Olga Te focuses on international capital markets and corporate transactions in Russia, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters.
Olga Te has advised both Russian and foreign investors on various aspects of Russian corporate, securities, real estate and competition law in connection with both equity and debt capital market deals, mergers and acquisitions of companies, establishment of joint ventures and structuring of real estate transactions.
Her experience covers a number of industry sectors, including electricity power, real estate, bakery and confectionary, insurance, retail and shipbuilding industries.
Olga’s recent experience includes advising—
- JSC "FGC UES," the operator and manager of Russia’s unified electricity transmission grid system, on listing its global depositary receipts (GDRs) on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange
- VEB Leasing on its Eurobond issue
- Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank on a recent proposed IPO of a large Russian discount food retail chain. The transaction was put on hold.
- Barclays Bank Plc as arrangers on the $7 billion program for the issuance of LPN by RSHB Capital S.A. for the purpose of financing loans to Russian Agricultural Bank
- RusHydro on its debut Eurobond issue. This is the first ruble-denominated Eurobond issued by a Russian corporation.
- Russian Copper Company and Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company in connection with the acquisition of a controlling stake in OJSC Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant, a leading Russian zinc producer listed in London.
Prior to joining Akin Gump, Ms. Te worked as an associate in the Moscow office of an international law firm and in the St. Petersburg office of a major Scandinavian law firm.
Ms. Te received her J.D. degree from St. Petersburg State University in 2005 and her LL.M. degree from University of London (King’s College) in 2010. She is a native speaker of Russian and is fluent in English.