Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners are pleased to announce that Valery Eremenko, a prominent dispute resolution expert, has joined the Firm as a Partner of its Litigation Practice in Moscow.
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K&L Gates Expands Moscow Office with Addition of Real Estate and Corporate Partners
Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added real estate partner Andrei V. Soukhomlinov and corporate and finance partner Dmitry K. Gladkov to its Moscow office. Soukhomlinov joins K&L Gates from Salans LLP, where he was co-head of its Russian real estate/construction practice, while Gladkov was formerly the general counsel for Russia/CIS at leading Russian investment bank Aton and, prior to that, at UBS.
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Orrick Expands Moscow Office with Two Corporate Partners
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced today that Dmitry Gubarev and Leo Batalov, formerly of Dewey & LeBoeuf, have joined the firm as partners along with a group of associates in Moscow and London.
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Morgan Lewis Strengthens International Practice with Additional Growth in London, Expansion into Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Morgan Lewis today confirmed that ten partners will join the firm’s Business and Finance Practice, resident in the UK, Russia, and Kazakhstan. With the arrival of this group, the firm will continue to cement its presence in London—where it will have grown from 21 to 45 attorneys over the past year—and will launch new offices in Moscow and Almaty. The expansion brings to 24 the total number of cities where the international AmLaw 100 firm has offices.
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Akin Gump Advises ExxonMobil in Multibillion-Dollar Joint Venture with Rosneft
Leading international law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is advising long-standing client ExxonMobil in its ongoing multibillion-dollar joint venture agreement with Rosneft.
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Igor Gorchakov Joins Allen & Overy in Russia
Allen & Overy is pleased to announce that Igor Gorchakov has joined the firm as a partner in the Banking department, based in Moscow.
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Hogan Lovells Advises Bilfinger Berger Group on its First Russian Joint Venture
Hogan Lovells advised worldwide construction and industrial group Bilfinger Berger, a Germany listed vehicle with multibillion Euro assets, on the establishment of its first Russian joint venture with Russian major power plant outfitter Tyazhmash. A Bilfinger Berger group company, Babcock Borsig Steinmueller, GmbH will hold a 51 percent stake in the new joint venture company ZAO Bilfinger Babcock Tyazhmash. The deal was closed on 27 March 2012.
Tags: Hogan Lovells | Moscow Hogan Lovells Advises Sberbank of Russia on a US$2 billion Term Loan Facility to ENRC
Hogan Lovells advised Sberbank of Russia, the largest credit institution in Russia and the CIS, as arranger of a US$2 billion term loan facility to Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation PLC (ENRC), a FTSE 100 company headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
Tags: Hogan Lovells | Moscow Hogan Lovells Advises Russian Mining Company on the Sale of a 50% Stake in Yaroslavskaya Gornorudnaya Kompaniya
Hogan Lovells advised RGRK (Russian Mining Company) on the sale of a 50% stake in a limited liability company “Yaroslavskaya Gornorudnaya Kompaniya”, the sole producer and supplier of fluorspar concentrate in Russia, to the Hong Kong listed aluminium and alumina giant UC RUSAL. As a result of the deal, UC RUSAL will strengthen its own resource base as it looks to be self-sufficient in raw materials. The deal, which signed in January 2012, will complete in the week of 13 February.
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Private Equity, Finance Lawyer Melinda Rishkofski Joins Baker Botts L.L.P. as Partner in Moscow
Melinda Rishkofski, who has represented private equity fund managers, international financial institutions and portfolio companies in Russia, Eastern Europe, the UK and the US, has joined Baker Botts L.L.P. as a partner in the firm’s Moscow office.
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