir
Head of Legal & Compliance departments, Member of the Board, Deutsche Bank Ltd. Russia
Konstantin Olefir joined Deutsche Bank Russia in the end of 2006 being appointed Head of Legal. Konstantin is responsible for legal supervisory of Deutsche Bank in Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine.
Prior to joining Deutsche Bank Moscow Konstantin worked as General Counsel of United Company RUSAL and as a senior associate of US law firms Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.
Konstantin graduated from MGIMO in 1994 and received his LLM from the University of Virginia in 1997.
Andrey Goltsblat
Managing Partner of Goltsblat BLP, Senior Partner Corporate, M&A and Investment Projects
Andrey Goltsblat is a managing partner of Goltsblat BLP and was previously a managing partner with Pepeliaev, Goltsblat & Partners; admitted, 1987, Russia; 1994 J.D. He concentrates primarily on mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, joint ventures, commercial and industrial real estate as well as counseling directors and senior management of domestic and overseas companies in connection with investment projects and deal structuring in Russia and the CIS.
His previous roles include Chief of Staff for the Constitutional Commission of the Russian Parliament.
He and his team s recent Russia related M&A work includes advising: Mars on the Wrigley acquisition for $23 bn., a major Russian state bank on the proposed acquisition of a software developer, Magna on planned acquisition of Opel business from General Motors, Onexim Group on its acquisition of APR-Bank (currently MFK-Bank), Ashland on the buy-out of shares from its minority partner, RP Capital on the acquisition of Silver City office complex in Moscow, Equifax on the acquisition of an equity interest in Global Payments credit bureau, Danone on sale of its St. Petersburg subsidiary, LG International on its investments in the Russian coal mining sector and Matra Petroleum on its acquisitions in the Russian oil and gas sector, as well as co-advising in conjunction with other Major Law Firms - Boots Plc. on the 2bn disposal of Boots Healthcare International business to Reckitt Benckiser; Bayer AG on the sale of the world-wide Diagnostics Business of Bayer AG to Siemens AG for ˆ4.2 bn.
The total value of M&A transactions supported by Andrey Goltsblat and his team over last 18 months is in excess of USD 28 bn.
He has also overseen legal advice to more than 450 real estate and construction projects in different regions of Russia over the last five years, predominately for major multinational investors, including Mars, Coca-Cola, Danone, Kimberly-Clark, Kingfisher/Castorama, Guardian Industries, Kronospan, as well as a number of Japanese and European car manufacturers (i.e. Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, Nissan/Russia, Volkswagen Group, etc.).
Andrey Goltsblat has been awarded the medal of the Federal Chamber of Attorneys of the Russian Federation "For services in support of human rights and liberties". He is a member of the IBA (International Bar Association) and the ABA (American Bar Association).
For several years running, he has been mentioned by The European Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners as a recommended individual in the Corporate/ M&A and Construction/ Real estate areas.
Tel: + 7 495 287 44 44
Fax: + 7 495 287 44 45
Email: info@gblplaw.com
Web: www.gblplaw.com
Vladislav Zabrodin
Managing Partner, Capital Legal Services
Vladislav has extensive experience advising business clients on corporate and commercial law, transactional law, mergers and acquisitions, tax law, cross-border transactions, alternative dispute resolution, securities law and other aspects of conducting business in the CIS, including client representation before federal and regional state authorities.
Prior to joining Capital Legal Services International, L.L.C., Mr. Zabrodin was a senior associate with McDermott, Will & Emory, L.L.C. and supervised their offices in St. Petersburg, Russia. From 1995 until 1998 he headed the CIS legal group of OTIS Elevator Company, working from offices in Hartford, Connecticut, Paris, France, and Moscow, Russia, traveling to and providing legal services in and with respect to many republics of the former USSR, including Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan. In 1993, Mr. Zabrodin was invited to Turku University, Finland, to lecture on Russian Law.
Vladislav has published a number of articles in various international and Russian periodicals; he is a member of International Bar Association (IBA) and Legal Counsel International (LCI).
