Lawyers in Russia
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90 lawyers listed
Lidia Charikova
Lidia Charikova is a counsel in Dentons’ Russian Tax and Customs practice. Her particular areas of focus are tax advising in the sphere of local and international tax structuring, tax dispute resolution, including support of the taxpayers during the tax audits, private wealth, tax expertize in the field of Russian de-offshorization rules, PPP-projects and capital markets. She handles projects involving tax restructuring of international groups, tax issues of cross border transactions, advises on the tax aspects of various types of financing, supports Russian local tax matters and has extensive experience in the sphere of private wealth. Before coming to Dentons Lidia worked for five years at Liniya Prava Law Firm as partner / head of tax practice, and before that at Dentons as a lawyer.
Dentons
Louis Skyner
Louis, an English-qualified solicitor, joined Dentons in May 2017, having worked in the project finance and energy practice of a leading international law firm in both its London and Moscow offices. His oil and gas practice has primarily been based on advising E&P companies on their participation in upstream and downstream projects in Russia & the CIS, project sponsors on the negotiation of finance and project documents, and project operators on a variety of contractual and regulatory issues. In terms of his power practice, Louis has advised project sponsors of a variety of renewable power generation projects in Russia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan (principally solar, hydro, and wind projects) on their structuring and financing, and the operators on the negotiation of the key project documents, e.g. EPC contracts and offtake arrangements. Finally, Louis has used the experience he has gained working in the energy sector to provide advice to governments across the region, both on the implementation of concession and public-private partnership arrangements for energy and infrastructure projects, and on unbundling and the development of competitive power markets. In addition to his legal practice, Louis has authored numerous articles on Eurasian energy market regulation, economics and politics. He is an Associate Fellow at the Forum for Central Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge, and has previously worked as an Associate Professor at the New Economic School in Moscow, and the European University in St Petersburg.
Dentons
Marat Mouradov
For over 20 years, Marat has advised clients on Russian antimonopoly regulation, advertising, trade, state procurement, antimonopoly compliance matters and strategic investments law. In particular, he represents clients in antimonopoly investigations and disputes against the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (FAS) relating to abuse of dominance, anticompetitive agreements, unfair competition practices and other violations. He also advises clients on product distribution structures and commercial contracts. He develops internal antimonopoly compliance systems and various external policies and procedures relating primarily to relationships with business partners. Marat regularly conducts internal audits and investigations for his clients aimed at revealing, assessing and curing antimonopoly risks. His experience covers a broad range of industry sectors, including pharmaceuticals, medical products and equipment, automotive, fashion and entertainment, transportation, technological products, consumer products and retail.
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Maria Mikheyenkova
Maria focuses on Russian procedural law and handles dispute resolution in various areas, such as bankruptcy, contractual (works and supply) and corporate law, disputes with governmental bodies and inspections and investigations, consumer rights, real estate and banking. Maria has significant pre-trial and judicial settlement experience and an extensive practice of litigation which includes case processing in various Russian, foreign and international courts, as well as criminal defense and representation for different types of offenses. Maria has also represented numerous organizations and individuals before a variety of governmental bodies in different administrative proceedings within inspections and administrative offense proceedings.
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Maria Obolenskaya
Maria is an Associate in Dentons’ St. Petersburg office. She has considerable experience advising clients on a wide range of town planning, land and civil law matters, including working at a Russian law firm and at a state agency. Maria currently prepares due diligence reports, advises clients on various aspects of real estate and construction transactions, including the preparation, conclusion, execution and termination of sale, rental, construction and other contracts, and helps clients implement investment projects.
Dentons
Maria Oleinik
Maria Oleinik is a partner at Dentons’ Moscow office and a member of the Global Corporate and Energy practice. Her corporate experience spans a wide range of industries, including the oil and gas, mining and heavy industry sectors. Maria focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, disposals and financings. Qualified in Russia, the UK and the US, Maria has represented financial institutions, media companies and state corporations. Maria leads clients through the various stages of a transaction from planning and structuring right through to completion. She helps clients navigate the challenges of what can be highly detailed matters, while remaining focused on securing the best possible results. Maria is a partner in the Firm’s Energy practice and has gained extensive experience and knowledge of the Russian market through involvement in major transactions for some of the largest companies in this sector. She is frequently called upon to advise leading Russian corporations engaged in the energy and natural resources sector on their investments in Russia and abroad. As well as working with domestic clients, Maria has also advised international companies making acquisitions in Russia, including an international oil and gas company and a leading European energy concern.
