Roman Suslov
Senior Associate
Ph.D in Law
Roman is specializing in M&A structuring and corporate consulting on every stage of business life cycle. He is experienced in banking and finance projects, including asset-backed securitization transactions and debt financing. Our clients highly rate Roman for insights in business process, consistent detail-oriented and balanced approach, skills in bringing comprehensible information. He has expertize and knowledge of industry specifics in IT, FinTech and e-commerce, retail and transportation.
Actively involved in educating and enlightening activities. Completed English and international business law training at London Metropolitan University.
Achievements
Personally ranked lawyer in the international ratings Legal 500 EMEA 2021 (Taxes) and Best Lawyers 2022 (Banks and finance, Information technology) and the Russian rating "Kommersant" (in 2019 entered the Top 10 lawyers in Banking and Financial law).
Projects
M&A SUPPORT
1C Entertainment group (new name – Fulqrum), incorporated in Warsaw, together with its European subsidiary studios is the developer and publisher of more than 100 video games, including such world-famous titles as “IL-2” and “Men of War”.
KIAP accompanied the sellers at all stages of the transaction, including:
negotiations on the terms of the deal (multi-hour rounds of negotiat...
KIAP represented Philipp Ilyin-Adaev, founder of Banki.ru – the largest information and analytical financial web-resource and financial supermarket on the Russian segment of the Internet. The scope of KIAP’s work included:
cooperation with the buyer’s lawyers on structuring the transaction;
working on the transaction documents to ensure that the most favorable terms for the share sale wer...
KIAP corporate practice team represented Kirill Larin, founder and CEO of Ecredit.one – an innovative web-platform that provides a one-stop shop for finding a loan and insurance proposals for car owners.
Our team worked on:
documentation for acquiring the 25% share;
corporate documentation regarding the further development of the company to ensure the founder’s effective tenure as CEO a...
KIAP accompanied the sale of Greenhouse LLC which conducts business in growing premium grade tomatoes in a modern and technologically advanced greenhouse complex of about 24.5 hectares in size.
During the transaction KIAP team:
participated in structuring the stages of transaction and formalizing its key terms;
prepared drafts of preliminary and main documentation for the transaction on...
BUSINESS STRUCTURING AND RESTRUCTURING
A global logistics group operating in the air, sea and road freight segments has acquired one of the largest freight forwarders and 3PL operators in the world.
The consolidation at the global holding level triggered the integration of the Russian branches of these groups. KIAP corporate team developed options for restructuring of the companies. This required:
analyzing the current corpor...
The client was an international group of companies providing engineering, procurement and construction services to various industry sectors.
During the first stage, the client decided to change the ownership and management structure of its Russian subsidiaries. KIAP’s corporate team developed and conducted legal analysis of the implications of various options for such restructuring, taking...
The group of companies was fragmented and comprised more than 100 legal entities. The ultimate beneficiaries decided to formalize their control over the group, inter alia, for the purposes of improving asset protection and business manageability. At the same time, one of the beneficiaries decided to withdraw from the group.
KIAP corporate team developed options of transition from the curr...
CORPORATE FINANCE AND SECURITIES
One of the world's DIY-retailers has opened a credit line in a systemically important Russian bank. KIAP team accompanied the client when choosing a strategy for interaction with the bank on the settlement of obligations under the credit line. In particular, the consequences of debiting/early repayment of the loan were assessed.
The project was complicated by the targeted nature of the ...
Client’s business, which specializes in retail lending, was not oriented towards commercial lending. As a result, KIAP was required to prepare draft financial documentation for target lending, in particular:
• loan agreement;
• share pledge agreement;
• surety agreement;
• an agreement on assignment of receivables under the loan,
KIAP was also required to provide ongoin...
KIAP team conducted due diligence on the documentation of the loan issued to the Russian warehouse complex and checked the validity of the surety in the form of the pledge of real estate (warehouses and land plots), pledge of shares in LLC and guarantee.
Based on the information acquired in the course of due diligence, a debt settlement strategy was developed to address the risk of the borrow...
KIAP team has experience of comprehensive support in securitization deals initiated by VTB Group, in particular:
accompanying of securitization of residential mortgage loan portfolio in the total amount of RUB 46 billion secured by AHML guarante
accompanying of securitization of residential mortgage loan portfolio in the total amount exceeding RUB 28 billi...
CORPORATE CONSULTING AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
KIAP conducted an on-site inspection of the contract management and "compliance" system to identify risks of improper contract performance with the operator of one of the production sharing agreements. This project is systemically important because, among other things, it generates substantial tax revenues for the regional and federal budgets, as well as providing jobs, including for the local ...
For several years, our team has been successfully supporting the client in corporate consulting and development of relationships with business partners.
In particular, our experts take part in structuring the management systems of various joint ventures, incentive programs for the management of such companies, and developing option agreements with employees.
In this regard, on...
For several years, KIAP was the exclusive legal adviser to an international air carrier in Russia. There were no internal lawyers in the client's Russian offices. Ongoing external consulting allowed the client to concentrate on expanding its business in Russia and leave the legal matters to KIAP.
Our specialists were involved in numerous projects, including the following:
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CORPORATE DISPUTES
A corporate conflict between beneficiaries at the holding company level unfolded in an international precious metals mining group. During the conflict, the Russian companies of the group received conflicting demands regarding the convening of meetings of members and shareholders.
The team represented the client in a case challenging adoption of amendments to the charter of one of the gro...
Publication
Гражданский кодекс дает клиенту безусловное право в любой момент закрыть банковский счет. Но можно ли сдать кредитную карту, если на ней числится солидный долг? В разных регионах сложилась разная практика, а недавно в подобном деле разобрался Верховный суд. Его определение прокомментировали эксперты. Они рассказали о плюсах и минусах разъяснений кассации для банков и их клиентов.
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Клиенты банка ВТБ24 в течение всего дня не могли снять деньги со своих карт. В финансовом учреждении объяснили, что проблема в сбое системы. Можно ли добиться компенсации за доставленные неудобства?
Сбой в работе одного из самых крупных розничных банков страны. Клиенты ВТБ24 в понедельник не могли воспользоваться своими картами. Не получалось снять деньги в банкоматах и расплатиться карт...
1 февраля вступает в силу целый ряд изменений. Всех юристов должна заинтересовать возможность разрешать отдельные корпоративные споры в третейских судах. Вкладчикам и кредиторам будет полезно узнать, как на них отразится новый порядок определения размера резерва на возможные потери. Для предпринимателей важно своевременно и правильно установить кассовые аппараты с функцией автоматической п...