A corporate specialist based in our Frankfurt office, Igor is a global transactions group partner.
Igor advises in cross-border corporate transactions and projects, including M&A and JVs, as well as on regulatory and compliance matters more generally, with a particular focus on CIS and Eastern Europe. His extensive track record covers a range of industry sectors from energy and natural resources, chemicals, transport and infrastructure to telecommunications, retail and online businesses.
With more than 30 years’ corporate experience, Igor provides key strategic insight and pragmatic solutions to our clients on all aspects of complex cross-border deals and has built a reputation in the industry as ‘an extremely helpful, reliable and significantly experienced lawyer’ “with a solid track record in a broad range of transactional instructions”.
Igor also has been involved in several international M&A arbitrations and litigations.
Having trained in our office in Frankfurt and Hamburg, and with a leading US firm in New York, Igor went on to hold the position of managing partner in our former Russian office for a number of years.
Igor is qualified in England & Wales, and Russia.
He speaks English, German and Russian.
- The shareholders of the BARTEC group, a consortium led by Bridgepoint Credit and Alcentra, on the sale and transfer of all shares in BARTEC Top Holding GmbH to funds advised by One Equity Partners.
- The shareholders on the sale of 100 per cent of the shares in Leiber to Asahi Group Foods, a subsidiary of Asahi Group Holdings (each with headquarters in Tokyo, Japan).
- Sonoco Products Company, a global leader in high-value sustainable packaging, on its agreement to acquire Eviosys, Europe’s leading food cans, ends and closures manufacturer, from KPS Capital Partners.
- UBS on its acquisition of Credit Suisse.
- Warburg Pincus on its Series C investment in InSilico Medicine, a biotechnology company providing services to help accelerate drug discovery and drug development.
- Global Infrastructure Partners on the acquisition of a majority stake in VTG, a leading international wagon hire and rail logistics company.
- Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronicson the acquisition of a 75 per cent stake in DiaSys Diagnostic Systems.
- Mondi on the divestment of its Russian packaging converting business via a sale of its Russian subsidiaries.
- Constantia Flexibles on exit from its Russian business in form of sale of shares in two Russian subsidiaries.
- Pearson Group and (its then subsidiary) Financial Times Group in connection with the sale of shares in the holding company of Business News Media, publisher of Vedomosti newspaper.
- The shareholder of a major Russian mobile equipment retailer on the sale of 100% of shares with the reported value of $1.25bn.
- The consortium of investors comprising Sojitz Corporation, Japan Airport (Jatco) and Japan Overseas Infrastructure Investment Corp (the Japanese government-private sponsored fund) on the acquisition of a stake in Khabarovsk International Airport).
- A leading European infrastructure investor on a proposed acquisition of shares in a major network of CIS airports.
- Mitsui on the establishment, together with Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC), of investment consortium Japan Arctic LNG B.V., and subsequent acquisition by Japan Arctic LNG B.V. of a 10 per cent participating interest in Arctic LNG 2 LLC, which holds a licence to the Salmanovskoye (Utrenneye) Natural Gas Field located at the Gydan Peninsula in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region of Russia.
- Conoco Philipps on its:
- US$7.5bn acquisition of a 20% shareholding in LUKOIL, Russia’s largest non-state oil producer, and the associated corporate governance agreements; and
- US$3.44bn sale of a 7.6% interest in LUKOIL back to LUKOIL, and on disposal programme in respect of its remaining 12.4% interest in LUKOIL, held via depositary receipts listed in London;
- A sponsor on a project to construct the North-South gas pipeline in Pakistan.
- A major investor on the acquisition of a number of Polyus Gold shares and Polyus Gold American Depositary Shares (ADSs);
- A major investor on acquisition of 50% less one share in each of Hrazdan Power Company and Electric Networks of Armenia from Inter RAO;
- Covestro (aka Bayer MaterialScience, a subsidiary of Bayer AG), one of the world’s leading polymer materials suppliers, on the establishment of a joint venture for the development, production, marketing and sale of polyurethane in several CIS countries;
- ISR Capital Investments on the project financing of the development, construction and operation of the Hilton Hotel in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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