Dentons
Marina Ryzhkova
Marina Ryzhkova is a partner in Dentons' Moscow office and the Head of the Russian Employment Practice. She specializes in labor law and in the last 18 years has established a successful labor law/employment practice in Russia. She has experience of advising clients on all the complexities of Russian employment law, including for newly-opened branches and representative offices of foreign companies and subsidiaries, problematic individual dismissals and mass lay-offs, State Labor Inspectorate and Prosecutor’s office issues, and representing employers in labor litigation. She is experienced in the successful resolution of all kinds of employment issues arising in connection with employer restructuring or ceasing activities and subsequently going into liquidation. Marina is a regular speaker at human resources and labor law conferences in Russia. She is also the author of numerous labor law publications in major Russian periodicals.
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Mark Dransfield
Mark is a Counsel at Dentons Russian Corporate/M&A and Private Equity practices. He focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and private equity as well as corporate disputes. Prior to Dentons, Mark worked in the corporate departments for two international law firms in London and Hong Kong where he specialised in cross-border transactions. Mark has also worked for a New York private equity firm where he was a member of the investment committee.
Dentons
Mark Withey
Mark is an English qualified corporate partner based in Dentons’ Moscow office. He has a broad-ranging corporate practice, advising on mergers & acquisitions (private and public), private equity, joint ventures, equity capital markets, corporate reorganisations and general corporate law matters. Mark has advised on transactions across a wide range of jurisdictions and industry sectors. He has also spent time on secondment in London with Rothschild and what was Nomura Code Securities. Mark has been based in Russia since early 2014.
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Mathieu Fabre-Magnan
Mathieu focuses on corporate law, M&A and general commercial law. He has specialized in Eastern European and CIS transactions since 1990 and has been based in Moscow since 1993. He represents clients from market entry to expansion, restructuring and disposal. Mathieu is advising on some of the most complicated and challenging M&A, joint venture and corporate finance transactions in the Russian market, including oil & gas and agribusiness sectors. For more than 25 years, Mathieu has been advising global luxury goods companies owning some of the most iconic brands in the world on their market entry and development in Russia. In recent years, Mathieu has been increasingly involved in corporate and commercial disputes, focusing on international commercial arbitration and litigation. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the world’s leading association of arbitration and mediation professionals.
Dentons
Mikhail Ivanov
Mikhail Ivanov is a partner and Head of Dentons’ Russian Litigation and Arbitration practice. He specializes in the resolution of disputes between foreign investors and major Russian companies. Over the past 20 years, Mikhail has represented the Firm’s clients in litigations before the Russian commercial courts and general courts of law, participated in international commercial arbitrations in Russia and abroad under UNCITRAL, ICC, SCC and ICAC Rules, and represented foreign clients in recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in Russia. After graduating from the international law department of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1984, Mikhail went on to complete post-graduate studies in 1987, earning a Candidate of Science degree in International Law. He is fluent in English and German.
Dentons
Mikhail Panferov
Senior Associate
Dentons
Natalia Gulyaeva
Office Managing Partner
Hogan Lovells (CIS)
Natalia Panteleeva
Senior Associate
Dentons
Oleg Egorov
Oleg is an associate in Morgan Lewis's Moscow office who counsels clients in corporate matters involving capital markets, regulatory issues, and general civil law. His experience includes mergers and acquisitions and related antitrust issues, due diligence projects, and finance transactions. His clients span various industries, including telecommunications, information technology, energy, and automotives. Before joining Morgan Lewis, Oleg trained in the Moscow offices of US- and German-based international law firms. For more information, view Oleg's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/oegorov
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Olga Elliott
Olga is a Senior Associate in Dentons Moscow office. She specializes in advising local and international clients on various aspects of Russian real estate and construction law, including sale and purchase, lease and mortgage of real estate, land, town-planning and construction matters and legal due diligence. Olga also has extensive experience in complex development and acquisition transactions across Russia. Prior to joining Dentons, Olga worked for over 10 years in the real estate practice of another leading international law firm.
