Reed Smith has announced former Chadbourne & Parke Moscow Managing Partner Andrei Baev has joined Reed Smith’s Energy & Natural Resources (ENR) practice in London.
“Andrei’s unique cross-border experience in energy, natural resources and infrastructure financing is truly exceptional, and his broad client base and industry experience across multiple sectors and jurisdictions are a natural fit for Reed Smith’s global platform,” said Reed Smith ENR Chair Prajakt Samant. “Andrei will especially help connect our Energy & Natural Resources practice with our Financial Industry Group, our Trade Finance teams, our Kazakhstan office, and our rapidly expanding International Arbitration practice.”
According to a Reed Smith press release, "Baev has more than 25 years of experience in project finance and corporate transactions concentrated in the emerging markets of Russia, Eastern and Central Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Baev has advised on major projects in all facets of the oil and gas sector, including the financing of cross-border pipeline projects, and upstream, midstream and downstream developments. He has also worked extensively on major independent power, nuclear power, mining, telecommunications, and other critical infrastructure projects around the world. Baev represented major Russian companies in many high-profile projects inside and outside of Russia."
“The presence of Reed Smith’s global energy team in Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and the United States will be of great value to my clients, whose interests are ever more focused on the rapidly emerging economies that the firm serves so well,” said Baev. “Our forward-moving Russian and Eastern European practice will particularly benefit from, and enhance, Reed Smith’s networks in the region, which include the formidable resources of the firm’s longstanding office in Kazakhstan.”
Baev spent the past two years as Managing Partner of Chadbourne's Moscow office, and before that spent three years as Senior Partner at Berwin Leighton Paisner, 10 years at Allen & Overy, two years at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York, and three years at Mayer Brown in Los Angeles. He completed his first law degree at the Sverdlovsk Law Institute in Russia, and went on to obtain an LLM at UCLA and a JSM (Master of the Science of Law) and JSD (Doctor of the Science of Law) at Stanford.
