
Andrew Finogin
Counsel
Areas of Focus
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Private Equity Transactions
- Corporate & Finance
- Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances
- Technology
- United Kingdom & Europe
- Corporate Governance
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Projects & Energy Transition
- Advises private equity funds and multinational corporations in relation to M&A, joint ventures and general corporate matters.
Andrew is a counsel in the corporate practice of the London office.
His practice focuses on cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A), co-investments, joint ventures and private equity transactions.
Andrew advises major private equity houses, asset managers and corporates across a range of sectors, including the energy, consumer goods, technology and financial services.
Prior to joining Akin, Andrew practised at a magic circle law firm in London. Andrew was also the general counsel of a technology company and has experience of working in-house for a private equity fund manager focused on telecommunications.
Andrew is fluent in Ukrainian and Russian.
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Advised:
- Energy Equation Partners and Stonepeak in their €2.5 billion acquisition of a majority interest in JET, a leading fuel retailer in Germany and Austria, from Phillips 66.
- Mubadala Capital, the wholly owned asset management subsidiary of Mubadala Investment Company, on its acquisition of a majority stake in Bugaboo Group, a global market leader in strollers and premium children’s consumer products.
- the acquiror of upstream assets in Africa for an aggregate consideration exceeding $1.5 billion.
- a specialist infrastructure fund manager on its co-investment alongside a multilateral development bank in a Polish renewable energy group.
- a German multinational financial services company on its €2 billion joint venture, creating a pan-African insurance group across 29 countries.
- a Swiss-based Dutch multinational energy and commodity trading company on the sale by its subsidiary of its 50% interest in a Ukrainian oil and gas company to its joint venture partner.
- a British multinational consumer goods company on a $2.2 billion carve out and sale of its Chinese infant nutrition business to a Chinese private equity firm.
- a fintech company on a CMA-mandated disposal of a fintech business to an Australian private equity firm and a carve-out and re-acquisition of a business division.
- a private equity firm and a biotech company on the carve-out and sale of a pharmaceutical plant to a German pharmaceutical company. This transaction was one of the largest foreign investments in the Ukrainian pharmaceutical industry.
- a fund manager on an IRR-linked phantom shares incentive plan for senior managers of its petroleum portfolio company.
- a fund managed by a private equity firm with around £10 billion AUM on the Ukrainian aspects of its investment in a US software company.
- the founders of an artificial intelligence start-up on its sale to a NASDAQ-listed company.
List may include matters worked on prior to joining Akin.
LanguagesUkrainian
Russian
Ukrainian
Russian
EducationM.Jur., University of Oxford, with distinction, 2010
B.A., Kyiv National T. Shevchenko University, with distinction, 2008
M.Jur., University of Oxford, with distinction, 2010
B.A., Kyiv National T. Shevchenko University, with distinction, 2008
Bar AdmissionsSolicitor, England and Wales
Solicitor, England and Wales