Linklaters is recognised as one of the leading firms in Russia and CIS. The firm’s market-leading office in Moscow serves as its springboard for the CIS, but Linklaters also operates dedicated desks for Ukraine, Kazakhstan and the rest of the region.
Governments, corporates and financial institutions benefit from Linklaters’ deep knowledge of the wider region, and the individual markets within it, as well as the firm’s global resources.
The fast growing economies of Kazakhstan and Ukraine, and emerging economies in Armenia, Belarus, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, have attracted high levels of inward investment and development. Linklaters’ experience of complex and ground-breaking corporate/M&A, finance and energy and infrastructure projects across all major industry sectors in the region is unrivalled.
Recent transactions include advising
- on a range of (confidential) debt restructurings and renegotiations for governments, banks and corporates
- Kazakhmys PLC, one of the world's leading copper producers, on its US$2.1 billion pre-export debt facility - the first use of funds certainty in the context of a pre-export financing
- on the IPO of Ferrexpo – the first Ukrainian company to list on the London Stock Exchange.
- one of the largest European telecoms companies on its potential acquisition of a Belorussian mobile operator
- Kazakhmys on its proposed acquisition of an 18.8 per cent stake in Kazakh miner, Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation for US$801 million
- EBRD on the US$30 million financing to develop a new passenger terminal at Zvartnots Airport in Yerevan, Armenia
