Finance Practice
and Capital Markets
about the practice
The Finance Practice of SOBRANIE Law Firm specializes in advising on complex structured financing transactions for banks, investment funds, and corporate borrowers.
The Finance Practice team possesses deep expertise in banking and finance law, project and structured finance, concession and public-private partnership legislation, financial restructuring, and capital markets.
Our lawyers have accumulated significant experience in advising on transactions under Russian and English law involving local jurisdictions, and possess profound knowledge across a wide range of equity and debt capital market issues, enabling us to successfully structure complex transactions and offer comprehensive solutions for all our clients' needs.
services
Advising on bilateral and syndicated lending transactions
Advising on debt securities and hybrid instrument offerings
Advising on financial restructuring issues
Advising on capital markets regulatory matters
Advising on M&A transaction financing
Advising on preferential lending programs
Structuring and advising on project finance transactions
Advising on infrastructure projects with PPP elements
Support of pre-export and trade finance transactions
Cases and Experience
The Financial Practice team at Sobranie Law Firm possesses unique experience in supporting the largest and most complex projects implemented in the Russian Federation:
Partner, Attorney at Law
Kirill Miller
Project
Project financing for the construction of an Arctic airport
Advising a quasi-syndicate comprising Gazprombank JSC and VEB.RF, as well as the Arctic and Far East Development Fund, in connection with the financing of an airport reconstruction project in the Arctic region, implemented on the basis of a concession agreement.
Senior Associate
Evgeniya Marchenko
Partner, Attorney at Law
Kirill Miller
Project
Project financing for the construction of a seaport
Advising a syndicate comprising Gazprombank JSC and VEB.RF on structuring a long-term coal transshipment transaction using a "take-or-pay" mechanism as part of the project financing for the construction of a major seaport.
Partner, Attorney at Law
Kirill Miller
Project
Debt restructuring of ChelPipe Group
Advising a syndicate of more than 15 Russian banks, including Sberbank of Russia, on a syndicated debt refinancing transaction for one of the largest manufacturers of large-diameter pipes in the Russian Federation for an amount exceeding $1.5 billion.
Associate
Yulia Chernysh
Senior Associate
Evgeniya Marchenko
Partner, Attorney at Law
Kirill Miller
Project
Structured financing for a mining and metallurgical company
Representing one of the largest mining and metallurgical companies in transactions to raise structured financing using specialized finance vehicle (SFV) mechanisms and targeted bond placements in a total amount exceeding 1.5 trillion rubles.
Associate
Yulia Chernysh
Senior Associate
Evgeniya Marchenko
Partner, Attorney at Law
Kirill Miller
Project
Project financing for the next-generation Trans-Eurasian fiber-optic communication line
Advising a syndicate comprising Alfa-Bank and VEB.RF on the project financing for the construction of the Trans-Eurasian fiber-optic communication line, implemented within the Project Finance Factory framework.
Associate
Yulia Chernysh
Senior Associate
Evgeniya Marchenko
Partner, Attorney at Law
Kirill Miller
Project
Project financing for the Moscow–Saint Petersburg high-speed railway (HSR)
Advising a syndicate comprising Sberbank, VTB Bank (PJSC), Gazprombank
and Sovcombank in connection with the financing of the construction and acquisition of locomotives
and rolling stock for the Moscow–Saint Petersburg high-speed railway.
and Sovcombank in connection with the financing of the construction and acquisition of locomotives
and rolling stock for the Moscow–Saint Petersburg high-speed railway.
Partner, Attorney at Law
Kirill Miller
Senior Associate
Evgeniya Marchenko
Partner, Attorney at Law
Kirill Miller
Partner, Attorney at Law
Kirill Miller
Associate
Yulia Chernysh
Senior Associate
Evgeniya Marchenko
Partner, Attorney at Law
Kirill Miller
Partner, Attorney at Law
Kirill Miller
Partner, Attorney at Law
Kirill Miller
Project
Project financing for waste processing and disposal facilities
Advising a syndicate of two major Russian banks in connection with the project financing for the construction of waste processing facilities implemented in the regions on the basis of concession agreements for an amount exceeding 10 billion rubles
Project
Project financing for a flagship concrete housing components plant
Advising JSC Bank DOM.RF and VEB.RF on a project finance transaction for the construction of a concrete housing components plant for an amount exceeding
3.5 billion rubles
3.5 billion rubles
Project
Club financing of the European Medical Center
Representing a syndicate of banks organized by Raiffeisenbank in connection with the provision of a secured loan in the amount of USD 70 million to the European Medical Center
Project
Project financing for the construction of a section of the Central Ring Road (CKAD-4)
Advising VTB Bank (PJSC) in a public-private partnership financing transaction involving Yugo-Vostochnaya Magistral LLC (Avtoban) and the RDIF for the construction of the 4th section of the Central Ring Road (CKAD)
Project
Structured financing for a gold mining company
Legal support for one of the largest Russian banks in pilot financing transactions for gold mining companies in the form of gold-denominated loan lines and prepaid gold purchase agreements totaling over USD 100 million
Project
Financing the construction and acquisition of an Arctic-class LNG tanker
Advising on a financing transaction for the construction of an Arctic-class LNG tanker totaling over USD 200 million on behalf of one of the largest Russian banks
*The description of experience includes projects and transactions executed by the Bar Association's partners and lawyers prior to joining the Bar Association