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Corporate Law and M&A, Practice provides services in key practice areas requiring efficient legal support and cost-effective solutions. Along with full scope support on general corporate issues BGP Litigation advises on large-scale mergers and acquisitions and venture investments (in Russia and abroad, under English law), as well as business restructurings, reorganisations and transfer of seat (redomicilation).

BGP Litigation's lawyers deliver legal services that remain valuable to clients’ business today and beyond, taking into account clients’ strategic goals, UBO/sector specifics, and sanctions environment. Our business-oriented approach along with deep professional expertise and market flexibility helps our clients to take practical decisions on most complex matters in their ordinary activity, investments and strategic planning.

Our clients are major Russian and international companies from wide range of economy sectors (chemical, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, IT, real estate, etc.), state-owned corporations, large manufacturers, investment funds, banks, as well as beneficiaries and shareholders.

Being a full-scope law firm and having Middle East Desk with office in UAE gives us a unique opportunity to provide clients with personal unique solutions. 

Services
Mergers and acquisitions
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BGP Litigation provides legal support in M&A transactions in different industry sectors and during all stages: structuring commercial negotiations, drafting transaction documents, clearances and closing procedures
General corporate law support
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This includes share capital structuring, protection of shareholders and management’s rights, advising on general corporate matters
Due diligence on both legal and tax issues
Joint ventures (JV), private equity (PE) and strategic alliances in Russia and abroad
Asset restructuring including distressed assets and asset deals
Regulatory clearances
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BGP Litigation obtains regulatory clearances form the President, the Bank of Russia, the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service, the Government Commission on Monitoring Foreign Investment in the Russian Federation, etc.
Settlement of corporate conflicts
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This includes protection against hostile takeovers and illegal attempts to gain corporate control, complex corporate disputes.
Development of corporate governance and asset management
Management buyouts, sale of assets by foreign investors
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This includes legal support for exiting from Russia
Sale of assets by foreign investors
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BGP Litigation provides legal support for sale of assets from Russia by foreign investors

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We advised:

An e-commerce company by analysing

the risk profile of its employee reward system and stock option programme, readjusting its corporate governance, creating templates and filling in documents, and drafting documents justifying the economic feasibility of transactions being approved

A major Russian bank

by providing legal support for the meetings of its board of directors and advising on how to draft documents

An office space rental agency

in connection with the payment of remunerations, limiting and insuring the liability of its board members, including drafting tailored agreements to be executed with its directors, developing regulations detailing remuneration payment procedures, issuing a legal opinion on Directors & Officers Liability Insurance considering Russian and international practice, and developing an internal procedure for approving D&O programmes

One of the leading players of the car loan

market in drafting comprehensive by-laws for its board of directors and by issuing recommendations for entering into agreements to enable its board members to dodge recourse claims that might potentially be filed by the company

A director and shareholder of a major international group

specialising in industrial processes and design in defending proceedings brought against him over a dispute involving another shareholder who sought the recovery of corporate losses incurred to finance mining operations

Team

Timur Unarokov
Partner, partner committee member — Corporate Law and M&A
Irina Kuyantseva
Counsel — Corporate Law and M&A
Elena Rybalchenko
Counsel — Corporate Law and M&A

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