Dr. Oleg de Lousanoff
Partner, Hengeler Mueller
Practice Areas: Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions
Education:
University of Freiburg (Dr. iur. utriusque)
London School of Economics and Political Science
Keio University, Tokyo
Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley (LL.M.)
Career:
Associate Professor, Department of Civil Law and Law of Civil
Procedure, University of Freiburg, 1976 – 1980
Law Firm, Tokyo, 1979
Corporate / M&A matters related to Russia:
• Various acquisition projects in CIS countries (in the main Russia) to multinational groups of companies, such as the contemplated acquisition of News Outdoor (Murdoch Group) by JCDecaux S.A. (France)
• Various acquisition projects in Germany and other European Countries for major Russian corporations, such as Basic Element and its subsidiaries
• Major restructuring of important Russian companies (UC Rusal, co-counsel)
• Corporate and commercial law advice to important Russian companies such as EuroChem.
Office: Frankfurt
Telephone: +49 69 17095-203
Email: oleg.delousanoff@hengeler.com
Yulia Andreeva
Associate, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP (USA)
Yulia Andreeva is a member of the litigation department of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in New York City. Her practice focuses on international dispute settlement, with particular emphasis on disputes involving CIS governments and foreign investors.
Yulia joined Debevoise in 2004. From 2001 to 2003, she clerked for the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, The Netherlands, where she worked on large interstate disputes, international commercial arbitrations, and appointing authority matters.
Ms. Andreeva is an active member of the international law community. Among other things, she is a member of the International Chamber of Commerce Task Force on Arbitration Involving States or State Entities and serves as an observer to the UNCITRAL Working Group II responsible for revising the 1976 UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. She is a member of the Global Advisory Board of the International Center for Dispute Resolution Young & International since 2007 and a chair of the UNCITRAL sub-committee of the Arbitration Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
Yulia holds a number of leadership positions within the American Bar Association’s Section of International Law. In particular, she serves as a Vice Chair of the International Corporate Counsel Committee, a Vice Chair of the Russia/Eurasia Committee, a Vice Chair of the International Courts Committee, and a Steering Committee Member of the International Arbitration Committee. In 2006-2007, she also served as a Vice Chair of the Section’s UN and International Institutions Coordinating Committee.
Yulia is committed to promoting diversity in the practice of law. She is a founding member and board member of the ArbitralWomen Association, which brings together women practicing and teaching international dispute settlement, and a Co-Chair of the Women’s Interest Network of the ABA’s Section of International Law.
Yulia is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars on public international law and dispute settlement. She has authored close to twenty publications in English and Russian, and, between 2001 and 2005, she served as an editor of the Leiden Journal of International Law.
Sergey Pepeliaev
Managing partner, Candidate of Science (Law)
Pepeliaev Group
Sergey Pepeliaev has vast experience in handling tax disputes in arbitration courts, courts of general jurisdiction and the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation.
He has participated in the Russian Supreme Arbitration Court conferences concerning taxation and financial issues and is regularly invited by the Russian Constitutional Court to act as a tax expert.
Extensive project work has included auditing procedures, assessment of current and potential corporate liabilities, development and improvement of cash flow control procedures, advice on book-keeping and taxation, assessment of possibilities for debt restructuring and debt reduction, etc.
Sergey Pepeliaev acted as adviser to the State Duma Budget and Finance Committee; was involved in the discussion and finalization of the draft Russian Tax Code; participated in projects aimed to improve Russian tax legislation, including TACIS projects; on several occasions headed groups of lawyers involved in large-scale management, auditing and legal consulting projects, some carried out by order of major Russian and foreign companies operating in different industries, others - within the framework of World Bank programs.
- Member of the Panel of Experts of the Federation Council Committee for Legal and Judicial Matters.
- Member of the Presidium of the Russian Tax Law Association.
