Lawyers in Russia
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90 lawyers listed
Roman Zaitsev
Roman Zaitsev is a partner in Dentons’ Moscow office and head of Moscow Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice. He focuses on Russian procedural, civil and bankruptcy law and enforcement proceedings. He has significant experience representing client interests in state commercial courts, where he has successfully represented major multinational corporations, individuals and various organizations, including commercial banks, energy companies, car manufacturers, state and municipal authorities and major defense enterprises. Roman has acted successfully in major commercial disputes, bankruptcy proceedings and disputes with state authorities as well as in cases involving the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in the Russian Federation. He has also represented clients in general enforcement proceedings, due diligence investigations, alternative dispute resolution and various other commercial, civil, procedural, general corporate and administrative matters.
Dentons
Sergey Fedorov
Sergey is a Counsel in Dentons’ St. Petersburg office. He has extensive experience advising foreign and Russian clients on various matters of corporate and business law, including corporate and deal structuring (using foreign jurisdictions as well), full support of transactions with assets and shares, and advising on antitrust aspects of transactions. Sergey also focuses on issues of currency control and customs regulation and has considerable experience in the maritime sector. Sergey’s completed projects include complex projects in the power industry, chemicals production, heavy industry, shipbuilding, telecoms, retail and food industry. Sergey is active in research and has co-authored articles published in Russian and foreign legal journals. He graduated from St. Petersburg State University Law School and holds an LL.M. in International Law from Stetson University College of Law, USA. He is an occasional guest lecturer at St. Petersburg State University, Law School and School of Management.
Dentons
Sergey Gurdzhian
Sergey specializes in corporate law with a primary focus on national and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. Sergey’s experience includes advising Russian companies and individuals as well as multinational corporations on various aspects of acquiring businesses and forming joint ventures, including deal structuring advice, drafting and negotiating share purchase agreements, asset purchase agreements, shareholders’ agreements, option agreements and performing due diligence of companies operating in various industry sectors.
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Sergey Klimenko
Sergey is a partner in Dentons Moscow office and the head of Russian Life Sciences practice. He has extensive experience in supporting companies in the industry throughout the complete life cycle of the product, including pre-clinical and clinical studies, marketing authorisation, manufacturing, promotion and distribution, etc. Sergey also advises on legal aspects of accessing the Russian market, interaction with the professional society, regulatory and commercial aspects of M&A transaction in the industry, governmental control and PPP in the industry. Sergey supports his clients on the regulatory and commercial matters relating to interacting with the governing authorities in such sectors as agriculture and FMCG.
Dentons
Sergey Trakhtenberg
Sergey Trakhtenberg is a partner in Dentons’ Moscow office and Head of Russian Real Estate and Construction practice. Sergey is a transactional partner who focuses on structuring and supporting complex real estate M&A transactions and establishing joint ventures to invest in the construction of new real estate or acquisition of existing properties. He also has significant experience advising banks and borrowers on real estate financings. Sergey conducted numerous full and limited-scope due diligence reviews, and coordinated due diligence exercises by offshore counsel in multi-jurisdictional transactions. Sergey has almost 20 years of real estate experience, during which he has successfully implemented hundreds of transactions involving virtually all types of commercial property (offices, shopping centers, warehouses, industrial objects), many of which have been landmark deals on the Russian market. He provides clients with comprehensive solutions that include strategic planning, project structuring, handling difficult negotiations and supporting clients at all stages of the transactions to successful signing and completion. Sergey advises major Western and Russian investment funds, developers, management companies and family offices on all matters related to investments in or operation of real estate.
Dentons
Tamer Amara
Tamer heads the capital markets and derivative practice in Russia. His practice focuses on all aspects of debt and equity capital markets, including standalone debt issuances; establishment of, and issuances under, EMTN and ECP programmes; Tier 1 and Tier 2 subordinated bond offerings; liability management exercises as well as initial and secondary equity offerings, block trades and issuances of exchangeable and convertible securities. He has over 20 years of experience acting for issuers and underwriters, financial institutions, corporates and sovereigns and quasi-sovereigns in the context of debt and equity capital markets transactions. Tamer is recognised as a leading capital markets practitioner by principal legal directories. In addition, Tamer coordinates the capital markets practice in other Dentons CIS offices, including Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia and Azerbaijan. Prior to joining Dentons, for over 10 years Tamer headed the Russian debt capital markets practice in the Moscow office of a magic circle firm.
