Experience

• • Baring Vostok Capital Partners in sanctions compliance aspects of the sale of its stake in Ozon, Russia’s leading e-commerce platform, and other Russian assets held by the private equity firm.
  • PGIM in its acquisition of Montana Capital Partners, a European-based private equity secondaries asset manager.
  • A Central and Eastern European-based international manufacturer in a corruption investigation and associated criminal proceedings relating to its subsidiaries in Eastern Europe.
  • An insurance management services company in a post-acquisition sanctions and anti-corruption compliance review.
  • An automation technology company in compliance advice relating to its governmental business, including a global compliance risk review of third-party intermediaries.
  • A Germany-based manufacturing company with compliance due diligence on its global partners.
  • A Russian high-net-worth individual in public allegations and assistance with responding to related inquiries.
  • An international oil company in an internal investigation into allegations of corruption and embezzlement in relation to awards of local contracts in Kazakhstan.
  • A large Spanish-based manufacturing company in a post-acquisition compliance integration project, involving review of global sales intermediaries in over 40 jurisdictions.
  • A Europe-based marine and power generation equipment manufacturer in a review of its internal compliance systems and controls.
  • A multinational life sciences company in internal investigations relating to allegation of corruption at subsidiaries in Russia and Ukraine.
  • A European international power generation equipment manufacturer in a compliance and sanctions review of its Iran business.
  • A large Russian investment company in its defence of an LCIA arbitration claim brought by a Russian individual, relating to a corporate dispute with respect to a manufacturing group.
  • Rolls-Royce in an internal investigation and coordinated resolutions with UK, U.S. and Brazil investigating authorities relating to bribery and corruption involving intermediaries in a number of overseas markets.
  • A large Germany-based manufacturing company in a compliance review and internal investigation of global sales intermediaries.
  • Several private equity funds, a major Russian aviation company, several major insurers, a global media organization and other companies and organizations in regard to compliance with EU trade and economic sanctions regulations.
  • A Canadian mining group in a dispute with the government of an African country, concerning claims of breach of the tax stabilisation and other provisions of an agreement for the operation of a copper treatment facility, and an expropriation of certain of the mining company’s rights.
  • A major London-based mining company and its African subsidiary, one of the largest mining and metals companies in Africa, in four parallel LCIA arbitrations relating to a $500 million dispute with a major contractor over short delivery and other alleged breaches of a contract for mining services at an open cast copper mine in Southern Africa.