Ivan Oskolkov
Director, Corporate management Department, Ministry of Economic development, Moscow, Ph.D. in Economics
Graduated
1996 – Saint-Petersburg State University,
1998 – European University in Saint-Petersburg,
2001 – Multisectoral Institute of Upgrading and Reeducation of Management of â Saint-Petersburg State Engineering-Economics University,
Labor activity
1991-1996 - student, Saint-Petersburg State University
1996 – 1999 - Ph.D. student, European University in Saint-Petersburg, Saint-Petersburg
1999 – 2002 – assistant of Economic cybernetics chair, Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg
2002 – 2003 - senior professor of Economic cybernetics chair, Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg
2003 – 2007 - senior professor of Finance Theory of Management Faculty chair, Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg
2007 - assistant professor of Finance and Accounting chair, Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg
Dimitry Afanasiev
Chairman
Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev and Partners Law Offices
Dimitry Afanasiev is the Chairman of Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners, the Chambers Europe’s 2008 Russian Law Firm of the Year, with offices in Moscow, St. Petersburg and an associated office in London.
Born in 1969, Mr. Afanasiev studied law at the University of Leningrad, University of Pennsylvania School of Law and St. Petersburg Institute of Law. He is a member of the St. Petersburg Bar Association, associate member of the American Bar Association and International Bar Association. Ideologist of a stronger local legal community in Russia, Dimitry is the Counselor to the President of the Federal Bar Association of Russia.
Dimitry Afanasiev has worked as associate at Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis and Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen in Philadelphia (USA). In 1993 he co-founded Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasiev & Partners; Partners’ Committee Chair since 1999. Member of the Board of Directors of UC RUSAL and Norilsk Nickel.
Mr. Afanasiev’s areas of practice include international business transactions, dispute resolution and public policy issues. Among his clients are the Russian Federation, multinational and Russian corporations, high net worth individuals and charitable organizations.
Dimitry Afanasiev is the Co-Chair of the CIS Local Counsel Forum, an informal network of managing and senior partners of CIS and international law firms, meeting annually in different venues chosen by the Delegates.
Mr. Afanasiev is a Board Member of Business Russia, an all-Russia non-profit association of businessmen, and a founding member of the Russian-American Business Council. He is also active in the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia.
Mr. Afanasiev was awarded a medal “For Professional Excellence” by the Russian Bar Association and received a Letter of Commendation from the President of Russia “For achievements in defending human rights”. Dimitry Afanasiev was listed by The Lawyer (the UK) among the global top 40 lawyers.
Irackly Mtibelishvily
Managing Director Chairman of Banking Russia, Citi
Relevant Experience
_ Irackly Mtibelishvily is a Managing Director and Chairman of Banking for Russia. I In this capacity he is responsible for Citigroup's overall investment and corporate banking activity in Russia.
_ Irackly has worked on a broad range of M&A transactions in Russia including buyside, sellside, mergers, and privatizations and has extensive experience working on cross-border transactions assisting Western multinational players to expand in Russia / Russian clients to acquire assets abroad
_ Recent notable M&A experience includes advisory on Gazprom Neft’s acquisition of Sibir Energy, Severstal’s acquisition of WCI, Gazpromneft’s acquisition of 50% shares of Tomskneft, advisory to International Paper in connection with its acquisition of a 50% interest in Ilim Pulp Enterprises, advisory to Norilsk Nickel in connection with acquisition of a controlling interest in OGK 3, advisory to Guta Group on the private placement of 6% stake in Mosenergo, Smart Hydrogen on its 35% investment into Plug Power, Severstal on the consolidation of Severstal Resurs Mining assets, Gazprom in connection with $13.1bn acquisition of 72% stake in Sibneft, fairness opinion to Gazprom Board of Directors in connection with a $7.12 bln sale of 10.74% of Gazprom to the Russian Government. Other notable M&A experience includes advisory to Severstal on the acquisition of a 70% stake in Lucchini S.P.A., Danone on a potential acquisition of a controlling interest in Wimm Bill Dann, advisory to Sibneft on the merger with Yukos, advisory to Severstal on the acquisition of Rouge Industries, advisory to Millhouse Capital on the acquisition of Chelsea Village plc, privatisation of 74.95% Slavneft and a range of cross-border M&A transactions for Yukos Oil Company: acquisition of 49% of Transpetrol, 27% of Mazeikiu Nafta, 22% strategic investment in Kvaerner ASA and a subsequent purchase of Process Technology and Hydrocarbons
businesses
_ Irackly has also lead a number of Initial Public Offerings, including $8bln IPO of VTB, $1.063bln IPO of Severstal, $952mm IPO of Pharmstandard, and $1.15bln rights offering by X5 Retail Group.
