Dewey & LeBoeuf is pleased to announce that Carter Brod has joined the firm as a partner in the Moscow office. Mr. Brod joins the firm from White & Case and will head the Russian Capital Markets practice.
Mr. Brod is recognized as one of the leading capital markets lawyers specializing in offerings from Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). He represents underwriters and issuers (including corporates, banks and sovereigns) on a range of public and private debt and equity capital markets transactions, including IPOs, eurobond offerings, high yield offerings and convertible bond offerings.
Mr. Brod has acted on many successful international securities offerings by Russian clients in recent years, and during more than a decade of practice in Russia and the CIS has advised on several groundbreaking transactions, including the first ever international securities offering by a Ukrainian company and the first ever international securities offerings from both Belarus and Georgia. Mr. Brod is qualified as a US attorney and an English solicitor.
Brian Zimbler, Managing Partner of the firm’s Moscow office commented: “Carter will provide our clients with additional high quality, on-the-ground US and English law capital markets expertise, significantly enhancing our abilities to advise on debt and equity capital markets transactions from Russia and other CIS markets. His skills are an excellent fit with our present team, which includes partners Vasilisa Strizh, Roman Dashko and Yulia Cherkassova, and the capabilities of our global capital markets team.”
Frank Adams, Chair of the firm’s EMEA Corporate Finance practice commented: “Dewey & LeBoeuf has acted on some of the most high profile Russian capital markets deals in recent years, including advising Vnesheconombank in multi-billion dollar financings. Carter’s substantial experience will be a major factor in continuing to grow the practice’s profile in the region.”
Dewey & LeBoeuf has been based in Russia for 21 years, with approximately 50 legal staff in the Moscow office, and is well-recognized as one of the leading international law firms in the Russia/CIS market.
