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O2 Consulting provides M&A transaction support services in Russia and abroad. We advise sellers and buyers, startup owners and strategic investors, private equity and venture investment funds, owners and managers of companies operating in all areas of today’s economy. We assist in conducting negotiations with counterparties, in preparing and holding auctions and offers for public and private tenders, conducting negotiations with lenders for raising loan funds to finance M&A transactions and setting up joint enterprises and strategic alliances. Our team is able to resolve any client issue arising during an M&A transaction, including conducting comprehensive due diligence of an asset, creating an optimal structure for a joint venture or M&A transaction, developing a tax model and an optimal framework of employment relations, assisting in obtaining government consents to a transaction, and on matters of regulation, intellectual property protection, environment protectio

O2 Consulting has extensive experience in resolving a broad range of corporate matters under Russian and foreign law. We provide services in the areas of corporate structuring, optimisation and integration of corporate structures, reorganising, building and implementing matrices for management of multi-level cross-border structures. We offer unique legal solutions in corporate governance, protection and balance of corporate rights in various forms of joint businesses with any participation options and of any size. Our lawyers support corporate events and transactions, perform corporate audits, develop shareholder agreements, corporate agreements, option agreements and other legal documents of any complexity. Our specialists are engaged to perform strategic analysis and resolve complex corporate conflicts, including acting as mediator. We represent our clients in corporate disputes.

O2 Consulting has broad experience in cross-border transactions in M&A, restructuring, project financing and setting up JVs with Russian and foreign capital participation, and related to making foreign investments in Russia and Russian investments abroad. We provide our clients with comprehensive legal support through all stages of a cross-border transaction or set-up of a JV, from planning, asset due diligence, and corporate and tax structuring, to successful transaction closure and/or set-up of a JV. Our team is made up of lawyers holding diplomas from leading foreign and Russian universities, qualified under the US, Russian and English law, with experience of working with international law firms and leading Russian and foreign companies in a number of jurisdictions. Where necessary for a particular project, we outsource experts from our broad partner network - legal and consulting firms practising in other jurisdictions. We undertake to coordinate all matters related to...

The O2 Consulting team provides legal support to leaders of the Russian market, acting as a legal advisor in such areas as: transactions and projects with equity and loan capital domestic bonded loans restructuring obligations under corporate bonds asset securitisation placement of Russian companies’ Eurobonds submitting an offer for voluntary/forced asset buyout privatisation of shareholdings in Russian companies IPO, SPO

O2 Consulting is a leading specialist in providing services in corporate and individual taxation, including tax structuring of commercial activities and/or asset holding. We provide tax planning services to individuals and corporations, develop corporate tax structures for doing business, create tax models for making investments in Russia and foreign jurisdictions. Our professionals have many years of practical experience of working with businesses, developing tax structures and operating models, which gives our clients the benefit of our unique and feasible solutions offered taking into account potential risks and other adverse factors. Virtually any project implemented by O2 Consulting is assessed for tax implications. We rely on internationally recognized standards of tax practice and the high level of our tax team’s expertise and use our own solutions together with established legal practices. We provide legal support in the following areas: Tax structuring and...

O2 Consulting has rich experience in supporting investment transactions on the side of both private equity funds and portfolio companies. We advise investors, investment committees and managers of investment funds operating in a variety of jurisdictions. We provide the full range of services, from corporate and tax structuring of a proposed investment to legal support for the investment transaction itself and subsequent investor’s exit from the project. O2 Consulting assists its clients in matters related to fund formation and regulation of private equity funds and provides subsequent operational legal support to the funds it has helped create in the form of the fund’s own legal department. For private investors planning joint investment programmes with several co-investors, we develop -fund-emulating structures and investment instruments best suited to the client’s interests, including using mechanisms typical of classic fund structures.

O2 Consulting provides legal support in bankruptcy, on the side of any participant and across all stages. Not only do we provide legal assistance during arbitral proceedings as such, we undertake to fulfil any incidental tasks, including ones related to the reorganisation process and contesting transfer of the debtor’s assets prior to commencement of the bankruptcy proceedings. We represent clients’ interests in reorganisation transactions related to insolvency and bankruptcy, not only in Russia but also in other jurisdictions. In this case, we undertake to resolve all matters pertaining to co-ordinations with our partner law firms practising in relevant jurisdictions. We also provide assistance to our clients who wish to enter into a transaction with a financially distressed company, structuring the transaction in a way that mitigates the risks related to this company’s future insolvency or bankruptcy. We provide legal support to our clients in transactions with...

The O2 Consulting team has considerable practical experience in supporting investment transactions both on the side of venture funds, operating and investing in a variety of jurisdictions, and on the side of startups. O2 Consulting is a leading company in this segment. We provide the full range of services, from corporate and tax structuring of a proposed investment to legal support for the investment transaction itself and subsequent investor’s exit from the project. O2 Consulting provides high-quality fund expertise in the area of fund formation, legal support for investment rounds and other activities of venture funds, including acting as an in-house legal department for the fund. We advise fund investors and managers on structuring and developing agreements on fund management, management incentive programmes and other aspects of the venture industry.

Given the toughening administrative regulation of entrepreneurial activity in Russia, the O2 Consulting team offers its clients legal solutions to any issues related to their interaction with controlling government authorities. We advise our clients on any regulatory compliance matters, perform compliance procedures and, in the event of violations, represent clients before the government authorities in order to mitigate the effect of such a violation and, where necessary, contest administrative decisions in court

The FinTech Practice was set up to provide legal support for innovative and high-tech business projects. We keep pace with the digital revolution, offering businesses the latest and most innovative legal solutions. We provide comprehensive support for high-tech projects and advise our clients in the following areas: Digital assets / crypto assets Digital financial instruments Artificial intelligence and machine learning Robotisation in business processes, trade and services Big Data – collection, turnover and management of massive data Internet of things / Industrial Internet of things Blockchain / Distributed ledger technology Information protection, cybersecurity Data storage, cloud solutions Digital technology, platforms, products and services Payment systems and e-commerce Social online platforms and applications Platforms for P2P payments and financing Crypto exchanges, crypto funds and crypto banks Investment / project financing / ICO Our team brings together top notch...