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Maria Ziborova and Maxim Kraynov — Orion New Partners
January 27, 2025
Orion elected two new partners. Maria Ziborova became a partner of the Corporate group and Maxim Kraynov — of the Finance practice.

Maria has more than 12 years’ experience in M&A, joint ventures, corporate restructuring, compliance, commercial contracts. She advises Russian and foreign clients on projects both in Russia and abroad.

Maria provides legal support in the oil and gas, mining (coal mines, metal deposits, including gold and copper), fertiliser production and financial sectors. She also advises technological companies on a variety of matters, including international expansion and investments.

Before joining Orion, Maria had worked at the Moscow, London and Hong Kong offices of Linklaters. She is ranked by Pravo-300 and Kommersant.

Maxim Kraynov is a Head of the Project Finance at Orion. He has more than 16 years’ experience in advising on project finance, acquisition finance, asset finance and debt restructurings.

Maxim advises Russian largest banks, mining, energy and infrastructure companies.

Maxim’s experience includes Russian and international financing deals in the area of LNG, gas processing, mining and fertilizers.

Maxim is a solicitor of England and Wales.

Before joining Orion, Maxim had worked at Linklaters. He is ranked by Pravo-300.

Orion Corporate practice consists of 23 lawyers, including four partners: Grigory Gadzhiev, Evgeny Zelensky, Maria Ziborova, Konstantin Olefir and counsel Maria Borodina.

The Finance practice consists of 11 lawyers, including two partners: Maxim Kraynov and Nikolai Kurmashev.

Orion is the only Russian law firm recognised in Tier 1 in Corporate Law/M&A (High Market), Finance/Banking Law, International Litigation, International Arbitration, Natural Resources, Private Wealth, and TMT (Pravo-300 rating, 2024).

Contacts
Maxim Kraynov
Partner Head of Project Finance
Finance