Ekaterina Spakhova
Senior Associate
Senior Associate in Corporate practice and assists on projects of Tax and Banking & Finance practices. Ekaterina specializes in consulting the largest Russian and transnational companies doing business in Russia on corporate matters, as well as in the sphere of commerce and real estate. Ekaterina structures major M&A transactions within Russian market and cross-border transactions. Specializes on representing clients in various government bodies, including Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation, Chamber of Commerce and Industry and tax authorities.
Practices
Achievements
Personally ranked lawyer in Best Lawyers 2021 (Litigation) and Legal 500 EMEA 2019 international ratings.
Projects
M&A SUPPORT
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 team provided legal support for Shipbuilding complex Zvezda in drafting the documentation and negotiating on the terms of establishing a joint venture with:
Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. (HSHI);
Samsung Heavy Industries.
The companies were established as part of a joint project of JSC Rosneftegaz, PJSC Rosneft Oil Company and JSC Gazprombank to localize ...
BUSINESS STRUCTURING AND RESTRUCTURING
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
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...
CORPORATE CONSULTING AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
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 had been ongoing for a long time between a Forbes-rated client and its former business partner. Both parties brought claims against each other before the courts in the Russian Federation and in other countries connected with the place of business. The claims were of a bankruptcy, corporate and civil nature. Despite their diverse nature, they all aimed to obtain or retain co...
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
Цепочка сделок с заинтересованностью должна рассматриваться в совокупности, видимая законность первого шага не может мешать их оспариванию, следует из определения Верховного суда (ВС) РФ по делу ООО "Сибстайл-ВС" и Льва Прохина. Кассационная инстанция пресекла применение еще одной часто используемой схемы вывода активов компании в интересах части ее совладельцев, отмечают эксперты.
Л...
Верховный суд (ВС) РФ отменил решения по делу, в котором суды отказывались применять правило о развороте сделки с долей в обществе с ограниченной ответственностью, заключенной без нотариально удостоверенного согласия одного из супругов. Нижестоящие инстанции учли добросовестность одной стороны и явные злоупотребления другой, но кассация сочла, что режим общей собственности исключений не допуск...
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