Vladimir Korotkov

Selected transaction experience includes advising:

• TE Connectivity, a US company specializing on producing highly engineered  connectivity and sensing solutions, on the divestment of its Automotive Wireless business to Universal Scientific Industrial (Shanghai).
• Schmidt-Ankum Holding on a strategic partnership with Asahi Group to expand its business of by-products refinement, fermentation and animal nutrition industries as well as in biotechnology and R&D centers.
• BorgWarner Inc. on the corporate restructuring and spin-off of its Fuel Systems and Aftermarket segments into a separate, publicly-traded company named PHINIA.
• JDE Peet’s, an international leading coffee company, on acquisition of industrial facilities.
• A professional management company on a series of aircraft sale transactions with international airlines.
• Electricity company in connection with a transaction with a major Russian energy holding involving the sale and leaseback of power-generating assets.
• Major diversified energy holding that manages assets in Russia, Europe and the CIS, on the joint venture with the US group for a long-term strategic cooperation and localisation of manufacturing and servicing of heavy duty gas turbines.
• An international consortium of sponsors in relation to a USD 3bn greenfield project to finance, construct, develop and operate a new international airport in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
• A private sponsor in relation to a PPP project to finance, reconstruct and operate Samarkand airport in Uzbekistan.
• A MENA-based sponsor, on a project for the design, financing, construction, equipping, maintenance and hand back of an 800 bed multidisciplinary hospital in Fergana, Uzbekistan.
• An international sponsor in respect of Arctic LNG 2 project.
• Fraport-led consortium of sponsors on all aspects of the USD 2bn St. Petersburg Pulkovo airport PPP scheme.
• Changi on their investments in several CIS airports.
• Sojitz, Jatco and JOIN (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.
• Project sponsors on all aspects of the USD3bln WHSD toll road project in St. Petersburg, including PPP, financing and construction aspects.
• Senior lenders on a PPP project to finance, construct and operate Section 3 and Section 4 of a USD 6bn Central Rind Road around Moscow.
• Far East and Arctic Development Fund as lender on a financing provided to a shareholder of the project company implementing the project of construction of a mining and processing plant based on polymetallic ores of Ozernoe deposit in Buryatia.
• Acting for Russian Railways on the acquisition of a 75 per cent stake in GEFCO, an international logistics operator headquartered in France, from Peugeot and the shareholders agreement between the parties in relation to GEFCO.
• International investors on a number of Russian exit transactions, including:
• A global leading paper company on the sale of its largest Russian pulp and paper plant via an auction process and the sale of packaging companies.
• a construction company, on the sale of 100% Russian assets.
• a multinational aerospace company on the sale of its equity in a Russian aviation engineering and design center.
• a multinational rail transport systems manufacturer on the sale of its stake in a Russian joint-venture.