Landmark engagement experience

INCLUDES EXPERIENCE BEFORE RGD

• Acting for a major investor in connection with an up to ¥2,5 billion structured oil and oil product trade deal involving an Asian trader and one of the major Middle Eastern oil trading houses, with attraction of secured financing.

• Acting for a major investor in connection with an up to ¥2,4 billion structured fertilizer trade deal involving an Asian trader and the Middle Eastern trading arm of one of the major fertilizer producers, with attraction of secured financing.

• Acting for a Middle Eastern investment company in connection with the restructuring of a more than EUR 200 million indebtedness of Cypriot borrowers belonging to one of the large real estate development groups under the LMA facility agreement arranged by a German bank and secured by, inter alia, immovable property in Russia.

• Acting for a major bank in connection with an up to ¥1,5 billion revolving secured financing provided to a Middle Eastern oil trading company for the purposes of payments under oil and oil product supply contracts.

• Acting for a major investment partnership in connection with an up to RUB 90 billion revolving financing provided to a Middle Eastern oil trader for the purposes of payments under short-term oil and oil product supply contracts.

• Acting for a major investment partnership in connection with a multi-currency revolving financing for an up to RUB 30 billion provided to a Middle Eastern oil trader for the purposes of prepayments under oil and oil product supply contracts.

• Acting for a major investment partnership in connection with an up to RUB 12 billion revolving financing provided to a Middle Eastern commodities trader for the purposes of payments under short-term grain supply contracts.

• Acting for an Austria-based oil trading company in connection with a purchase (and disposal of) of 50% of shares in a Swiss operating company and the related syndicated credit facility

• Acting for an Austria-based oil trading company as borrower, buyer and seller in a number of cross-border prepayment finance transactions and restructuring projects amounting to billions of euros in total and involving major Russian, Asian and European suppliers, offtakers and lenders.

• Acting for a Russian bank in a number of multibillion domestic and cross-border project finance transactions, including the Project Finance Factory transactions, M&A financing transactions involving Russian and foreign targets, prepayment finance transactions, corporate lending transactions secured by aircraft charges and debt restructuring projects.

• Acting for a Russian bank in connection with US$200 million term loan facility to a major Russian gold mining company

• Acting for Mosenergo on a EUR415 million export financing to finance the construction of new combined heat and power plants secured by export credit agency

• Preparing and procuring adoption of the modern (‘LMA style’) bilingual templates of the bank’s lending documents, including the term loan facility agreement, credit line facility agreement and overdraft

Education

• Ph. D. in Law, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), 2018

• LL.M. with merit in Banking and Finance Law, Queen Mary University of London (UK), 2014

• Master of Laws, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), 2010

• Bachelor of Laws, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), 2008

Qualification

• Russia, 2008

Recognitions & Awards

• Pravo-300 - recommended lawyers in Banking and Finance Law