Education:
Master of International Legal Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations
Master of Law, University of Virginia Law School
Employment Record
1998 – Present Citi, Russia & CIS Investment Banking
1994-1998 Clifford Chance, Moscow and London
1992-1993 Price Waterhouse, Moscow
Alexander Zharskiy
Partner, ALRUD Law Firm
Alexander graduated from Belarusian State University, Minsk, Department of Law (1993-1998); after completing post-graduate research in 2001 he received a doctor’s degree in law (equivalent to SJD). He received LL.M. degree at Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences in 1999, validated by the University of Manchester (UK). Alexander Zharskiy participated in a post-graduate course in International Trade and Business Law at T.M.C. Asser Institute, Asser College Europe, the Netherlands, in 2000. In 2007 he was on a six month secondment in one of the “magic circle” law firms in London. He is fluent in Russian, Belarusian and English.
Mr. Zharskiy is experienced in Corporate / M&A, joint venturing, Banking and Finance, Real Estate. He is heading Banking and Finance practice at ALRUD Law Firm and managing the most complicated Corporate / M&A projects.
Alexander Zharskiy joined ALRUD in 2004 and has been a partner since 2007.
Alexander Zharskiy is a member of the FAS Expert Counsel on competition protection in financial services market.
His speaking and publication activities include the major Russian and foreign conferences and seminars and contributions to the legal periodicals in various areas of corporate law and other spheres of his specialization.
PLC Which Lawyer? 2009 recommends Alexander Zharskiy for Restructuring and Insolvency.
The European Legal Experts for two consecutive years (2008, 2009) recommends Alexander Zharskiy as an expert in the field of Corporate / M&A.
The Legal 500 2007 describes Alexander Zharskiy as an “impressive and hard working” professional. The edition also recommends “prompt and responsive” Alexander Zharskiy for his “clear and precise advice”.
Claire Jeffs
Partner, Slaughter and May
Claire was educated at Cambridge and Brussels universities. She joined Slaughter and May in 1998 and became a partner in 2005. She is resident in Brussels.
She has been involved in a large number of high profile merger cases before the UK and EU competition authorities, as well as coordinating merger approvals world-wide.
On the contentious side she has been involved in several cartel cases, including on appeal to the General Court in Luxembourg.
Her recent work includes advising:
• BHP Billiton on its proposed acquisition of Rio Tinto
• INEOS on its acquisition of Kerling
• Coats on its appeals to the European Court in the Needles and Fasteners cases
• a technology company on an ongoing Article 102 investigation
• various companies in relation to ongoing Article 101 investigations.
She has been named in Global Competition Review’s “40 under 40”, The Lawyer’s Hot 100 list and Management Today’s “35 under 35” list of high flying young business women. Claire is also listed as a leading individual in the Competition/European Law section of the 2010 editions of Chambers Europe and Chambers Global.
Claire is fluent in French and Russian and has good German.
Adam Green
Partner, Manheimer Swartling
Adam Green is a partner in Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyrå's Mergers & Acquisitions group, where he specializes in M&A, joint ventures, and other business transactions. Adam has worked extensively with Swedish and foreign corporate and financial sponsors in their transactions in Sweden and abroad. Before moving to Sweden in 2003 Adam spent six years at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York. Adam has law degrees from Oxford University in England and from Columbia University in New York. Mannheimer Swartling is one of the Nordic region's leading law firms, with over 400 lawyers working in Sweden and abroad.
Evgeny Raschevsky
Partner, Head of International Arbitration Practice, candidate of juridical sciences, Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev and Partners Law Offices
Evgeny Raschevsky is an expert in international commercial arbitration, non-Russian and international litigation, energy and gas regulation, corporate and banking. As a partner of Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasiev & Partners, he has been heading the International Arbitration and Litigation Practice since 2008.
