Former Senior Associate Oleg Todua has been promoted to Local Partner at White & Case’s Moscow office as part of a global promotions round.

Hogan Lovells’s Moscow office has advised Digital Assets on its acquisition of Zvuk, a Russian independent music streaming service.

Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners has successfully represented ZMK 1520 in a dispute with New Forwarding Company over the replacement supply of railway wagons heard by  the Supreme Court of Russia.

Semenov & Pevzner has successfully represented the interests of Domino’s Pizza in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk against a former franchisee. 

Beiten Burkhardt has announced that it will close its St. Petersburg office at the end of the year, concentrating the firm's Russian business exclusively in its Moscow office.

Korelsky Ischuk Astafiev has advised founders Philip Ilyin-Adaev, Kirill Ilin-Adaev, and Elena Ishcheeva, on the sale of their stakes in Banki.ru to Elbrus Capital and another unspecified investment fund. Dentons advised the buyer on the deal.

Clifford Chance has advised BNP Paribas Personal Finance on the sale of its 20.8% stake in its joint venture Cetelem Bank, to Sberbank. As a result of the deal, Sberbank, which was advised by Debevoise, became the sole shareholder of Cetelem Bank.

Latham & Watkins has advised VTB Bank as arranger and lender in connection with the GBP 3 billion take-private offer for KAZ Minerals PLC made by Nova Resources, a consortium formed by two of KAZ Minerals’ largest shareholders. Linklaters reportedly advised KAZ Minerals on the deal.

Most multinational corporations have internal antitrust compliance policies in place for their global businesses, covering their Russian operations. Following years of debate, Russia has enacted a law meant to improve antitrust compliance by regulating internal compliance policies (the “Compliance Act”).

Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasiev & Partners, working alongside lead counsel Goodwin Procter, has advised TA Associates on an unspecified investment in Netwrix Corporation.

White & Case has advised VTB Capital as the sole global coordinator and bookrunner on PJSC Aeroflot's fundraising of more than USD 1 billion. Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners advised Aeroflot on the deal.

Andrey Gorodissky & Partners has advised the founders of the "Kitchen in the District" service on their sale of an 87.4% stake in the company to O2O, a joint venture of the Mail.ru Group and Sberbank.

Working pro bono, White & Case has successfully represented a Crimean applicant in his request for asylum in the United States.

Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners has successfully defended Ilya Averyanov, the former owner of the Menshevik Confectionary in South-Eastern Moscow, in a trial involving charges that he murdered a guard at the factory.

Baker McKenzie has advised PJSC Koks on the issuance of new Eurobonds by subsidiary IMH Capital and a cash tender offer together with an exit consent solicitation to the holders of USD 500 million notes due 2022 issued by Koks Finance, another subsidiary of PJSC Koks.

Alexey Statsenko, the Regional General Counsel for Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe & Central Asia at EY, has been promoted to equity partner at EY.

White & Case has advised sole global coordinator and bookrunner Morgan Stanley & Co International on Mail.ru's US 200 million equity placing and further US 400 million convertible bonds offering due in 2025. Hogan Lovells provided legal advisory services to Mail.ru.

Kachkin & Partners has successfully helped Russian general contractor STEP LLC reach a settlement with Pharmasintez-Nord JSC in a dispute regarding payment for work and related claims worth over RUR 100 million.