Dentons
Tatiana Petrykina
Tatiana is a Senior Associate in Dentons’ Moscow office. She focuses on advising clients on real estate sale and purchase transactions in the Russian Federation, on issues of construction, land and urban planning relationships. Tatiana’s experience also includes advising clients on the operations of companies that are owners of real estate, in particular, drafting real estate lease agreements, real estate management agreements, easement agreements, etc.
Dentons
Timothy Stubbs
Tim is a partner in Dentons’ Moscow and London offices. He has worked on Russia- and CIS-related transactions for more than 29 years and has developed a reputation as a leading expert among his peers and clients. He specialises in cross-border transactions and financings of all types, including bilateral and syndicated lending, real estate finance and project finance. Tim has a thorough understanding of the peculiarities of working with Russian international financial institutions and restructurings. This includes his two years of experience working in the Office of General Counsel of EBRD in London, on a working sabbatical (2001-2002). In addition to his banking and finance capabilities, Tim has significant corporate experience, including M&A and joint ventures. He devotes particular attention to direct foreign investment projects including the structuring and implementation of greenfield projects, as well as debt restructurings and insolvencies. Tim is the author of the Russia chapter of the Collier International Business Insolvency Guide. Also he frequently travels to St. Petersburg, where he was based for 6½ years (1993-1999), during much of which period he acted as the office's Managing Partner.
Dentons
Valentin Larin
Valentin is a counsel in Dentons' Russian Tax and Customs practice. He focuses on Russian tax law and complicated tax disputes. Valentin participates in projects that cover tax aspects of such industries as construction and development, telecommunications, retail, automotive, pharma and others. Before joining Dentons, Valentin was involved in tax consulting, tax audits and tax due diligence projects.
Dentons
Valentina Semenikhina
Valentina is an associate in the firm's Moscow office. With a Ph.D. and fluency in three languages, Valentina advises Russian and international companies on mergers and acquisitions, project finance, and capital markets matters. Valentina, whose clients have included start-ups as well as large retail companies and banks located around the globe, advises on multijurisdictional mergers and joint ventures, private equity investments, and securities offerings. Valentina also handles corporate governance matters and due diligence. For more information, view Valentina's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/vsemenikhina
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Valeria Ponomareva
Valeria is a Counsel in Dentons' Moscow office. She has practiced competition law since 2008. Her practice is focused on national (Russian) and supra-national (Eurasian Economic Union) competition law and foreign/strategic investment law issues, including merger control filings and strategic filings, antitrust audits and compliance, abuse of dominance, vertical and horizontal restrictions, pricing policies and distribution, advertising law and unfair competition. Valeria has assisted clients in antimonopoly cases and court disputes involving the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service. Valeria has assisted clients operating in a wide range of industry sectors including the food industry, pharmaceutical and chemical industry, machinery manufacturing, luxury goods, metals and steel, oil and gas, communications and mass media, IT, insurance and financial institutions.
Dentons
Vasilii Markov
Vasilii is a partner in Dentons’ Russia Tax and Customs practice. Vasilii has implemented a wide range of projects for integrated tax advising for companies from various sectors on international and Russian tax law, including on corporate taxation, restructuring and improving a group’s tax efficiency, applying the laws on CFCs and tax residency. As a tax expert, he has participated in advising the Russian Federation and regional governments on the introduction of new tax regulations. Vasilii has 11 years of experience in one of the Big4 firms, where he held various senior positions in tax advisory.
