• Advised the client on its FEED contracts with Daelim and Tecnicas Reunidas.
• Represented the client in its tender for a petrochemical project where he handled parallel negotiations of the EPC contracts with Daelim and Tecnicas Reunidas.
• Negotiated a petrochemical license suite with Honeywell, including a license, basic design, guarantee, catalyst supply and service agreements on behalf of the client.
• Advised the client on its potential $84 million dispute with a major EPC contractor with respect to the construction of upstream facilities in Uzbekistan.
• Advised the client on a warranty claim against a major producer of power generation turbines.

Corporate and Energy

• Advised the client on the sale of one of the largest diamond mining company in the world for $1.45 billion.
• Represented a group of investors in a potential $1.3 billion acquisition of a distressed chemical production.
• Represented Equinor (formerly, Statoil) in its acquisition of a 49% stake in major upstream assets in Russia for $550 million.
• Advised Equinor on its acquisition of 33.33% stake in a major upstream asset in Russia for more than $250 million.
• Advised the client on its $220 million acquisition of a share in the production-sharing agreement in Kazakhstan from investors from Oman and Thailand.
• Represented the client in a tripartite joint venture for development of unconventional oil and gas fields.
• Advised the client on its potential acquisition of an $800 million ammonia producer.
• Represented the client in its $160 million acquisition of a large chain of petrol stations.
• Advised the client on its acquisition of more than $160 million upstream assets under a set of transactions with various sellers, with the consideration payable partly by way of assumption of debts.
• Counselled on antitrust and governmental approval issues for the Russian part of the global $28 billion merger of Baker Hughes and Halliburton.
• Advised a major Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) oil company on a number of oil products supply contracts with a total value exceeding $60 million, priced based on the Platts index.
• Represented the client in its $300 million divestment from one of the largest car retail chains in Russia.
• Advised a major oil company on various commercial and corporate issues, including, for example, United Arab Emirates (UAE) corporate issues, international arbitration procedures, land law issues, etc.
• Represented the client in its acquisitions of a $73 million Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) bank and $36 million African microfinance business.
• Coordinated global legal research on finance and corporate legislation in more than 60 countries (EU, Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Asia) for a major private equity investor.

Other Areas (sanctions, export controls, dispute resolution and real estate)

• Advised clients on sanctions and export control regulations, as well as on Russian countersanctions. For example:
  • Supported the client in the U.S. export control violation administrative proceedings with the U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS).
  • Handled applications for export and reexport licenses from the U.S. and Russian authorities.
  • Represented the client during the wind-down of its EPC projects in Russia by U.S./EU contractors.
  • Advised on sanctions and export control-related clauses in various contracts.
  • Advised on various issues related to divestments from Russia.
• Supported the dispute resolution team in a long-running cross-border dispute in the High Court of Justice of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) between an ultra-high net worth individual and their business partner concerning the ownership of one of the largest privately owned power generation companies in Russia.
• Supported the dispute resolution team in a $334 million dispute in the High Court of England & Wales between a major oil company and a number of individuals and corporations concerning tortious interference into the oil supply contracts inflicted to the claimant by the defendants.
• Represented the client in its potential $1 billion acquisition of a Moscow skyscraper.
• Advised a major investment holding on the acquisition of the White Gardens business center in Moscow for approximately $750 million.
• Represented a development and investment company in due diligence and the acquisition of Aura, a major shopping mall in Novosibirsk, Russia.
• Acted on behalf of a leading Russian insurance company in connection with the 100% sale of a landmark office building in the center of Moscow.
• Assisted various landlords and tenants in drafting and negotiating retail, office and warehouse leases, with a combined rent total exceeding $1 billion.