Evgeny graduated from the Law Department of the Volgograd State University in 1999, he defended his LLM degree thesis in the Russian School of Private Law in 2001 and his Candidate of Juridical Sciences degree thesis in 2004.
Evgeny has extensive experience in dispute resolution both in Russian and non-Russian courts, international commercial arbitration in UK, USA, Germany, Turkey and other countries, acting for clients in the European Court of Human Rights and the International Court of Justice. He is a member of the ICC Russia Arbitration Committee.
In April 2008 Evgeny was recognized by the Global Arbitration Review magazine in UK as one of leading Russian experts in international commercial arbitration.
Ioannis Demetriades
Founding Partner and Managing Director, Horwath DSP
Career Timeline
1974 – 1980 Trained and qualified as an accountant in the United Kingdom
1980 – 1987 Employed as Finance & Administration Manager of a construction company in Dammam, Saudi Arabia
1987 to date Founder and Managing Director of accountancy firm now known as Horwath DSP Limited in Nicosia, Cyprus
Professional Memberships:
- Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants - UK
- Member of the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners - UK
- Member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Cyprus
- Affiliate member of the UK’s Institute of Management Consultants
Professional Positions Held
- Director of the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners Cyprus Branch
- Member of the V.A.T. Committee of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Cyprus
- Member of the International Tax Committee of Crowe Horwath International, head of its VAT Specialty Group
- Member of the European Tax Committee of Crowe Horwath International.
Contact information:
Telephone : +357 22755 656
e-mail: yiannisd@crowehorwath.com.cy
Ian Ivory
Partner, English Law, Corporate, Goltsblat BLP
Ian is a Senior Equity Partner at Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP and has recently relocated to Moscow in order to join Goltsblat BLP.
Ian previously worked for 11 years in the Corporate Department of Berwin Leighton Paisner, London office, where he was Head of the Private Equity Work Group. Ian is a member of the Law Society of England and Wales and a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales with more than ten years standing.
Ian is recognised by Chambers UK 2009 as a leading individual for UK Private Equity Buy-outs and is mentioned in Legal 500 UK 2009 for UK Venture Capital.
Ian has considerable expertise in international transactions, together with extensive legal experience spanning a wide range of business sectors including business services, energy and natural resources, financial services, healthcare, hospitality and leisure, insurance, media and entertainment, real estate, recruitment, retail, security, technology and travel.
Track Record
Mergers & acquisitions and private equity:
• Advising Tesco PLC on its corporate venturing deals and joint ventures with suppliers and key business partners.
• Advising British Land on its joint venture for the development of Blythe Valley business park.
• Advising bidders on the proposed sale by Allianz of its Four Seasons care homes portfolio.
• Acting for LloydsTSB on the corporate aspects of the acquisitions of Yo! Sushi and West Cornwall Pasty company.
• Acting for Telegraph Group on disposal of The Best of British business and assets and separately on a range of technology and media investments.
• Advising interactive television content provider Static 2358 on fundings with BSkyB and HSBC.
Corporate finance and restructurings:
• Advising The Royal Bank of Scotland plc on the solvent restructuring of the ex-Le Meridien portfolio of hotels and hotel assets including The Waldorf, Grosvenor House, Cumberland and Shelbourne hotels and successful on-sale to a range of operators including Marriott and Hilton.
• Advising Transamerica Corporation on the international restructuring and disposal of its European trailer leasing business to Goldman Sachs Private Equity and Cerberus.
• Advising The Royal Bank of Scotland plc on the proposed sale of part of its hotel portfolio to Vector Hospitality plc, as part of an ultimately abortive deal to create a 2.64bn listed real estate investment trust.
• Advising Close Brothers on a range of international and national management buy-outs, private equity and venture capital investments, including on-going portfolio work and exits. Deals include MBO s of Moody International, Hillary s Blinds and Waltons.
• Acting for Luminar plc on its complex group reorganisation and refinancing, and for LA Fitness and MidOcean Partners on its sale and leaseback to R20.
