International Corporate Finance

RUSSIA BEST LAW FIRM

M&A

The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS

LEADING

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton Scott Senecal, Russell Pollack, Yulia Solomakhina

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Dmitry Surikov, Igor Gerber, Michael Schwartz

Linklaters CIS Dominic Sanders, Grigory Gadzhiev, Lev Loukhton

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom & Affiliates Dmitri Kovalenko, Alexey Kiyashko, Hilary Foulkes

White & Case LLC Andrei Dontsov, Eric Michailov, David Crook

EXCELLENT

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Suren Gortsunyan, Vladimir Kouznetsov, Natalia Baratiants

Baker & McKenzie Sergei Voitishkin, Alexey Frolov, Dmitry Marchan

Clifford Chance David Griston, Marc Bartholomy, Arthur Iliev

Debevoise & Plimpton Dmitri Nikiforov, Alan Kartashkin, Alyona Kucher

Herbert Smith Freehills Alexei Roudiak, Tomasz Wozniak, Evgeny Zelensky

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius Brian Zimbler, Oleg Berger, Vasilisa Strizh

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Allen & Overy Philipp Wahl, Anton Konnov

ALRUD Law Firm Vassily Rudomino, Alexander Zharskiy

Baker Botts Maxim Levinson, Melinda Rishkofski

Dentons Florian Schneider, Richard Cowie

DLA Piper Rus Igor Antanyan

Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners Dimitry Afanasiev, Robin Wittering

Hogan Lovells (CIS) Oxana Balayan

Latham & Watkins Christopher Allen

Norton Rose Fulbright Anatoly Andriash, Valentina Gluhovskaya

RECOMMENDED

CMS Vladimir Zenin

Dechert Russia Laura Brank

Gide Boris Arkhipov

Goltsblat BLP Andrey Goltsblat

Orrick (CIS) Olga Sirodoeva

Pepeliaev Group Sergey Pepeliaev

Squire Patton Boggs Moscow Patrick Brooks

Track record: Freshfields’s strong expertise in

the natural resources and energy sectors has

provided its M&A team in Russia with clien-

tele drawn from leaders in the fields. The firm

recently advised global conglomerates, such

as Rhodia and Ilim Pulp, in structuring joint

ventures. In addition, it assisted Gazprom-

bank, the third largest bank in the Russian

Federation, on the sale of a majority stake in

Russian pharma company Biocad Holding.

Team & differentiation: The corporate team in

Freshfields’s Moscow office has approxima-

tely 33 associates and five partners. Practice

head Dmitry Surikov has profound experience

in advising a wide-variety of investors in the

heavy industrial sector. Freshfields can also

call upon leading partners Igor Gerber and

Michael Schwartz who play a crucial role in

forming joint ventures and securing project

finance.

L eaders:

Dmitry Surikov, Igor Gerber,

and Michael Schwartz

E stablished:

1992

Dmitry Surikov

FRESHFIELDS BRUCKHAUS DERINGER: A TEAM OF PROFESSIONALS TAILORED TO RUSSIA’S INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENT