Experience

  • Finance

    • LeapFrog Investments in the financing aspects of the formation of its fourth fund, a $1.02 billion fund aiming to support 100 million emerging consumers and producers.
    • Avenue Group, the Kenyan healthcare provider, in financing aspects of an investment by IFC.
    • A major forwarder of mineral fertilizers in a secured mezzanine loan from Sberbank Group for a construction project.
    • PJSC Polyus in an up to $150,000,000 secured pre-export financing with Société Générale.
    • Norilsk Nickel in its up to $2.5 billion syndicated term loan facility with an international syndicate comprising 17 banks and financial institutions.
    • NLMK and its U.S. subsidiaries in a $250 million ABL facility.
    • Norilsk Nickel in its $500 million credit facility with a syndicate of international banks.
    • Norilsk Nickel and its subsidiary GRK Bystrinskoe in an up to $800 million secured credit facility provided by Sberbank of Russia to finance the development of a gold and copper mining plant in Chita on the Bystrinskoe mining site.
    • Norilsk Nickel in its $2.1 billion 5-year unsecured syndicated loan facility.
  • Capital Markets

    • Resolution Life in the offering of $500 million 8.25% notes due 2031.
    • Ozon in its $1.1 billion initial public offering of American depositary shares on Nasdaq.
    • PJSC Polyus in its issuance and placement of new ordinary shares by way of closed subscription for approximately $81 million.
    • PJSC Polyus and its indirect subsidiary Polyus Finance in the issue of $250 million senior bonds convertible into global depositary receipts representing ordinary shares of PJSC Polyus.
    • PJSC Polyus and its indirect subsidiary Polyus Finance in the $500 million Eurobond offering of 4.70% guaranteed notes due 2024.
    • Polyus Gold International in its $800 million Eurobond offering of 5.25% guaranteed notes due 2023.
    • Polyus Gold International in its $500 million Eurobond offering of 4.699% notes due 2022.
    • Uralkali in a buyback programme of its common shares and GDRs with a total purchase amount of $1.32 billion.
    • Uralkali in a buyback programme of its common shares and GDRs with a total purchase amount of up to $1.5 billion.
    • Principal shareholders of Uralkali in the sale of bonds exchangeable into 14.5% of the issued ordinary shares of Uralkali valued in excess of $3 billion.
    • Polyus Gold International in its $9 billion premium listing on the London Stock Exchange.
  • M&A

    • Sberbank in its acquisition of a 20.8% stake in Cetelem Bank from BNP Paribas group. The transaction sees Sberbank become the sole shareholder of Cetelem Bank, a leader in the Russian consumer and car loan market.
    • A major forwarder of mineral fertilizers in a sale of stake in its share capital to a strategic investor.
    • The Vladimir Potanin Foundation in the organization of an unprecedented exhibition of Soviet and Russian contemporary art at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
    • Interros in the sale of its stake in the logistics companies in the Sheremetyevo Moscow airport in favor of infrastructure fund TPS AVIA Holding.
    • Sberbank in the acquisition of 70% stake in Cetelem Bank and formation of a joint venture with BNP Paribas Personal Finance.
    • Pirelli in its joint venture with Russian Technologies State Corporation to set up a tire manufacturing business with SIBUR Holding, including regulatory aspects and employment issues.
    • Transneft in its proposed purchase of a business centre in Moscow.

Education

  • Russian School of Private Law, 2012, M.A.
  • Moscow State University, Faculty of Law, 2009, Law Degree