Liniya Prava has advised Gazprombank on it joint role as "co-manager" (along with Otkritie FC Bank, Sovcombank, and the Eurasian Development Bank) and underwriter on the Republic of Belarus's August 7, 2019 placement of two bond issuances on the Moscow Stock Exchange.

Morgan Lewis has advised Internet company and search provider Yandex NV on the acquisition of the intellectual property and call-centers of the Vezet group in Russia by MLU B.V — Yandex’s ride-sharing and food delivery joint venture with Uber. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner advised Vezet on the deal.

Herbert Smith Freehills has advised the China National Oil and Gas Exploration and Development Company, a subsidiary of the China National Petroleum Corporation, on its investment in a 10% stake in PAO Novatek's Arctic LNG 2 project. Baker Botts acted for PAO Novatek on the sale.

Tonucci & Partners has successfully represented the St. Petersburg Mussorgsky State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre in an Italian court against the Rome Opera Theater.

Debevoise & Plimpton has advised NLMK on a USD 500 million 7-year Eurobond offering.

Nadmitov, Ivanov and Partners has represented the interests of Israel's Rivulis Irrigation Ltd in relation to the establishment of a joint venture with the Polyplastic Group.

Attorney Ilya Dedkovskiy has been appointed Head of the Bankruptcy practice at the KIAP law firm in Moscow.

Liniya Prava Partner Ruslan Nagaybekov has been elected new Managing Partner of the firm, taking over from Andrey Novakovsky, who will now lead the firm's Board of Partners.

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Alliance Legal CG is representing the interests of Evgeniy Lebedev, the founder of the pro100business social Internet community, before the Central Court of Chelyabinsk.

Alrud has advised the VTB Group on its RUB 36 billion acquisition of 100% shares in Novorossiysk Grain Terminal LCC from the NSCP Group.

Former Orrick Partner Konstantin Kroll has joined Dentons’ Moscow office as a partner in the Corporate and M&A practice.

Sidley Austin was global legal counsel to the Nidec Corporation and Alrud and Kinstellar provided local assistance in Russia and Slovakia, respectively, on the company's USD 1.08 billion acquisition of Embraco from the Whirlpool Corporation. Linklaters, Pinheiro Neto Advogados in Brazil, and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton were among the firms advising Whirlpool on the sale.

There are a number of significant legislative changes in Russia, says Alrud Senior Partner Vassily Rudomino, citing the strengthening of competition regulations in digital markets and new data protection laws as among the major ones. 

Karen Shakhnazarov, Darya Nosova, Inna Perelekhova, Natalya Pushkarskaya have been promoted to Partner at O2 Consulting, and Tatyana Safonova has joined the firm as a Partner.

Russia's Norland Legal and NewLawyers law firms have merged and will operate as Lurye, Chumakov & Partners going forward. The newly established law firm will be co-managed by Partners Vladislav Lurye and Andrey Chumakov.

CMS Russia has advised S8 Capital on the sale of ELT-Poisk — a motor insurance and lending platform that provides development and implementation of IT solutions for automating the interaction of car dealers, leasing companies, insurance companies, and banks — to an unidentified foreign private fund specializing in FinTech investments.

Tomashevskaya & Partners has advised MaximaTelecom on a joint venture agreement with Gazprom-Media Holding for a new brand, named Quant.