Finance

Advising:

• mandated lead arrangers and syndicate lendersin Russian-law syndicated loan transactions on, among other things, project, trade, and corporate finance facilities
• mandated lead arrangers and syndicate lendersin syndicated loan transactions under foreign law (including English, Singapore, and Hong Kong law), on both issuing new loans after 2022 and the restructuring and servicing of the pre-2022 debt of Russian and foreign borrowers

Advising:

• Russian and foreign borrowers of syndicated loan facilities structured under both Russian and foreign law, including new post-2022 financings and restructuring and debt servicing arrangements for pre-2022 obligations
• Russian and foreign investors on the acquisition (for subsequent restructuring and repayment) of Russian borrowers’ foreign debts that have become difficult or impossible to service due to post-2022 restrictions

Advising:

• Russian and foreign lenders and borrowers on trade finance transactions structured as loans under Russian or foreign law (including English, Singapore, and Hong Kong law), including both new financings in various currencies (such as RUB, CNY, and AED) and the restructuring and servicing of pre-2022 debt

Advising:

• Russian and foreign finance parties and debtors in complex bilateral and multilateral trade finance structures on, among other things, advance and deferred payment arrangements, repurchase obligations (commodity repo), commodity loans, barter structures, joint and several and secondary liability, and set-off mechanisms

Advising:

• Russian and foreign finance parties on funding arrangements for structured trade finance transactions, including via the issuance of structured notes and raising debt from independent investors

Advising:

• Russian and foreign finance parties and debtors in trade finance transactions implemented through complex bilateral and multilateral commercial contracts, involving various mechanisms for creating financial and commercial indebtedness, including advance and deferred payment arrangements, repurchase obligations (commodity repo), commodity loans, barter structures, joint and several and secondary liability of debtors, as well as the set-off of mutual homogeneous claims

Advising:

• Russian and foreign clients on arrangements for profit and risk sharing in joint trade projects (profit sharing agreements)
• Russian and foreign lenders and borrowers on restructuring long-term indebtedness that has become difficult or impossible to service due to external market disruption, including via refinancing, creditor/borrower side restructuring, and stockholding restructuring

Advising:

• Russian and foreign investors on the acquisition (for subsequent restructuring and repayment) of Russian borrowers’ foreign debts that have become difficult or impossible to service due to post-2022 restrictions
• Russian finance parties and investment houses on the issuance of structured notes to create investment products and finance projects, taking into account current market practices shaped by the post-2022 global economic instability
• financial institutions on capital relief and balance sheet optimisation transactions involving various classes of assets

Advising:

• Russian and foreign investors (including investment funds) on structuring and implementing acquisition finance transactions for participation (shares/interests) in ship-owning companies holding tankers and LNG carriers, as well as on the acquisition of transport assets for joint ventures focused on the management and operation of such vessels, using option arrangements, trusts and other contractual instruments
• Russian and foreign investors and shipowners on financing projects for the acquisition of seagoing vessels

Advising:

• Russian and foreign lenders and borrowers on restructuring long-term debts that have become difficult or impossible to service due to adverse changes in the external economic environment, including refinancing solutions, creditor and borrower side restructuring, and stockholding restructuring

Advising::

• Russian and foreign investors on the acquisition (for subsequent restructuring and repayment) of Russian borrowers’ foreign debts that have become difficult or impossible to service due to post-2022 restrictions
• eurobond issuers on debt restructuring through obtaining consent to amend payment and redemption mechanics and through the issuance of substitute Russian bonds