Our team's experience includes advising:

Da Vinci Capital in relation to its investments in the Softline group, a major international provider of IT services in Russia, the CIS, Latin America, India and Asia;

Veon in relation to the sale by VimpelCom PJSC of its infrastructure assets, namely, National Tower Company JSC, to the Service — Telecom group;

an investor in relation to the acquisition from Elbrus Capital, a large Russian investment fund, of a 13,33% stake in CIAN Group, Russia’s leading online platform for the sale and rental of real estate;

Sberbank in relation to the acquisition of the 100% stake in RuTarget;

Sberbank in relation to the conclusion of a corporate agreement in relation to CROWDFOM LLC, which manages a social platform for crowdsourcing projects;

Digital Assets, a Sberbank subsidiary, in relation to the acquisition of 51% of shares in Speech Technology Centre Limited from Digital Horizon Ventures. Speech Technology Centre Limited is a leading Russian developer of face recognition, voice and multimodal biometrics systems, as well as solutions for recording, processing and analyzing audio and video content;

major international investment bank in relation to investments in Headhunter;

a leading video game developer in relation to the acquisition of several of its competitors in Russia and Cyprus;

a major holding company in the taxi and freight industry in relation to the acquisition of the business of a Russian taxi aggregator from a joint venture between a major Russian bank and a media giant;

a Russian IT giant in a deal to acquire a music media portal and an online platform for musicians;

a leading ticket operator in a deal to acquire control over the business of an international provider of cloud solutions for sales and marketing automation;

owners of an online children’s goods store in a deal to sell 100% of the business to a Russian retailer;

investment funds, private investors and their syndicates, as well as family offices in more than two dozen venture deals (from seed to later stages), exits from portfolio companies and partial portfolio sales;

IT/TMT companies on a number of venture capital and bridge financing deals, including advising an international provider of SaaS solutions in the sphere of AI and image recognition on a series of financing deals;

a management company of a large Russian holding, as well as a number of international IT companies in relation to the development and approval of option incentive programs for employees; and

a leading cashback service, as well as a number of Russian TMT companies, on various big data regulation issues.