Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners had helped BlaBlaCar to obtain clearance from Russia's competition authority for its purchase of Busfor, an online bus ticker aggregator.
According to EPAM, the firm “successfully demonstrated that the merger would have a favorable social and economic effect and that the synergy of the Busfor’s GDS service (an innovative system of tickets distribution, reservation, and booking) and BlaBlaCar’s consumers (over 20 million users in Russia) would facilitate the growth and digitalization of the Russian market for bus tickets, which still lags behind the Russian air and railway ticket markets.”
The EPAM team included Partner Anna Numerova, Senior Associate Ksenia Firsova, and Associates Karin Ovakimyan and Alexander Silakov.
