Project finance - Import export

The O2 Consulting experts provide legal support for transactions to raise equity and debt capital, project financing, debt restructuring, bank financing and asset securitisation. We also have vast experience in advising clients on currency regulation and currency control, licensing of banking activities and activities on the financial services and securities markets. O2 Consulting represents various market participants, including lenders and borrowers, financial advisers, securities issuers, guarantors and sureties.

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...

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...

One of our practice areas is legal support for agricultural projects and food manufacturing companies. Our teams have many years of experience in agriculture, transactions with land plots of various categories and construction of agricultural facilities. We have excellent competencies in carrying out integrated legal and tax audits of agricultural enterprises, structuring and implementing transactions involving acquisition and sale of assets in this sphere, complex M&As and investment projects, and raising financing. Our experts can join a client in resolving the client’s issues at any stage of project implementation. In this sphere, we support clients in negotiations and in resolving regulatory and legal issues and competition issues. We also help clients resolve complex issues of title to and use of land and disputed situations with contractors. Our clients include owners of agricultural enterprises and greenhouse businesses, leading manufacturers of food products and...

Westside’s activities in finance sector includes provision of advice to banks and other banking institutions as well as provision of legal support to investment, construction and trade companies within the framework of project financing, financial risk management, receivables restructuring. Among the major projects of Westside in this area: Work in international team of law firms when structuring International Bank of Reconstruction and Development investments into a Russian-Ukrainian agro-industrial holding; Legal due diligence of an acquired bank (Top-20) on the purchaser’s part; Protection of bank owners and management at the stage of the bankruptcy proceedings; restructuring of a major agro-producer credit portfolio between two major Russian banks. Also Westside represents Russian and international financial and investment institutions’ interests in state courts and arbitration proceedings in Russia and abroad.

Law firm AVELAN provides legal regulation all relations arising in the land law, including: •legal examination of the ground areas; •preparation of the documentation necessary for realization developer (green field) and redeveloper (brown field) projects; •reception and optimization of specifications; •structuration and realization of transactions on financing of developer projects, including with participation of foreign investors and-or in foreign jurisdictions; •support of transactions with the ground areas; •the permission of ground disputes in judicial and extrajudicial usages; •judicial recognition or contest of the rights to the ground areas; •legal protection of investments into projects, restoration of the lost property rights or removal of obstacles in realization of the rights to the ground areas; •registration of the ground areas under objects of the real estate.