Natalia Lezhennikova

Ratings

• The Legal 500 EMEA 2021 — PPP and infrastructure projects
• Best Lawyers 2022 — Mergers and Acquisitions Law
• «Право.ru-300» 2021 — «Корпоративное право/слияния и поглощения» (high market)

Specialization

• Corporate and commercial law
• Due diligence and transaction support
• Real estate transactions
• Customs law

Education

Major projects:

• participating in over 100 legal due diligence projects for companies from different sectors, including:
  • completion of over 40 due diligence projects for two largest banks in the Russian Federation,
  • participating in a large-scale legal due diligence for one of the world’s biggest and Russia’s largest coal deposits containing above 2.2 billion tonnes of reserves,
  • due diligence of companies from different sectors, including a research centre, a machine-building plant, a metallurgical plant, trading companies, real estate owners, a real estate development company, a fish-breeding company, for a large bank to restructure their debt owed to the bank),
  • due diligence of a group of pharmaceutical companies, 
  • due diligence of a group of companies engaged in manufacturing and selling of deicing agents, 
  • due diligence of a group of companies that lease and process textile goods; 
  • legal due diligence of a company performing construction of underground facilities in the Moscow Metro;
  • legal due diligence of group companies – online schools for learning English.

• legal due diligence of real estate objects for the purpose of acquiring them as part of closed-end mutual fund; 

• legal support of 7 bn rubles plant acquisition deal; 

• due diligence and legal support 1 bn transaction for the acquisition of group companies – an operator of congress and exhibition events for military purposes;

• due diligence and legal support 1 bn transaction for the acquisition of a non-state pension fund; 

• pre-investment study of a banking group: two banks and an insurance company (net assets of the parent credit institution are more than 0.5 tn rubles); 

• legal support for the project implementation to provide employees of an energy holding company with living quarters in Vyborg;

• legal support in a transaction for the acquisition of legal entities of group companies owning rolling stock and operating in the field of railway transport; 

• structuring and legal support of a transaction for the acquisition of a regional developer of control systems for railway transport; 

• legal support of a transaction for the acquisition of a CHPP property complex; 

• structuring a group of companies engaged in the production and sale of anti-icing agents; 

• legal support of the Customer's activities within the framework of the Customer's strategic partnership with third parties (investors); 

• structuring a group of companies – a large seed oil producer; 

• legal support for the transfer and rearrangement of  gas transmission facilities on behalf of third parties;

• analysing contractual arrangements with the owner of a land plot to construct buildings of new shops on this land plot;

• comprehensive support of a client to acquire buildings and land plots for offices from their bankrupt owner;

• legal support for the construction of a business centre, a trade centre, hotel facilities and residential facilities with a parking lot (investments total over EUR 70 million);

• representing a client in a judicial dispute over challenging a decision of the tax authorities to adjust customs value.

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