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Evgeniya studied law at the Moscow State University of Foreign Affairs (MGIMO).
She speaks Russian, English and conversational German.
Evgeniya is Counsel in the Linklaters Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group. Evgeniya has over 15 years of experience in advising clients across the globe on the broadest range of antitrust, merger control, foreign investment and related issues. Evgeniya’s past corporate/M&A and commercial advisory roles further enhances her regulatory and transactional expertise.
Evgeniya has significant experience advising corporates, private equity houses and financial sponsors in a variety of industries, with a particular recent focus on the sectors of energy, green energy and natural resources, healthcare, industrials and transport, utilities and infrastructure.
Evgeniya regularly advises on market-leading and high-profile transactions, as well as clients’ day-to-day business operations. Her expertise includes advising on industry-specific antitrust, compliance and related issues, including anticompetitive agreements, unfair competition, state procurement and consumer regulations. Evgeniya has successfully represented clients before antitrust authorities in antitrust cases, as well as dawn raids and investigations.
Evgeniya is also Head of the Linklaters Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group for Russia & CIS, with extensive experience in navigating the evolving regulatory framework in relation to including Russian countersanctions, having advised numerous multinationals on their exits from Russia post-February 2022.
Evgeniya joined Linklaters in 2012.
In her role as Head of the Linklaters Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group for Russia & CIS, Evgeniya regularly participated in legislative initiatives and writing commentaries to Russian laws in the areas of her expertise, and Evgeniya remains a member of the Competition Experts Association.
Evgeniya is an instrumental member of the firm’s Innovation and Efficiency team. She is actively engaged in the testing and integration of various technological and AI-based tools aimed at maximising speed, efficiency and capabilities of the legal team, carefully balancing technological advancement and responsible application, to bring tangible benefit and value to our clients while championing the firm’s early commitment to actively embrace technological developments in the legal world.
Evgeniya has also been involved in graduate recruitment and mentoring trainees and junior associates, helping the firm achieve its strategic aims of attracting and retaining exceptional talent and celebrating and embedding diversity.
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