Almat Daumov
Partner, Head of Natural Resources, Director of Almaty Office
Education:
Almat graduated from the Kazakh State University of Law with Honours in 2004. He then undertook a postgraduate course in Taxation, and is currently studying at the Kazakh Humanitarian University.
He has taken part in numerous training courses on both European and Kazakh law. These include EU law training, which was sponsored by TACIS and training on Transfer Pricing provided by the Kazakh Ministry of Finance.
Almat speaks fluent Russian and English.
Experience:
Almat has extensive experience in tax, transfer pricing, investment, Oil and Gas sectors as well as in the field of litigation.
Almat's practice is focussed on tax issues encountered by all kinds of companies active in Kazakhstan such as oil industry service companies as well as financial institutions. He acts as a regular corporate adviser to a number of high profile international and Kazakh clients.
Almat is a member of Kazakhstan Petroleum Lawyers' Association and is the authorised representative of the Kazakh Taxpayers' Association.
Oleh Marchenko
Managing Partner, Ulysses
Oleh Marchenko is the Managing Partner of Ulysses law firm. He is leading Tax practice of the firm, and has wide experience in the areas of corporate law, M&A, corporate finance, and real estate.
Before, Oleh Marchenko was a partner and the head of corporate & M&A practice of Magisters, and later he was the head of the firmwide tax practice of Magisters. Oleh also has broad and unique experience in the field of international trade law (WTO).
Oleh has served clients like ADM, Alfa Group, Banka Intesa, Bunge, Cargill, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Erste Bank, Goldman Sachs, ING Bank, JTI, Microsoft, Naftogas of Ukraine, Saint-Gobain, Shell, Severstal, Teva, TNK-BP, Unimilk.
Oleh is recognized as one of the world’s leading corporate tax lawyers by International Who’s Who of Corporate Tax Lawyers 2010, as a leading (“first class”) tax lawyer in Ukraine by Legal 500 EMEA 2010 and Best Lawyers International 2009.
Oleh is the President of IFA Ukraine. He co-chairs the tax committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine.
Andrey Tereschenko
Partner, Pepeliaev Group
Andrey Tereschenko focuses on tax law and has a high level of expertise in providing advice to major Russian and foreign companies on a wide range of tax issues.
As a tax advisor, Andrey has participated in consulting activities related to taxation, tax planning, tax audit and due diligence projects, litigation experience involving judicial protection of legal entities in courts of arbitration and other state authorities. He has also participated in a number of projects for FMCG companies regarding analysis of the tax consequences of marketing surveys and advertising campaigns involving gratuitous distribution of goods to potential consumers.
Andrey’s tax practice group is also engaged in projects with the participation of foreign consultants. It is of need in the frames of cross-border transactions when we require legal opinions on foreign tax legislation. We have a global reach contacts including attorneys from Europe, Asia and USA.
Andrey is recognised by authoritative international legal guidebooks The Legal 500, EMEA, Tax Directors Handbook as a highly recommended expert in tax law.
E-mail : a.tereschenko@pgplaw.ru
Alexey Kot
Managing Partner, ANTIKA Law Firm
Practice Areas:
Alexey Kot is a Managing Partner of Antika Law Firm specializing in Corporate and Commercial Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Competition Law, Investments, Protection of Investor rights, Land and Real Estate.
Career:
Antika Law Firm – Managing Partner (since November, 2010)
Salkom Law Firm – Partner (September 1996 – October 2010)
Education & Bar Admittance:
Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, Faculty of Law, Master’s degree (Ukraine, 1999);
Russian School (Institute) of Private Law at the President of Russian Federation, Master’s degree in private law (Russia, 2001);
Post-graduate studies at the Institute of International Relations of Kiev National Taras Shevchenko University, Candidate of legal sciences degree (Ukraine, 2002);
Studied European Law at the Leiden University (the Netherlands, 2001);
Received training in British Law Firm Howard Kennedy Solicitors (London, UK).
Pro Bono & Community Involvement:
Member of the International Bar Association;
Member of Kyiv Regional Bar Association
Member of Managing Council (on behalf of Ukraine) for Non-Profit Partnership “Supporting Competition in the CIS”.
