Banking and financial institutions
Cases
Tax support for four eurobond issues
Preparation of comfort letters for the eurobond issue prospectus
Large-scale due diligence to resolve a multimillion debt dispute between leading Russian banks
Due diligence of an industrial high-quality coking coal production complex with reserves of more than 2.2 billion tons
Comprehensive due diligence of three debtors and support for an acquisition of one of them
Large-scale due diligence of three debtors of a bank (a research and analysis centre, a machine-building plant, and a metals plant)
Legal support for a purchase of a leading ceramic granite manufacturer in Russia
Corporate due diligence, including audit of members’ property rights to participatory interests in the company, analysis of transactions with participatory interests and corporate agreements. Transaction structuring
Due diligence and support for an acquisition of a convention and exhibition event operator
Due diligence of five legal entities, including analysis of intellectual property rights and movable assets. Elaboration of a draft agreement for sale and purchase of participatory interests in companies
Tax support for four eurobond issues of a transport leasing company
Preparation of comfort letters for the eurobond issue prospectus
Comprehensive support concerning competition law and transaction control
Support on competition issues arising from a $170m purchase of the bank’s debtor
Legal support to a bank in real estate transactions
Legal due diligence of a debtor company, an owner of a shopping mall; supporting a purchase of a production complex
Transaction support, IP due diligence
Verification of rights to core assets — software developed by one of Russia’s top fintech companies, a Skolkovo resident
Reviewing contracts of a bank in bankruptcy
Checking a contribution to the charter capital and property of a bank under rehabilitation
Support in bringing a former director to subsidiary liability
Recovery of damages and making a former director liable for the company’s debts
Analysis of a Russian bank’s compliance program
Consulting services for a bank subject to the US blocking sanctions
Legal and tax support for a bank’s leasing programme and issue of instalment cards
Comprehensive support in the launch of a bank’s new marketing programme in consumer lending
Comprehensive tax and legal support in the development and integration of a loyalty programme
Evaluation of opportunities for the implementation of the programme, development of a contractual model of relationships
Legal alignment of a European bank’s financial strategy
Development of corporate procedures, drafting of contracts
Development of legal mechanisms to increase sales of derivatives
Review of the Kyoto Protocol in view of the requirements of the environmental, civil, administrative, banking, stock exchange and currency laws
Legal support of a specialized company operating as a payment centre
Development of a business model for a specialized company to operate as a payment centre
Extensive due diligence for purposes of settlement of a multi-million debt dispute involving leading Russian banks
Screening inspection of an industrial hard coking coal mining complex with over 2.2 billion tons of reserves
Analysing a system of settlements under a loyalty programme of a settlement non-banking credit institution
Reviewing the loyalty programme for compliance with the legislation
Legal support of a specialised company’s operation as a payment centre
Developing an operational scheme
Increase in the authorized capital of a bank
Legal support to increase the interest of a member in the bank’s authorized capital and increase the bank’s authorized capital
Due diligence and support of an acquisition of a non-state pension fund
Actuarial, financial, tax and legal due diligence of a non-state pension fund; support of a share purchase deal
Support of a bank’s restructuring
Developing several options to change the shareholding structure
Support to a large foreign bank in its operations in Russia
Legal support on corporate matters
Improving the insurance legislation in the Russian Federation
Developing proposals to prevent the practice of withholding assets by insurance companies
Support to create an online bank
Providing support with the activities required to register an online bank in the Russian Federation
Analysis of a Russian bank’s compliance programme
Consulting services for a bank subject to the US blocking sanctions
Legal alignment of a European bank’s financial strategy
Development of corporate procedures, drafting of contracts
Tax audit of a bank
Reviewing transactions with derivatives, terms and conditions of securities trading
Support of an acquisition of a Moscow bank by a non-resident
Structuring and legal support of an acquisition
Legal support of an acquisition of shares in a Russian bank by a bank from Kazakhstan
Due diligence and deal support