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Olga Krivosheykina
Olga is an Associate in Dentons’ St. Petersburg office. She advises Russian and foreign companies, as well as private clients, on various matters of corporate and commercial law. Her experience includes projects relating to legal due diligence of companies and their assets, corporate and deal structuring (using foreign jurisdictions as well), mergers and acquisitions, establishment and liquidation of businesses. She also specializes in employment and has extensive experience in tax planning and tax-risk management, and provides assistance in the optimization of business models from tax perspective.
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Olga Popel
Olga is a Counsel in Dentons’ Moscow office and has been practicing since 2000. She specializes in Russian real estate law, and works on buildings and land plots acquisitions and lease transactions, as well as on matters relating to the construction of real estate. Olga has extensive experience with transactions involving retail, warehouse and office real estate. Olga has worked on complex due diligence of immovable properties (buildings, land plots and hydraulic facilities), both for acquisition and sale of the properties. Olga advises companies on expansion and, in particular, on projects related to the acquisition of properties for a new construction in Russia, and the implementation of projects for the construction and reconstruction of manufacturing, office and other commercial properties. Olga is an advocate advises in the field of retail on day-to-day business.
Dentons
Olga Rogozhina
Olga Rogozhina is a counsel in Dentons' Moscow office. She focuses on commercial transactions, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, retail, pharmaceutical and hotel projects, and has experience in litigation. Olga also advises on antimonopoly law, share transfer and finance. Olga has experience advising foreign clients on acquisition of assets in Russia, advising on corporate structuring in Russia and on various legal aspects of financing and doing business in Russia.
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Philip Korotin
Philip is an associate in the firm's corporate business transactions practice who focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, general corporate matters, and regulatory matters. Philip’s experience includes matters relating to Russian securities regulation and compliance, antitrust, and anticorruption. He counsels and represents international and Russian clients from various industries, including energy, oil and gas, consumer goods, and media and entertainment. Philip’s clients range in size from Fortune 500 to emerging market companies. For more information, view Philip's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/pkorotin
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Radmila Nikitina
Radmila focuses on competition and commercial law. She has extensive experience advising Russian and foreign clients on the application of legislation on cartels, abuse of dominance, distribution agreements, public procurement, unfair competition and merger control. Radmila represents clients before the FAS and in the commercial courts in cases related to the application of competition and commercial law. Radmila’s professional experience includes projects for companies from different sectors of the economy, including pharmaceuticals, FCMG, retail, telecommunications, energy, aviation, transport and financial markets.
Dentons
Richard Cowie
Richard Cowie is a partner and a member of Dentons Corporate and Arbitration practices. He focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and private equity as well corporate disputes. He has led high profile transactions in a wide range of sectors, including technology, media and telecom, energy, FMCG, retail, real estate and construction and financial institutions and has a focus on Russia and CIS, the Nordics and Europe. Richard is consistently ranked by legal directories.
Dentons
Roman Dashko
Roman is a partner in the firm's Moscow Office. He advises international and domestic clients in mergers and acquisitions in the oil and gas, power, oilfield services, automotive, retail, pharmaceuticals, technology, and real estate sectors. He has experience with structuring complex joint ventures, and with reorganizations and restructurings. He also represents issuers, lead managers, and depositaries in a range of international capital markets transactions, including IPOs. He works on antitrust, pharmaceutical, and other regulatory matters as well. For more information, view Roman's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/rdashko
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Roman Kozlov
Roman Kozlov is a partner in Dentons’ Moscow office, advocate, since 2002 he advises clients on complex real estate investment, construction and development projects in Russia. Roman has developed particular expertise in all aspects of industrial construction and modernization projects, as well as construction of other real estate types, including offices, warehouses, retail centers, medical facilities, apartment buildings, mixed-use facilities and infrastructure. Roman has represented and advised numerous international and domestic industrial companies, developers, retailers as well as engineering and construction companies on a wide variety of real estate and construction issues, including the following: real estate acquisitions, including greenfield and brownfield, mergers, joint-ventures and privatisations; structuring construction projects, drafting and negotiating construction and engineering contracts; drafting and negotiating credit agreements, collaterals and other finance agreements with a special focus on real estate and project financing; structuring joint ventures and joint venture structures in the field of real estate investment, construction and development; drafting and negotiating equipment supply and installation contracts connected with engineering, construction, commissioning and maintenance of production facilities; dispute resolution both in litigation and out-of-court proceedings.
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