Dentons
Vasilisa Strizh
Vasilisa is the managing partner of Morgan Lewis's Moscow office. She represents clients in cross-border and domestic investments, joint ventures, and M&A transactions. She also advises on capital markets transactions, including public and private equity securities offerings and related corporate, regulatory, securities, compliance, and reporting matters. Vasilisa works with companies across multiple industries, including pharmaceuticals and life sciences, financial services, mass media and telecommunications, energy, and the nonprofit sector. She has served as lead lawyer on complex cross-border corporate transactions, including projects involving the issuance and listing of securities, structured settlements, and financing. For more information, view Vasilisa’s biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/vstrizh
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Victor Naumov
Victor Naumov has been advising government authorities and leading Russian and global companies for more than 23 years on a wide range of legal issues, including intellectual property protection and the management of intangible assets; regulation of Internet and e-commerce; IT and data security; regulation of video games, mass media and telecommunications, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, Legal Tech, Big Data, Fintech, 3D printing, robotics and quantum technologies. He also has unique experience providing legal support and successfully settling IT, IP, telecommunications, media and Internet litigation. As part of implementing the Digital Economy of the Russian Federation program (ANO Digital Economy), Victor is a member of the main Statutory Regulation working group and also heads the Cyber-Physical Systems working group (an expert community at the Statutory Regulation competency center operating at Skolkovo Foundation). He is a member of the Russian Federation State Duma Expert Council on the Digital Economy and Blockchain Technologies under the Committee on Economic Policy, Industry, Innovative Development and Entrepreneurship. He is also a member of the Federal Antimonopoly Service Advisory Board on Competition in Information Technology. Since 1999, Victor has participated actively in developing processes for business to regulate itself, in the development of draft legislation on IP, innovation, the Internet and the “new economy.” He is the author of the Recommendations for E-Commerce in the Russian Federation (2000), the CIS’ first Recommendations for E-Commerce for the Committee on Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Federal Assembly (2001), Organizational and Legal Recommendations on the Presentation of a Russian Federation Government and Administrative Authority Website (2003), co-author of the Concept for Using IT Technologies and E-Documents in the Activities of the Commercial (Arbitrazh) Court of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region (2006). Victor’s most recent initiatives include the creation of the first robotics draft law in Russia—commissioned by Grishin Robotics—and the development of the draft of the world’s first international robotics convention, the Model Convention on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence commissioned by Skolkovo Foundation. The Convention is a major study unique for Russia and devoted to the development of legislation on robotics and cyberphysical systems. Victor has also prepared a unique international study to identify the scope of information covered, respectively, by banking secrecy, communication secrecy, doctor-patient confidentiality, trade secrets and other types of secrecy, and how to transfer them to third parties. The team led by Victor participated in creating a knowledge management system implemented by Rosatom State Corporation. In June 2017 Dentons and Rosatom co-founded a unique consortium whose participants act as joint experts, provide information support and popularize the culture of knowledge management. Also, under Victor’s leadership, Dentons lawyers were the first in Russia to develop a concept for regulating the Internet of Things and continue to work in this area, handling this topic in the Association of the Internet of Things. In October 2018 Victor initiated the opening of—and became the curator of—a unique subdivision, the Dentons Russia Legal Innovations Laboratory. The Laboratory is oriented toward developing and implementing innovative technologies in the legal field. Victor Naumov is a co-author of the first online course in Russia on Internet regulation in Russia (Coursera Open Education platform). Victor was awarded a St. Petersburg Government prize for outstanding achievements in higher education (in 2018). He is a senior researcher of the information law and global information security sector of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISL RAS) and an associate professor of the St. Petersburg State University, where he lectures in the Economics and Law Faculties. In 2004 he received a state medal for the 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg for his academic work, and in 2007 he received a state medal for his contribution to the computerization of society in Russia. He is the holder of the Justice law award for achievements in developing the practice of law (in 2017). He has received two grants from the Russian Foundation for Fundamental Research (RFFI) to conduct: (1) integrated research of the legal and ethical aspects of developing and using artificial intelligence and robotics systems and (2) research of conceptual approaches to shaping a system for the legal regulation of information security considering the major challenges in a global information society (in 2018). Victor is the creator and leader of the Preserved Culture project which has released more than 30 books and DVDs and three documentary films on various cultural heritage sites of the country and cultural and educational figures. Victor authored the first monographs in Russia and the CIS on the legal regulation of the Internet and telemedicine (in 2002). He won the Rambler search engine’s “Person of the Year 2002” competition in the Legislation category (in 2003). Since 2010 he has been top ranked by Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500, Best Lawyers, IAM Patent 1000, Kommersant and Managing IP in IP and IT in Russia.
