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Private Equity
Experts in investment structuring

The team of lawyers led by Evgeny Zelensky brings together specialists with in-depth expertise in supporting transactions related to investing in private companies and selling businesses by strategic and financial investors and their founders in various sectors of the economy.

Our team supports clients in managing investment funds, advises managing partners and investors on participation in investment funds, and prepares documentation for option and other incentive programs for key employees.

Our extensive experience in supporting private equity investments, deep understanding of investment strategies, and industry-specific expertise enable us to provide effective and tailored solutions to our clients at all stages of the investment cycle.

The practice team as a whole and some of its specialists individually have been recognized by the Legal 500 and IFLR 1000 international rankings, as well as by the Pravo-300 and Kommersant rankings in the categories of Private Equity, Corporate Law, Capital Markets, Manufacturing and Industry, TMT (Telecommunications, Media, Technology), Digital Economy / Fintech, and Energy and Natural Resources.

Our expertise covers:
  • Supporting investment transactions in private companies, including investments in authorised capital of companies, as well as investments through combined and convertible instruments, both on behalf of founders and current investors and on behalf of potential investors, including major institutional players in the Russian and other markets

  • Supporting sale of a business by its founders, both through competitive procedures and directly to specific buyers

  • Supporting investment funds, including their creation and restructuring, preparing and negotiating agreements on functioning and management of investment funds, investment partnership agreements, agreements on the exercise of rights of shareholders of investment funds, and on creation of limited liability companies, as well as operational and other agreements

  • Advising management partners and investors on participation in investment funds, including support of the change of management partners

  • Preparing documentation on option and other incentive programs for key employees

  • Advising on exit of investors from portfolio companies

  • Advising companies on preparation for an IPO

  • Conducting comprehensive legal due diligence

Contacts
Evgeny Zelensky
Partner Head of Private Equity and Capital Markets
Maria Borodina
Counsel
Corporate
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