On June 25, Suren Gortsunyan, Founding Partner and Head of Corporate Practice at Rybalkin, Gortsunyan, Dyakin and Partners law firm (RGD), moderated the session titled "New Russian MBOs and LBOs. A new geography for the Russian business. Interim results of Redomiciliation 2024" at the XIV Russian M&A Congress in Saint Petersburg.

The session participants discussed the trends in the corporate market development, redomiciliation, which has also become a recent trend, and the currently most popular types of M&A transactions – MBO and LBO.

Representatives of the business community took part in the discussion. They shared their experience in M&A transactions and talked about the reasons for choosing non-traditional jurisdictions for redomiciliation, listing of shares on foreign exchanges, bank financing, etc. The session’s speakers included:

• Evgeny Penkin, CEO, Salute Advisory

• Maxim Korostelev, Head of Legal Support for International M&A, S8 Capital

• Natalia Butrina, Head of Legal, Bonum Capital

• Ilya Shumov, Managing Director of the Department of Large Business, Rosselkhoznadzor

• Olga Golubkova, Head of Corporate Relations and M&A Transactions Practice, OZON

• Ekaterina Kvaternyuk, Head of Legal Support for M&A and Corporate Finance, Yandex

• Andrey Filippenko, Partner, Forward Legal

Konstantin Mineev, Partner at RGD Corporate Practice, and Nato Tskhakaya, Partner and Head at RGD Regulatory Practice, also attended the event.

The Congress featured an awards ceremony for the M&A market participants. One of the awards was for the deal to sell 100% of shares in Orica CIS to Evoblast, a legal entity registered in Russia. The RGD team provided full legal support for the deal with respect to all aspects of corporate law and regulatory compliance, as well as support in the submission of relevant applications to the Subcomission of the Government Commission on Monitoring Foreign Investment.

The XIV Russian M&A Congress: White Nights 2024 is an event of the new format, that brought together law firms, consulting companies, major corporations, family offices, investment banks, private investors, and entrepreneurs. Forum was organized by the information and analytical portal PREQVECA.