Dentons
Vladimir Kilinkarov
Vladimir is a Counsel in Dentons’ St. Petersburg office and Head of Russian PPP practice. For more than 10 years Vladimir has advised public authorities and investors on various aspects of structuring, preparing and implementing concession and other PPP projects in Russia (roads, municipal transportation, housing and utilities, education, tourism), on issues of improving federal and regional PPP legislation, preparing and implementing domestic and international business projects, foreign investment, corporate law and M&A transactions. Before joining Dentons Vladimir headed the PPP practice at a Russian law firm as a partner. Vladimir regularly speaks at parliamentary hearings on developing PPP legislation and is involved in developing national and international legal acts in this field. He has authored articles and books in Russian and English on PPP issues; he speaks at Russian and international conferences and workshops. Vladimir is a member of a drafting team of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe for preparing a UNECE model law on public-private partnerships, and also a member of a number of expert councils in the major Russian associations and institutes for PPPs and infrastructure. He holds a PhD in Law and lectures at the Law School of the St. Petersburg State University.
Dentons
Vladimir Sokov
Vladimir specializes in corporate, M&A, commercial, antitrust and real estate. During his professional career of over 20 years Vladimir has handled major M&A projects and has successfully participated in numerous corporate litigations as instructed by well-known transnational and Russian companies. He has extensive experience in life sciences, but also advises clients in natural resources, retail, automotive, real estate development and other sectors. Vladimir was highly ranked in corporate/M&A, competition law and life sciences in Russia by Chambers Europe, The Legal 500 and IFLR 1000. He has authored numerous articles on legal issues, participated in legislative drafting projects and is a member of the Russian Bar Association.
Dentons
Vladislav Arkhipov
Vladislav is a Counsel in Dentons' St. Petersburg office. He focuses on personal data protection, Internet regulation (including matters of regulatory obligations and website blocking), legal restrictions on content / information and age ratings, copyright in digital environment, and legal aspects of cybersport, with a specific focus on regulation of the videogame industry (computer games). Since 2007 Vladislav has advised Russian and international clients on a variety of issues pertaining to Russian law. In addition to those areas of focus, his experience also includes corporate law, contract law, media regulation and other intellectual property issues. Vladislav has considerable experience advising clients on compliance with personal data requirements in the digital environment, analyzing issues and resolving dispute situations related to content restriction and assignment of age ratings, launches of videogames in the Russian market, structuring relations in cybersport, including developing custom-tailored legal strategies for compliance with non-standard situations. Vladislav has also successfully represented clients in several complex international commercial arbitration cases in a number of disputes on a national level between users and Internet companies, and in disputes on general intellectual property matters in the Intellectual Property Court. Vladislav co-authored, together with Victor Naumov, the Draft Law on Robotics developed by Dentons and commissioned by Grishin Robotics in 2016 (https://www.dentons.com/ru/insights/alerts/2017/january/27/dentons-develops-first-robotics-draft-law-in-russia). Vladislav is head of the department of legal theory of the St. Petersburg State University, lecturing on Internet law at the Law Faculty, and is involved in several academic projects focused on intellectual property, Internet regulation and legal issues of virtual worlds and online games. In particular, Vladislav is experienced in working with the Intellectual Property Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce to develop projects aimed at teaching intellectual property law at St. Petersburg State University, and with the Expert Board on the Video Game Industry. Vladislav (together withco-author Victor Naumov) is the author of the first online course in Russia on the Internet regulation in Russia (Coursera Open Education platform) and the author of the most up-to-date textbook on Internet law for law schools. He actively teaches future graduates of St. Petersburg State University about the legal aspects of the digital economy, acts as research advisor for the student discussion club on these issues and acts as a trainer for moot IP trials. He has authored more than 40 academic and practical publications (both original papers and annotated translations) on legal theory, Internet regulation, legal aspects of the videogame industry, intellectual property and legal aspects of robotics.
Dentons
Yaroslav Klimov
Partner, Head of dispute resolution and litigation in Russia/CIS
Norton Rose Fulbright