Member of the Scientific and Advisory Council of the Higher Economic Court of Ukraine.
Member of the Scientific and Research Council of the State Committee of Ukraine for Land Resources.
Member of the Ukrainian Bar Association.
Languages:
Alexey Kot is fluent in Ukrainian, Russian and English.
12 Khreschatyk Street, 2nd fl.
01001 Kyiv, Ukraine
Tel/fax: +38 044 270-68-38/39
Cell phone: +38 050 330-68-26
e-mail: akot@antikalaw.com.ua
Web site: http://www.antikalaw.com.ua
Alan V. Kartashkin
Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Alan V. Kartashkin, resident in the Moscow office, is a member of the Corporate Department. He practices in the areas of equipment finance, mergers and acquisitions, and securities. Mr. Kartashkin joined Debevoise’s New York office in 1996 and moved to the firm’s Moscow office in 2001.
Mr. Kartashkin is recommended as one of the leading lawyers for corporate/M&A, capital markets and aviation matters in Russia by Chambers Global, Chambers Europe (2007-2010) and Best Lawyers. He is also included in Legal Media Group’s Guide to the World’s Leading Aviation Lawyers (2007-2010).
Mr. Kartashkin received his J.D. from Cornell Law School in 1996, and a law degree with honors from the Moscow State Institute for International Relations in 1993. He is a member of the New York State Bar and is admitted to practice law in Russia.
Mr. Kartashkin’s recent representations include:
- RusHydro in listing of Global Depositary Receipts on the London Stock Exchange.
- Polyus Gold in its public offer for 50.1% of KazakhGold Group Limited shares.
- OGK-2, one of the major power-generating companies in Russia, in its $1 billion public offering of shares on the London Stock Exchange.
- Norilsk Nickel, one of the world's premier metals and mining operations, in the $2 billion spin-off of its gold assets and the creation of Polyus Gold, a major international gold company.
- Polyus Gold in its acquisition of three gold mining companies in Russia and listing of American depositary receipts on the London Stock Exchange.
- RAO UES of Russia in the $49 billion spin-off of its power-generating assets to its shareholders.
- OGK-3 in a $3.1 billion offering of newly issued shares to a strategic investor.
- Aeroflot-Russian Airlines in aircraft acquisitions and leases with an aggregate asset value in excess of $5 billion.
Mr. Kartashkin can be reached in the Moscow office be telephone at +7 495 956 3858, by fax at
+7 495 956 3868 and by e-mail at avkartashkin@debevoise.com
Aidyn Z. Bikebaev
Sayat Zholshy & Partners
Mr. Bikebaev is an acknowledged authority in the field of competition and antitrust law. Aidyn Bikebaev is a founder of Sayat Zholshy & Partners. He currently is Chairman of the Board of Partners of company.
Mr. Bikebaev remained the permanent head of the firm for eight years since its establishment.
In 2007 Mr. Bikebaev was appointed Chairman of the Kazakhstan government antimonopoly agency and also acted as Advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan. He rejoined Sayat Zholshy & Partners team in October 2008. Mr. Bikebaev has a great experience in representing various international companies and holdings in matters related to antitrust law. The Antimonopoly (Competition) practice of the firm, which is headed by Mr. Bikebaev, was named the best practice in Kazakhstan.
Mr. Bikebaev is an arbitrator of the Kazakhstan International Court of Arbitration and a member of the Almaty Bar Association. He graduated from the Kazakh National Al-Farabi University in Almaty in 1996 with a degree in law. He speaks Kazakh, Russian and English.
Mr. Bikebaev has published over 40 research articles and other papers in leading periodicals of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Aidyn Bikebaev is the author of a unique in Kazakhstan monograph described competitive (antitrust) law, which is called Competitive (Antitrust) Law and Policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Firm: Sayat Zholshy & Partners
2ndfloor
140, Dostyk Ave.
City: Almaty
Country: Kazakhstan
Tel: +7 727 2374700
Fax: +7 727 2374701
Email: ABikebaev@szp.kz
