Elena Bokareva
Partner, FBK Legal
Elena specialises in litigation support, bankruptcy/insolvency proceedings, legal due diligence, audit of financial and business activities, legal support to private clients, as well as cultural and sports institutions.
She has profound experience in legal support to major Russian corporations in various economic sectors, is in charge of services to oil and gas entities, and has experience in supporting infrastructure projects.
Over 25 years of experience make Elena a successful professional capable of handling the most diverse tasks.
Ratings
- Pravo-300 2023 — Arbitration (mid-market)
- Rossiyskaya Gazeta 2023 — Arbitration
- Kommersant 2022 — Bankruptcy, Commercial Dispute Resolution, Construction and Real Estate
- Best Lawyers 2021 — Litigation, Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- The Legal 500 EMEA 2020 — Dispute resolution: Litigation
Specialization
- Litigation support
- Bankruptcy/Insolvency
- Legal due diligence and review
- Legal support of complex projects to find solutions for business challenges
Education
Major projects:
Litigation / Insolvency
- Defending clients and contractors in disputes over the recovery of the work costs and losses, challenging of contractor agreements, recovery of materials and equipment held in adverse possession, forced export of refined raw;
- Representing in land disputes (including demarcation of land boundaries, easements, violations of the fertile soil layer) with private actors and state authorities;
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Defending distributors in disputes with the customs authority over the adjustment of the customs value of goods, disputes with dealers over product deliveries;
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Representing a gas condensate field developer in litigation with the supervisory authority over the recovery of mandatory payments to the budget (payment for negative environmental impact);
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Defending investors in disputes with the state authorities over the recovery of damages, recognition of the validity of site development plans, and compelling to issue construction permits;
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Defending an audit firm during an inspection by the federal treasury (preparing a legal opinion and defending it before a federal authority) in a judicial dispute over declaring its auditor’s report deliberately misleading, in disputes over the invalidation of audit service agreements, and in disputes challenging SRO decisions;
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Defending employers in employment disputes with their employees in cases of redundancy, dismissal for disciplinary offences;
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Defending individuals in corporate disputes;
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Defending companies and individuals in separate disputes over bankruptcy cases (challenging transactions aimed at recovery of property to the bankruptcy estate), challenging creditors‘ transactions within bankruptcy proceedings and removal from the list of creditors' claims, representing creditors in bankruptcy proceedings of a local economic mainstay;
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Preparing legal opinions in criminal proceedings;
Legal Due Diligence / Review / Infrastructure Projects
- due diligence of mining, metallurgical and gold mining companies, including an owner of one of the world's biggest coal deposits containing 2.2 billion tonnes of reserves, and subsequent advising on business purchase;
- due diligence of banks, including the largest banking group under international sanctions since 2014, some of which have undergone financial rehabilitation;
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due diligence of various companies in the real estate, retail, food and pharmaceutical industries;
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due diligence of companies engaged in road and rail transportation;
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due diligence of companies owning agricultural land;
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due diligence of companies engaged in medical activities;
- due diligence of companies engaged in car sales;
- reviewing a sports event organiser, sports broadcasting organiser, cultural institutions (museums) and charitable foundations, checking the outflow of subsidies, grants, and donations;
- model development and legal support within transition of Gazprom Group companies from investment to agency relationship;
- legal support within projects for the construction of refineries, gas trunk pipelines, including the Power of Siberia, legal support within the construction of Utrenny terminal;
- participating in organisation of the supply of liquid hydrocarbons;
- participating in conclusion and implementation of EPC contracts;
- participating in project implementation for the establishment of a joint venture for offshore operations;
- developing a plan for the establishment and commissioning of a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU);
- optioneering for consolidating assets in the operating company subject to the specifics of mutual funds operations;
- optioneering for the fulfilment of offset obligations for helicopter exports;
- developing the best organisational structure for Russian Nuclear Insurance Pool subject to the statutory requirements applicable to insurance and the activities of insurance pools and brokers in Russia;
- developing the best relationship approach between the production centre and film distributors;
- support to the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee during preparations, staging and closing activities of the XXII Olympic Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games in 2014.
Languages
English
